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Ghandian Engineering – Getting more from less for more and more!


Posted by , October 26th, 2010

Innovation, compassion and passion… Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible for everyone. “When you wish to achieve results that have not been achieved before, it is an unwise fancy to [...]


Wikipedia update


Posted by , October 14th, 2010

Our Wikipedia app just got better, we released a new version yesterday, Changes include:

Links menu option to allow navigation between articles
New look headers and footers with home button display
Improved article formatting and error handling
multi-…


Downtime


Posted by , October 13th, 2010

We had some downtime on a large chunk of our applications today. I’ll be looking into it more tomorrow but it looks like it was caused by the failure of the root partition on one of our application servers.
We didn’t loose any data but it did take a good hour or more to rebuild and [...]


Thanks Wordnik


Posted by , October 5th, 2010

Read about biNu on the Wordnik blog


One million


Posted by , October 2nd, 2010

Since making biNu generally available at the beginning of August this year for download to mobile phones, we are delighted to announce that we passed the ONE MILLION download mark yesterday! Our top five download countries in this period are: India Indonesia USA Bangladesh Ghana And our top five biNu content applications in this period [...]


Wordnik Updates


Posted by , October 1st, 2010

We have a tradition at biNu to release new features and updates on a Friday. It doesn’t make for the most relaxing of weekends but it does mean we’re getting our latest and greatest out there as soon as humanly possible! In keeping with this tradition we have just released a brand new version of [...]