Category Archive: New Products

Aug 06

Wholesale trick or treat @ Best Price by Bharti-Walmart

Having read and heard all the hype around Walmart’s cash and carry route into the Indian market with Bharti, two colleagues and I decided to check out their spanking new Best Price outlet at village Paragpur on NH1 between Jalandhar and Phagwara in Punjab. It is a large swanky building with huge branding that prominently …

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Feb 06

Google Latitude: Big Brother is tracking me!

Big brother, wifey, buddy, mistress, whoever… they can all track your movements as you can track theirs, thanks to Google Latitude. Latitude is a GPS based tracking system which runs on Google Maps on Blackberry and other Windows based handheld devices. Every length you take, every move you make… (with apologies to the Police) When you download the …

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Jul 29

A Cuil new “search engine”

  I was about to write a post on “cuil” (pronounced cool) the new search engine created by former employees of google, when I came upon this post at MoneyManagement’s Weblog. It is a comprehensive review, so I won’t try and duplicate the effort in detail. But here’s my quick summary on two key factors …

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May 02

sony thump versus motorokr – no match!

Some time back I put out a post praising the new MOTOROKR commercial starring Abhishek Bachchan (see link). I still stand by it, and in fact love it even more compared to the new “the thump is here” commercial by Sony Ericsson W200i. Why? Let’s talk basics which the agency/client seem to have forgotten: A …

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Apr 01

Google launches Free In-home Wireless Broadband!

If you drop by at Google today (as I do everyday, it being my default home page) you will spot the New! Get FREE breakthrough broadband with Google TiSP (Beta). It’s an amazing new way to get faster broadband ‘downloads’ via, symbolically, your toilet! It’s something all of us have been waiting for, and is …

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Permanent link to this article: http://noshtradamus.com/2007/04/01/google-launches-free-in-home-wireless-broadband-on-the-1st-of-april/