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The real smart car

Over the holidays, I wrote a small windows mobile app that would let me listen to one of the Bollywood radio stations on my phone. It’s very handy to use voice command to start the app and have it play desi melodies as I set out for a long drive over Read More...
Posted Monday, January 12, 2009 2:03 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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Microsoft Labs: Something between R & D

Just noticed Soma’s post on DevLabs . He introduces DevLabs as a place to share innovations happening in the developer division within Microsoft. This looks like a sibling to already existing Office Labs and  Live Labs . Pretty exciting. Microsoft Read More...
Posted Friday, October 24, 2008 1:15 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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Lala: Yet another business model around selling Music

Selling music online is an interesting business. So many people have tried their hands at it with so many different approaches… iTunes and Zune were revolutionary. They freed good music tracks from the otherwise mediocre albums. iTunes pioneered this Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:06 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments

beep…

Saw the latest Mac ad. In it Hodgman tries to buzz the Mac guy every time he tries to say Vista. These are getting more and more boring, negative and pointless. Come Mac folks, Think different! Also on the topic of buzzing, while its competitors are busy Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 4:24 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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The famous last lecture

A truly moving lecture by Prof. Randy Pausch of CMU. This guy has incredible story telling skills. He kept reminding me of of Richard Feynman particularly during the first part of the lecture. Coincidentally Feynman lost his life to cancer too… ";" Read More...
Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 12:24 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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My search engine is better than your search engine

Hey you, yes, I am talking to you. I know you use that non-evil search engine. Yes the one with multicolor logo. You think that's the best search engine out there don't you? You are so addicted to it, you even made it your your homepage. Like a lost wanderer, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:07 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 1 Comments
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How to beat Guy Kawasaki to a startup

I admire Guy Kawasaki and love The art of start . I'd recommend his book to anybody who has ever dreamt of starting anything. So when he announced his latest venture today, I was all ears. It's called alltop . A concept so simple that it'd make you think Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:35 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 2 Comments
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WWT @ TED

The much blogged about WorldWideTelescope was talked about at TED. Here's a quick glimpse of it. I can't wait to see it live at the TechFest in a few days. Folks at MS research do a lot of cool things that only we had a privilege to look at. I am glad Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 12:28 AM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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And I'm reading again...

For last couple of years my reading reading appetite has been sated by the junk news served by digg and reddit . I read it not because it was sensational but just because it was so easily accessible from my live.com page. Thanks to DailyLit , I won't Read More...
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 5:43 PM by Ashutosh Galande | 0 Comments
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