Archive For February, 2007

Pet Mobile

A mobile phone to keep track of your pet pooch! It is based on GPS tracking and voice communication tracking solution and allows you to set a geo-fence boundary for your pet (I mean the animal variety). More here 

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Vijay Shekhar Sharma on mobile VAS market in India

Vijay Shekhar Sharma, founder and MD One97 Communications in conversation with Kiruba of The Kiruba Show. Vijay also talks about how One97 started, the various offerings of One97, impact of 3G and the overall VAS market in India among other things.   He also spoke about many firsts by One97 – India’s first short code sms service [...]

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Water pumps carry cellphone now!

Much before digital homes become a reality for ‘24/7 connected’ folks, Valishetty Narendra, a farmer in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh, has digitalized a vital aspect of farming. He has invented an innovative way to water his fields by dialing for it.  Irregular power supply at his village required him to trudge to field to [...]

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SMSese Novel !

A novel – The Last Messages, entirely based on text messages was released in Finland. It tells the story through text messages exchanged between a fictional executive traveling through Europe and India and his friends and relative back in Finland. (News article) How about a travelogue spiced with pictures taken by mobile camera? Or an [...]

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MoCoNo anyone?

In the literary space, a possible trendsetting experiment of collaborative novel writing has been launched jointly by Penguin and De Montfort University. (News article) The experiment which will run for six weeks will lead to the novel ‘A Million Penguins’. It is based principles of Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia; anyone can join in to [...]

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