I am getting latest news from the Tech World from the blogs listed here.
TechCrunch - One of the largest followed Technology Blogs related to Startups, Gadget reviews, etc.
AndroidOS.in - I started getting my dose of Android updates from this particular site.
TMC Blog - One of the most complete Blog or Site, that covers topics like - Voip, Communications, Embedded, Wireless. There is so much on this site that I feel it is too much for me to follow all of the sub-categories. Hence, I tend to go to this website once in a while choosing a specific topic.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Lesser Known Mobile Brands
The mobile phone market is flooded by models of all shapes and sizes and the consumer is spoilt too much for choice.
Apart from the major manufacturers like,
There are many, many more brands in the market and I tried to limit this list to the more popular ones in the market. You are free to add to this list in the comments columns which I may have missed.
Go Mobile!!!
Apart from the major manufacturers like,
- Nokia
- Samsung
- Ericsson (Sony-Ericsson)
- Motorola (Motorola Mobility was recently acquired by Google)
- LG
- Blackberry
- Apple
- HTC
- Micromax
- Videocon
- Lemon Mobiles
- Lava Mobiles
- Zen Mobiles
- Pine Mobiles
- Movil
- AirNet
- Rage Mobiles
- Huawei
- INQ
- Porsche (Yes, the luxury Car Maker Brand)
- Asus
- Intex
There are many, many more brands in the market and I tried to limit this list to the more popular ones in the market. You are free to add to this list in the comments columns which I may have missed.
Go Mobile!!!
Why mobile phone users must be aware of SAR?
Today, like never before, mobile phones, smartphones, have penetrated the nook and corner of the country like no other product. Some villages which do not even have sanitation, potable water are "proud" to announce that they have mobile phones. Connectivity, Convergence, and all the catch words are buzzing in the industry circles and all other spheres of the society like never before.
Today's kid's are very much aware of what each model of phone has what "games" and how to play them! I was stumped to know that a pre-teen kid could handle all the features of a mobile phone better than me - honestly, I must be too backward in adopting technology, if not being a part of the R&D.
With the manifold increase of the mobile phones and users, concern is nowhere seen about how they can and/or affecting our lifestyles.
In this regard, the foremost thing that we must keep in mind is the Specific Absorption Rate or SAR for short, of a mobile/smart phone that we are using.
SAR is the measure of of the rate at which the body absorbs energy when exposed to a radio frequency and is used to measure the power absorbed from mobile phones (as per My Mobile magazine article).
The maximum SAR value for mobile phones has been set to 2 Watts/Kg by the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection) localised for the head and the trunk in the frequency range of 10MHz to 10 GHz. The SAR of each and every phone sold in the country supposedly "should" be below the value of 2 Watts/Kg.
Fcc and FDA are the regulatory authorities in US. If you wish to know the SAR value of any product, you can punch the FCC ID of that product and get the required product. A very good article on SAR on the FCC website is shared here for reference (http://www.fcc.gov/guides/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cell-phones-what-it-means-you).
Here is the link where you can find the SAR of a specific mobile handset - http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/
While DoT (Department of Telecommunications) is the authority in India that has to take care of regulations, not much is done in practical terms. While it is supposedly required by the mobile manufacturers to publish the SAR values of the mobile phones, the standard set of values published are somewhat like this:
Some external links posted on the wikipedia page of SAR are very good for further reading.
So, before you plan to buy, test your next mobile or smartphone, be sure to read about SAR and how it might affect your health.
Salud :-)
Today's kid's are very much aware of what each model of phone has what "games" and how to play them! I was stumped to know that a pre-teen kid could handle all the features of a mobile phone better than me - honestly, I must be too backward in adopting technology, if not being a part of the R&D.
With the manifold increase of the mobile phones and users, concern is nowhere seen about how they can and/or affecting our lifestyles.
In this regard, the foremost thing that we must keep in mind is the Specific Absorption Rate or SAR for short, of a mobile/smart phone that we are using.
SAR is the measure of of the rate at which the body absorbs energy when exposed to a radio frequency and is used to measure the power absorbed from mobile phones (as per My Mobile magazine article).
The maximum SAR value for mobile phones has been set to 2 Watts/Kg by the ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionising Radiation Protection) localised for the head and the trunk in the frequency range of 10MHz to 10 GHz. The SAR of each and every phone sold in the country supposedly "should" be below the value of 2 Watts/Kg.
Fcc and FDA are the regulatory authorities in US. If you wish to know the SAR value of any product, you can punch the FCC ID of that product and get the required product. A very good article on SAR on the FCC website is shared here for reference (http://www.fcc.gov/guides/specific-absorption-rate-sar-cell-phones-what-it-means-you).
