Mar 22nd

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Answers to PuneTech’s “Do you understand copyrights and patents?” quiz

Last year, we had run a quiz on copyrights and patents, consisting of a number of day-to-day examples where copyright or patent issues were involved. These were examples of the kind that an average PuneTech reader might run into. Interestingly, a very large fraction of those who took the quiz, got lots of answers wrong. [...]

Events

BarCampPune7 on 13th March: cloud computing, virtualization, security, and more

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It is time for a Pune Barcamp again. This will be the 7th edition -BarCampPune7.  And this time, we’re promised a number of interesting sessions. For example:

Anup Tapadia, Founder of TouchMagix will talk about the various awesome technologies and products they’re working on
Shivmohan Purohit on Cloud Computing
Nitish Dastane, Ashish Koche, Sanket Gajjam on Music information [...]

Read More | Posted Mar 9th

Miscellaneous

Answers to PuneTech’s “Do you understand copyrights and patents?” quiz

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Last year, we had run a quiz on copyrights and patents, consisting of a number of day-to-day examples where copyright or patent issues were involved. These were examples of the kind that an average PuneTech reader might run into. Interestingly, a very large fraction of those who took the quiz, got lots of answers wrong. [...]

Read More | Posted Mar 22nd

News

Pune Incubator body ISBA launches Rs. 55cr venture capital fund

The VC Circle blog has just posted information about a new venture capital fund launched by a Pune based association – Indian STEP and Business Incubators Association (ISBA). ISBA is an association of startup/business incubators, incubatee startups, and other people interested in this ecosystem.
The fund will focus on sector-agnostic investments in companies with no proven [...]

Read More | Posted Feb 11th

Overviews

Pune Incubator body ISBA launches Rs. 55cr venture capital fund

The VC Circle blog has just posted information about a new venture capital fund launched by a Pune based association – Indian STEP and Business Incubators Association (ISBA). ISBA is an association of startup/business incubators, incubatee startups, and other people interested in this ecosystem.
The fund will focus on sector-agnostic investments in companies with no proven [...]

Read More | Posted Feb 11th

People

Motherhood and Entrepreneurship

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Aparna Kalantri, a Pune-based mum-preneur talks about the challenges faced while trying to do part-time entrepreneurship after a maternity break.

Read More | Posted Nov 9th

PuneTech's April Fool Prank

Pune handling recession much better than Bangalore

This 1st April, we played a prank on our readers when we claimed, through a fake TV news clip that Pune is handling the recession better than Bangalore. See details of the prank, and the explanation.

Read More | Posted April 1st

punechips

Introducing http://PuneChips.com: The PuneTech SIG on Semiconductors, EDA, VLSI, Embedded Systems

Over the past 2 years, PuneTech has covered a breadth of technology related topics, with a concentration on Information Technology & Software. The strategic goal is to cover multiple technology segments and discuss innovative & exciting developments in these areas; specifically in Pune’s context.
It was with this objective that [...]

Read More | Posted Mar 10th

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Was yesterday’s PuneTech article inappropriate?

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Yesterday, on the occasion of Persistent Systems‘ IPO, we ran an unabashedly positive post about Persistent and Anand Deshpande’s contributions to the Pune technology community. This resulted in some eyebrows raised about the appropriateness of the article. There were two concerns:

The timing of the article, while an IPO is in progress, could be inappropriate
Writing such [...]

Read More | Posted Mar 18th

Technology

Meeting Report: Pune Rails Meetup (Dec 2009)

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(This is a report of Pune Ruby on Rails meetup that happened on 12th December. This report was originally written by Gautam Rege on his blog, and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.)
It was great to be a part of the Pune Rails Meetup which was held yesterday (19th December, [...]

Read More | Posted Dec 21st

video

“Don’t develop any software until you have a customer” – Interview of serial entrepreneur Anand Soman

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As a part of the new, experimental PuneTech video series, we interviewed Anand Soman, CEO of Pune-based startup Infinishare, and serial entrepreneur. Infinishare provides software for a host of internet enabled devices, including digital photoframe devices, digital displays, home internet devices. They provide a full software stack for such devices, but their core IP is [...]

Read More | Posted Aug 7th