Anita writes about Marrygold, a new-age matchmaking service. When I got this email, I was tempted to laugh it off. But then I read it once again and it made more sense the second time round. Isn’t it true that many young people today are looking for the man/woman of their dreams but don’t have… Continue reading Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match
Category: Technology
Trying to keep track and make sense of new technology…
Multitasking mobile worshipping generation?
This week’s cover story on Time certainly seems to say so. [Link through ‘Putting people first’ – the multitasking generation] The story focusses on the ability of today’s kids to multitask with respect to technology, and what’s all that digital juggling doing to their brains, family life… So, are kids too wired for their own… Continue reading Multitasking mobile worshipping generation?
Are kids too wired?
This week’s cover story on Time certainly seems to say so. [Link through ‘Putting people first’ – the multitasking generation] The story focusses on the ability of today’s kids to multitask with respect to technology, and what’s all that digital juggling doing to their brains, family life… On the positive side, Gen M students tend… Continue reading Are kids too wired?
Gesture-based keyboard from HP
HP Labs, based in Banaglore has announced a pen-based technology that will allow the Kannada script to be recorded and stored directly in the computer without the use of a conventional keyboard. From the article in Business Standard, The technology, which is also called the gesture-based keyboard (GKB), has been developed by researchers at HP… Continue reading Gesture-based keyboard from HP
Mind your mobile manners
There is a saying in Tamil… roughly translated means, to first pinch the child and then rock the cradle… or – the troubleshooter is the troublemaker… And that is what Hutch, soon to be followed by other mobile phone operators are doing with their Mobile Manners communication campaign. Hutch now, Airtel and others soon. I… Continue reading Mind your mobile manners
Mobile phones and potato-onions
Some people never learn – make that some companies. Remember how Reliance mobile had started out in India – with those “dealers” who sold you the mobile phone and then vanished – or if were present, had no clue about handling after-sales queries and complaints? Remember how Reliance called them not dealers but entrepreneurs under… Continue reading Mobile phones and potato-onions
Braille’s birthday
Of all that google has done so far, this I think is the best… Hover over the logo on google and it says Happy Birthday Louis Braille! And here is a small piece I found – on google of course – on Louis Braille…
Mousewives and email users
Came acorss this recent report from the Pew internet and American Life project… For what claims to be a ‘wide-ranging study’, the report seems to me full of stereotypes-exist-therefore-will-reinforce statements and worse, “findings” which really say nothing new… A wide-ranging look at the way American women and men use the internet shows that men continue… Continue reading Mousewives and email users
The mobile is the message
Being sent to your bedroom used to be a punishment: now it’s a teen dream. Through personal computers, mobile phones and gaming consoles, teenagers are spurning antisocial angst for a culture of “connected cocooning”, reports the Guardian (link via textually). The article on textually continues, The mobile phone, especially, has become an integral part of… Continue reading The mobile is the message
Technology scare at home
This weird and scary thing happened last night. Around 11 p.m. my husband who was browsing on the net received an SMS saying – your data folders are visible on my computer – please protect your data. Captain Desai. Or some such thing. Initially dismissing it as spam, my husband messaged back saying who is… Continue reading Technology scare at home