Twenty years from now, when the history of mobile personal technology products is written, there will be many a snigger on todays bumbling efforts at cramming several devices, functionalities and

Josey Puliyenthuruthel: Serious finds fun? Not quite

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Motorola, under new CEO Ed Zander, an ex-Sun Microsystems veteran, had one big hit last year: the Moto Razr mobile phone. Even by the pace of new product releases in the world of rapidly evolving

Josey Puliyenthuruthel: A fun phone for the officer

Last July, these columns reviewed an external hard disk made by Maxtor Corp vying with the powerful brands Iomega and Seagate as also smaller rivals LaCie and Direct Data. 


Josey Puliyenthuruthel: The big daddies of external storage

One thumb rule that has worked well with me while buying personal technology gizmos is to hunt for a median-priced product in the market from a trusted brand, do some research and pick it up. 


Josey Puliyenthuruthel: For picture-perfect prints

Intel Corporation, California-headquartered computer chip maker, has released a variant of its Centrino Technology, launched in 2003, for notebook laptops with a host of powerful capabilities, a

Intel unveils Centrino for notebooks

TCL &amp; Alcatel Mobile Phones will launch CDMA phones globally in August this year.


TCLto launch CDMA phones

Ontario, Canada-based Research in Motion Inc. made a name for itself some years ago when it unveiled its BlackBerry series of devices. The little gadgets were phenomenal in performing one function:

Josey Puliyenthuruthel: Emails in motion, on your palm

Ever since I started rising at 5 a m  an hour Id till then seen perhaps less than a dozen times in my whole life  to thwack across a net 16 feathers welded together into a cork or wallop a small

Josey Puliyenthuruthel: Bose tells the time too

The one good thing about the prices of cell phone models is that they always go down some time after launch. Thats the way of price cycles in the gizmo world  most of the time. 


Rings for the really rich

Nokia Oy, Finlands most popular export  perhaps second only to a fine brew borrowing the countrys name  has come a long way from its days of making, among other things, toilet paper. 


Josey Puliyenthuruthel: You can even make calls

Microsoft has been dangling the Xbox (Microsofts handheld gaming device and competitor to Sonys Playstation and Nintendos Gameboy) carrot to Indian gamers for over two years now. 


MAQ's game for profits

If you grew up in India in the 1970 and 1980s, you wouldnt have missed adverts by suitcase maker Blow Plast Ltd, better known for its V.I.P. range of moulded reinforced plastic baggage.


Josey Puliyenthuruthel: Vanity phone on your wrist

If you are part of a large corporation or a government department and the use of computers is an integral part of your work day, it is likely that your office already has some system  rudimentary,

Josey Puliyenthuruthel: Storage to the max

Philips launches Rs 1.15-2.65 lakh 30" set; LG rolls out PDPs. 


TV firms zoom in on corporate market

Most computer-owning households in India, Id hazard a guess, have a CD-ROM installed in their machines. And, several among these, Ill gaze into my crystal ball again, are in the market to install a

Moving on to a combo writer

Yesterday, in the <I><B>ICE World</B></I> section, I wrote about PicoPeta Simputer Pvt Ltd, the company that has developed the Amida Simputer, a handheld computing device running on the Linux

Josey Puliyenthuruthel: Amida, simply the best

Are you a harassed executive whos tired of lugging a 2.5kg laptop around the country for meetings and presentations? The Day of Deliverance may be at hand (but not if you are a personal computer

Taking on the laptops

For at least three years now, cellphone and PDA (personal digital assistant) makers have been trying to come up with a device that does away with the need for a corporate footsoldier to carry a mobile

A new communicator on the block

Smartphones are the rage in Europe, where the accent is increasingly on data and business applications. Phones in this category include the pencil box Nokia Communicator series, Sony Ericssons

A predecessor of futuristic phones

Global corporations try different pricing and bundling schemes when it comes to selling their wares; some innovative, some not so. 


Adobe's flexible gymnast

If you are an executive on the move and hate floppy disks, but are yet concerned about the storage that your laptop affords - help is at hand. Welcome to the world of flash memory or keychain memory

Shrinking memory device makes sense

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