I was training the google mobile maps yesterday at various places in cochin and everything was smooth and ok until today morning. I am now on my way back to Trivandrum in a train and I decided to train the maps along the way. Now it seems there is a small bug. I pressed the mylocation button [0] at north station and it was perfect. The blue dot that indicates my location was upon North station itself. Now the train started moving...

Google launched their V 2.0 of google maps mobile and its super cool. It can find your approximate location with out using GPS. It now uses tower location information for this purpose. Try it now. Download the app on your mobile from www.google.com/gmm Now this is not a new idea. There are similar applications available that continuously learns from the tower data. The google video about google mobile maps 2.0 says that your location...

Evangelists. I hate them, cos I had only seen Christian Evangelists who shout and sing and do all sorts of silly stuff in the name of God. Its only been 2 years since I found out that there are other kinds of evangelists also. The first one I met was Kiran Patel. She was a technology evangelist for SUN. Ever since I started blogging, I wanted to become a blogging evangelist. I have inspired many to start blogs. I took 3 seminars...

In my last post I talked about Thin Clients. This is a Do It Yourself instruction manual to make your thin clients using Linux and basic computer hardware. You will require the following: 1. A PC with Small Form Factor casing, uATX Motherboard (Onboard – sound/VGA/LAN/USB), Memory(256MB is more than enough), Processor (Any Low end processor is good enough) {with a monitor the total cost should come to less than Rs. 10,000) 2....

I am very much interested in the opensocial APIs promoted by the google. The moment I heard about it, 100s of ideas started forming in my mind. And I got one of them materialized the day itself. Check out the mobshare open social application. I had been promoting the stuff a lot also, and thats when I had a chat with Vishnu about opensocial, and he pointed towards a possible problem, a problem that now J2me is also facing. for...

The first Barcamp in Kerala was a great success with 70+ attendees. There were 9 really good sessions. Mobshare Opensocial app by Kenney Jacob (thats me) Simple game development in Ruby by Vishnu Gopal Bluetooth Home Automation Demo by Harikrishanan Introduction to Asterisk by Bipin Introduction to QT by Dhaneesh and Dev Computer Memory Based on Bacteriorhodopsin by Jidhu Open Network Project by Linoy Android by Renjith PHP Wiz...

We launched the first bluezone in India at Barista, Cochin. The Zone features a Bluetooth enabled kiosk which will allow a mobile user to download free mobile wallpapers, ringtones, applications and games. Similar kiosks will be launched in all major malls an coffee shops across India. Go and check out the kiosk at Barista, BayPride mall, Cochin.