Just Tech 2.0.

Last festive Season, Amazon unveiled Kindle - an electronic hand held device for reading. Since then it has been a big hit as we see users who are tech savvy and are on the leading edge of technological innovation adopting to this new device. Some environmentalists have also backed the use of e-Readers to read e-Books available for download on Amazon and other online stores.

However, the business model is somewhat different here in India with low PC penetration. Web 2.0 company, Sulekha has tied up with online retailer, Indiaplaza to publish books on bloggers original work. Sulekha will publish 2 books every month and is determined by host of Analytics as to which book gos for publication.

With Internet companies at the forefront, gone are the days of approaching a publishing company if you want to test waters with Writing Skills. Sure, Internet is a disruptive technology and as engineers continue to innovate, we will see far reaching effects in our lives.

Have you ever thought that you could design your own business card dumping the lousy designs Microsoft Office offers ? Here is a neat software - iBizCard that lets you design cool business visiting cards.

iBizCard not only inherits the name from Apple's iPod or iPhone series but also has the WOW effect. It supports production of various kinds of Business card, Staff card, Membership card and Interactive CD business card. It also has lots of templates for you to customize according to your needs.

iBizCard costs Rs 1,600. However, if you download and install within the next 24 hours, its FREE for you. Yes full working version will be FREE as a limited give away to the community.

Iif you thought the IPLT20 wasn't a big hit, then you need to read this and correct your views. The demand for this league has been so high that the teams which invested millions are now cashing in on and also trying to build a big fan base who will also be their potential customers later.

Zapak has 4.5 million registered users of which atleast 3 million have accessed the game of cricket. Kolkata Knight Riders owner - King Khan / Shah Rukh Khan has stuck a deal with Reliance ADAG's gaming portal Zapak to develop and host games for Kolkata Knight Riders. Zapak will create a cricket gaming zone on the official website of the Knight Riders and will make an investment of $250,000 in the deal. They also plan to host contests.

Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Juhi Chawala launched Tag Heuer cricket watches last night.

The Indian Wireless Industry has grown rapidly and so have the Mobile Value Added Services segment. Today we cover two services that are offering to send free SMS messages to any mobile in India.

160by2.com was the first company in India to introduce free SMS messages upto 80 characters and the remaining 80 characters will be used for an Advertisement. It has a registered user base of 700,000 and has reached more than 2.8 million mobile phones while users sent a whopping 13 million messages :-) Current limit is 50 messages per day. The site offers huge collection of SMS in an archive categorized by Love, Friendship, Good Morning, etc to choose and send on the fly.

160by2.com is blocked by many corporates in India and hence the company decided to introduce Free SMS from e-mail to Mobile to help its users keep in touch.

Way2SMS.com is another competing service like 160by2.com. This has an advantage over 160by2 since they let your message be upto 100 characters and the remaining 60 for an inline text advertisement. However, Way2SMS.com doesn't have SMS archives with templates to choose and send SMS on the fly. One another problem with thissite is it inserts too many pop-ups and User Interface is not up to the mark.

Should you know of ny other competing FREE SMS services in India, kindly feel free to add them as a comment.

Labels: Free-SMS-From-PC-To-Mobile-India

India's most popular social network, Orkut has silently launched the mobile version. Though not many features of the web version are available in the mobile version, it is still good to keep in touch. Mobile India has an excellent review of Orkut mobile.

The official launch of iPhone in India may happen in Sept-2008. What really sucks is you have to opt for a Vodafone mobile to have the same because of Apple's bad strategy of tying up with service provider. Expected pricing is around Rs 27,000 higher than that available in Mumbai's Grey Market.

Did you wanted that Data Recovery Software which could read and recover data from your damaged Hard Disk, External ZIP/USB drive, removable SmartMedia, MemoryStick, Nokia Phone SD cards etc ? Then here is an absolutely unparalleled offer today - Data Recovery Wizard Professional edition for Windows 2K/XP/Vista and Server editions.

Data Recovery Wizard Professional has supports for EXT2 and EXT3 file recovery, Disk Image, intelligent search, etc. You can now also recover your accidentally deleted files and folders. The best feature of this software is the Complete Recovery Module which helps in recovering files from formatted partition, crashed file system and partition without drive letters.

As a special offer you have to download and install within the next 20 hours without paying any license FEES. Yes you will have full version of Data Recovery Wizard :-)

Microsoft Outlook 2007 and later versions are offering users to send SMS messages from the comforts of desktop. You need to register your mobile phone with SMSofficer before you can send any messages. You receive an instant mobile verification code and you need to confirm the same to activate your service. As a compliment, Microsoft also offers 10 FREE SMS credits after your activation. Further credits can be bought by paying through PayPal. Microsoft SMS Officer supports all the mobile operators in India.

If you don't have Outlook 2007, then you must have a GSM phone and you can send SMS from PC connected to the Phone via USB Cable and using Microsoft SMS Sender.

Google in an attempt to embrace Open Source Developers and its products gives away FREE CA$H every summer to students working on selected projects under the Google summer of Code program.

Their are various open source projects you can work on - FreeBSD, WiKi, GNU, Boost C++, Python, Wordpress etc. Most of them are looking for Developers but if you can make a decent proposal for Testing or Documentation or anything else, you maybe in. Have a look at what kind of projects students have done it in the past. More details here.

Code for this summer and make $4,500 :-) Hurry entires close on April-7th.