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Tag: Apple

  • Why Apple products get a late or no launch in India?

    Not much is known about Steve Jobs and his “India connection”. What brought him to India , no facts listed , is it karmic connection many people come India for? We know very little about that. A college dropout who earned money by returning empty Coke bottles and had his weekly free meal at a local…

  • Surface: The Microsoft tablet that is awesome!

    Microsoft is finally entering the tablet market with its own hardware. The Surface comes with Windows RT, and by the looks of it, is pretty awesome. The Surface used to be the name of Microsoft’s touch screen tables, which this is not. This is finally a tablet that I would buy, mainly because when I…

  • Facebook App Center launched, is multi-platform

    Facebook app center launched today, with 600 apps. The App Center is not like a traditional app store, in the sense that it does not necessarily have apps that run within facebook.com, but lists any app that uses Facebook in any way. If an app uses Facebook login and pushes its feed to the site,…

  • 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 down. If I had to be worried about a tech company, that would be Google or Apple, as these are…

  • 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…

  • 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 Zeitgeist – Top search trends of 2011 displayed in HTML5 awesomeness

    Google just released a list of fastest rising searches on Google in 2011, and guess what, Rebecca Black tops the list. The iPad, the non existent iPhone5 are also in the top 10. In other words, 20% of what trended at the top in 2011 was Apple! But, what’s more interesting than the content of the research is…

  • WikiLeaks – ‘SSL sucks’ and their latest leak, The Spy Files

    WikiLeaks had recently posted, announcing their press conference for new leaks. But what they also mentioned in that post, SSL, the protocol used world over for secure information, sucks. WikiLeaks have postponed the launch of their secure submission system, in view of these concerns. The proposed new submission system, will allow people to securely submit…

  • iPhone envy? Forget about it. You can have Android.

    Since the rise of Apple as a major smartphone manufacturer, people worldwide have been suffering from a great plague. iPhone envy. They have spent nights praying for an iPhone, or for it to be available at cheap prices in their respective countries. India, not being as developed in the telecom sector, not yet into the…