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Introducing PowerPlug–The Monthly Contest For Indian Technology Entrepreneurs

by Paul Joseph May 19, 2011 Featured

I am super excited to introduce the PowerPlug contest , a unique contest targeted towards early stage startups in India.

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Report: PC sales up 6.1 % from last year, Dell beats HP

by Paul Joseph May 18, 2011 Featured

The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India totaled nearly 2.6 million in units in the first quarter of 2011. This figure is a 6.2 percent increase over the same quarter last year, according to Gartner,Inc. “This growth was primarily driven by the mobile PC market which grew 23 percent in the first quarter of 2011, when compared to the first quarter of 2010

Tagged as: apple, france, india, lenovo-the-top, market, mobile, over-the-same, quarter-on-2011, spend-on-tablet, technology, the-first, western, western-europe

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Malicious Mobile Threats Report [ 85% of smartphone users do not have any antivirus solution ]

by Paul Joseph May 13, 2011 Featured

The evolution of our phones into the smartphones will eventually replace our desktop PCs to a great extent. A few years back, the idea of a mobile device with a dual core processor was just a dream but now you can probably buy one off the shelf. The growth of smartphones has been phenomenal and there are no signs of it slowing down

Tagged as: apple, chance, desktop, from-the-report, global-threat, google-android, juniper, mobile, mobile security, nokia, report, user, virus

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Key Android Market Insights [April 2011]

by Paul Joseph May 12, 2011 Featured

Research2guidance has published its Android Market report for the month of April 2011 that gives us a brief insight on the Android platform. Android has enjoyed a great run in the global mobile arena and is not slowing down. Lets take a quick look at the report and see where the Android platform is headed as per predictions of the report .

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App Development Company SourceBits Raises $10 million From Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures

by Paul Joseph May 11, 2011 Featured

App development company Sourcebits has raised $10 million funding from Sequoia Capital and IDG Ventures, in order to expand to US market. For the year ending March 2011, Sourcebits posted revenues of $6.5 million and one of its app, Night Lamp has been the #2 app in Apple app store and the app itself has gotten revenues of $1 million for the company. Post this series A funding, SourceBits will expand the engineering and sales team to US market

Tagged as: access-internet, apple, engineering, india, internet, million-funding, night, posted-revenues, prefer-mobile, sourcebits, the-engineering

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Report on Mobile app Stores: Number of Paid Apps on Android is 1/3rd of iPhone App Store

by Paul Joseph May 5, 2011 Featured

The app store concept is amazing for rolling out apps to end users and Apple did a masterful job at it with its Appstore.

Tagged as: apple, appstore, black, current, download, game, iphone, nokia, phone, platforms

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Hands on with the iPad 2: Yes its here! [Review]

by Paul Joseph May 3, 2011 Featured

This year is supposed to be the year of the tablet with predictions that tablet sales will outpace PC sales, and Apple is leading the charge in an endeavor to knock all other  tablets out of the boxing ring even before they get to step into the ring and take a deep breath.

Tagged as: apple, black, engage-the-user, gadgets, ipad, ipad2, mobile, review, tablet

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Fear of Location Based Services & Tracking [Mobile User Privacy]

by Paul Joseph May 3, 2011 Featured

[Editorial Notes: Recently, we shared a report on LBS industry and Mobile User Privacy , which raised an important concern regarding how mobile OS companies store location data and the privacy threat associated with it. Arjun Ram, founder of Taazza , a LBS app startup shares his take on this issue.] We felt the need to write this post after the well advertised fiasco for iPhone and the mis-information that is being spread about LBS. Our app is a LBS app and we take privacy very seriously.

Tagged as: apple, backup, indian, location, microsoft, mobile, opinion, provider, time, user

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10 Big Businesses That Started in a Garage

by Paul Joseph May 3, 2011 Featured

Every big business had to start out somewhere, right? Some have come from more humble beginnings than others, launching with no more than some basic equipment, a couple employees, a garage space and a big idea.

Tagged as: apple, business, electronics, military, money, online, search, search-engine, space, technology

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Book review: Behind the Cloud [Salesforce Story]

by Paul Joseph April 27, 2011 Featured

Behind the cloud is not about cloud computing. It is not about the journey of salesforce.com from an idea to a billion dollar company as the cover claims either.

Tagged as: apple, culture, customers, food, marketing, oracle, price, traditional

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