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Month: April 2012

  • Facebook, Google and Apple are in a mobile platform war

    Facebook recently expressed their feelings about Apple and Google‘s HTML5 efforts, blaming them for not making their mobile browsers better at rendering HTML5 websites. Facebook says that the mobile Facebook site has twice as many users as on native Facebook apps on iOS and Android, combined. While this may seem like an inefficiency on Apple…

  • Windows 8 expected to land by October 2012: PCs and Tablets rejoice!

    Microsoft is likely to give consumers the Win-8 goodness by October 2012, if the sources at Bloomberg are to be trusted. What’s more: The popular OS will have support for both Intel and ARM(Whoa!) processors. What are ARM processors, you ask? Well, they are the processors present in your garden variety Smartphones and Tablets. The report…

  • Online shopping : the good, the bad and the ugly.

    This is part of our monthly ‘The Good the Bad and the Ugly‘ series. While ( in most cases ) nothing beats the experience of getting to feel a product physically before buying it, nothing sucks more than missing the first 15 minutes of Battleship ( it’s a movie with that guy from Fast and Furious who…

  • Is an open web all that Sergey Brin wants?

    Sergey Brin recently blamed Facebook and Apple, among others ( including China / Hollywood ) for restricting the internet, and make their own empires within it. Regarding Apple app store, he said – For example, all the information in apps – that data is not crawlable by web crawlers. You can’t search it. He also showed concern over…

  • Google+ redesign : Did Google just hire an awesome UX/UI designer?

    In case you didn’t know , Google+ got a massive face lift today. ( yes, you are right, there is no reason you should have known this. ) Though some of the designs borrow from Facebook ( did I actually write about how social networks should differentiate? I don’t know what I was on when I said that.…

  • World Internet Usage [ Infographic ]

    World Internet Usage [ Infographic ]

    This is a cool infographic by Pando Networks, that shows what countries get the lowest and highest internet speeds. India is on neither of those lists, so it’s safe to say that we have an ‘average’ internet connection. It’s also safe to say that our internet connections suck. It’s safer to say that our mobile…

  • Facebook buys Instagram for 1 Billion Dollars!

    Instagram, the photo sharing app/social-network, which finally launched its Android app last week, has been purchased for a total of 1 billion dollars, including cash, and shares of Facebook. The best part is, Facebook is not evil like Google [ which caused the death of many good products such as picnik.com and Kevin Rose’ Oink…

  • Slacktivism [ Infographic ]

    I had previously ranted on why slacktivism is awesome, but this infographic does an equally good job of bringing the point home.     Infographic by Sortable.

  • Higgs Boson found! Finally.

    This is incredible news, European Scientists have confirmed that the Higgs Boson has been proven to exist. The scientists were working on the LHC [ Large Hadron Collider ] just smashing particles together, when the unbelievable happened. Scientists have been looking for the Higgs Boson, as it is the final piece of the puzzle in the standard model of Physics. In…