On Android In his post, Android Is Fading Into The Background—And That’s A Good Thing, Dan Rowinski says that Android’s become mature enough now to slowly fade into the background as the devices themselves take their place in the limelight,…
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A Quick Micromax A116 Review, Some Things Android, Is DEN Going DTH?
Posted in Television, Weekly Wrap
The Next Big Mobile Wave
The popular history of the evolution of mobile phones is something on the lines of pre-iPhone and post-iPhone, which is, admittedly, quite a convenient way to look at things. The actual history, though, is a far more nuanced (or, complicated,…
New Gmail Ad Unit
This morning, I noticed a new ad unit within Gmail. The usual practice for Google, and almost everyone else, is to make the click open a new window and show the target URL in that. In this case, the ad…
Posted in Advertising, Internet
Facebook Graph Search: Nobody’s Killing Anyone Yet
The launch of Facebook’s Graph Search has led to the expected feeding frenzy from the media. The product was long-expected from the company, but what was delivered was different from what was expected. The hope was that the company would…
Posted in Internet
India Telco Scenario: Re-living 2005 in 2013
Looks like Airtel’s move to hike the price of its 1GB 2G plan by 25% will soon be aped by other operators. And thus continues the decimation of mobile data (and voice to a lesser extent) in India thanks to…
Go Through This Checklist If You Want To Build A New Twitter
There is a lot of ire about what Twitter is doing to its developer ecosystem and its users these days. An often-mentioned suggestion that comes out of it is to build another Twitter, this time one that will set right…
Review Of Prismatic
Wavii and Prismatic are two of the latest warriors in the perilous battlefield of automated social content discovery and recommendations and over the past few weeks I have grown quite fond of using Prismatic. The domain of automated content discovery has seen much…
Samsung Galaxy S, GT-19000: Two-Year Review
My trusted Android road-warrior – the Galaxy S — completed 2-years sometime late last year. I had picked up the phone as a replacement for my tough-as-nails Nokia E71, long before the platforms were burning and tablets and mini-tablets had become the…
The Price Is Right: YouTube Versus Labels
The Guardian has an interesting story on how record labels are learning how to make money from YouTube. Five years ago, this is what I had written in ‘Youtube: The future of music distribution?‘ Now, if Youtube were to give…
Is ‘My Airtel’ App A Hint Of Airtel’s Future?
The image on the left is a message I received from Airtel on the 29th of December, 2012, suggesting that I should upgrade to Android 4.0.4 on my Samsung Android device and it says I should visit the Samsung India website to…
