Archive for December, 2007

Spend more $ at Blockbuster

If you have Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service, you may have noticed an increase in your bill.
Last month, the company — which has been losing money on online movie orders — raised prices for new customers and some existing ones.
Highest price hikes? Up to 40 percent. The hikes were from $2 to $10and leaves Blockbuster offering plans […]

Best games of ‘07

On the final day of 2007, let’s look back at the best games of the year.
1. “Bioshock”: It’s got a dazzling story, set underwater and involving a social experiment that has gone terribly wrong.
It’s a first-person shooter, but it calls on the player to make moral choices. It’s a lot different than most of today’s […]

Have a Great 2008 - Inspiration for All

Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing (to paraphrase BBC World Service radio’s ident), have a great, peaceful and prosperous 2008! Lots happening in the next 12 months, Olympics, US elections, LeWeb08, DLD, LIFT, APMMediaLab, 3GSM. Fraid I won’t have much influence on the first two - but I will have a lot of fun being […]

2008 technology prediction!

For the past of couple of days, I have been reading about 2008 prediction. Thought of writing something about it.
Here are some of my predictions:
• Location based services• Mobile Social Networking• VoIP Widget providers consolidation. Maybe, the three J’s(Jajah,Jaxtr,Jangl) could partner wih each other. Already, the two J’s, Jajah and Jangl have partnered.• Google OpenSocial […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Wishing all our friends all the very best this holiday season and in the new year! Click here for an animated greeting.

Wishing all our friends all the very best this holiday season and in the new year! Click here for an animated greeting.

PBS-HD coming to DirecTV

DirecTV will soon add public television station signals across the country in high definition, the company said today.
DirecTV, the nation’s HD leader with 87 national high-def channels, has a carriage agreement with the Association of Public Television Stations and the Public Broadcasting Service. DirecTV viewers will have access to other Public Television content as well.
DirecTV […]

Destination India!

I have been shipped to India on a project work. This explains why I have not posted any new article on my blog. Adding to this mess- I Lost my luggage while flying through Lufthansa. Apparently, it was a big struggle to get my luggage back. Man this really sucks! Big time mess, customer service […]

Your official HDTV buying guide…..with video

If you’re about to go out and buy the family that 50-inch flat screen you’ve been eyeing, I say congratulations. You’ll love your new HDTV.
But wait. There is lots of confusing lingo out there. Do you want Plasma, LCD or DLP? What about all those numbers you hear about: 720P or 1080i or 1080P? And […]

Jaxtr 5 million users, where is the money!

Jaxtr has reached 5 million users out of which 85% are international users. Wow, this is definitely amazing growth. Reminds me of skype’s old days, when it was growing at an amazing pace. This is for folks who have not heard about jaxtr, jaxtr is a voip widget that supports anonymous calling through widgets or […]

Flash based VoiP, Adobe please wakeup!

Flash based VoiP is becoming one of the hot technologies. Looking at the number of startups that are supporting flash based VoiP; it makes me wonder where does adobe stand in terms of supporting flash based VoiP. Is Pacifica the answer for this? It’s been almost more than a year since Om […]