A smartphone or tablet is only as good as the ecosystem that extends, supports and nurtures the device. Apple is blessed not merely because a lot of fans stand in line to get the latest iPhone but also because there’s a huge ecosystem of developers and accessories vendors that flock to the iOS platform. After […]
Finding myself at a loose end the other day, I started perusing the Oxford English Dictionary. Since the OED fancies itself as the “Definitive Record of the English Language,” I feel compelled to browse through it occasionally lest I miss something big. Earlier this month, the OED added a big bunch of new words including […]
Some companies, like some people, are bizarrely stupid – They refuse to heed the lessons of past errors. Microsoft’s first generation Surface tablets (both the Surface RT and Surface Pro) were a mega-disaster. So big a disaster that Microsoft incurred a loss of nearly a billion dollars in its last quarter to account for unsold […]
Sheep, I tell you. Nine million of them. Apple is gloating that nine million consumers lined up and purchased the new iPhones over the September 20-22, 2013 weekend. All for two phones, iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c, that don’t add much over the older iPhone 5. Even the Touch ID fingerprint sensor, the much ballyhooed […]
He knows, he knows. I can see it in his eyes…Why aren’t you fucking telling me? Why? – Missing girl Anna’s father Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman) screams after torturing a suspect in Prisoners Two years back the sui generis SearchIndia.com blog introduced all ye philistines, forever hanging on to Bollywood’s teats, to French-Canadian film maker Denis […]
At Microsoft’s meeting with financial analysts yesterday, CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged a fact that anyone with a head has known for a long time: Microsoft is a total disaster in the mobile arena where Apple and Google are ruling the roost in smartphones, tablets, apps and music. The tragedy for Microsoft is that as the […]