Ivor Soans
Read biographyIvor Soans is Managing Editor-Enterprise Technology at Network18 and edits Biztech2.com, a site for business IT professionals. Information junkie, BlackBerry power user and Dad to another, frequent flier, airplane lover, self-proclaimed customer service guru and the guy friends call when they need a restaurant suggestion or can't decide which gadget to buy. Occupational hazard--prone to using words such as virtualisation, cloud computing or data de-dupe as well as acronyms like PaaS, SaaS, MMORPG, DLP and SCRM--often in a single sentence. @ivorsoans on Twitter.
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BlackBerry Q10 review: Best QWERTY smartphone but not the best BlackBerry
Once upon a time, not so long ago, the physical QWERTY keyboard smartphone was the only smartphone. But today, a few short years later, none of the top smartphones in the market are ones with physical QWERTY keyboards. Touchscreens reign. However, there remain users who use touchscreen smartphones but wish #BlackBerry #BlackBerry Q10 #BlackBerry Q10 review #MobileReview #Q10 #QWERTY #review #Technology
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BB Q10 review: The best QWERTY keypad smartphone
The sacrifice that one makes for the soft QWERTY keypad of the Blackberry Q10 is an unacceptable sacrifice. But it is undoubtably the best QWERTY keypad phone that combines the touchscreen along with it.
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BlackBerry Q10 coming in April, mid-tier BB10 smartphones around Sept
BlackBerry has just announced fiscal 2013 fourth quarter and year-end results and the company has beaten the Street’s expectations and turned in a profit; it also shipped approximately 1 million BlackBerry Z10 smartphones in the quarter which ended on 2 March. Do remember that the India launch happened only on #BlackBerry 10 #BlackBerry Q10 #BlackBerry Z10 #WhatNext
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BlackBerry India head quitting over Z10′s launch price is rubbish
The reports that BlackBerry India's Managing Director Sunil Dutt quit over the high-end price of the Z10 are rubbish. The BlackBerry Z10 is a premium smartphone and the Z10's price will help create an aura around the upcoming devices. Dutt's resignation probably has little to do with the price
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BlackBerry’s India Managing Director Sunil Dutt resigns
Blackberry India Managing Director Sunil Dutt, who recently presided over the India launch of the BlackBerry Z10, has put in his papers, a little over a year after he joined the company in December 2011. What makes the news of Dutt's exit surprising is the fact that Thorsten Heins, CEO of #BlackBerry #RIM #Sunil Dutt #TechBuzz #Z10
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Hindi typing coming soon to the BlackBerry 10 multi-lingual keyboard
While the BlackBerry10 launch with the release of the new Z10 smartphone revealed the fact that content consumption (essentially, reading) would be supported in eight Indian languages—Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Devanagari (Hindi), Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Gujarati and Bengali, what was missed was the fact that no Indian language featured in the #MobileMonitor #Vivek Bhardawaj
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First Look: BlackBerry 10 might just bring RIM back into the game
Come January 30 and BlackBerry 10, Research in Motion's much awaited and make-or-break OS, will be launched. While India might need to wait a few weeks to experience BB10, here's our take on the upcoming OS, based on our hands-on experience with the BB10 Dev Alpha B device at the #BlackBerry 10 #Qwerty keyboard #smartphones #TechReview
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Want to change India? Let’s begin with ourselves
Let's not kid ourselves and point fingers. Yes, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems spineless unless it involves US economic interests, Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's comments on protests against the Delhi gang rape seem to suggest he is little more than a court jester, and the much-hype-but-no-substance Rahul Gandhi seems #Delhi #Delhi Gang Rape #Delhi gangrape victim #DelhiGangrape #InMyOpinion
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RIM continues to make a mess of communication with BBM 7.0
Around 24 hours ago Research in Motion (RIM) announced that BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) 7.0 would take the "social networking experience to a whole new level with an exciting new feature called BBM Voice....which will allow customers to make free voice calls to other BBM customers around the world over a #BBM #BlackBerry #RIM #ThatsJustWrong
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Watchout: How Indigo might have lost a fanboy
I prefer IndiGo over other Indian domestic airlines and if you go through my social media history, you might even be right in saying I am a bit of an IndiGo fanboy. I believe there’s good reason to admire IndiGo, a low cost carrier (LCC) which in a little more #Aviation #IndiGo Airlines #InMyOpinion #Kingfisher Airlines