Sandy Sandeep Gautam

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2. Facebook fellowships for computing research: another win-win collaboration?

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 8 2010) Social Networking

   Just two days back we reported on Yahoo setting up a hadoop cluster in IIT Bombay, and now we have news of Facebook coming up with fellowships to PhD students researching topical areas in computing that are relevant to Facebook. The relevant areas as per the Facebook blurb are:Internet Economics: auction theory and algorithmic [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   IIT Bombay   Yahoo

3. 2010 Is The Year Of The Smartphone Surge: Is India ready?

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 7 2010)

   As per this Forrester report, 2010 is going to be the year of the Smartphone. The report focuses on how smartphones improve productivity, and how enterprises benefit when their workers use smartphones for supplementing their work. While it is indeed true that the smartphone revolution is primarily driven by enterprise segment and not consumer [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

4. Yahoo’s Hadoop cluster lab at IIT Bombay: a win-win industry-academia collaboration?

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 7 2010)

   Hadoop, is an open-source project of Apache, for distributed computing over large data sets. One of the methods it uses is the famous MapReduce paradigm for distributed computing over large data sets that Google is believed to have pioneered.  Yahoo runs one of the largest Hadoop clusters- and it has one of the largest [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   IBM India   Google

5. US mulls startup founders visa to lure foreign entrepreneurs

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Jan 4 2010)

   Paul Graham , a Y combinator partner, had mused about startup founders visa, to be given to entrepreneurs who want to start a startup in US ,  about six months back and since then the idea has resonated with many in the US. The idea is simple. Today it is very difficult for a  foreign [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

6. Earthquake detection and response: Has India got a twitter strategy in place?

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 28 2009)

   Twitter has been put to many unusual uses and the latest is the detection and responses to earthquakes in real-time based on the spike in tweets and their geo-locations. The US Geological survey (USGS), as per this BBC report, is trawling the tweets for keywords like quake and earthquake to detect earthquakes to an extent [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   India Inc

7. Adding real-time trending ads to the web: OneRiot at a time

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 25 2009)

   OneRiot, a search engine for the real-time  web and developer of the PulseRank algorithm to discover trending content on the web, has recently announced its plans to monetize the real-time web by making available contextual  ads that are related to trending topics. They have partnered with a few partners including Digsby, a popular IM and [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

8. Indiagames to cash in on T20 Fever

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 25 2009) Gaming

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   Indiagames, one of India’s topmost gaming destinations and platforms, is launching a new iPhone app called cricket T20 fever.   Desktop versions of the game will be launched along with the iPhone versions while the other Symbain , Maemo, PSP etc based versions will follow later. ‘Cricket T20 Fever’ is aimed to provide the most realistic (Read Full Article)
   

   3 Comments Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   USD   PSP

9. iPhone is the most popular phone in US: Nokia doesn’t even figure in top 10

   Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 23 2009) Mobile

   As per a Neilsen wire blog posting, for the year 2009 (jan-oct 2009 data) , apple’s 3G iPhone was the market leader followed by RIM’s Blackberry 8300 series. Not a single Nokia model features in that top 10 list, and I find that surprising.  Nokia was once a company know for its innovation  and [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   Gmail   Yahoo

10. India decodes human genome: a sign of good times for the biotech and healthcare industries?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 22 2009)

    7 years since the human genome was first decoded, India too managed to decode the complete human genome of a 52 year old healthy man from Jharkhand and join the elite list of nations  like US, UK, China, Canada and South Korea. Unlike the select club of countries having nuclear warhead capabilities, this achievement [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

11. Mobile Internet : compelling opportunities for emerging markets like India

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 21 2009) Mobile , Social Networking

    Stanley Morgan has published the Mobile Internet Report along with two accompanying slide decks that collectively highlight the key themes driving the mobile internet market and its adoption. All the reports are freely downloadable form their site.   The Key themes in brief are :Just like Mainfarme computing revolution was followed by mini computing and [...]Related PhotosNo related photos. (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple Inc.   Cisco   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

12. Google to acquire Yelp- when will the local business review segment get tapped in India?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 17 2009) Maps/Local , Social Networking

    There is some news about Google being in advanced stages of acquisition talks with Yelp. Many of the Indian users may not be familiar with Yelp or its equivalent CitySearch as such services are not available in India, but mostly confined to US, UK, Canada etc. Yelp is a local business review site, that allows users [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   9.9 Media   India Inc   Sandy Sandeep Gautam

13. LinkedIn sets shop in Mumbai; ties up with Network18

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 15 2009) Social Networking

    LinkedIn evidently has aggressive expansion plans for India.  It had recently announced that it had hired ex country head, India,  of social networking site MySpace, Mr. Hari V Krishnan, as the country manager for LinkedIn, India. As of today, the LinkedIn India’s local office at Bandra –Kurla complex, Mumbai, seems to be operational.   The Local [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Network18   Moneycontrol   API

14. Twitter’s designs for businesses: one account, multiple contributors at a time

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 15 2009)

    Twitter has just announced its new developer APIs for its yet to be widely deployed service of allowing multiple contributors to post using the same twitter handle. In a way this is a game changer for businesses. Many times the twitter business account is handled by a number of people behind the scenes, who share [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Larry Page   Eric Schmidt   Google

15. Increasing mobile penetration in rural India: one-phone/multiple-numbers at a time.

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 9 2009) Mobile

    Comvivia, which was formerly Bharati telesoft, has developed a new virtual SIM technology that allows multiple mobile phone numbers to be associated with a  particular handset/physical SIM card such that you do not require a dual SIM device,  but can still have more than one mobile number assorted with the handset.  The technology that [...]Related Photos (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Sandy Sandeep Gautam   Comviva   Airtel

16. Google Public DNS- a ploy to get handle on the real-time pulse of the internet?

    Explore Article India Business Blog (Dec 3 2009)

    Google has recently announced its own Public DNS system that will allow internet users the ability to bypass the ISP’s DNS servers and contact the Google’s Public DNS servers for resolving all DNs queries. First some background on DNS. whenever you type a web address like http://google.com in your browser, the domain name address (google.com) needs [...] (Read Full Article)
    

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