Can We Still Call it a Phone?

today’s Times of India (very much like San Jose Mercury News in content and coverage) front page carried a very interesting article about how the reserve bank of india will issue guidelines for payments through a mobile phones. since their e-paper is so pathetic, i have copied and pasted the article below (sorry TOI).

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On-The-Go Relationship with God

need a wish to be quickly delivered to your favorite god? ran into this service (haven’t tried it myself). check out this wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcode#India.

In India there are quite a few service providers who provide the Short Code facilities popular amonst them are 58888 (Indiatimes), 56006, 56388 and 59994 which has started a service [...]

Yahoo! Testing Google’s AdSense – a No Win

the media rumor-mill aside, the message from yahoo management aside, the decision tree leading to yahoo!’s test of google’s adsense for search product for it’s sponsored search ads is perplexing. look at the two possible outcomes of the test -

(a) a success – i.e., google’s adsense for search performs better than yahoo’s own sponsored [...]

Google is Scraping the Bottom

google started to include site-searching from within the google search results. so instead of handing the users off to a site from the search results page, they want you to search more on the site itself. quite understandably, not everyone is pleased, the online retailers to say the least. check out how you can search [...]

A Peek Inside Yahoo’s Event Horizon

apart from $29, there isn’t much of a difference between JPMorgan’s opportunism against bear sterns and microsoft’s offer to buy out yahoo. both are examples of a stronger company eating up the weaker ones when the times are tough. like some ballers say, it is what it is, and it did what it do.

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