Mysorean

A price reduction of $200 (approx Rs. 8000/-) by Apple on their 8GB iPhone (Price after reduction: $399), would have been such happy news if considered in isolation. But when you consider that they did that within two months of launching the phone and also stopped production of the 4GB model (priced at $499 at […]

I have been looking at upgrading my mobile to something that works! Do you remember the 6610i phone? I use that as of now. I went into UniverCell to find out how much discount I would get if I offered my cellphone in exchange for a new one (N72 I am looking at). The sales […]

I had written about this laptop here, here and here. There were a host of issues that I thought were potentially unpenetrable forget solving. But these guys have done it!
And also read this first-hand experience. I think this is great and these are the kind of developments that will make technology meaningful.
PS: Any gyaan […]

[via Vatsan] 
Read this.
Thought this would happen sooner than later. But didn’t expect it to happen so early.

Mysore will be another Silicon Valley of India as a number of IT firms have evinced interest in setting up shop here, Karnataka industries minister Katta Subramanya Naidu said in Mysore. 
 
Speaking to Business Standard, he said Infosys, Wipro, Tata Consultancy Services and a couple of other companies were coming to Mysore. 
 
Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro and […]

Quoting an article from the ToI dated 25 July 2006:
“…According to the project plan, the Central government is supposed to foot the entire bill, which is $100 per laptop for one million pieces. The project was floated by MIT.
Complete with technical problems pointed out by IIT, Madras, pedagogical suspicions raised by NCERT and first-hand experience […]

40+ Channels of pure music. No advertisements and other useless stuff. And to top it all, they have my favourite person as their brand ambassador!

An article in the Economic Times talks about a 10k PC that Intel will launch sometime later this year.
Traditionally, low-priced PCs have not succeeded in India, as the cost of distribution and promotion doesn’t leave enough for the distributors who control the trade. Indian PC makers who launched sub-Rs 10,000 PCs with much media fanfare […]

Here is the other view I was talking about. The $100 laptop will save the world! An excerpt from the article: [You need to register to read the full article. Registration is free btw]
So how can any worthwhile computer cost less than a pair of good headphones? Through a series of cost-cutting tricks. The laptops […]

An article on vnunet.com rubbishes the claims of Negroponte’s well publicised venture of the $100 laptop. Wherever I go I am asked, “How will your product stand if that $100 laptop comes into the market?”. Well, the answer is in the article here.
Celebrity inventor Trevor Baylis has said he is “not convinced” that Nicholas Negroponte […]