Five Reasons You Should Buy The Google Nexus 5!
Google recently launched its reference Android handset – the Nexus 5 in India and in countries across the world. The phone, manufactured by LG is available via the Google Play Store, a host of online...
View ArticleFive Most Annoying Things On The Internet!
The Internet is amongst the most amazing creations of man. Imagine a world without social networks, downloadable movies, YouTube, porn and 9GAG. Next to unthinkable! (Unless of course if you are from...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong With You, HTC?
HTC recently launched three new dual SIM Android powered handsets in India – the Desire 700, the Desire 601 and the Desire 501 as you might have already read by now. There was apparently a launch event...
View ArticleMake Some Noise for the Desi Boys! — It’s Micromax vs. Samsung!
Samsung is a well recognized South Korean brand which is currently one of the world’s largest manufacturers of mobile phones and smartphones. The company is also a major vendor of its Android-powered...
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Android, Price Wars And The Race To The Bottom
Apple sketched the future of smartphones in 2007 with the iPhone. But they did best for the US market. As device & services converge, Android has stolen the canvas and taken it global. Today, it...
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The iPhone Is Broken In India
Ever since the first iPhone was released in 2007, it has been popular in India. I don’t mean popular in terms of sales numbers, but in terms of the buzz it creates, amount of discussions around it and...
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Net Neutrality And What it Means to Startup’s
The internet is today, one of the few level playing fields still available to companies. It allows startups to compete with established players without any partiality as all data is equal in the...
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How E-commerce Boom In India Is Changing User Behaviour For The Worse
Arguably online shopping is the fastest growing sector in India and has seen billions in investment in the last couple of years. But it isn’t exactly a new phenomenon. Online shopping has been...
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Why Apple Starting a New Plant For Developing Displays is no News!
Bloomberg is reporting that Apple has opened a “Secret Laboratory” in Taiwan to develop new displays. They seem to have a count of no of engineers in there (50) and they even caught hold of some of...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Do an App Detox
Apple’s famous slogan “There’s an app for that” is all the more relevant today. Android Play Store has around 1.6 million apps and Apple App Store has around 1.5 million apps as of 2015. From getting...
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Wikipedia to go ahead with 24 hour blackout on January 18 against SOPA
It was late last year that the anti-piracy act SOPA, which is currently under consideration in the U.S House of Representatives, evoked strong response from Internet crusaders and free speech...
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Nokia Lumia 710 – The Dark Horse
“Nokia has given more than 4000 ad spots to the Lumia 800 on TV” – complained the promoter of a rival brand. “If only our products were equally promoted ….”While the jury is out, I am certain that the...
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How Many iPhone Killers Do We Need?
A friend visiting us at the office today wondered if he could do some writing on the iPad using a stylus. I told him that the stylus is with a colleague and would get one for him to try out. And the...
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Is The Foxconn / Apple Criticism Justified?
This is a guest post by Maninder Pal Singh. Maninder is an Industrial Automation entrepreneur and has had several encounters in Shenzhen. He shares with us his perspective on the criticism of Foxconn...
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Download Free dramatized Audio books of Isaac Asimov’s legendary Foundation...
Isaac Asimov is one of the most prolific figures in the field of writing. Asimov to his credit has written on a wide range of topics and edited quite a few books and even postcards. And if you are...
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Whatever Happened To Google’s iMessage Competitor, Google Plus Messenger...
The world we live in is a cause of worry. No, I am not talking about inequality yet, but the increasing culture of beta. Making promises and delivering none. No, I am not yet speaking of politicians...
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iPad 3 Launch, Our Predictions!
As the launch of the third edition of the iPad draws ever so closer, the rumor mills are running wild speculating on the features of the latest iPad. So here is our take on what we think the iPad 3...
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Skydrive Gets A Desktop App, Competes With Dropbox
Microsoft’s Skydrive has been around since long and it seems they are now changing gears to compete in the buzzing league. On the mobile front my interaction with Skydrive was the most when it was...
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Ultrabook – The Personal Computer Evolves, Again!
A few years back during the days of Orkut, I once asked my friends if they prefer a desktop computer or a laptop. To my surprise, laptops was the popular choice already and I wondered how one can use a...
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Samsung Acquiring Nokia Is An Interesting Yet Confusing Proposition
Microsoft and Nokia got into a historical partnership and ever since then we have been hearing rumors of the two companies becoming one. That so far hasn’t happened and rumors have been shot down...
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Cheaper Windows Phone in the Offing as Nokia Competes with Androids
We were very clear since the start of the Nokia Microsoft partnership that it is the mid low segment where Windows Phone needs to hit in order for Nokia to create any chance of competing with the...
