Experiments with Technology

Young users continue to drive Internet usage in India .In this fast-changing Indian Web ecosystem, here are 10 Indian Web applications that have been successful in capturing the business Flipkart: Founded in 2007, Flipkart started its journey by selling books online. Today, with more than 2 million registered users and sales of 30,000 items a day, Flipkart can easily be considered a trendsetter for e-commerce in India.  Redbus: Started in 2006, Redbus is a first-of-its-kind online travel portal, concentrating on bus ticket reservations. Through Redbus, users can book bus tickets online for more than 10,000 routes across India.  Snapdeal: Started in 2008, Snapdeal is often hailed as the Groupon of India, but with a difference. The business had its origins in selling coupon books, discount cards, mobile coupons, etc.  Paytm: Launched in 2011, Paytm is an online recharge service for mobile, direct-to-home satellite TV and data cards.  Zomato: A restaurant and l...

Digitization of IFFK using DCP Method (In Nov 2012) The seventeenth International film festival of Kerala is also on its path to digitization  The specialty of this festival is that 80 out of 198 movies are being exhibited in Digital Cinema Projection ( DCP ). How DCP Works ? In DCP, the movies are preserved in hard disk. Distributors take these disks to the theaters early. After that the information related to the technology of exhibition of the projector is handed over to those concerned. Then it is provided with a secret number called the KDM (Key Delivery Message). When this number is fed into the computer that comes along with the projector, the DCP can be opened and the movie can be exhibited. The KDM number is available only ten or fifteen minutes before the exhibition of the movie. The KDM provided for one show cannot operate any other show or in any other projector. The show has to be exhibited in the time allotted. In DCP, the film is b...