Tag: GeEkSpEaK

  • Data portability on social networks : Bain or Boon ?

    [starrating]Last week’s Trend Candy (Trendhunter’s weekly newsletter) got me a catchy piece of news in their Hot trends section. The head line went like “Celebrity MySpace Hacking – Paris Hilton & Lindsay Lohan’s Private Pics (GALLERY)”. After being a spectator to most of their private videos, the ‘private pics’ dint lure me as much as…

  • Rechargable AA size USB batteries

    Tired of buying the conventional Li-ion AA batteries that have to be either thrown out or plugged into an additional charging unit for hours to get back their power? If you said yes, then maybe Moxia has an answer to your worries. The USB cell ,launched in Sept,2006 ,is just like any other AA batery…

  • Microsoft Imagine Cup winners are Novices at Work

    Paras Doshi, Veenit Mavani, Saili Dharia,Krunal Dedhia and Bhavik Vora from Vivekananda Education Society’s Institute of Technology(VESIT) called themselves ‘Novices at Work’ when they unveiled their masterpiece ‘Kalpavriksha’ at Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008,Bangalore. As their fate had it, the underdogs emerged triumphant at the software development contest of the Micrsoft Imagine Cup India finals and…

  • Elecrama ’08: the industrial electronics hub

    Its not the best thing to do when you decide to visit Elecrama on the last day, not only do u gasp at its humongous outreach as a first timer but you are also left asking for more. Ive been postponing my visit to this international industrial electronics exhibition ever since my first year in…

  • ROBO-KAAND

    Whiling away my precious PL(prep leave) morning over the myriad newspapers I have subscribed to, I came across a little piece :a pseudonorm that said ”South Korea plans Code of Ethics for Robots” : The scarcely populated country which comprises of old people (unlike ours which is heavily populated with a good proportion of young…