Every once in a while, the question about giving back to the society pops up in my mind and in my friend’s circle, but we end up dropping it and continuing to do what we have been doing: earn more money. Howver, so many things have been happening around about me on this topic recently […]

from my last post “continuous data availability”, most ppl sent email expressing these confusing over “how the hell it actually works and differs from traditional methods” 🙂 For the working part we are publishing technical papers (on website) and for the rest – | View | Upload your own Let me know, if anyone needs […]

Key to any business continuity solution is continuous availability of critical data. And with up-coming SOX and Basel compliance regulations it would be even more necessary for SMEs and enterprises to have a data availability and disaster recovery plan in action. While there are a bunch of software/hardware for the same (from EMC, Netapp and […]

A high level analysis of Mobile Payment Services. 0

I think that the best way to kickstart a working micropayment infrastructure may lie with mobile phone operators – the billing and tracking infrastructure is in place, and they don’t have the baggage that the credit card issuers do. Here’s an interesting piece about such a scheme in Kenya. The ping of a text message […]

I have tried to develop a social networking cum saas type of application idea for managing careers – check it out 0

India finally seems to be responding to viral marketing. After Orkut that seems to have taken off on back of viral marketing, last month Tagged.com showed a brilliant run (globally, but in India as well – its Alexa 33 for India already) on back of suck-email-addresses-and-send-invites functionality. Some of the local social networking sites also […]

I think it was Wayne Gretzky who said that what made him a great ice hockey player was that he skated to where the puck was going to be. Entrepreneurs should go where the opportunities are and funding is easy to obtain. With this budget, focus on “aam aadmi” , Mohammed Yunus getting the Nobel […]

This is an excerpt from TechCrunch ( March 5th) Seven week old Geni raised a $10 million second round of financing last week, led by Charles River Ventures (see our coverage of CRV here), with a post-money valuation of $100 million. George Zachary from CRV is joining the Geni board of directors. This was originally […]

Myzus launches Save2Phone – a collection of over 3000 applications for your phone. Visit it on www.save2phone.com

We have had a lot of discussion on this site on technology ventures and rightly so, given the talent pool in India. However, I think that with our changing social structure there will be interesting opportunities in the recreational services space. For instance, in areas like Health & Fitness, Tourism and so on. Think of […]