If there is one technology that has been disruptive and pervasive, it is the mobile phone technology. I’m amazed by the fact that a little over 50% of the world’s population (3.3 billion, by November 2007) are mobile subscribers. The technology has improved to a great extent and we are already in the verge of adopting the fourth generation (also known as 4G or beyond 3G) mobile services.

The latest models of mobile phones flaunt wide-screens and powerful browsers backed by high-speed data connectivity. People have started using their mobile phones to get news updates, cricket scores, live weather, and also for services like blogs, Gmail and Twitter! So, most bloggers and website owners now want to reach out to those audiences who access the internet via their mobile phones.

If I consider 40% (conservative figure) of the mobile subscribers accessing the internet via their phones, I may reach out to quite a few of the whopping 1.3 billion people on the move!!

So, how do I make my blog mobile-friendly? If you’ve a Wordpress blog, you just got lucky..

What is the first thing you do after setting up a blog? Well, if you ask me, I usually spend a considerable amount of time (about 4 hours) implementing the theme/layout that best suits the content of the blog. I’m a Wordpress fan, and so spend another hour searching for the best plugins and sidebar widgets that add to the much needed cosmetic and functional aspect of the blog.

When blogs were started a few years ago, they were mostly viewed as an electronic version of one’s personal diary - the only difference being..

Previously, I’ve written a couple of articles on going green, and how the environmentalists and industrialists worldwide are going crazy about inventing new techniques to contain global warming.

Now, it looks like going Green has been catching up with night clubs all over the world, where they can generate quite a lot of power from those electrifying teenage/middle-aged dancers thumping their feet, consciously or unconsciously, on the dance floor. This is what I call cool technology! The technology behind this may sound very simple, yet it appears to be powerful enough to generate about 60% (not sure if it is theoretical or practical) of the night club’s electricity.

It is a universal truth that burning of coal is one of the major causes of global warming, acid rain and other toxins in the air. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, about 3,700,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosphere - by a typical coal plant in an year. It may sound oxymoronic if one talks about using coal and going green. Well, why not? Carbon Capture and Storage, or CCS in short, seems to be the technological answer to this oxymoron!? The US 2008 elections are red hot right now, and many who’ve voted for Obama or McCain are keeping their fingers crossed.

Thanks to SL, who introduced me to this interesting search engine called Nuemo. Spinlet Oy, a Finnish company, is the brain behind this search engine technology, yet if you visit their home page, you don’t find Nuemo - Weird! Also, there is hardly any information about the company, its management team, detailed service offerings and so on. No wonder Nuemo doesn’t show up on Google or Cuil search engines. I believe that they have excluded themselves from being indexed by popular search engines - correct me if ‘m wrong!

On my way to the Horsetooth Reservoir at Fort Collins, Colorado, I stumbled into an antique shop with an intent to get a souvenir. I was looking around the shop and came face-to-face with this horseback rider.

The picture speaks for itself! Upon inquiry, I came to know that this Pony Express was indeed an express mail service between 1860 and 1861. Though it was in vogue only for a short time, it became the forerunner of express delivery mail technologies, and the logo is still in use by the United States Postal Service.

As a mark of success on its maiden attempt in the exploration of the romantic and intriguing Moon globe, Indian scientists at ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) have placed the Moon spacecraft into the Transfer Orbit around the earth. Powered by the indigenously designed and built Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C11), the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft carried 11 payloads - three from the European Space Agency (ESA), one from Bulgaria, two from NASA, and five designed and built in India. So far, so good! Good job ISRO!! The scientists of ISRO have achieved something great, under challenging circumstances. How did you feel today when you opened the morning newspaper and saw..

Where do people get these ideas from? Well, if you’ve been tracking the Internet Technology news since 2005, you’d very well be asking the same question to yourself. Google search has been the biggest influence in not only refining the Web search experience, but also in presenting the most relevant results in an uncluttered way - in the least possible time. Everyone loved (and still love!) this search engine, and many, like me, just cannot live without Google when they turn on their browser. Lately, I’ve been using this newest search engine Cuil - which is claimed to be the biggest search engine with more than..

I work for an IT company with thousands of employees; with 4-level parking space that can accommodate about 2500 to 3000 cars. One day, as usual, when I parked my car in the second-level basement, I was glancing at and scanning the rows of cars gleaming under the bright fluorescent lamps - AND counting the number of TATA cars that I could spot in 5 rows. Being a market analyst, I was a little shaken by the negligible number of TATA cars in all of the four rows that I considered. I wanted to do a small informal survey to contain my curiosity, with just four questions on a sample size of 47..

I will cut short my pep talk on how I came across these free and open source solutions, and would rather post some info on the top ten plugins that I’m using on this website (or blog, in geek terms). I think it’s also a good idea to include some screenshots of certain plugins to give an idea on how they look - perhaps, making it easier for you to see them in action while you explore this website. Please note that the plugins covered here (Subscribe2, Statpress Reloaded, Disquss comment system, Similar Posts, NextGEN Gallery, etc) are running fine on my Wordpress 2.6 installation!!