Last March, at TED, when I saw for the first time how India's own Pranav Mistry came up with his design gadget called the SixthSense that augmented reality, turning every day objects of life into usable controls such as your hands, Tshirts, or even your PaperPad.   We at The Technology Cafe, are pretty much excited how this could not only change how we interact with objects but how education could leverage such technology, especially in third world or progressive nations such as India, Continue Reading

Since the first Microsoft Store launch 3 weeks ago in Scottsdale, we liked the idea of Microsoft interacting directly with the customer and presenting them Microsoft Solutions (OS, Office, Dev etc) with a human touch. But this particular Microsoft store went a mile extra to pump up employees and customers to be excited about Microsoft products. I call them "Dancing Oompa Loompas"  in the terms of the great British writer Roald Dahl, who run down Charlie's chocolate factory. So without further Continue Reading

The legal channel might have been shut down by the courts for AT&T after the judge ruled that Verizon's recent ads, that we also covered last week, were correct in a manner that AT&T did not have the right infrastructure to claim its 3G network was better than Verizon's. Now AT&T is trying to hit back Verizon with its own brand new commercial, with funny guy Luke wilson. So Without Further ado... Leave us your comments... Continue Reading

Bing has fairly impressed many critics and as the holiday season approaches, Bing announces a $10K CashBack Sweepstakes contest in LA. So pack your bags and start purchasing. the offer is open only to legal residents of the US. Click on the image below, to enter the sweepstakes… Please Leave us your comments... Continue Reading

A stock market analyst, Mark McKechnie, estimated that Verizon stores had 200,000 units of the Motorola DROID on hand to sale at launch. He figures that the stores were able to sell half of its' stock which would indicate that Big Red sold 100,000 phones during the opening weekend. Motorola expects 1 million DROID's to be sold over the balance of the year with 10 million crossing the cash register in 2010. "I see the first few days as encouraging," McKechnie said. "There seems to Continue Reading

  Did you see something strange in this screenshot of Google’s homepage on 6th Nov, 2009? No, not Bert and Ernie (it’s Sesame Street’s 40th birthday).     It’s that ad for the Verizon Droid right there under the search box (today is also Droid Day). Although, the juxtaposition does make it seem like Bert and Ernie are trying to get you to buy a Droid.   Google’s homepage is normally an ad-free zone. No more than 28 words are allowed on it, and Google is Continue Reading

One thing I really love about Microsoft is that their ad’s are superb, they show things that attract the audiences when needed even considering the event or season. Halloween season is going on and Microsoft just released this ad, for people to use bing, its so called decision engine. So Without Further ado   Please leave us your comments… Continue Reading

  Dominos always bring the smile to everyone's faces. It is cool and hence that’s why 22 Microsoft India Employees at the Hyderabad center designed and executed the amazing feat of unveiling the Windows 7 logo using 7000 dominos. I wish Microsoft advertising could learn something from this…   So without further ado…   Much better than the windows 7 Whopper Burger In Japan.   Leave us your comments… Continue Reading

Vodafone New Zealand has come up with a campaign that how mobiles have changed the lives of people. Using 1000 mobile phones. 2000 texts. One song. the commercial really rocks and well I am big fan of it. So without further ado…   If you liked it, you can even download the full track below…   or you can even download the 53 ringtones below…   Please leave us your comments… Continue Reading

One thing I have to compliment Microsoft is fro their advertising campaigns. They always make something so brilliant, so awesome that you cant ignore. Look at the ads for the brand new Windows 7 campaign. No wonder apple took a full swing at windows 7 with those ad’s. Today Microsoft launched its new Bing ads for the Australian market, and no wonder these commercials rock. So without further ado… I am sure with the boom of Windows 7 and the Free Microsoft Security Essentials Continue Reading

As we celebrate Windows 7 and it’s launch, most customers are looking for cheap fabulous deals to get Windows 7 on their machine.   The technology cafe as a proud Microsoft Partner, brings you these deals today and for the next five days.   Bookmark us today… Hurry up today (Day 4)…         Day 4 Deals:   BUY NOW   BUY NOW   BUY NOW   Come back tomorrow for more deals on Windows 7…   All offers available on www.store.microsoft.com Continue Reading

We liked the ad’s and commercials Microsoft is releasing so far for Windows 7 along with the promotions but hold your horses till you listen to this. Burger King and Microsoft have come up with this hilarious ad campaign to mark the launch of Windows 7 dubbed as the “Whopper Burger”. The burger has not one but seven meat patties, imagine the obesity being caused! The burger went on sale in Burger King outlets in Japan today to mark the major OS upgrade and the Windows 7 Whopper will be Continue Reading

The web 2.0 summit had many thing for us, from Google’s announcement to integrate Twitter to Microsoft’s new plans. But one thing that fascinated me very much was the direction and vision of on the greatest entrepreneurs of all time: Sergey Brin, Yes the happy go jolly guy of Google. His interview with John Battelle is for about 18 minutes or so. Brin Talks about twitter, Google, Bing, Google Chrome and many other things about how the web will change lives again as it has now as well.   Continue Reading

I being amid blogger and a reader go do different sites everyday, and one of my destinations is www.cnn.com . Today CNN has released its new customized, more modular, more streamlined and call it a more social design website. And the verdict : I Love it. Lets take a look. The news is much more streamlined into proper categories and I really like the section for its segments, that is really merging the web and the TV together. Besides that the site has gone completely social from twitter to facebook Continue Reading

On the verge of the eve of the Windows 7 launch, The technology cafe proudly will present some memorable video’s and pictures of how the Windows Platform has evolved from the early 90’s till today. So without further ado… Here is the Heartbeat of Microsoft (Windows)     Funny to say, Microsoft omitted Windows ME (Yes the Millennium Edition from its history) Leave us your comments…. Continue Reading