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 [...]
Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Electronic gadgets’
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 13th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, Internet and Telecom, Living In America, Technology
By Kamla Bhatt • Jun 6th, 2008 • Category: Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, San Francisco, Technology, Video, YouTube Videos
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • May 20th, 2008 • Category: Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, People, San Francisco, Technology, Wi-Fi
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 [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, India, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Only in India, People, Technology, YouTube Videos
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 market [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Mobile, Technology, Video
A few days ago I received the latest phone from Nokia: Nokia 6110 Navigator. The Nokia 6110 Navigator had its world-wide launch in Singapore in August 2007, and the phone finally hit the Indian market in December 2007.
I put the loaner Nokia phone away since I was going through a bad patch of flu. Over [...]
By Kamla Bhatt • Jan 27th, 2008 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Electronic gadgets, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, Start-ups, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Web 2.0
In this week’s Techlife column in Financial Express the focus is on photo sharing sites and the kinds of different services they offer. Interestingly, the photo sharing sites that target Indian and the Non-Residence population seem to lay a lot of emphasis on online photo printing and ordering gift items. art
Here is the article.
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