Mar 2015
Today Mint published an article with a series of charts and tables on the topic of women getting married and having children between the very young ages of 15-19 years. It is a subject worthy of serious attention. However, the Mint charts suffer from fundamental statistical flaws and do little to illuminate the issues or […]
ICICI Bank has launched a new Twitter-based banking service, only the second such service in the world the bank proudly claims. That is two too many. Some things are meant to go together, but banking and social networking are not. While many news and tech sites in India reported on this feature, most outlets faithfully […]
Sep 2014
Smartphone ownership in India has grown very quickly, going from less than 10 million to over 100 million in the past three years. Additionally, there are now over three times as many wireless broadband subscribers as wired subscribers. And yet for many Web destinations in India, mobile devices, nearly synonymous with smartphones, only account for […]
Jun 2014
Gaana, an Internet music broadcasting service based in India, recently added videos and lyrics to songs available from the service. Shazam, a music identification service, also integrates videos and lyrics for songs that people identify, or “tag”, with the app. The two services have implemented these features in different ways, and one of them is […]
May 2014
Recently Times Internet Limited (TIL) updated its music streaming service Gaana, adding features to the Web and mobile apps. TIL put out a press release about this change, and what happened next says everything that is wrong with Internet news today. As articles started showing up in news feeds, after the second or third one a […]
After showing modest but double-digit growth in the early part of the decade, the number of fixed broadband connections in India has flatlined, and that is terrible news for the Internet industry in India and the country’s economy. Furthermore, the existing Internet connections offer some of the slowest speeds in Asia and the world, and […]
Sep 2012
Back in May there was a lot of talk about the what and the why of the rise of mobile versus desktop Web usage in India. But then people seemed to stop paying attention. Well, it went from a flirtation then to full-on penetration now, as the chart below shows. Does this mean desktop is f**ked, or […]
Jun 2012
There are so many things to wonder about in this story…What is the bizarre power that the mother K has over daughter K(im)? Is this some kind of electra complex playing out? What, even in all innocence, is a pussy bow? What meaning should we attach to the fact that Kanye is behind the scene?
When it comes to security, there is nobody that I trust more than Bruce Schneier. When it comes to being secure in my person and my rights, there is nothing I trust less than government, whether it is the US, Russia, Thailand or India.
May 2012
How can a NY Times article contain the following paragraph and not mention that Aero was launched by Barry Diller, about as much of a TV insider as anyone can get? Unlike the music and news businesses, television has been mostly successful at fending off technological challenges. Several network owners worked together to start Hulu, […]