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28 Apr 2013

Amitabh Bachchan PhD Scholarship !

Australia’s La Trobe University is rolling out a new scholarship named after the Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan. The scholarship is meant for PhD students, and the student who receives this award would be called a ‘Shri Amitabh Bachchan scholar’. It will be given to Indians opting to study any subject relevant to India, including media, philosophy and films. The four-year scholarship will be worth $25,000.

The University will also honor Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan next month with the La Trobe University Global Citizenship Award.

18 Apr 2013

eChai Insights – UI / UX Session – April 20

Point10, International Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology ( icreate ) and Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industries ( GCCI ) Youth Wing are launching eChai Insights – theme based knowledge sharing sessions with the theme – User Experience & User Interface Design ( UI/UX ) on 20th April 2013, Saturday from 4 pm on wards.

The eChai Insights sessions will provide an opportunity to entrepreneurs, professionals, and students interested in understanding more about UI/UX to learn from experienced UX professionals and have an interactive dialogue. The session has an amazing line-up of Entrepreneurs & UX professionals to present and discuss their work, their thought process and share their insights along with having an interactive discussion with the participants. It would also provide an opportunity to participants to discuss their design challenge with presenters and other participants.

Details:
eChai Insights @ icreate in association with GCCI Youth Wing –Theme – UI/UX :
Date : 20th April 2013 Time : 4.00 pm to 6.30 pm
Venue : icreate City Office, 1st Floor, GMDC Building, 132 ft road, Nr. Helmet Cross Roads, Ahd – 380 052.

Presenters for eChai Insights @ icreate in association with GCCI Youth Wing – Theme – UI/UX :
• Himanshu Khatri, Co-Founder, MediaShala, Mayavi Telecommunication, Gaatha Handicrafts
• Pankaj Bengani, CEO, Chhavi Media
• Harsh Panchal, UX Designer
• Ravi Pathak, Co-Founder, Tatvic
• Design Team from Digicorp

11 Apr 2013

Is The Mobile Web Vs Native App Debate Over?

Mobile Web Vs Native App – One of the most interesting debate in the recent times ! However, gradually, it seems that Mobile Native App has proven to be an preferred choice by both consumers and enterprise mobility technologists.

Venture Beat declared that the mobile war is over and the app has won: 80% of mobile time spent in apps. According to app analytics firm Flurry, which tracks app usage on a staggering 300,000 apps on over a billion active mobile devices, Americans spent an average of 158 minutes each and every day on smartphones and tablets. Two hours and seven minutes of that is in an app, and only 31 minutes is in a browser, surfing the old-school web

Native Apps offer rich User Experience, intuitive features, integration with multiple systems and stronger encryption for Enterprise Companies.

Leading retail companies prefer Native Apps over Mobile Web to drive special promotions and deals, give product information, leverage loyalty programs also provide added features such as games and interactive tools related to their brands.

Interestingly HTML5 is a useful tool for creating Hybrid Mobile Apps.

17 Mar 2013