Monthly Archives: August 2009

(Here’s Part 1) You see, newspapers have tried to do online exactly what they did so well in print for hundreds of years – make money off ads. But it turns out that when people search on the Web (on … Continue reading →

Back at IIM Kozhikode, everyone had a subscription to a business newspaper (either the Economic Times, BusinessLine or Business Standard). You just had to have one, plopped every morning outside your door by the newspaper boy, where it would stay … Continue reading →

Apple has had remarkable success doing what every other mobile phone company has failed at: getting non-techie users to install applications on their phones. By the dozen. The iPhone App Store stocks over 65000 apps and has sold over a … Continue reading →

Google released Google Desktop in 2005 and the web went abuzz with excitement. The Question That No One Had Asked had been answered: "Why does it take longer to search my hard drive than it does to search the web?" … Continue reading →

Over the past fortnight, the social media echo chamber has found three reasons to be up in arms about: Friendfeed’s acquisition by Facebook, the folding of URL shortener tr.im, and the Denial of Service attack on Twitter. Personalities have been … Continue reading →

It’s surprising how many ordinary people – complete non-tech-heads – simply put up with their computers at home, computers that have become appallingly slow and virus-infested over time. It isn’t until an unsuspecting nerd shows up at home that they … Continue reading →