This is a response to reports that Facebook is certainly working on a phone and that it will, with certainty, suck. The project is allegedly code-named ‘Buffy’. If Facebook is indeed making a phone, I am pretty sure…
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Why is Elon Musk the real life Tony Stark ( Iron Man )?
Elon Musk founded PayPal. And Tesla Motors. And SpaceX. And a bunch of other companies. He is a brilliant engineer and entrepreneur. When he was 10, he bought a computer, and by age 12…
The producers of “3” movie are the reason torrent sites are down in India
Mahaesh Murthy, a social media behemoth, today posted on his Facebook account, making clear why torrent sites in India are down. This is what he had to say – It’s incredible – the film that…
Here’s why Facebook is not overvalued
There is a lot of talk of why Facebook’s 100 Billion $ valuation is insane, with a lot of technology and business ‘gurus’ ( old people with grey hair ) screaming how Facebook is going…
Torrent sites go down in India. Anonymous takes government sites down, in revenge. [ updated twice ]
If you try to access thepiratebay.se from India today, you might be greeted with the message Access to this site has been blocked as per Court Orders. I say “might” because at least my ISP ( MTNL…
Ads in my Facebook news feed!
These sponsored stories, of who likes what, are super annoying. Letting advertises game the feed is a bad idea. Don’t they earn enough with ads already. YouTube and Twitter have also done this, but it’s…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…