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India Soumyadip ChoudhuryOctober 15, 2013 0

How emoji is making it easier for the illiterate to use mobile phones

For the poor in India it is the mobile phone that has proved to be a bigger revolution than the Internet. The poor don’t directly use the Internet but almost…Continue Reading →

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Is the Gillette Guard as revolutionary a razor as the AP story makes it appear to be?

I love innovation and inexpensive innovations more so. So this headline ‘Cheap razor made after P&G watches Indians shave‘ obviously…

Soumyadip Choudhury 3October 7, 2013
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