Like many of you, we also believe things were always so much better in the old days. Ditto with old Tamil songs from the maestro Ilayaraja. A.R.Rahman may be the fashion of today but the fame of Ilayaraja is as tall as the Himalayas. And deservedly so considering the joy he’s provided to so many […]
Even as total mobile phone sales fell 9.4% in the first quarter, mobile phone sales were up 12.7% in the same period, according to market researcher Gartner. Worldwide mobile phone sales in the first quarter of 2009 are estimated at 269.1 million units, a 9.4% decrease from the first quarter of 2008. In the same […]
Writers on digital media are getting into a frenzy over the upcoming launch of the Palm Pre smartphone on June 6. But we think any excitement over the launch of the Palm Pre mobile phone is completely unwarranted. < Even if the new Palm Pre is a decent phone (and we still don’t know if […]
We think Sanjay Jha, the overpaid co-CEO of Motorola and CEO of the company’s Mobile Devices unit, will join the ranks of the unemployed in the not-too-distant future. Horrible Disaster Motorola’s mobile phone business continues to fall off the cliff. This morning, Motorola announced its first quarter results and the Mobile Devices business headed by […]
In a few hours, Apple will reach an extraordinary milestone – the download of the one billionth application from its App Store that feeds millions of hungry iPhones and iPod touch multimedia devices. Launched in early July 2008, the App Store has been a phenomenal success with 35,000 applications and a billion downloads. As we write […]
********** Update 2: Back online after more than three hours. Update: Still no power, after more than 90 minutes…Backup UPS and laptop fading. Will respond to comments via iPhone. ********** We are seeing one of those rare outages in the U.S. Blogging on backup UPS and the laptop. Is it the continuous rain and thunderstorms on […]