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Do you carry a projector when you go to watch a film? Or your own grill when out for a barbecue? So why carry a computer when you need to compute on the go? Especially when you can carry it in your pocket on any USB storage device – hard disk, pen drive, an iPod or even your mobile phone.

All you need is a Windows PC to plug this device into, and work as if it were your own PC. Without leaving a trace of what you did on the host PC after you log off. MojoPac, from RingCube Technologies, does this for you and lots more. “This will fundamentally change the way we use computers, just like Microsoft and Google did before this,” predicts Shan Appajodu, co-founder and CEO of Ringcube, in an exclusive chat with me when we met in Delhi yesterday. Bold words? Read on to decide for yourself

Mobile and online social networking portal Indyarocks.com may well have scored a first for a site in this genre: it will allow users to earn money for being, what else, social on the site. What is this program called? Social Money. Continue Reading…

More and more Indians may be going shutter-happy, but the fun may have been stopping after the pictures were taken. No longer. They can now not only print their pictures, but do on a whole range of gift items like mugs, collages and mousepads. All from their desktop at itasveer, the country’s first such truly world class service. (Tasveer means picture in Hindi).

Image Caption: itasveer’s four promoters (clockwise from top): Ashish Goel, Animesh Jain, Ankit Khanna and Nishant Kyal.

Here co-founder Nishant Kyal in an exclusive chat with TechGazing. Click here to continue reading the interview

freed.in, a community event in the Indian sub-continent and the developing world about promoting freedom in technology and personal privacy in software and other related fields, is happening in New Delhi on September 28-29, 2007. The annual event makes free and open source software more visible to the world, and shares its excitement with everybody. freed.in helps nurture the community and enables networking within and outside the community in a fun environment, and strives towards seeding of new projects. Click here to know more about the event. See you at freed.in.

Indyarocks.com says it is an online and mobile based social networking site for connecting Indians across the globe. It allows members to build and leverage their network of contacts in incredibly powerful ways. It is a place where you can invite, connect, share, speakout and have fun.

All promising, but will the cash registers jingle for this new kid of the social media block in India? The site’s founder Kalyan Manyam certainly thinks so. Here’s an exclusive interview with him on how brands must look at Indyarocks to reach out to the Indian youth. Continue to read the interview

TechGazing loves to talk to managers, across all functions, on how they get technology to work for them. Satya Prabhakar, Founder & CEO of Sulekha.com, spoke to us on how social media addresses some of their recruitment needs.

Do you use any social networking sites like LinkedIn, Ryze, Facebook etc to spot candidates? If yes, how important is this tool for you?
Such websites and blogs are surely emerging as one of the most commonly used tools by recruiters to conduct background checks and gain a sense of a job seeker’s character .This practice is very prevalent in the west. Business networking websites like Ryze have certainly helped in spotting candidates through referrals since it forms a trusted network of professionals. Continue Reading