Micro funding is gaining momentum

Lately there’s been a surge in the number of Internet startup’s and entrepreneurs willing to experiment more vividly with their ideas. Everyday I read about startup’s [http://news.ycombinator.com], meet [http://www.meetup.com/] like-minded entrepreneurs, and focus on my own startup Over the period of…

Best Non-US Startups

Some of the world’s hottest Web 2.0 startups are outside the United States. Find out where they are, and what they’re up to. Read more at CNN Money … [http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0707/gallery.web_world.biz2/index.html]…

Forward-Thinking Cultures

As per the competitive rankings of the World Economic Forum, the most competitive and future-oriented country in the world is Singapore, closely followed by Switzerland. (source Harvard Business Review [http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?articleID=F0707B&ml_action=get-article&print=true&ml_…

WiFi Hotspots

PC World gathers a list of WiFi hotspots (some free) located in India [http://pcworld.jiwire.com/hot-spot-directory-browse-by-state.htm?provider_id=0&country_id=101] (Delhi [http://pcworld.jiwire.com/browse-hotspot-india-in-delhi--1000008.htm]) and Australia [http://pcworld.jiwire.com/hot-spot-directory-browse-by-state.htm?provider_id=0&country_id=16] (Melbourne CBD…

Google or Yahoo may acquire Rediff

Internet giants Google and Yahoo are eyeing Rediff.com [http://rediff.com], which runs one of India’s most popular Internet portals, for a possible acquisition. Some think that Rediff’s share price is too high for an acquisition, but then we’ll just have to wait and watch. Source:…

The margin of an "i" in the phone

Apple has always been the king of hype. It’s no myth that the iPod [http://www.apple.com/ipod] is the best example of a well-marketed product. But when Apple announced a phone device a few months ago, capable of multimedia and Internet, it was seen with as much…

Total customer experience

Blogging has emerged from simply being personal journals to a key business news and knowledge management tool today. It’s no surprise that so many companies and Internet services use blogs to keep their users/customers informed. Bloggers are changing the way news and information travel across the globe. Relatively,…

State of Broadband in Australia

There’s more customers per square mile across the entire USA than in Australia, by a factor of twenty or more. Extrapolate that, and it means (roughly) that every kilometer of copper or fibre laid down costs Oz customers [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/09/23/got-iprimus-broadband/] twenty times…