Tag Archives: google

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

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)

Apple vs. Samsung: It affects you.

Like many of you, I have been following the Apple vs. Samsung case with great interest. As a mobile technologist, it affects every aspect of the business I am in and beyond that, this is one of if not the largest technology patent litigation, in, ever. On Friday evening, Judge Lucy Koh’s jury in San …

August 25, 2012 – 4:03 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, iphone OS, microsoft mobile platform, Mobile OS, Product Development | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

The Nexus 7 and the iPad 7

The Nexus 7 I just got my hands on a Google Nexus 7 and wanted to share my thoughts on it right away. The unboxing was a pleasant experience. Apple has definitely taught the entire industry a thing or two in making simple and cool packages for their products. The Nexus 7 booted up pretty …

July 25, 2012 – 11:05 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, iphone OS, Next Big Thing, Tablets | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Dropbox and Evernote: Two cloud pioneers waiting to be bought

The cloud revolution is very much being televised and we the consumers have a ringside view of all the action. I am calling it now- Evernote and Dropbox, two incredibly valuable and still private startups based out of the Silicon Valley will be part of a heated acquisition battle sooner than later. The battle will …

July 17, 2012 – 10:40 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Cloud computing, Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, Product Development, Social Networks, Tools, Web Application Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Yahoo!’s new browser product- Yahoo! Axis

Earlier this evening Yahoo! launched an interesting browser product named theAxis. There are tons of early reviews already out. Quite a few of them are positive. Here are some reviews from Ars, The Verge, Engadget and Gizmodo. I gave it a spin on my wife’s iPhone 4S and here are my impressions. Yahoo!’s Identity Crisis …

May 24, 2012 – 12:00 am | By prabhu | Posted in Design, Search | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Do smartphone specs matter?

The motivation for this post came from reading this very topical article by David Pogue of NYTimes. Why topical you ask?. I was obsessing (as was the technorati) about the lack of latest and greatest specs on the  new Nokia flagship phone- the Lumia 900 that launched on Easter Sunday. This phone has divided the tech bloggers …

April 23, 2012 – 5:20 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Android, Design, iphone OS, Mobile OS, Product Development, Windows Phone | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Social networking for everyone

As a caveat to the reader, this post is targeted to social networking beginners. If you are an expert in social networking, this may be old wine in a new bottle. I originally published this article here. I am tweaking it for a larger audience in this forum. It is the age of social networking. Everyone …

February 21, 2012 – 11:27 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Facebook, Google+, Social Networks, Twitter, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

2011 in technology and what it means for 2012

Yes, this is yet another list if you see it that way. But I am not here to list the top 10 whatever. Rather, this post is about the things that mattered in tech in 2011, in a way that will possibly shape 2012 and beyond. So here we go. The Cool Stuff: iPad2 arrived. …

December 31, 2011 – 9:07 am | By prabhu | Posted in General, Mobile OS, Next Big Thing, Product Development, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Google Plus is the future of Google

As most of my regular readers know by now, I have actively followed, used and continued to promote Google+. Even as most profiles are bereft of any activity- I have continued to promote it as a viable social network for everyone. If you were looking for me to backoff from that position, definitely not. As …

December 6, 2011 – 11:34 pm | By prabhu | Posted in Google+, Product Development, Search, Social Networks | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (1)