IPTV, an acronym for Internet Protocol Television, is a system which delivers digital television to subscribers over the internet, or more specifically, over the broadband. Thus, it is different from the conventional delivery methods, wherein the TV service is delivered through radio waves, satellite signals or cable.
IPTV service, just like your everyday television service, has all the necessary ingredients – it can show live events, recorded programming or on-demand programs/movies (as in DTH services). In addition, it can provide features like games and pause & play of live TV, features which are not available on normal TV...
Cell phones available in the market can be either of the two types – locked and unlocked. So, what is the difference between a locked cellphone and an unlocked cellphone, and how is the locking/unlocking done?
Unlocking a Cell Phone is Easy
A locked...
“Youth in politics” has been frequently touted as the perfect pill to cure all the ills that plague the Indian political system. A number of debates, especially if they involve the ‘younger’ and ‘urbanized’ crowd, will frequently propose...
‘I will sue your government and file a case of human rights violations. How your administration can stop me from filming Kumbh mela at Haridwar?’ Carlos Benito was fuming. He came to India to film Kumbh Mela 2010 at Haridwar and his application...
Lotus Space
Aptrix [July, 2003] Aptrix was a Web content management firm, developing software that gives customers the ability to quickly and easily create, publish, manage and archive Web-based content within a company’s intranet, extranet and...
Information Management Space
Alphablox Corp. [July, 2004] Alphablox Corporation was a leading provider of analytics technology for business intelligence solutions. Alphablox would become a key part of IBM’s middleware portfolio of business intelligence...
“How long you can keep this unhappy nation together”, asked one of my friends during a passionate discussion over the recent events of Telangana. As I argued that we are a mature democracy and there was little threat to India’s unity, he snapped...
It would be a cliche to say that climate control and global warming are the buzzwords in today’s awakening world! And the recently held summit at Copenhagen meant these were all over the newspapers. The Copenhagen summit was looked at with lot...
F irst, justice came 19 years later, in the Ruchika case. Second, what is the punishment for molesting and leading a young bright girl to commit suicide at the tender age of 18? A mere six months jail. Isn’t this too much now? Every Indian should...
The kidnapped police officer, Francis Induwar, from the special branch was found dead in Ranchi, along Jamshedpur-Ranchi highway. It is alleged that he was beheaded by Naxalite extremists. And if this turns out to be authentic information then certainly...
I got a job at “The Leading Daily” with hopes that I would be interviewing the likes of J.K. Rowling or Emma Watson or Aishwarya Rai, but I get dumb-ass (I really don’t use that word! Except in my thoughts!) Praj Thappadein, a racist leader of...
As we have many times heard that consumption is what drives the economy. We got the idea that how increase in disposal income and as result of that increase in consumption can create national wealth and spread harmony. So many times the consumption...
The Election Pressure
The Nobel Peace Prize for Obama this week was a surprising one, ofcourse to everyone.
The question that was raised was
1. Is Nobel Peace Prize an award for accomplishment..?
2. Is Nobel Peace Prize an award for encouragement..?
I...
Have you heard about this new wave that is coming towards you at rapid pace? Or should I said the wave which has already hit some of us and some of us are about to be hit by it. Whatever is your current status, this wave surely promises to drown you...
The on-going strike by Jet Airways Pilots brings forth some uncomfortable facts to front. Ofcourse the big business owned media would not discuss these.
First and foremost is the right of employees of an organization to involve in collective bargaining...
Actually this is a news-scoop that is being planned to be published in tomorrow or day-after-tomorrow’s newspapers. Since I got it apriori, through unofficial channels, I am bringing out a blog on it. SRK was man-handled during his interrogation...
There are several confusions around swine flu that has spread in India, in particular.
Let me list down the confusions:
Is Swine flu similar to Common flu..? If yes then why are some people dying..?
While it is reported that people with underlying...
Its green time again!! This color is becoming so alluring that it is becoming really difficult to stay away from it. So, here I go green again!! But this time a bit weirdly. While looking for some things for my academic project I happen to struck this...
The Made for Marriage show of Raakhi Saawant has come to an end.
The brains at NDTV imagine should have started itching again. Since they did not have anything to produce for entertainment, after a lot of scratching they had conceived a ‘made for...
It can be a mere coincidence that today, the day on which I wrote a blog on technology and its effects , there is an article in one of the business dailies about the new software that will help you to reach the primary market in a jiffy. The newspaper...
