GPS India launches GPS-enabled PDA

The product will be available at a suggested price of Rs 55,000. The PDA has a million scale base map of India and can give users distance of around 1,000 towns and cities. Further the company also plans to integrate city maps to give city routes and guide on the device.
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Esther Dyson commenting on her investment in Flickr.

As many people are discovering, writing blogs is hard work - sometimes almost as hard as reading them! Photos are much quicker, and almost anyone can do a decent photo - at least of/for friends. and now that it’s easy to post by mail, and everyone has [...]

Mobile firms wooing kids with games

Thus, you have the ‘Whiz Kid’, which sharpens kid’s skills in mathematics, wildlife, current affairs, ‘Word Wizard’ to boost vocabulary, ‘Fact Monster’, a treasure trove of information, and ‘Games Garage’, all available on a single mobile, he says.
“The trend worldwide is to woo specific target groups, say women, children, elderly and come out with applications [...]

Mobile payments: RIP credit cards?

As mobile commerce at long last moves from hype to reality, the question being asked is “which existing payment method will lose ground to the new kid on the block?” Raomal Perera hosted a roundtable on the subject.

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