Archives for May, 2010

Asus launched tablet pc, Eee Pad

May 31st, 2010 Gadgets No Comments
Whether you are Apple fanboy or Windows fanboy, if you are honest techy you have to admit Apple got a history of motivating/pushing other tech companies towards new technologies. For example – before iPod there was nothing comparable to iPod (First of its kind), yeah I know there was Sony Discman, Walkman but truly nothing even close to iPod. But once Apple unwrap iPod, thousands of devices popped up in the market either mimicking iPod or inspired by iPod. More or less same scenario we have observed after the launch of iPhone. Now iPad, the tablet computing device released by Apple, seems to be gaining same momentum in tech arena just like iPod and iPhone did. All these three are three different kind of device, but common are all of them come from Apple and all motivational devices for tech scene. This is good for the tech environment, since no matter who motivated the bottom-line is creative, competitive technological evolution continues. Apple iPad is an excellent device which is unique and first of its kind, but does have its fair share of limitations. Well those who are didn’t relented to iPad fever, here is another provocation to get onboard table…
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Adobe, HTML5 and Apple why needs to be observed

May 28th, 2010 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
We all aware of the spat going on between Adobe and Apple regarding Adobe’s Flash. It wasn’t always like that, not too long ago they had a mutually beneficial relationship creating a niche market based on Apple’s Mac operating system and Adobe’s content creation software. Long story short now these two once friends are now bitter rivals and hostilely fighting (media war) each other over the merits of Flash and the future of interactive content and video on the Mobile & Web. Adobe’s flash which no doubt overwhelmingly dominate web, obviously defend its product and wishes to conquer Mobile device dominance as well. On the other hand Apple the biggest tech company in the world continually refuses to accept flash on their iPhone and iPad instead advocates HTML5 as standard. It’s seems after quite a bit news battle, Adobe decided to take two approach to stay on the top of food chain. Flash defending-ad campaign Take the lead in HTML5 development Now Adobe showcased a new HTML5 addition to its Creative Suite software on Wednesday at the Google I/O developer conference. Seems Adobe would like to be more of a leader and less of a follower when it comes to…
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Microsoft’s shakeup, new possibilities!

May 27th, 2010 Information Technology No Comments
Microsoft planning on a shakeup that will split its mobile and gaming business into two sections, which was not supposed to be together in the first place. This an attempt to reclaim a leading position in the Smartphone market, a position that’s largely slipped away in the face of competition from Apple and Google. There is a good possibility that this shakeup could unleash the company’s mobile device efforts. Now the million dollar question is, whether this decision is on time or too late. In this shakeup Robbie Bach, president of the entertainment and devices group (Microsoft’s highest paid executive), will retire from Microsoft later this year, the company announced Tuesday. Bach won’t be replaced. Instead the two deputy executives who head both units will report directly to Ballmer from June 1st, 2010. Microsoft was being outpaced, out-developed and out-marketed by longtime rivals such as Apple, and even worse by brand-new mobile platforms like Android. First Apple’s widely successful iPhone and then Google’s Android mobile OS, it’s seems Microsoft’s nightmare is a never ending epic. Its aging Windows Mobile platform was, and is, shrinking in market share. Which Microsoft certainly wishes to change and make a dramatic comeback! The good…
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Yahoo buys Mobile Social Network Service Korpol

May 26th, 2010 Information Technology 1 Comment
Among internet’s big brothers Yahoo is the slowest to expend it’s presence to mobile market. Well it’s better late than never. Isn’t it? Now aiming to expand its presence in the emerging markets, Internet giant Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has acquired Indonesia’s location-based services startup Koprol. This announcement came one day after announcing an expanded mobile partnership with Nokia. Yahoo said it will be leveraging the Jakarta-based startup’s user-generated community information to further localize its content for its products. How much Yahoo did spent for buying Koprol still unknown. Koprol was always the second choice for Yahoo, Foursquare which was its first choice probably asked for higher price than what yahoo had in mind (US$100 million-plus offers). Koprol specializes in mobile networking, lets people make friends, share photos, and find popular nearby locations all on the go. This only indicates Internet giant’s rising interest in geo-location offerings, pledging to bring Nokia’s Navteq mapping service to Yahoo, and Yahoo’s email and instant-messaging technology to Nokia’s Ovi service. With the Yahoo buyout, Koprol will maintain its base in Jakarta, Indonesia and all employees will be converted to the Yahoo team. Koprol noted in a blog post that many of its planned…
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Paid tweets business models, beware!

May 26th, 2010 Featured, Information Technology No Comments
Twitter, the 140 character trend we all love. We might miss or get tardy at work but never miss a tweet J . For the reason of user love and popularity, advertiser’s loves it too, to hook up into the stream. There have been numerous companies, startup grown up recently around Twitter’s timeline. Third-party paid Tweets was making money without even have to share a dime with Twitter, unlike any other Social platforms. Many of these third party company’s business model relies on Twitter API for brokers ads and places them in users’ Twitter streams. Most probably the time for these free riding business is about to come to an end, well not necessarily (if they change their business model)! Twitter has its own advertising system called Promoted Tweets, which launched about a month ago. It shares about half of the revenue with developers. Now the news break out that Twitter is banning third-party advertisements on its site in a move to control the monetization. Official statement for this move is, to protect the relevance and integrity of the platform. But we all know what the real reason- It’s the Green baby! As our primary concern is the long-term health…
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Facebook’s latest privacy dilemma

May 25th, 2010 Web No Comments
400 million plus active users (well even if more than half of them are just active with Games) Facebook certainly dominate social network arena in every country. Hmm minus India (Orkut) and China (Renren.com ). Facebook is nice and all but it has a nasty habit of in the middle of Privacy arguments all the time. Excessive emails, too nosy news feeds, junks from everyone and friends, sneaky Ads etc. always have been there to irritate the hell out of most of us. If not all most Facebook user do complaint about these. Lately, most high-profile complaints involve recent changes to the company’s privacy policies. Social Media Giant Has Come Under Withering Criticism For Its Convoluted Privacy Settings, Which May Share More Than Users Realize. With over 50 different privacy buttons, inducing 170+ options for users certainly makes things drastically complicated. Facebook’s recent adjustments make it incredibly difficult to control your information in any reasonable way. Even after you go through all those you are not even 100% sure your information are safe. Nick Bolton of NY Times figured out that United States Constitution, without any of its amendments is 1,287 words shorter than Facebook’s privacy policy, go figure! In…
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Google declassifies revenue share for Adsense

May 24th, 2010 Information Technology No Comments
Google Adsense need very little or no introduction at all to most of the web savvy peoples out .there. Why? Cause Google Adsense is one of the most successful advertising networks on web. But funny thing is regardless of overwhelming popularity among web publishers; it’s always been a mystery to Adsense Publishers that how much share does Google keep out of the total revenue generated by their Websites. Needless to say there is quite a bit of conspiracy theories build up around it as well. Well today (May 24th, 2010) Google finally axed these conspiracy theories by revealing this ’secret’ that It had kept since the launch of Adsense. According to Google Adsense shares 68% revenue with the publishers of Adsense for content ads, and 51% revenue for the Adsense for search program. This means Google keeps 32 cents out of every dime ($1) you earn through your Adsense. Well that’s not much isn’t it? I no see evil in there, well it’s just me. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in Adsense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads….
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