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Wireless?

I am (dis)inclined to believe that the future is wireless. Partly because in India, the wireline broadband is in the pits. Even though there is nothing good enough to write about the utter crap that “wireless” is- being marketed by … Continue reading

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Broadband: Need more speed?

This was being actively discussed in the forums; whether or not should be petition TRAI for revision of definition of Broadband speeds. Much like the classical “chicken and egg problem”, it is difficult to build up a case for higher … Continue reading

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GSM Hassles

For long, I was stuck on CDMA. Until my Nokia handset went kaput finally and I had the “hobson’s choice”; I shifted to GSM because my folks had free outgoing calls within the group. Reliance has over priced handsets and … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom:Numbers and Links

Everyone is happy that Indian Mobile revolution has triggered millions of subscribers. All well, there are a couple of high fives and plenty of back slapping. Indians seem to have finally arived on the world stage; there are omnious comparisons … Continue reading

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Opera Mini

Opera is an excellent browser. Period. Though, I fail to understand as to why the hoopla behind the Opera vs Firefox debate. The other browser- Flock failed to create ripples so far. Let’s give them some time before they can … Continue reading

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Hutch making life worse?

The recent change in colours from ornage to pink made no sense to me; the answer was hidden in corporate crap about “branding”. Pink is unconvential colour and so is the Chinese pug as a mascot. Is hutch “gone to … Continue reading

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Critique on Emergic-Part 3

In another series of posts, Rajesh Jain looks at the mobile phones exclusively: The mobile phone is rapidly becoming the uber-device the one device that seems to have it all and becomes even more indispensable than it is now. The … Continue reading

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