Archive for December, 2007

By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: Life

Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto (54) was assassinated in Rawalpindi earlier today. Ironically according to media reports Rawalpindi is one of the most secure cities in Pakistan. Her assassination was in some ways similar to the tragic end that Mrs. Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi of India. Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a human suicide bomber […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 27th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Podcast, Social Media, Start-ups, Technology, Web 2.0

Quick update: I have been doing some housekeeping chores for the site and busy editing some year-end interviews and that is the reason why I have scaled back on my postings. Please check my internet radio show site for the rest of the week since I will have a couple of new interviews and you […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 25th, 2007 • Category: India, Life

Here is wishing all of you Happy Holidays.
Thanks for your support.



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Americas, Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Podcast, Start-ups, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos

Meet Prof. Tapan Parikh: teacher, social entrepreneur and an innovator. Tapan believes in harnessing the power of the mobile phone to create simple and effective solutions to help small and medium businesses.
Tapan developed a a simple toolkit called CAMĀ that uses the ubiquitous camera phone to capture images and scan documents, which are in […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 21st, 2007 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bangalore, Bombay/Mumbai, Business, Ideas, India, Technology

Hollywood’s DreamWorks Animation (DWA) will soon have a Bangalore connection via Paprikaas Interactive.
DreamWorks Animation has signed a deal with Technicolor Services to “develop an animation facility” in Bangalore reports the Financial Times. Earlier this year Technicolor Services invested in Bangalore-based Paprikaas Interactive, which specializes in animation, VFX and game development. Technicolor Services is […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Dec 20th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Entrepreneur Interviews, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Merger & Acquisition, Mobile, Podcast, Technology

It is a done deal now. Jataayu’s acquisition by Bharti Telesoft is complete. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, which means we have to wait and see if this was an outright purchase or not, and how much Bharti Telesoft paid for this acquisition. A while ago Economic Times mentioned that the acquisition […]