Archive for January, 2011

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Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

Creating your own books in Wikipedia

I went for a wikipedia meetup in Mumbai and learned a new way to create your own books. You can pick various articles on Wikipedia and create your own book. Very impressive I must say. On Wikipedia:Bookshelf you will find all the books thats created.  Go to Wikibooks to create your own book, just like […]

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Monday, January 17th, 2011

Google Nexus S

A cool looking phone from Google. Bbuilt by Samsung, hence the similarity to Samsung Galsxy S. Here is what I like: Android 2.3 (first and currently the only phone to have this) 16GB Internal Memory 4″ Display 1 GHZ Processor Here is what I don’t like: No expandable memory slot, Whith 16 GB built in, […]

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Thursday, January 13th, 2011

HTML 5 coming soon to a browser near you

The HTML 5 standard is looking promising. Currently Crome and Opera  has very good support, Firefox has some support for HTML5, Firefox 4 will have complete support. Most of the browsers will be fully supporting it in the next 6-12 months. HTML 5 will offer many features which today requires additional plugins like Flash. Here are […]

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Monday, January 10th, 2011

Its the Motorola’s Atrix 4G vs iPhone 4

Motorola has managed to come up with a very good concept. Its essentially a very powerful phone, which can be converted into a PC or a netbook. This will provide a serious competition to the iPhone4 and also provide a single device which can double up as a PC or a netbook. It has two […]

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Friday, January 7th, 2011

ARM processors have a lead over x86

ARM which is already leading in Smart phones, is now gaining popular on Tablets. With Microsoft also announcing today at CES that Windows will run on ARM chips and with Google’s Android Linux, Apple’s iOS, and Canonical’s Ubuntu already on the low-powered processors, that’s a big portion of modern computing. Throw in Red Hat Enterprise […]

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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

40 percent of new users are choosing Android

More than 40% of U.S. customers who purchased smartphones over the last six months have chosen Android-based phones. Apple is still leading with 28.6 percent, followed by RIM (Blackberry) at 26.1 percent and Andorid at 25. percent. With the current growth, it won’t be long before Andorid becomes number 1. Read the complete report.

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Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Universal Mobile chargers are coming

Thanks to the efforts of the European Commission: Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Blackberry and Samsung will release phones with standard microUSB chargers. This will make it easy for customers as one charger can charge all their phones, will reduce the e-waste and bring standardisation. If you are in the market for a new phone, ensure that […]

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Saturday, January 1st, 2011

Bringing internet to the difficult terrains

AirJaldi is an organisation which has pioneered the art of creating mesh WiFi networks. They have managed to reach Internet to the hills in Dharamshala, where connectivity is a challenge. Here is a full writeup about them. Some interesting quotes 🙂 The open-source community has also dabbled extensively in it, creating a suite of free software. Most […]

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