What makes HP TouchPad a compelling alternative to competing products is webOS. – Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president and general manager, Palm Global Business Unit, HP (June 9, 2011 On August 18, HP killed the webOS-based TouchPad after a horrible market reception to the tablet. Related Stories: Non-iPad Tablets Should Roll Over & Die It’s […]
An Indian techie Dharmendra Modha is leading an initiative at IBM to develop a chip (microprocessor) that mimics the functioning of the human brain. Describing the new microprocessor as cognitive computing chips, IBM researchers say they will emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. An experimental version of the chip has already been […]
When clueless bozos stray into the kitchen and headless chicken run helter skelter around the dining room, the ugly epiphany is a hopelessly trashy Indian restaurant called Arusuvai Chettinad in North Brunswick, NJ. The fitting punishment for such Indian restaurants dumpsters in New Jersey – Adi Seruppale (i.e. remove your old, dirty slippers and fling […]
Google’s proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility throws up the big question …. Why? * First and foremost, buying cellphone, set-top boxes and tablet vendor Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion (a 63% premium over Friday’s closing price) is a tacit admission by Google that ultimately Apple’s closed model of controlling all aspects of the […]
Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker. – Ogden Nash Admittedly, we drink. Some may even say we drink a lot. All we’ll say in our not-so-humble defense is that in these hot summer days on the East Coast, life would be intolerable without an ice-cold beer or two or three. We usually keep ours […]
Now, will y’all please join us in wishing Karan Johar a blessed life in his new sex. After watching the new Bollywood film Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, we were so happy to learn that Karan Johar finally took the sex change plunge, followed up with a name-change and turned into lil’ Zoya Akhtar. Tho thweet. […]