“Love thy neighbor” is how the saying goes, but words don’t always reflect reality. While the intense rivalry between India and Pakistan is not new, the World Trade Center event in September 2001 and its aftermath have left Pakistan in an unfamiliar and delicate… Read the rest of this entry
Mobile TV has analysts excited. ABI Research estimates that mobile TV will have 43 million subscribers by 2013, and research firm TeleAnalytics estimates 50 million mobile TV users in North America by the same year. But so far mobile TV has not nearly lived up to the hype. Qualcomm’s FLO TV, the technology used behind the current market leaders — AT&T’s Mobile TV and Verizon’s V Cast — still isn’t making money. For this holiday… Continue reading
While security remains the biggest concern for Pakistani citizens, there are those who believe that education is the best way to ensure security in the future. Bringing education to the masses is no easy task, especially when parents cannot afford education for their… Read the rest of this entry
GigaOm’s NewTeeVee Live event, which explores the future of TV, took place in San Francisco today. Though there were a number of interesting demos and presentations, three really stood out as being most likely to shape how we watch TV in the immediate future.
The first… Continue Reading
Rumors surfaced this week that Apple is in the process of putting together a $30-a-month iTunes TV offering. This rumored iTunes TV is supposedly something altogether different from the currently available Apple TV.
Apple TV is a piece of hardware that makes it easy to watch… Continue Reading
Location based social networking keeps getting tremendous hype, but the question is whether it will live up to its potential.
The buzz continued this week when Loopt, one of the earliest location-based social networks, announced the acquisition of GraffitiGEO. Loopt recommends places to go based on… Continue Reading
AT&T announced yesterday that it will enable iPhone VoIP apps on its 3G wireless network. You’d think that’d be great news for VoiP companies, and market leader Skype in particular, and indeed, Skype CEO Josh Silverman rejoiced, asking for even more concessions. Read the full article »
I had quite a bit of backlash on my first part of the series, despite the fact that I gave a high score to Microsoft’s productivity suite. Wait until you read this part!
Mobile:
After Google declared at Mobilebeat conference that app stores are not the future – citing the power of HTML5 as the new platform for web apps, Microsoft also decided to join the HTML5 standard. Soon after, Microsoft announced a native version of Office 2010, the latest version of Microsoft’s ubiquitous productivity software on Nokia smart phones, a big diversion from its traditional approach of creating a lock in with its own operating system. Is Microsoft conceding defeat in mobile operating systems race? Read the full article »
In this series, I will evaluate health of various businesses within Microsoft. While it’s easy to bash the biggest software company on the planet, I will be as objective as possible and give Microsoft credit when it’s due.
Augmented Reality — the ability to superimpose data and information over a view of the real world — is arguably hot these days, and there’s no scarcity of articles and blogs on the space and AR apps. VentureBeat first reviewed AR apps two months ago. Read the full article »
The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
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Paul Blustein chronicles the spectacular rise and fall of Argentina's economy at the turn of the 21st century