Here’s a meme that resounds quite often in the startup world: > Execution is more important than ideas. Good ideas are only so good in the mind of the beholder, unless proven to be useful or effective through execution. Ideas matter. The execution of those ideas [https://www.nilkanth.…
I’ve been reading a lot about “Augmented Reality” lately. Just the other day, I saw this beautiful short film titled ‘World Builder [http://vimeo.com/3365942]‘, that also depicts this powerful holographic technology to express the fusion of the physical and virtual worlds. Augmented Reality [http://en.wikipedia.org/…
Half of world’s population has a mobile phone [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23755389-5014108,00.html], yet, only 21% of the world’s population uses the Internet [http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm]. On my last visit to India, I was not so astounded to…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to the Mono project [http://www.mono-project.com/], the open source (and cross-platform) implementation of Microsoft’s .NET. But something really interesting came up today. Mono has been ported to the iPhone [http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Mar-10.…
The new Apple MacBook Air looks amazing … Read more at Gizmodo [http://gizmodo.com/345051/apple-macbook-air-looks-absolutely-amazing] or the official MacBook Air website [http://www.apple.com/macbookair/]. By the way, the cute song in the ad is New Soul by Yael Naim [http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUxbDEPFiM].…
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…
The latest scoop from the social web is that, both Google and Yahoo are working on next generation social networks. Yahoo is working on a service called Mosh [http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/mosh-yahoos-new-social-network-initiative/] (certainly to replace 360 [http://360.yahoo.com/]), while Google is working on Socialstream…
Lately, I’ve been facing a series of problems with my Treo [https://www.nilkanth.com/index.php?s=treo] smartphone. It’s been well used for a few years now, and its starting to show signs of wear-off. First, its firmware got flushed, and I had to repatch it.…