The new comScore marketshare numbers for smartphone platforms are out. And Google’s Android platform has increased its market share to nearly 44% for the three months ending August 31. Some 84.5 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones, up 10% from the preceding three month period. How long before every mobile phone in the U.S. […]
Playing the sadist to its Android, Blackberry and other smartphone rivals, Apple today launched the iPhone 4S at a hall-filled event in Cupertino, California. The upgrade to the world’s favorite smartphone comes with a faster dual-core processor, a voice-based intelligent assistant Siri and an 8-megapixel camera. The new phone runs on the Apple A5 chip, […]
It was less than five years back that history was made. The exact date was January 9, 2007. Until that moment, no one ever thought a phone could be sexy. After all, in the pre-iPhone era a mobile phone was just a device for talking or texting. Or playing a rudimentary game while you were […]
At our advanced age, very little surprises or excites us any more. Hell, even the sight of a Bollywood starlet in the buff (ahem, the Photoshopped ones) can excite no more than an Ah from us. But there’s some news that still has the power to jolt us out of our chair. Like for instance […]
Apple iPad 2 Ever since we got it, the baby has always been held close to our bosom. Of all the digital media gadgets we’ve accumulated in a long life time, none has afforded us as much pleasure as the iPad 2. Watching live Indian TV, music, playing YouTube videos, streaming Netflix movies, reading books […]
Steve Jobs is Dead Entrepreneurs come, and entrepreneurs go. But will there be another like the greedy SOB Steve Jobs? Nah, we don’t think so! The man’s been on the mountain-top, and he’s been down in the valley. Hell, our legend has been in India too (no kidding, schmucks) during his teen angst days. Now […]