Secret Growth Of Amazon – Excellent Statistics On How Amazon Is Leveraging Multiple Startup Success

Amazon.com though started as an electronic – online book store in the mid 90s has now become a multi faced conglomerate. They have a successful cloud infrastructure, online retailing, electronic shops and many acquisitions in the last few years have really made Amazon as mighty as the Amazon river!

Here is an interesting Slide that explains why Amazon is as strong as Apple or Google or Microsoft! Their rise is phenomenal and here is why:

Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire

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Samsung S5620 Monte Review – Highly Recommended Cost Effective 3G/GPS/WiFi Phone

Today, I visited Samsung Demo at a local Mall and one of their new Mobile Phone Samsung Monte (S5620) instantly! Really, amazing phone with great features. Anyone who is looking for a 3G phone with good features, should grab this one!

 

 

 

 

 

• Amazing Finger friendly 3.0 inch 256K Color Capacitive Touch Screen
• 3G Network support
• A-GPS
• WiFi
• 3.2 MP Camera without Flash (Secondary Camera is also present!)
• Accelerometer
• Facebook/Twitter and other built-in Social Apps!
• FM Radio
• Much much more.

This phone is just a bargain. Here in Bangalore, this phone is getting sold at around 9,500 INR which is great! I might buy this as well!

The only disadvantage is that it comes with Samsung’s proprietary OS. So, if you are really geek, interested in trying out applications, customizations then you should research more. (Pictures from GSMArena.com)

Waterproof, Shockproof Rugged Cameras

If you are an adventurist, make frequent trips to the deep jungles, go for out door activities and worried that your camera might get scratches then don’t worry. There are many rugged camera that are shock proof, water proof, freeze proof and highly durable. Some of them are listed here. The following Casio EX G1 is a 12MP Camera which is capable of handling 7 feet drop and is 10 feet water proof.

FujiFilm HP10 also has similar features. 10 Ft Water resistance, 1M Shock resistant body, 12MP Camera is quite rugged.

Olympus Stylus Tough 8010 is not far behind, 7 ft Shock proof, 10M Water resistant, dust proof, 14MP Camera is indeed tough. It has 720p video recording, 5x optical zoom, HDMI-out, and a 2.7-inch LCD

Via [TechCrunch]