Category Archives: Technology

Is Kindle 2 about to replace us in our family bed-time ritual?

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Ajay Jaiman

Will the new Kindle read bed-time stories to our kids? Can it? Will it? Should it? TV has proven its worth as a baby-sitter, across cultures! Social networking has effectively come to represent what we do using a browser and … Continue reading →

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Is the future of ‘books’ in our palms?

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Ajay Jaiman

Google is making its database of 1.5 million public domain books accessible from mobile devices for free. Amazon is working to make all its Kindle titles available on mobile devices.Random House Publishing has announced that will make books available for … Continue reading →

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Free text books on the internet!

Posted on February 6, 2009 by Ajay Jaiman

Like the open source movement in software, an open source movements in the textbooks may be afoot. If this movement takes hold it will surely impact the textbook business, which is perhaps the only safe island in a sea of … Continue reading →

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Heard of novel podcasts?

Posted on February 3, 2009 by Ajay Jaiman

According to Time magazine, novel podcasts, unlike audiobooks “are truncated into segments and may include ambient sounds, music as well a cast of voices playing different characters.” “Evo Terra, the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, says 45,000 episodes are downloaded each day.” … Continue reading →

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Google Trends & Google Insights — Social Science Toolbox

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Ajay Jaiman

I have been using Google Trends for some time now – for work and sometimes just for fun! Trust me it can be fun and educational. You can tell a lot about what is going on in people’s minds and … Continue reading →

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Social Networking for Kids

Posted on July 11, 2008 by Ajay Jaiman

Most major social networking sites require their users to be at least 13 years old. Anyone who has kids knows that the kids are all over Facebook, MySpace and Orkut. Of course the kids fake it, because they want the … Continue reading →

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Six-degrees?: The power of Internet networking

Posted on September 12, 2007 by Ajay Jaiman

I just noticed (accidentally) that I am ‘connected to’ Barack Obama, US Senator and Presidential Candidate through three different people. Talk of six-degrees of separation! In the world networked through LinkedIn, Plaxo and others, my guess is that it may … Continue reading →

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“YAARI.com is a spammer”

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Ajay Jaiman

I came very close to participating in a scam executed by an India ‘social networking’ site. Unwittingly, of course! It started when I received a mail from a site called yaari.com: ‘xyd wants you to join Yaari!… Is xyz your … Continue reading →

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Why do people participate in social media?

Posted on August 18, 2007 by Ajay Jaiman

Yossi Vardi commenting on Social Software suggests that ‘there are 3-4 major forces on the Internet: • self expression • communication • sharing • collaboration You’d notice that money is not one of them. It is interesting when you consider … Continue reading →

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…until nearly all advertisements around the world are digital!

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Ajay Jaiman

“There’s a chance to invest right now in China, India, Russia and Brazil, which will pay off big over the next five years… These economies are going to boom, and ads there are going to go directly to mobile and … Continue reading →

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Online revenues?

Posted on August 17, 2007 by Ajay Jaiman

Interesting times these! While the New York Times is poised to stop charging online users, Google is going to start charging. New York Times started charging for access in 2005 and has in 2007 decided to abandon the approach. Google … Continue reading →

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Giving a shot to Google Docs

Posted on August 3, 2007 by Arti Jaiman

In trying to use a new word processing program, such as Google Docs, it is typical to resist a new order of icons. Fingers follow muscle memory, and the mind, focused on the task of composing that perfect sentence, is … Continue reading →

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Global Market place for Ideas

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Ajay Jaiman

Business week article on the market place for ideas: “…Colgate-Palmolive… needed a more efficient method for getting its toothpaste into the tube—a seemingly straightforward problem. When its internal R&D team came up empty-handed, the company posted the specs on InnoCentive, … Continue reading →

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Pluto’s gone!

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Arti Jaiman

Pluto’s gone! In one day, the ring of planets stuck on the ceiling of my kids’ room has become outdated. I need to reach up and yank out little Pluto. What’s the big deal, you might ask? It’s just another … Continue reading →

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Bringing up a blog

Posted on July 8, 2006 by Arti Jaiman

I’ve spent the better part of this week wandering around in the alphabet-strewn, bits and bytes world of IT, software, hardware, all the stuff that techie geeks do sitting in front of a computer screen. It’s part of work, and … Continue reading →

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Recommended Podcasts (Includes Podcast 101)

Posted on April 30, 2006 by Ajay Jaiman

If you are already familiar with podcasting and know how to download and listen you could jump to part II — a list of some wonderful podcasts available for free download. Most of these twenty odd podcasts are in ‘Talk’, … Continue reading →

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Internet censorship: Google, China and the rest of us!

Posted on February 27, 2006 by Ajay Jaiman

Google’s submission to Chinese censorship rules is perhaps more significant than Yahoo, or Microsoft’s submission, mainly because Google has, over the years, become ubiquitous to search. More importantly, Google’s submission invites concern because many people see Google to be this … Continue reading →

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Lessons from LINUX Asia for non-geeks!

Posted on February 21, 2006 by Ajay Jaiman

Thirty slides and one hour into the ‘utter meaninglessness of life without Oracle’ presentation I began to wonder if I had been suckered into paying to hear sales pitches that I did not understand or care for. This was just … Continue reading →

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World Summit of Information Societies – Report

Posted on November 30, 2005 by Ajay Jaiman

The ICT4All (Information and Communication Technologies) exhibition that accompanied the World Summit of Information Societies in Tunis, Tunisia was, in real terms, for all. From 15-19 November, 2005, exhibitors of all shades displaying a range of technologies and solutions that … Continue reading →

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