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Tech VOICES
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Narendra Modi and the smartphone era
August 28, 2014, 4:24 PM IST
A BJP functionary who visited ET’s office recently was taken aback when a reporter asked him to name the make of Narendra Modi’s smartphone. “I don’t know. I am not sure whether he has one,”…
August 28, 2014, 4:24 PM IST
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Don’t let a few call the shots in mobile banking
August 27, 2014, 4:56 PM IST
Far from the glamorous, high-octane world of banking, there is a little known, nonetheless outstanding, story. It’s about Equity Bank, a lender in Kenya. Equity was so cheesed off with telecom companies which were refusing to share…
August 27, 2014, 4:56 PM IST
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Need to secure mobile security infrastructure
August 27, 2014, 3:13 PM IST
Sunil Lalvani One key aspect that will be a defining feature of India’s future is its focus on integrating technology for various aspects of governance. Mobile phones and technology will play a critical role in…
August 27, 2014, 3:13 PM IST
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Bhatt is this? – The future of online branded content
August 26, 2014, 9:23 AM IST
This video went viral yesterday, and set the Indian Internet aflame. If you haven’t seen it, please do: As a ToI article says, ‘She became the butt of all jokes following her appearance on Karan…
August 26, 2014, 9:23 AM IST
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Nandan Nilekani: The rising czar of Bangalore
August 22, 2014, 4:14 PM IST
KR Balasubramanyam For Bangaloreans, Nandan Nilekani represents much more than Aadhaar or the Congress. He symbolises Bangalore’s entrepreneurial spirit in and the world of technology where the country is now competing with the best in…
August 22, 2014, 4:14 PM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Up for adoption
August 15, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
Wanted: a new home and caring guardians for an unwanted two-month-old I’m sorry, but there it is. I’m putting the little two-month-old up for adoption. Cruel and heartless of me? You might say so, if…
August 15, 2014, 12:01 AM IST
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Twitter has a diversity problem. India Inc has a bigger one
August 2, 2014, 5:17 PM IST
Twitter just made a confession. Its staff data reveals that it hires too many white and Asian men. Of the 3000 odd employees, 70% are men. And in the US, where it is headquartered, 90%…
August 2, 2014, 5:17 PM IST
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Giant wheels like London Eye popular tourist attractions, but does India need them?
July 31, 2014, 5:06 PM IST
The Big Wheel When British architects David Marks and Julia Barfield set about building a 135 metre high wheel in the heart of London no one gave them much hope. Their design was created in…
July 31, 2014, 5:06 PM IST
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Why selfies are social media’s race to the bottom
July 26, 2014, 10:54 AM IST
So, we are supposed to celebrate an almost civilization paradigm shift every time someone somewhere takes photo of some part of himself and herself and posts it online. There are now, apart from selfies, delfies,…
July 26, 2014, 10:54 AM IST
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Why selfies are social media’s race to the bottom
July 25, 2014, 10:27 PM IST
So, we are supposed to celebrate an almost civilization paradigm shift every time someone somewhere takes photo of some part of himself and herself and posts it online. There are now, apart from selfies, delfies,…
July 25, 2014, 10:27 PM IST
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Nasscom can help Govt set up database of paedophiles attacking children
July 24, 2014, 1:01 PM IST
The alleged assault on a six-year-old by a skating instructor in a Bangalore school need never have happened. In countries like the UK, there is a thoroughly updated national online database of paedophiles who attack…
July 24, 2014, 1:01 PM IST
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Book Review: The Alliance
July 18, 2014, 7:50 PM IST
The Alliance is a book by Reid Hoffman, one of the founders of LinkedIn and two co-authors Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh. The book begins by stating that when an employer refers to the employees…
July 18, 2014, 7:50 PM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Women should progress without being told they’re bossy: Sheryl Sandberg
July 4, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook COO and author of Lean In where she discusses tackling sexism at workplaces. Visiting India, Sandberg talks to TOI’s Srijana Mitra Das about why women are called bossy, mentors versus Prince…
July 4, 2014, 12:06 AM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Number’s up: When machines do all our counting, will we no longer count for anything much?
July 4, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
Two ones are two, two twos are four, two threes are six…! We used to chant these incantations every day, several times a day, in Class I in school. They were more familiar to us…
July 4, 2014, 12:04 AM IST
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Celebrating the gadget that fostered my childhood
July 3, 2014, 12:46 PM IST
If you’re anywhere between the ages of 10 and 50, you’ve probably heard of the Walkman – Sony’s iconic brand, first invented in 1979. At the time, the cassette tapes had been around, and they…
July 3, 2014, 12:46 PM IST
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How Sheryl Sandberg turned the tables
July 2, 2014, 9:40 PM IST
“I don’t get it, dude, where are the men?” muttered the photographer standing behind me at Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s Delhi FICCI-FLO talk. His bewilderment was understandable when you looked around. Women dominated the room,…
July 2, 2014, 9:40 PM IST
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Quit playing games with my heart, Facebook
June 30, 2014, 7:32 PM IST
It’s no secret that Facebook has been watching us. But a study led by Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer has shown that not only is the social media giant watching us, and letting law enforcement…
June 30, 2014, 7:32 PM IST
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Show me the money!
June 22, 2014, 11:55 PM IST
People like Mr NR Narayana Murthy can never be unhappy. What they may miss out occasionally is “Bliss”. They are known to work with higher margins, like the one between “Happiness” and “Bliss”. Even while…
June 22, 2014, 11:55 PM IST
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My experiments with Yo
June 21, 2014, 5:34 PM IST
This week, many sat up and took note of a two month old app out of Silicon Valley. The app is called Yo. It sends the sound and the text “Yo” to a contact of…
June 21, 2014, 5:34 PM IST
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Assisted suicide for 2G
June 19, 2014, 6:48 PM IST
It is a crime to make spectrum ideal for superior 4G the habitat of a technological dinosaur. The poor need more data than the rich to climb out of poverty, and to realise that, policy…
June 19, 2014, 6:48 PM IST
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