Here is the link where you can find the SAR of a specific mobile handset - http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/
While DoT (Department of Telecommunications) is the authority in India that has to take care of regulations, not much is done in practical terms. While it is supposedly required by the mobile manufacturers to publish the SAR values of the mobile phones, the standard set of values published are somewhat like this:
- Model Name
- Dimensions
- Weight
- Battery strength (Number of hours standby)
- Screen size
- Inbuilt and Expandable memory
- Bluetooth
- Wifi
- 2.5G/3G/GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA, etc for smartphones
- Camera (Front/Back) resolution
- Video Capability
- Accessories
- GSM/CDMA/Dual(?)
Some external links posted on the wikipedia page of SAR are very good for further reading.
So, before you plan to buy, test your next mobile or smartphone, be sure to read about SAR and how it might affect your health.
Salud :-)
Monday, September 12, 2011
Websites Named After Vegetables
I was wondering how we are running out of domain names and then creating new domains based on the TLD (Top Level Domain Name) for each country, like .in, .us, etc.
Some of the famous websites named after some fruits vegetables include:
Apple - Ok, no guesses here, everybody is aware of Apple Inc.
The Onion - supposedly, America's Fines News Source.
Rotten Tomatoes - All about movies and reviews.
Red Chillies - An Entertainment Group website.
There are some websites named after the potato including sports couch potato.
Mango - A website for Women's fashion? And, there must be more websites based on this fruit.
There seem to be a number of websites named after the jellybean.
Hmm, very interesting start for me - If you have more websites, kindly add them in the comments page. Would be delighted to see more websites with such names.
Some of the famous websites named after some fruits vegetables include:
Apple - Ok, no guesses here, everybody is aware of Apple Inc.
The Onion - supposedly, America's Fines News Source.
Rotten Tomatoes - All about movies and reviews.
Red Chillies - An Entertainment Group website.
There are some websites named after the potato including sports couch potato.
Mango - A website for Women's fashion? And, there must be more websites based on this fruit.
There seem to be a number of websites named after the jellybean.
Hmm, very interesting start for me - If you have more websites, kindly add them in the comments page. Would be delighted to see more websites with such names.
Friday, September 9, 2011
E-commerce on a Rebound?
After the dot com burst in the early part of the century, many have treaded cautiously in the E-commerce domain. In India, thanks to the "shining economy" and a young, vibrant, enthusiastic workforce from all parts of the country, including small towns and villages are spending away despite the global meltdown and the shaky stock market.
Partly because of the boom in the smartphones industry and thanks to a slew of "cheap tablets" from vendors like Reliance, Beetel, and from lesser known companies like Lakshmi Access Communications, the prices are going down, some below 20K INR and even less.
Also, apart from the big players like eBay, Amazon, etc, there are a number of small players crawling the web and gaining a lot of customers.
Some of them include - flipkart.com, naaptol.com, rediff shopping, indiatimes shopping, etc.
New players like Myntra, snapdeal, yebhi, futurebazaar, fashionandyou, indiaplaza, etc are also taking a pie of the huge market share available in India.
There are also a number of Coupon sites mushrooming all over like Groupon, etc.
The market is full and as it has become cut-throat, the margins of the sales are thinning and the business owners are counting on the mass of the customers to keep themselves above the water and keep showing profits at the end of each Quarter.
Some of them are being acquired by the big sharks who want to cut down the competitors in an already burgeoning marketplace, others seem to be just hanging on.
Whatever be the other side of the story, the young and restless have a huge array of online stores beckoning them for their spoils.
Partly because of the boom in the smartphones industry and thanks to a slew of "cheap tablets" from vendors like Reliance, Beetel, and from lesser known companies like Lakshmi Access Communications, the prices are going down, some below 20K INR and even less.
Also, apart from the big players like eBay, Amazon, etc, there are a number of small players crawling the web and gaining a lot of customers.
Some of them include - flipkart.com, naaptol.com, rediff shopping, indiatimes shopping, etc.
New players like Myntra, snapdeal, yebhi, futurebazaar, fashionandyou, indiaplaza, etc are also taking a pie of the huge market share available in India.
There are also a number of Coupon sites mushrooming all over like Groupon, etc.
The market is full and as it has become cut-throat, the margins of the sales are thinning and the business owners are counting on the mass of the customers to keep themselves above the water and keep showing profits at the end of each Quarter.
Some of them are being acquired by the big sharks who want to cut down the competitors in an already burgeoning marketplace, others seem to be just hanging on.
Whatever be the other side of the story, the young and restless have a huge array of online stores beckoning them for their spoils.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Happy Vinayaka Chavithi 2011
Vinayaka Chavithi Celebrations @ our home using Eco-friendly Ganesha Idol (made of mud and not from Plaster of Paris).
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