Say, is Telugu bidda Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s new CEO, a closet masochist? Why? Because the buzz is that Microsoft’s top honcho will launch Surface Mini, a smaller version of the disastrous Surface tablet, on May 20, 2014 at an event in New York City. Microsoft has flushed over a billion dollars on its large screen […]
The pomposity and extravagance of these White Mughals knew no bounds. – BBC presenter Dan Snow in The Birth of Empire: The East India Company (Part 1) BBC Presenter Dan Snow in Calcutta Indians must watch BBC’s new TV program The Birth of Empire: The East India Company if only to refresh fading memories of […]
2014 will be the year of the great shakeout in the smartphone and phablet arenas. Feature phones are starting to fade into the mist and the year will likely end with over 60% of mobile phones sold in 2014 being smartphones. This year will also be make and break time for high profile vendors like […]
Surface Pro 2 – Starts at $899 (without keyboard) If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times. Not until hell freezes over will Microsoft see some traction on sales of its Surface tablets. The sucker has been a disaster from Day One. And nothing has changed in the last 19-months except that […]
Millions of Americans pay less than $99 for their spanking new iPhone 5S or iPhone 5C. That’s because a huge number of American consumers trade in their existing iPhones when Apple puts out a new model. For instance, I paid a mere $59 for my new iPhone 5S (16GB) at Best Buy last year after […]
LG Electronics will launch its new G3 premium smartphone on May 27 and 28 at events in New York, San Francisco, London, Seoul, Singapore and Istanbul. But the big question on many minds is whether G3 will move the needle on LG’s marketshare in the smartphone arena. Can the G3 help LG turn into a […]