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An Interview With Ford Innovate Mobility Challenge Winner For Mumbai Region- Khyati Majmudar

by Rohit Khurana • January 12, 2015

Before I start with the interview, let me give a brief background of the Ford Innovate Mobility challenge. The Innovate Mobility Series is a global initiative by Ford to find out solution for mobility related challenges across various cities of the world. For the same, Ford Invited solution for different cities locally and asked them to develop apps using the latest technology to solve the mobility issues of these cities. For Mumbai, the challenge was to overcome the challenge posted by Monsoon. The prize money for this challenge was USD $30,000 and winner of this challenge is Khyati Majmudar. We had a telephonic interview with her and here are the highlights from our interaction with this bright young lady who developed this award winning app.

Ford Innovate Mobility Challenge Series Winners Announced For Delhi, Mumbai And Chennai

by Rohit Khurana • January 8, 2015

Ford has initiated the Ford Innovate Mobility challenge in July 2014 with aim to find out solution to local critical problems related to that region and then integrating it with their cars as apps. The winners for this series have been announced on 8^th January 2015. Innovate mobility challenge series is an important part of the company’s Smart Mobility plan announced at CES 2015 by Ford CEO and President.

The winners have been announced for challenges for Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai. These challenger were to decrease time taken by medical assistance to reach at some traumatic incident in Delhi, to improve transportation in Mumbai during monsoon by providing real time traffic data and to provide health care solutions in villages of Tamil Nadu where mobility is a challenge. On global level, there are 11 such challenges which include reducing traffic congestion in heavily populated cities of China and improving goods delivery in Portugal.

The Best Productivity Apps For Android

by Aaryamann Singh • January 8, 2015

Android is a quite powerful platform. You can do all sorts of tasks on it, and pair it with a wireless keyboard and mouse and you have the perfect portable machine. But which applications are really useful when using your Android device?

1. Any.do

Any.do is your simple to-do and Task list manager. No hassle, no tussle. All you need to do is register and then you can access your tasks from anywhere. Ask.do allows you to save tasks according to time, and also sort them easily. It works while you are outside the app too, and reminds You can add tasks by typing or speaking, and it is in the ‘Top 10 MUST-HAVE App’ by the New York Times. Any.do is the perfect app to keep track of your to-do’s, and you should probably have it.

Ericsson study says, Indians spend over 3 hours a day on smartphones

by Neha Sawhney • July 23, 2014

Indian consumers on an average spend over three hours a day on their smartphones and 25 percent consumers check their phones over 100 times a day, a study done by Ericsson ConsumerLab unveils at Tuesday.

Make International Calls For Cheap- Top 5 VOIP Apps

by Rohit Khurana • July 10, 2014

Are you going for an international vacation soon or just wish to stay in touch with friends or family staying abroad? We are sure that you would have budgeted enough for calling international. In fact, now you don’t have to. So many of us are actually hooked on to instant messaging apps but we tend to forget that they offer one of the best prices for international calling. So this time instead of sending IMs, you can actually call everybody at abysmally low rates and talk endlessly. Here are our top picks.

This Father’s Day Gift You Dad Some Useful Apps

by Rohit Khurana • June 10, 2014

Times have changed ‘app-solutely’ from the good old days of greetings cards to e-greetings to gifting apps to your loved ones. June 15th is Father’s Day. Celebrate this very special day by gifting a free app to your dad. Since these apps are free, it won’t burn a hole in your pockets, but as they say, gifts are priceless! Here is a round up of the most interesting free apps for dads this Father’s day.

Nimbuzz is offering 100 minutes of international calling free for every LG smartphone

by Nitesh Rathore • April 25, 2014

Nimbuzz and LG Mobiles partnered to bring Nimbuzz pre-installed on LG’s new L- series smartphone. This partnership gives users 100 minutes of free international calls to any number in the United States of America. Nimbuzz is the leading cross platform global communication brand. The LG’s L series I and II gained much momentum when launched and the LG is expecting same with its L-III series smartphone too. The Numbuzz app would come pre-installed on LG L-III series devices along with 100 minute of free international talk time. Its an interesting thing to be noted that this offer is only available to Indian customers. Along with this after the use of free 100 minutes Nimbuzz will charge users 1 paisa/second for the calls in United States.