| Michael V. Copeland / Wired: |
New App Turns Your iPhone Into a Mobile Urine Lab
— LONG BEACH, California - For entrepreneur Myshkin Ingawale the logic was unassailable. Everybody pees. And everyone has a cellphone. “There has to be something going on there,” Ingawale told a chuckling crowd at the TED conference.
| Niharika Mandhana / India Ink: |
Conceived in Haste, India's Internet Law Now Targeted for Change
— Civil rights activists, free speech advocates, lawyers and politicians have spoken out in recent days against India's controversial Internet laws, after two women were arrested in Mumbai for criticizing in a Facebook post …
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In India, Dreaming of A 4G World
— Reliance Chairman Plots a $10 Billion Mobile Network — MUMBAI—In December 2010, Mukesh Ambani, India's richest man, circulated a 36-page handwritten memo to executives that spelled out his plans to build one of the world's most advanced telecommunications networks.
| Jamie Keene / The Verge: |
Indian government readying BlackBerry snooping system
— The Indian government's system to monitor encrypted BlackBerry email and BBM services will be up and running soon, according to a report by India Today. This follows the installation of a BlackBerry service center in Mumbai …
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| Geoff Duncan / Digital Trends: |
Report: RIM operating surveillance facility in India
— Remember when India was threatening to shut down BlackBerry service unless it could tap user's communications? Reports have RIM operating a wiretapping facility in Mumbai to help with that. — Back in 2010, the Indian government …
| Benedict Carey / New York Times: |
Moods on Twitter Follow Biological Rhythms, Study Finds
— However grumpy when they wake up, and whether they stumble to their feet in Mumbai, Mexico City or Minnetonka, Minn., people tend to brighten by breakfast time and feel their mood taper gradually to a low in the late afternoon …
| Charles Arthur / Apps blog: |
App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’
— App developers are withdrawing their products for sale from the US versions of Apple's App Store and Google's Android Market for fear of being sued by companies which own software patents - just as a Mumbai-based company …
| Vikas Bajaj / New York Times: |
India Puts Tight Leash on Internet Free Speech
— MUMBAI, India — Free speech advocates and Internet users are protesting new Indian regulations restricting Web content that, among other things, can be considered “disparaging,” “harassing,” “blasphemous” or “hateful.”
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RIM Gives India Access to Messenger Services
— MUMBAI — Canada's Research In Motion Ltd. Thursday said it has provided solutions that will let India's security agencies access the smartphone maker's popular messenger and public email services, but not the corporate email services.
Inside NuGet for C++ — NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5! It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).