iDuple – Indian Company announces Mobile Cloud Computing Device

On paper, the idea seems pretty interesting even though the finer details are not available at this time. The device has the form factor of a tablet and boasts of a 5 second boot time. There is no software, other than the browser. No hard disk either. All processing and storage will be done on powerful servers and rendered on the device. It is expected to have WiFi and 3G variants.

Users will be offered upto 50GB of storage on the cloud, I’m guessing premium services for additional storage will be a source of revenue as well. Obviously, with a large volumes of data on the cloud, security becomes an issue. The company has assured prospective users on its blog that privacy of data will be taken care of. It goes on to say that it will also offer private cloud services for businesses. They will also have the option of connecting to multiple webtops and even configure the device to work with their own cloud platforms.

The demo of these Webtops can be found at their homepage. I played around with it for a while. It had a very Windows-esque feel to it Start Menu et al, aside from the iOS like multiple home screen feature. There were a couple of useful applications on it as well. Since it was a demo, the amount I could tinker with them was limited.

A lot of specifics about the device such as price, size etc have not mentioned at this stage.

‘It all started as a dream, inspired by the desire to touch human lives. A dream motivated by the promise of an affordable technology, perfected by dozens of discussions and debates with friends and industry veterans and evolved over tens of thousands of man-hours of design and engineering.’ This is how they begin their post announcing the device. Let’s hope this dream translates into a reality.

Once that happens, competing or even carving a niche for themselves in the crowded tablet space with several industry bigwigs will be a different ball game altogether.

Reality of Vapourware? Let us know what you think.

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Indian Search Results Indicate Wireless Internet Breakthrough Soon – Report

Mobile broadband services

Mobile broadband services will play an important role in India achieving this so-called breakthrough. For the uninformed, mobile broadband services allow a more mobile version of broadband access. Consumers can purchase a PC card, laptop card, or USB equipment to connect their PC or laptop to the Internet via cell phone towers. This type of connection would be stable in almost any area that could also receive a strong cell phone connection. With companies like Tata Photon, Reliance, MTS etc. bringing out mobile broadband services is a testimonial to the importance of such broadband services in India.

3G will definitely increase internet penetration through mobile phones. With wireless broadband services on the verge of taking off, how long before a large population of the nation is on the internet? What do you think?

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Facebook App Developers Zynga Sued – Farmville Has 9 Lakh Indian Users

The law suit blames Zynga for violating the privacy rights of individuals and seeks damages on their behalf. Facebook had claimed that it was a technical issue with the browsers that caused the leak of information. Zynga too defended itself by saying that the allegations were baseless. But with evidence pointing towards Zynga being at fault, the claim seems a valid one. But the more worrying part is, what about all the personal information that was sent out?

India unfazed

Indians seem to be least bothered about their information being sent out as a recent report by Vizisense has brought to light that India has over 9 lakh users accessing Famville, one of the more popular Facebook applications by Zynga.

The survey was made on 5,500 internet users out of a pool of 100,000 who were online constantly from January through July 2010. From analyzing these users over the 7 month period, Vizisense concluded that 35 lakh Facebook users in India accessed Facebook applications out of which 9 lakh accessed Farmville. These 9 lakh users were further categorized according to gender with 7 lakh being males and 2 lakh females.

The problem

Social networking has moved into online games as well. Games like Farmville are places where you interact with friends or other application users. Farmville was found to be leaking out information of a user’s friend list as well. What this means is that even if you are an anti-Farmville person, probability is your information has been sent out as well along with your friend who actually uses the application.

Facebook introduces new security measures

Admist all the speculation of security, Facebook has been trying to make the user feel safe. Taking another step towards this goal, Facebook has introduced two new security features in one-time passwords and remote logout. Somewhat inspired from Gmail’s Mobile Code, through one-time password, you can send an SMS to receive a temporary password that is valid for 20 mintues. Remote logout allows you to logout remotely if you have forgotten to logout from a machine. As useful as these sound, especially for cyber cafe visiting India, experts believe that this will still not stop malware from keeping tabs on your online activities.

Facebook needs to make some major inroads to make users safe. Such law suits are certainly not helping their cause one bit. Do you feel safe on Facebook?

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