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Remembering the PhoneBook...about time

Have you ever watched a group of students in a classroom? I mean really observed? Each one is a different individual, with a different aptitude and set of skills. What if a good educator recognizes this early...and tailors the teaching process according to requirements of each student? I am sure we would see much more development in students. This, precisely, is what the mobile phone companies did - they observed the requirements of the consumers, they observed usage patterns. They focused on evolving phones that had features which made life incredibly simpler. With increased usage came an insatiable thirst for more features in the mobile phone. It might have sounded impossible some years ago...but not now. Companies began innovating and soon, phones had an incredible number of features and apps on offer. Music, camera, video, internet, memory...every feature was constantly being individually focused on and evolved. To the extent that phones started being rated on the basis of the...

Making Smartphones Smarter

It is strange how ideas occur. And nothing is the same after that!  Ramesh (Founder, SharkID) was riding across India while  on a sabbatical. When he ran out of visiting cards during the trip, it struck him. How dire a need there is, of a simplified contact management system that simply represents a person’s name as his/her brand identity. And replaces physical visiting cards by digital identities since everyone uses a smart phone.  SharkID has evolved since its inception in August 2016 and today it aims to become a one stop solution for contact management and referential networking.  The USP of SharkID is Caller ID with Mutual Connections. With SharkID, when you receive or dial an unknown number, you can know who the person is and how many of your phonebook contacts are connected to the unknown caller.  Main advantages of SharkId are that it:  •       Facilitates seamless networking while keeping user’s p...

Why Smart Phonebook