How will we change the way we interact with smartphones? As Apple popularised touchscreens in 2007, the mobile world has harmonised around a circa 4-inch mobile phone with few buttons. Before the iPhone and the first few years after it, designers in the industry were discussing hidden buttons, haptics [sense of touch], keyboards, add-on keyboards to improve the input functionality. But nothing really happened. Instead, Apple revolutionised the phone by...
05:50 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Wearable, augmented-reality Glasses: One of the most radical of all new designs, the Google Glass is a spectacle-like wearable computer that you control with your eyes and voice. ...
05:40 PM, Feb 22, 2013
Imagine this: On your smartphone you notice that a friend has shared the latest episode of Grey's Anatomy. You start watching it, but then, realising your tablet is nearby, decide to watch it on the bigger screen. The episode seamlessly 'transfers' across devices, to the same minute you were watching. You get disturbed when something else comes up and forget about it. Later, you want to catch up on the...
02:15 PM, Feb 08, 2013
Quick Heal is a completely homegrown anti-virus software company that's not only beaten big, multi-billion dollar competitors like McAfee and Symantec, but is also taking back the fight to their turfs in other countries around the world. It has come a long way since 1995, when the first version was released for Rs 500, written entirely by Sanjay Katkar, 41, then fresh out of college. His brother, Kailash, 46, a...
12:01 PM, Nov 12, 2012
On November 23, 2010, Arvind Rao, the 53-year-old co-founder and CEO of OnMobile, bought approximately 6 lakh shares of his company from the open market, representing a little over 1 per cent of the company's total shares. Rao already owned over 10 per cent of the company's shares. At Rs 277 a share, he had to pony up nearly Rs 16.5 crore to acquire them. He still did it because...
12:29 PM, Aug 03, 2012
K Ganesh, 50, the Energizer Bunny of Indian entrepreneurship, is either angry, annoyed or sarcastic. I can't tell. "VCs (venture capitalists) have a herd mentality. They don't mind funding the sixth baby products site or the eighth (discount) deals site. But one of the reasons we got into this business is because it isn't 'VC-able'. It means two pony-tailed youngsters out of college can't enter it. It's our competitive barrier...
03:02 PM, Jun 18, 2012
There comes a time in most foodies lives when they lose interest in restaurant food. I recall when it happened to me and my wife: The third week of February, 2010. Thats when our son was born. But being the frequent eater-outers that we were, we didnt give in without a fight. We managed a few dinners when he was still just a few months old, carrying him into a...
07:03 PM, Jun 02, 2012
Soon, while you are watching a show on national television, you might find yourself watching an advert for the mom-and-pop store down your road. In fact, even today while watching some channels, you might be watching advertising that is being aired only in your city. At the same time, your friend in another city who is watching the same show could be watching a different ad. The company behind this...
10:57 AM, Mar 28, 2012
There's an old saying about newspapers: They aren't delivering news to readers, but readers to advertisers. But as many newspapers migrated to the web, where readers, in most cases, hate to pay for news at all, the saying evolved to: If you're not paying for it, you're the product. Dismal as it may sound, most people realise that is the way the media business operates. Readers rarely pay full or...
10:52 AM, Feb 28, 2012
PubMatic: When Google announced in June this year it was spending $400 million to acquire AdMeld, the ad platform targeted at digital publishers, the picture only got brighter for PubMatic. Thats because PubMatic immediately would become the largest independent publisher-focussed ad platform. Publishers fear that Google would do to them what Apple did to the music industry. 2012 will see PubMatic going in for an IPO and adding market share...
12:09 PM, Jan 02, 2012
Every year or so, a new version of an Apple product is announced, with claims that it is better than its predecessor. This year, the 4S version that Apple trotted out featured Siri, a voice-driven personal assistant that users could talk to as though they were talking to their personal assistants. Behind the scenes, Siri is the result of decades of research on artificial intelligence (AI) funded by the US...
11:24 AM, Nov 24, 2011
Name: Irfan Razack Age: 58 Profile: CEO of Bangalore-based Prestige Constructions, a company promoted by his family Rich List Rank: 87 Wealth: $ 550 million Did You Know? The Razack family got into the real estate business while looking to buy property to avoid being taxed after the sale of their family home in the 1980s. It was 4:20 pm on an October evening in 2008, in Bangalores Whitefield suburb,...
12:33 PM, Nov 08, 2011
India, for Paul E Jacobs - CEO of $ 11-billion telecom research and hardware company Qualcomm - has been like a box of chocolates, in a very Forrest Gump way. The good surprise came on June 11, 2010, when Qualcomm won the licence to offer broadband wireless access (BWA) in Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Kerala for $ 1 billion. The nasty one arrived on September 7, 2011, when the Department...
11:23 AM, Oct 20, 2011
Once upon a time, big business and big government monopolised any communication there was. They had the reach, the resources - and yes, the impact - to command media coverage or to buy exposure through advertising. That hasnt changed. But social media has made it possible for us, as individuals, to do more than just tell the world what we had for breakfast; popular services like Facebook and Twitter have...
12:59 PM, Oct 04, 2011
In a narrative beginning in 2016 and ending today, Forbes India recalls how the once irrepressible Google lost the mobile OS war. Black Forest August 12, 2016: In spite of glowing reviews, it may be too late for 'Black Forest', version 9.0 of Google's Android operating system (OS), to turn Google's ship around. In the last 12 months, Android's market share among smart devices has fallen from 35.4 per cent...
01:44 PM, Aug 18, 2011
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