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 …
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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 …
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 …
Is your smartphone (and the mobile OS) a reflection of you?
For much of the early years of the cellphone revolution, it was cool to actually own a device. It was expensive to buy and even more expensive to make calls on. Most cellphones otherwise known as Nokia and Motorola handsets were clunky and unimaginative. The only innovation in terms of design and handset appearance was …
Why is Instagram so popular?
Update: Literally minutes after this post went live, Facebook announced that it was buying Instagram. My post still stays. I am not surpised but curious to know why Facebook agreed to pay so much for an app (ok, a mobile photo sharing network). I could see Facebook integrating Instagram into its photo sharing feature. The convergence is …
The Stickiness Factor
I recently moved from an iOS phone to an Android phone. The move was by and large painless but for one big hassle- lack of iTunes on Android. On a completely unrelated note, I have been trying to use Google + about the same as Facebook. Part of it is driven by my personal preference …
The tale of the $99 Tablet
By now, everyone knows of the great tablet sale of the past weekend (8/20/2011-8/21/2011) and either did something about it or wish they did. HP, after abandoning its tablet plans decided to make the weekend very interesting and dropped the price of its 16GB tablet to a mouth-watering $99. If you were living on a …