PhoneCurry.com is an interesting new website that is designed to answer a question that many people struggle with these days – which mobile should I buy  ? As an increasing number of Indian look to the internet to research phones before making a buying decision, there is a need for an India specific website that helps them in the process, and PhoneCurry fits the bill quite well.

The site differentiates itself in a number of effective ways:

1. The simple, easy-to-use interface strikes you immediately when you visit the site.
2. Everything is search oriented to help people find phones according to their specific requirements. For instance, a user can do a search such as “Nokia and Samsung phones, costing between Rs 8,000 and 10,000, launched during the last year, having touchscreen, 3G support, full keyboard and in-built social networking”
3. Phone features are not just listed, but also explained, in simple layman terms.
4. Overall opinion is provided around each phone (collated and summarized from various publicly available phone reviews), as well as an overall rating, to make it easy for the user to make his decision.
5. Video reviews are provided for popular phones, which add a nice touch and allow you to see how the phone software etc looks like (something that is often not possible in mobile stores as they have only dummy handsets)

On the whole, the site does very well at presenting a no-nonsense interface to help people decide on a phone quickly and easily. This approach has helped it gain good popularity in short time with about 8,000 unique users a month, almost entirely through word of mouth (the site was launched in February this year, and has done virtually no advertising till now).

About the Founder

The website has been founded by Sahil Bajaj, an alumni of IIT Delhi (2008 Batch). Sahil worked on the website part-time while working in a management consulting firm, and finally quit his job in February this year to launch the website, and focus on it full-time.

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Aspiring entrepreneurs / Entrepreneurs in UK, StreetEntrepreneurs is a place where you can come, share and learn about entrepreneurship. I attended the street entrepreneurs meet twice and it was really informative. Thanks to Alan, Bruce, David and Jo-Anne for organising meet ups. The meet will happen every second Wednesday of the month. The next meeting will happen on 11th of August 2010 at All-Bar-One, St Vincent Street at West Nile Street, Glasgow, you can contact jo-anne@ suzy@ alan@ bruce@ david@streetentrepreneurs.com to register with opt-in mailing list.

Yesterday, I attended a session about protecting your idea in the pre-patent phase. Thanks to Alan who taught us an unconventional way without investing any enough money to protect the idea which was really helpful. Though it was not foolproof idea, but it was an idea that can worth try.

Finally, I found some interesting thing yesterday, the majority of participants were females. It was really interesting and surprising for me that more females are taking their career path as entrepreneurship.

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Microsoft is proud to announce it’s first acquisition of a fictional company. After getting clearance from the NASA (they had no clue how to block a fictional acquisition) Microsoft is acquiring Allure Bays Corp. (ABC).

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moneyvidya.com, in its efforts to provide quality recommendations to its online community for investors, traders and stock market enthusiasts, launched a fresh new beta version recently.

Besides tracking the performance of every pick made on its site, rating stock pickers (‘analysts’) based on the actual performance of the picks and more, the beta version is also more intuitive, more user friendly.

Moneyvidya analysts are regularly being featured and can be found on moneycontrol.com.

The average 5 star analyst on Moneyvidya.com has made 178 stock picks. He or she beats the nifty by +3% per month; in the last 30 days, our typical 5 star analysts has beaten the nifty by an average of +14.1%.

Also, on an average, the non premium members, in the last 30 days, have managed to beat the market by 8.6%.

moneyvidya.com is now giving a cash prize of Rs 100,000 to its top analysts:

moneyvidya.com rewards its top Analysts not only by giving them recognition, but also by giving them cash. This has increased the competition for top spots and is ensuring quality results are consistently generated on the website.

On June 1, 2010 our 5 Star rated analysts will share a pot of Rs. 100,000. As moneyvidya.com becomes more popular, we aim to increase the size and frequency of cash payouts to our top ten best analysts.

About moneyvidya.com:

All the analysts on moneyvidya.com are accountable for their opinions. Retail investors therefore, know whose opinions are worth following and whose should be ignored.

Approximately 17,500 recommendations have been made on the site to date, out of which 20% have been made in the last 1 month! This number is growing at 20% per week since the last month

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hucYQHeMlo4

The Microsoft DevDiv Team is looking to share the voices of developer’s all around the world.  To do this they are asking developers to leave a video response to the video above.  You can check out some personal stories on their YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/user/developerstories

Check out the videos and get ready for the release of Visual Studio 2010!  If you have a personal story you’d like to share, leave it in the comments below!

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The next BarCamp Kerala(8) is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010. Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time.
For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Wikipedia

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. When this post was written we have 65 attendees.

Sessions

Till now we have 6 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still hesitant about coming to BarCamp Kerala, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala on May 3
• Barcamp kerala 6
• About Geeks and BarCamps
• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience
• BarCamp Time for Kerala

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Its BarCamp time again in Kerala We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20^th of December 2009! BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

Think barcamp is about lawyers? Or about alcoholics? Think again…

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BCK 7 will be at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Chetipuzha, Changanassery, Kottayam. For more details, go here

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. As of yet we have 47 attendees.

Sessions

When this post was written we have 10 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala 5 @ Technopark on May 3rd
• BarCamp Kerala Part 5
• Barcamp Kerala 5
• Barcamp kerala 6
• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience

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The next generation chips from IBM is to be powered with DNA if sources are to be believed. “The cost involved in shrinking features to improve performance is a limiting factor in keeping pace with Moore’s Law and a concern across the semiconductor industry,” said Spike Narayan, manager, Science & Technology, IBM Research – Almaden.

“The combination of this directed self-assembly with today’s fabrication technology eventually could lead to substantial savings in the most expensive and challenging part of the chip-making process.” This would mean researchers could pack in more speed and computational powers into chips.

The challenge faced by the semiconductor industry is developing the necessary lithographic technology for features sizes smaller than 22nm. The ability of the DNA structures which can serve as scaffolds or miniature circuit boards they hope will help in developing the necessary technology to overcome the sub 22nm problem.  This allows the possibility to assemble components precisely on a much smaller scale.

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Its Onam time and and what better way to show the joyful spirit of Onam by wearing it on your sleeve oops I mean how about a twibbon on your twitter image???

Well follow the think http://twibbon.com/cause/onam/Join and do as shown below

And your avatar on twitter  profile would show as below….

HAPPY ONAM TWEEPLE !!!!

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Here is the killer technology from Microsoft, Apple Keep an eye on it.

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