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  • 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…

  • The Facebook phone doesn’t have to suck

    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 it will not be a ‘Facebook’ phone in the sense that they will just slap a boat load of the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Download Windows 8 Consumer Preview!

    Microsoft just released the consumer preview for windows-8, that anybody can download and install on their computers. For Windows 7 users, you can upgrade to windows-8. If you upgrade from XP, only your files and settings will be saved. [ You will have to re-install programs. ] You can always install it in another partition,…

  • Microsoft makes fun of Google Apps [ Video ]

    This is certainly going to fun. Hope we do not have to wait long for Google’s reply. A few weeks back, Google and Microsoft had a public fight on twitter. You can read a summary of the recent Google vs. Microsoft saga here. Read it. It’s fun. BTW, What do you prefer? Google Apps, or…

  • Best of CES /video

    For those of you who do not know, The International CES is the world’s largest consumer technology trade show. Here are a few videos of some of the best thing that were showcased this year, at Las Vegas. Sony SmartWatch LG 84″ Ultra Definition 3D TV LYTRO Lytro is a camera that captures ‘Light Fields’,…