Author Archives: prabhu

HTC One- Review

HTC is making its biggest bet for survival this year with the new HTC One that started shipping last week (in the US). I finally got my hands on the HTC One a few days ago. This is my comprehensive review of the device after 2 days of use. Background In light of rapidly eroding …

April 25, 2013 – 11:32 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, iphone OS, Mobile OS, Product Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Facebook Home- First impressions

Facebook recently announced its latest and arguably biggest mobile initiative in the form of Facebook Home. I had a chance to install the service on a Galaxy S3 Android handset and here are my first impressions What is Facebook Home? Facebook Home is an Android launcher which replaced the traditional Android home screen with a Facebook …

April 16, 2013 – 11:02 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, Facebook, Google+, Marketing, Mobile OS, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Not everything on the Internet is or needs to be free.

Like much of the internet, I am still in mourning over the upcoming, planned demise (or as Google would like to call it “sunset”) of Google Reader. I have tremendous respect for the product not just for what it does but how it does it. In the era of fancy page turn driven Flipboard, Pulse …

March 14, 2013 – 5:52 pm | By prabhu | Posted in General, Marketing, Product Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Microsoft Surface tablet: The Good and the not so good.

Almost five months after the launch of the Surface tablet, I finally had a chance to spend quality time with it. In the past, my time with the device was limited to less than 30 minutes which didnt constitute enough to write about it. I have had a device with me for a few hours …

February 26, 2013 – 11:38 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Design, Marketing, microsoft mobile platform, Mobile OS, Product Development, Tablets, Windows Phone | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

How working from home can be good for the employer and employee.

The blogosphere and Twitter is abuzz with the leaked memo from Yahoo! HR effectively putting an end to Yahoo!’s employees working from home from June 2013. Reactions have pretty much been consistent and it is scathingly against Yahoo!. In this post, I share my experiences as an engineer who has occasionally worked from home for …

February 25, 2013 – 11:06 pm | By prabhu | Posted in General | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Would you buy an iWatch?

The rumor mills are grinding rapidly. Over the weekend, NYTimes  and WSJ reported that Apple was testing an iWatch concept internally. Bloomberg picked up on it and added some embellishments. The tech blogosphere [1][2] has been on an overdrive speculating on the iWatch. Going with the flow, this article speculates the existence of one such …

February 11, 2013 – 10:44 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Design, Next Big Thing, personal lifestyle gadgets, Product Development, Wearable Computing | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Putting technology to work for you: Personal Fitness Trackers

One of the new initiatives for this tech blog for 2013 is to offer long form articles on specific lifestyle areas where technology is taking major strides. These devices and/or services are relatively affordable, simple to use and for the right person, can potentially offer a dramatic improvement in the lifestyle area. These are by …

January 27, 2013 – 1:05 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Design, Product Development, Tools | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Facebook’s Graph Search

Facebook formally announced their Google Search competitor, “Graph Search” today. The interestingly titled product (to go with Facebook’s Open Graph) is expected to roll out over the next few weeks across the world and will be in beta for a while. Mark Zuckerberg took pains to separate the product from Google Search but Google and …

January 15, 2013 – 7:35 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Next Big Thing, Search, Social Networks, Social search | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Hello, 2013

Happy New Year to everyone. Before I go further, I wanted to let you know that this post is being syndicated across all my blog properties and if you read it once, you have read it all. Now on to the post… It is good to be writing again. I took a wonderful break for …

January 2, 2013 – 7:00 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Windows 8- The good, the not so good and the bad

Having experienced Windows 8 across multiple form factors and having digested opinions, articles and what not, here is what I think, a little over a month since the “8″ paradigm formally launched. First off, one of the most unique things to have ever happened is that there were more people who knew and were excited …

December 10, 2012 – 11:34 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, Product Development, Tablets, Windows Phone | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off