Written by navin on September 2nd, 2010 in News, People 5 Comments
Tags: asic, embedded, networking, People, security
Pune based serial entrepreneur, Ajit Shelat, passed away yesterday (1st Sept 2010), in a car crash on the Bombay-Pune expressway.
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Written by amit on May 21st, 2010 in In Depth, Pune City No Comments
Tags: Pune City, science, technolog
Pune is well-known in India and internationally for being a hub of education and research. It has a wide range of academic & research institutions spanning various domains in science, technology, medicine, agriculture, arts, humanities, law, finance, etc. This blog article is an attempt to list out these various institutions.
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Written by navin on April 16th, 2010 in Events, Pune City 1 Comment
Tags: foursquare, location, Pune City, social networking
It appears that location-based social networking site foursquare.com is generating high levels of excitement amongst a section of the Pune tech community.
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Written by navin on April 1st, 2010 in Featured, News, punetech 86 Comments
Tags: advertising, money, punetech
(Update: This article was a PuneTech April Fools Prank. For a full apologyexplanation, see our article on 2 April.)
At PuneTech, one of the things that gives us pleasure is coming up with new ways in which this site can help the tech community in Pune. To quote Dhananjay Nene, we display a “willingness to experiment, [...]
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Written by navin on February 11th, 2010 in News, Overviews No Comments
Tags: entrepreneurs, funding, money, startups, VC
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 [...]
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Written by navin on February 3rd, 2010 in Miscellaneous, Pune City 1 Comment
Tags: governance, pune, Pune City, sms
This is an example of effective use of technology in public life in Pune. Sakaal Times reports that first-time corporator Rajendra Gorde, is using SMS to not only stay in touch with his constituents but also to provide them with useful information.
Excerpt:
Rajabhau, as he is popularly known, has created a personal data-bank of nearly 80 [...]
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Written by navin on December 31st, 2009 in Events, Featured, Pune City 34 Comments
Tags: competitions, education, innovation, innovations, students
Update: The contest is over (but the discussion can still continue!) Abhay Patil, who judged the contest, had this comment about the contenst:
On behalf of IITB Alumni Association (Pune Chapter) – organizers of Innovations 2010 – let me thank PuneTech and it’s members for this set of insightful, passionate and well articulated responses. You literally [...]
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Written by navin on December 30th, 2009 in Featured, Pune City No Comments
Tags: cms, drupal, open source, PHP, web, web-2.0
(This post gives an overview of a new initiative by the Pune Drupal Community to increase Drupal awareness amongst Pune college students. It was originally posted on drupal.org by Dipen Chaudhary and is reposted here for wider dissemination.)
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In the last pune drupal [...]
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Written by navin on December 1st, 2009 in Featured, News No Comments
Tags: rural, sms
Pune-based company SMSONE (see previous PuneTech coverage) has just been covered by TechCrunch, one of the most influential and widely read tech blogs in the world (as a result of an introduction by PuneTech).
Sarah Lacy, editor-at-large at TechCrunch was in India for about a month in November, and she was in Pune for a day, [...]
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Written by navin on November 17th, 2009 in Events, News No Comments
Tags: cleantech, energy, Events, iipe
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Use of renewable energy is hot subject today. This week the Indian Institute of Production Engineers, Pune chapter (IIPE Pune) is coming to you with:
What : Renewable Energy sources – Specially Solar.
Speaker : Mr. Deepak Kelkar
Venue: COEP Pune Production Engineering department.
Date: Wednesday, 18th Noember 2009.
Time: 18=30 hrs. to 20=00 hrs.
Charges: Free [...]
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