Tech Ka Masala (55)
Its been quiet a week in the technology world with a mix of product announcements - Apple iPhone 4, India's 3G auction completion, Google sniffing its into trouble, and Hotmail releasing a new feature for India to enable access hotmail via SMS. Need less to say that Apple iPhone 4 stole the limelight this week. Saket is impressed by the display and I like the front facing camera for FaceTime. We also talk about iPhone coming to India. Things are a bit hazy and we discuss the expected pricing.
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Episode Notes
- WWDC iPhone 4 + Safari 5
- iPhone 4 in India
- India 3G Auction
- Hotmail on SMS in India, removes annoying Taglines
- Google Bans Windows
- WiFi Controversy for Google
- Curtains for LimeWire
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Major announcements happened this week but none of them turned out to be revolutionary. Twitter released its intention about monetizing its platform with "Promoted Tweets" which is just a different way of saying ads in your twitter timeline. Apple also continued its fascination with "i" branding by announcing the iAd, a confusing ad platform for iPhone.
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Episode Notes
- Airtel DTH ofers record using phone
- IBNLive Blaze
- Twitter Ad Platform
- iPhone OS 4.0 and other announcements
- Microsoft Kin
- Palm up for Sale
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This show is the most "Indian" episode with ALL stories coming from India. The telecom market has been kept on toes by Tata ever since the price war cry by Tata DoCoMo. They have further launched a new internet to TV product called Dialog. The other conversations are around the bunch mobile handset players that have entered India, Google launching metro routes on Google maps in India and a special "dumb" Nexus one being planned for India.
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Episode Notes
- Tata Launches Dialog
- TTSL to pay CDMA users for poor service
- Nexus One in India
- Microsoft social networking Phone
- Nielsen Survey says, Indians ready to pay for Books, videos and music
- Google Transit makes your metro commute easier
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Apple does it ones again. It boots out around 5000 apps that apparently had too much skin but decided to leave the Playboy App in its store. Google has started to feel the heat for being too big but hints at Microsoft having something to do with it. The updates include 3G auction in India, Paypal India outage.
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- Apple cracks down on App-Store porn
- Google Anti-Trust
- Law against Google
- Twitter Ad Platform rumors
- Facebook Patents its News Feeds
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We have barely completed 2 months of 2010 and we already have 3 major product announcements. At 53 minutes, this episode is the longest ever for Tech Ka Masala but with the announcement of iPad and the controversy, Google Buzz and WIndows Phone 7, we thought it deserved the extra time.
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Episode Notes
- Apple iPad Announcement
- Google Buzz
- Google yanking off IE6 Support
- Google shelves Gears in favor of HTML5
- Symbian goes Open-Source
- Paypal India Outage
- Zynga comes to India
- Nokia Money in India
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Tom Standage, The Economist's Business Affairs Editor joined us to talk about his cover story on the iPad. In this podcast, Tom makes some interesting observations on how the device will be more acceptable by the grandmothers and the members of the non geek world. He also shares his opinions on how the iPad will affect the online publishing and the newspaper industry. Tom is known for speaking his mind on the subject that he loves - Apple and Technology and that's exactly what he does in this podcast too!
You can follow Tom Standage on his blog http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/ where he blogs about the exciting stuff that he is up to like, writing a New York Times Best Seller, etc. His most recent work 'Edible History of Humanity' tells us how the fate of nations is hangs upon the choice of food! More about that later!
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A slight goof up has led to this delayed release. Saket & I recorded this episode on the 26th of Jan but is being released almost 5 days later. Blame me. More details will follow in the next episode. In the episode we cover IPL 3 live broadcast on Youtube, updates ont he Google-China story, Apple get cozy with Microsoft (again) and it seems like using patents to sue each over out of business is becoming fashionable.
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Episode Notes
- IPL on YouTube
- HTML5 begins to enter the mainstream
- China gives Warning
- IM was an attack vector
- Microsoft fixes IE
- Microsoft on iPhone: Apple vs Google
- Motorola seeks Blackberry Ban in the US
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Tech Ka Masala (TKM) is a technology podcast with an Indian Perspective. TKM is a 30 min round up of weekly technology and internet news from all over the world with a special focus on the impact of these developments in & on India.
TKM is hosted by Saket Vaidya (@vulturo), a linux fan and Aditya Mhatre (@v1hdrhatre), an Apple product user but with softcorner for microsoft. The show also attempts to resolve technology related issues or queries sent in by listeners via email or twitter. Occassionally, the TKM team releases product review videos to help buyers make purchasing decisions. You can email your query to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or twitter it to any of the show hosts.
The 3G adoption in India isnt going anywhere with only MTNL and BSNL in the market but that isnt stopping MTNL tying up with Dell to put out a 3G Netbook. After launching a subscription MP3 services, Hungama has announced a Rs.10 per download service on their website. In other news, we talk about Google SideWiki, Google Chrome Frame, Microsoft suing malvertisers, and a few updates from previous episodes.
Listen Online (64 kbps) : 33 mins
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Episode Notes
- India may block Internet Telephony traffic.
- MTNL 3G may be bundled with Dell Netbooks
- Hungama.com offers DRM Free audio/video downloads for INR 10 per item.
- Google Sidewiki: An attempt to make the web a more social
- Google has a solution for Internet Explorer: Turn it Chrome
- Microsoft actively sues Malicious Advertisers
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Tech Ka Masala (TKM) is a technology podcast with an Indian Perspective. TKM is a 30 min round up of weekly technology and internet news from all over the world with a special focus on the impact of these developments on India. TKM is hosted by Saket Vaidya (@vulturo), a linux fan and Aditya Mhatre (@v1hdrhatre), an Apple product user but with softcorner for microsoft.
The show also attempts to resolve technology related issues or queries sent in by listeners via email or twitter. Occassionally, the TKM team releases product review videos to help buyers make purchasing decisions. You can email your query to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or twitter it to any of the show hosts.
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