Archive for July, 2007

By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Business, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Start-ups, Technology

Airtel, India’s largest mobile provider is deploying BubbleTALK, voice-based SMS service in India. If you are an Airtel customer you can send voice-based SMS to other mobile numbers and Airtel fixed line numbers. It seems Airtel tested BubbleTALK  in a few places before rolling out the voice-based service at the national level. Last year Airtel tested BubbleTalk […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Bollywood, Bombay/Mumbai, India

In what has been described as stunning and surprising news Munnabhai aka Sanjay Dutt, the actor, has been sentenced to a 6-year prison term for his role in the 1993 Bombay blast case. This has come in so swift and quick that people are just beginning to realize that the unthinkable has happened.
Sanjay’s appeal […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, People

Bollyood in this flat, flat world of globalization made possible through technology and instant communication is an interesting trend. In the virtual world there are lots of folks who are talking Bollywood, and geographical barriers melt away and what we are left is people connecting with each on things they like and Bollywood does seem […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 31st, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bollywood, Diaspora, People, Venture Capital, Video, YouTube Videos

Bollywood, otherwise known as the Hindi film industry, has officially made it to the Oxford and Merriam-Webster dictionary to the chagrin and disappointment of some well known Hindi actors. Well, the term has seeped into the vocabulary of many people around the world and in some cases the term is used to refer to the […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 30th, 2007 • Category: Electronic gadgets

I am in the market looking to buy a new laptop. I have toyed with buying a Tablet PC, and have worked on and off on my husband’s 3-year old Tablet PC. I am still unsure if I want a Tablet PC.  I am thinking of getting a Mac…know a bunch of people who have bought Apple’s […]


By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 30th, 2007 • Category: Americas, People

“Colortini is gone. Thanks for the Memories.” Colortini was the website of talkshow host Tom Synder that he pulled offline a couple of years ago and left this message instead. Thanks Tom Synder for many memorable nights that I spent watching you on your Late, Late Show right after David Letterman. Night after night, I […]


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