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Blogs are mightier than typeset!

Indian mainstream media has discovered blogs. Thats the topic of my latest post in Technology Walla.
The touted goal of these media blog sites is - “Citizen Journalism”. But for that to spread in India, mobile has to be the device of choice for blogging and not PC.
With cameras and Internet-enabled mobiles becoming ubiquitous, portable devices [...]

Nokia Eye on Fashion

With Motorola scoring big on looks of its models like V3 and PEBL, its time for Nokia to become fashionable. Nokia has always concentrated on the quality and feature-richness of its phones. But with looks reviving Motorola’s fortunes, Nokia was forced to sit up and take notice.
Nokia sponsored Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in Delhi [...]

Moblogging and M-Blog

Priya Saini writes in Economic Times on moblogging.
What’s more, moblogging complements traditional blogging perfectly. Traditionally blogging, done from a PC, is mostly text-based and requires more time to create. It is usually used for publishing thoughts and opinions, while moblogging is much more spontaneous and usually visual-based.
The article quotes me:
Says Veerchand Bothra, of Blogstreet.com, India’s [...]

Riya receives $15 mln funding

Riya Photo Search, a Silicon Valley startup developing digital search technology for images, said it has received a $15 million in second round of funding from Bay Partners. The company received a $4 million initial funding in venture capital from LeapFrog and BlueRun Ventures.
Riya, which works on facial recognition technology, sorts and tags customer’s snapshot. [...]

Google eyes Riya

EFY Times reports that Google is supposedly eyeing Munjal Shah’s company Riya, for an acquisition valued at around $40 million.
Riya is an online photo service which can recognise human face and tag it with names. The reason why Google could go desperate to get the deal, as arch rival Yahoo! has recently bought Flicker, a [...]

Indians top photo sharing via MMS

“You are more likely to MMS a photo in Asia if you are an Indian, male, aged 25 to 36 and on a post-paid contract,

Tagit image recognition on Nokia camphones

Tagit mobile image recognition technology consists of a system of visual tags with digitized codes which can be attached to any physical space, advertised product or media channel, enabling anyone with a camera-phone to make an immediate connection for “pulling

Mobile filmmaker contest

Discovery Networks Asia and Nokia have partnered to launch the ‘Mobile First Time Filmmakers Contest 2005′, which will give consumers the opportunity to try their hand at mobile filmmaking and qualify to win a grand prize of $10,000.
To participate in the contest, individuals must send in a photo or a video that’s no longer than [...]

Phoney videos

Rashmi Bansal, Editor and Publisher of a youth magazine called JAM - Just Another Magazine blogs about how mobile phone technology can change the business of film-making.
Nokia is airing a commercial which focuses on how mobile technologies can potentially change film-making. The url www.mobifilms.net appears at the bottom of the screen.
Take a look at JAM [...]

Camera phones and Contact centers

Call centers became contact centers once email entered the equation. Some people answer phones, others answer email. The next challenge may be to integrate cameraphones into the process.
Some people, however, are beginning to think about ways to redesign contact centers in the age of cameraphones. It’s not hard to see how this could be very [...]

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