Author Archives: Pratyush Prasanna

Kinect on Windows–The Next Big Thing?

Kinect is supposed to bring the same paradigm change that a remote control for a TV brought vs a TV mounted control (e.g. touch screens). Read More »

So What’s Next With Bharti Softbank JV, BSB? First Venture goes Live

We had covered the news of Softbank and Bharti coming up with a JV – which Kavin later clarified in the comments is not a fund. At that time the website had precious little in terms of information – so … Read More »

Justdial Launches Android app [Appnomy Review]

The app crashes on Android version 2.1, but worked perfectly fine on 2.2+ versions. Read More »

Buying Larger Packs? You Are Not Alone

All of us face the music every day thanks to growing petrol prices and an inflation which has been north of 9% for some time now in real terms. Nielsen came up with the “The Nielsen Global Online Shopping and … Read More »

Apple Charged Me For An International SMS. And Why That’s NOT Cool

So the precise fact that pissed me off was that iOS sends an SMS in the background for validating my phone number for its own app. But it doesn’t extend the capability of sending an SMS in the background to other apps and neither the capability of intercepting them. Read More »

Blackberry–RIP.

The recent news about Blackberry outage somehow reminded me of my first kiss. In short, overhyped, badly executed and bettered by every subsequent model I have used. Read More »

India’s $60 tablet – Akash

We have been hearing about the launch of a $35 tablet coming in from the government. News has just come in that the tablets would be retailed at Rs. 2999 from November commercially. The tablet would be available to students … Read More »

SRK becomes the first verified Indian celeb on Google+

Google+ today confirmed that Shahrukh Khan is the first Indian celeb who has been verified. This is on the heels of Google+ roping in SRK for promoting their platform in India. Google+ has been vehement in its effort to have … Read More »

Airtel Baba ki jai ho

Every morning, on the way to my jog, I pass this guy in a shabby tent outside my house (picture representative). The guy has almost all ailments listed like diabetes, constipation, not getting babies,  sins in past life etc. and … Read More »