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Mediacom Ad Injection Was Popup Test Gone Wrong – As Well As A Test Conducted...
Last week we were the first to report that cable operator Mediacom was using deep packet inspection technology and Javascript injection solutions from Perftech to insert advertisements into websites —...
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T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Still A Possibility – Deutsche Telekom Might Own 50%...
According to a new Bloomberg report, Deutsche Telekom AG has held talks with Sprint about selling T-Mobile and combining the nation’s third and fourth largest wireless operators. That’s really not new,...
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Opera mobile store: Live now
Image via CrunchBase I had previously written about Opera stepping in Mobile store. It has now gone live where it attempts to detect your language as well as your platform. The other major players are...
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Mobile Content: Where the f*** it is?
Image via Wikipedia I have explored various other aspects of mobile internet in recent times. It would not be worthwhile to cry myself hoarse about the pathetic mobile access in India (which I have...
View ArticleOpera Mini takes the centre stage
If for anything, I remain obessed about Opera. True, that their desktop product is sucking up in a big way (with the random crashes and unfixed bug reports), but there is imminent launch of Opera Mini...
View ArticleThe future of Internet
Another great video from the vikings on Norway! As I mentioned, Opera Mini totally revolutionizes the Internet access and with flaky crappy connections in India (perhaps most of the other developing...
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Mobile Access : Tablets and ecosystem
Image via Wikipedia Which is better? iPad 2 or Kindle? It’s hard to decide on the specifications and my only interest to put up the post here is to mark a shift in the way Internet is being accessed...
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Opera Mini 6
The beauty of the mobile browser is that it is cross platform. I have covered this browser (for mobiles) in earlier write ups too but I think the most significant advance is the pinch to zoom that has...
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Opera Mail and Mini
Image via Wikipedia Opera Mini has touched over 100 million users riding on exclusive deals with various operators. It should indeed be a moment of pride for them; but at the same time, earning...
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Big Idea Contest Winning Entry.
Image via Wikipedia A little while back, Rajesh Jain had run a “Big Idea for India” contest. He has touched on many issues in his previous posts; there was a lack of serious debate on Broadband. This...
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2G Telecom Scam India: Excerpts from PAC Report
2G Spectrum scam is huge; to the tune of thousands of crores cheated from public money. The specifics are still sub-judice; however, I am linking to the the “leaked report” which has been extensively...
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India Telecom Operators: Shit List
Image via Wikipedia For long, I have felt the need to do a “consumer survey” which is motivated by real customers than the paid for shit stuff that most telecom operators crow about. It is impossible...
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RIM Blackberry: Slipping fortunes
Image via CrunchBase As per the blurb on Forbes,RIM Looks To Revive Smartphone Push With BlackBerry 7 – Great Speculations – Buys, holds, and hopes, …..the introduction of the latest version of its...
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Chrome Notebooks: Any business model for developing nations?
A lot has been made up for Google Chrome OS and it’s notebook. It transpires that Samsung and Acer would manufacture laptops for chrome OS. Is cloud computing inherently better than the “offline...
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Facebook and social media: Overblown AND overhyped
Image via CrunchBase I have argued against excessive reliance on social media; it is a stupid decision to hail Facebook and Twitter as the “next destination”. This is the problem with the marketing...
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Idea Cellular: Absolute pits
Image via Wikipedia I had the unfortunate instance of coming across an Idea Cellular subscriber. The complaints were related to call drops and inability to connect to international numbers. While...
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Some random site stats
Image via Wikipedia Although I cannot publish the site stats here, but surprisingly, I am still seeing Internet Explorer 6 in the stats. While Windows remains a dominant platform, most of them are...
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Broadbandblog: Daily updates?
Image by bhautikjoshi via Flickr I have experimented with the tone and tenor of the write ups here. It’s impossible to update on a daily basis although RSS as a delivery mechanism is very powerful in...
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State of Mobile Web: Some numbers.
Opera Mini‘s reports on the state of mobile web are likely to be a true reflection of the mobile access and hence a surrogate marker of what’s popular at the given point in time. I am reproducing the...
View ArticleTata Docomo 3G: Informal review
I wanted to see for myself as to what the hoopla about the 3G services is all about. Over the past few months, I have shifted to Linux Mint Debian having given up Ubuntu all together. Hence, I was keen...
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