This is a rare video on the inner workings of the Foxconn factory where iPads are assembled. This doesn’t in the least look like the horror place that reports suggest. This is possibly how any factory would be like. But then in China everything is censored. So this could also be the edited version meant [...]
Delicious is finally out of Yahoo! and with the YouTube founders. Hopefully it will now not languish as it had been for the past couple of years. But the question remains if there is a future for Delicious in its current form? Most people are inclined to share interesting links on Twitter and Facebook both [...]
It seems iPhone, Android and now Windows Phone, all track the user’s location and send it back to their makers. This is something that was discovered just last week. (Pretty quick that.) And the inevitable privacy concerns are being raised already. But I feel it is not such a bad thing if it leads to [...]
Nokia and Microsoft has finally closed their deal and now hopefully there will be a Windows Phone powered Nokia hardware by early next year. But the news was also accompanied with the laying off of 4000 Nokia employees and the transfer of Symbian maintenance/dev to Accenture (along with 3000 employees). Stop Using NPS (Net Promoter [...]
Bing (and Yahoo! powered by Bing) is slowly encroaching into Google’s search market share in the US. While worldwide this is still a rout, it is interesting that people are actually making the switch. Meanwhile Facebook raised false alarms of a Baidu partnership in China amidst fighting another lawsuit by a convicted scamster. The Economics [...]
The top news of last week is the memo sent out by new CEO Larry Page to all Google employees that connect their bonuses to Google’s success in social efforts.Which, given its track record, may not bear returns. And this applies to all those who are not even involved in the social efforts directly. I [...]
This April Google made a prank that didn’t quite succeed. It is no longer a joke! Also, LinkedIn launches its platform to spread the professional graph around the web. This could make the time to 200 million much shorter for LinkedIn. Meanwhile online ad dollars are still disproportionate to time spent. And no, TV is not [...]
The big news is Google +1, but I have a full post dedicated to it. Of the rest Google is still the news maker with them tightening the noose around Android development. May be finally the worry about having the latest version will rest-in-peace. The fragmentation of the platform is still a pain for the early adopters [...]
The whole of tech world seemed to be discussing about Color, its massive funding and contemplating whether it marks the beginning of a new bubble. It really is interesting what Color is doing. As Fred Wilson writes it is building an implicit social network. In a sense anyone in your close physical proximity on a [...]
Facebook has patented what looks like the concept of social search. Though it is not their original idea (it came to them as part of the Friendster acquisition) it will be interesting to see if they make a foray into the field. Meanwhile they acquired feature phone app maker Snaptu, an Israeli startup. It could [...]