Everytime I visit India, I am fascinated by the use of mobile phones. I think it was 10 years ago when I noticed the change. The reason I say noticed is that growing up in a Socialist India, the plain old phone was considered something of a luxury item. Not everybody had access to one, [...]

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Does the name Marty Cooper ring a bell? It should considering you probably own one of his creations and can’t bear to lead a life without it. Billions of people own them now. Did you guess the cell phone? That is right. Marty (Martin) Cooper is the inventor of the mobile phone, which was fondly [...]

Meet Venkatesh Prasad, who is known as Ford Motor Company’s “What’s Next Guy.” Prasad has one eye trained on all the new and exciting technological advances, and one eye on how new apps and electronics can be included in the vehicles. Cars have become an extension of our living room couch and office space. We [...]

Every year thousands of people make their annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). This is where companies big and small unveil their new and upcoming products, hardware, software, accessories etc. This is not a show for consumers, but instead a show for tech industry folks, analysts, vendors etc. This is [...]

Distracted: The Erosion of Attention And The Coming of Dark Age is the name of a new book written by Maggie Johnson of Boston Globe. The title of the book sounds rather bleak and foreboding and is telling  us what we might already know – we need to slow down and perhaps lead a gentler [...]

Earlier today, well actually yesterday since  I just noticed it is pushing 2 PM. Anyway earlier today I was at Microsoft’s Office in Mountain View. This is the first time I visited their campus here and did not realize how big it is. I was there to meet and interview Paul Murphy, Director of Innovation [...]

If there one thing that defines and sets Silicon Valley apart from the rest of the world I would guess it is our addiction to the Internet and various devices like laptop, blackberries and iPhones. You could say it is an occupation hazard of living in the valley. There are nay sayers who don’t believe [...]

Every month India adds millions of new mobile users. Currently about 20 percent of India (population over 1 billion) has mobile phones. In a short span of less than 10 years the number of mobile users in India has grown from a few thousands to millions. In India about 60 percent of the mobile handset [...]