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Android’s Delay Is Redmond’s Opportunity
June was a busy month for the mobile market. Apple, Microsoft and Google showed the future of their respective mobiles OSes and the tech world was glued to live streams and blogs. I spent my share of...
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Is Finnish Startup Jolla Nokia’s Plan B?
Nokia now officially has only the Windows Phone platform to ride on. And so far the journey couldn’t have been rockier for Nokia as their shares have stumbled to their lowest since 1996 and currently...
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Fighting Android, The Apple iPhone Strategy
It is easy to see an Apple iPhone selling for $199 and feel that it affordable. Or for that matter any phone selling the US. Only when the same super-out-of-the-world-phone launches in an unsubsidized...
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Dead Trigger Free – It is not about Android, It is the user profile!
Dead Trigger in a Facebook statement revealed that piracy on Android was unbelievably high, thus prompting them to make the game free (from earlier price of $0.99) Dead Trigger App continues to cost...
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Expect Nokia Windows Phone 8 Smartphones this September: Bloomberg
Well, here is a rumor of a rumor we’ve been hearing about for quite some time now. As per Bloomberg’s sources Nokia is supposed to unveil it’s latest Windows Phone 8 laden Lumia smartphone by next...
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Is Microsoft Headed Apple’s Way?
Well, we haven’t even seen the Microsoft Windows 8 laden Surface in the market yet and there are already rumours doing the rounds suggesting that Microsoft is working on its next version of tablets. As...
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Google to Layoff 20% of Motorola’s Staff
Laying off employees still remains the first step as conglomerates bid to restructure themselves inorder to curb their southwards fall. In the last few weeks we’ve had Nokia downsizing their staff,...
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Panicky HTC to Adopt Aggressive Pricing Strategy
As its southwards fall continues, HTC has decided to sell its current & upcoming fleet of Android & WP8 devices at a much reduced aggressive price points in a desperate bid to turn its fortunes...
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Hands-on With the Asus Taichi, a Dual Screen Tablet-Laptop Hybrid (Video)
The Asus Taichi is a dual screen, tablet cum laptop device. It looks & functions like a tablet when closed and like an ultra-book when opened. The Asus Taichi can be used in four modes with the...
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Opinion: Large Display On The iPhone And Apple vs Samsung
iPhone has been a best seller smartphone for a while in the US. With subsidized contracts, breakthrough technology and all the hype generated by the media, Apple managed to get to the helm of the...
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Forget Blocking Used Games, Entertainment Industry Needs To Respect IP First
Last week I read a post by Nick on TNW about the possibility of next gen Playstation and Xbox blocking used games. As console makers make a push to move towards an App Store like model where a user...
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Piracy In Mobile, Social & Cloud Age, The Concept Of iTunes Needs A Rethink?
The old P2P network days are somewhat fresh in my mind. I always found them shady and still do. Though I would admit that I used Limewire for a bit in the old days, security threat and my general...
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Why The Micromax A110 Canvas 2 Is Artificially Overpriced, Distribution Flaw
The Micromax Canvas series is selling like hot cakes In India. Congratulations Micromax, You have got a super hit! But why would the A110 (Canvas 2) that sold for Rs 10,000, now sells for Rs 12,000 or...
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So Is This How Wireless Charging Will Go Mainstream?
Nokia seems to be working on taking wireless charging mainstream. They have been spotted running a trial at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in San Francisco where they integrate coffee tables with Qi wireless...
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Dear Sony, Your Recent JellyBean Update For The Xperia SL Has Issues!
Does Jelly Bean really taste that good? Well, I own this Sony Xperia SL which I got earlier this year after much consideration. The phone initially came with Android 4.0 ICS which got a (much needed)...
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From a Palace to the Pit of Despair: The Story of BlackBerry
Saturday the 21st of September in 2013, was chosen as the day when the (once) reputed Canadian smartphone giant BlackBerry had declared to roll out their BlackBerry Messenger aka BBM for users of...
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Are pop-up camera phones still trendy or punch-hole design is the future?
Over the last few years, smartphones have evolved a lot in terms of design, form factor, multi-lens camera system, security features etc. They now offer large displays and a higher screen to body...
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Google Bard vs ChatGPT AI Wars – The Story So Far
ChatGPT and Bard are artificial intelligence language models from OpenAI and Google, respectively. While ChatGPT is already adding disruptive powers to the internet, Bard is considered as scary good...
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The Case Against Buying a Macbook Air M3 Base Model with 8GB RAM
Last night Apple announced an upgraded M3 Macbook Air lineup with the both 13″ and 15″ variants getting the processor upgrade. While 60 percent faster than the M1 Air, the M3 Macbook Air comes with...
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