Google Latitude may be again a major introduction in mobile networking space that may result in many new applications like Google Maps did. Google maps made maps a common utility that could be used in the ‘background’ (an active one)…
Google: Maps and Latitude
A Great Opportunity: Mobile Phones in Rural India
WSJ has a very informative article about how rural india is changing with mobile phones. It is difficult for us living in California to imagine the following: In the village of Karanehalli, a cluster of simple homes around an intersection…
All those LifeLogs and Mobile Phones
There was a time when many projects started worldwide to build one or other form of eChronicle, Lifelog, MyLifeBits or something like that. All these projects were to capture semi-objectively a multimedia extended diary of a person’s life. Of course,…
Uncertainty in Databases
While attending a talk on uncertainty in databases, it became clear to me that the approach that is being adopted to deal with uncertainty in databases is very different than what I have seen in other areas. I could not…
Getting funding for startups getting tougher
In these days of financial difficulties all around, no wonder that one hears stories all around that getting funding for starting a technical startup is getting more difficult. First we heard os VC cuts. Now NYT reports on Angel Investors…