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Apple vs Samsung: Patent Wars

Apple Successfully Stops Samsung From Selling the Galaxy Tab in Australia

by on October 13, 2011 in News

When the no.1 smartphone manufacturer in the world collides with its fast-gaining no.2 competitor, sparks are expected to fly.

A day after Samsung crashed Apple’s Australian iPhone 4S party by offering the Galaxy S II for $2 in Sydney, Apple swung right back by winning a preliminary sales injunction against Samsung Galaxy Tab in the country.

If you didn’t know, Apple and Samsung have been caught up in a massive patent war over the past few months, largely over the Galaxy series of smartphones and tablets. In an April filing in a Californian court, Apple claimed that Samsung infringed on 8 of its technology, and 7 of its design patents. The Korean behemoth hit right back, claiming that Apple violated 12 of Samsung’s patents in building the iPhone and the iPad. Continue Reading →

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Social Media and the Wall Street Protests

A Historic Year

by on October 13, 2011 in Opinion

Arab Spring, Anna Hazare, and now Occupy Wall Street.

Even as we gloat over the new iPhone 4S, it can be easy to forget that right now, as you read this, there are hundreds of protesters marching on Wall Street. In the post-Age of Excess, their targets are big banks that flourished through Government bailouts even as the rest of America struggled with unemployment.

The Occupy Wall Street, or the 99% movement as many have called it, follows the largely successful Anna Hazare movement in India. While the targets were different – the government rather than big banks – the issues raised by Team Anna were remarkably pertinent to those of the 99 percenters. Both were protesting against corruption and government excesses. Team Anna was galvanized into action after a series of multi-billion dollar scams and scandals erupted in the past six months that cost the country more than $50 billion over the the last few years. Public outrage, already at a boiling point, found in Anna Hazare a channel that could articulate and amplify it. Team Anna’s demands were simple: a regulatory body to check corruption with the powers to indict ministers and members of parliament. Continue Reading →

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Dennis Ritchie is No More

Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C, is No More

by on October 13, 2011 in News

Dennis Ritchie is No More

October hasn’t been too kind to tech pioneers.

A day ago, erstwhile Motorola CEO, Robert W. Galvin died in his sleep at the age of 89. Today comes the news that Dennis Ritchie, the creator of C language and the father of UNIX, succumbed to his illnesses at the age of 70. Continue Reading →

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Google+ Fail: Google Plus Engineer Trashes Site

Google’s Rare Moment of Lucidity

by on October 13, 2011 in News, Opinion

In what might very well be Google’s very own Kanye West moment, a Google engineer, Steve Yegge, has trashed Google+, calling it a “knee-jerk reaction” to Facebook.

Google: give this guy a promotion, pronto!

After months of saying that Google+ was a bad idea, here’s finally someone echoing my sentiments. That the voice is from within Google itself makes it delightfully refreshing. How often do you see a big company’s employees trash its own products in public? Continue Reading →

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iPhone Large and iMessage

No Greg, SMS Isn’t Dying Anytime Soon

by on October 13, 2011 in Mobile

iPhone Large and iMessage

Yesterday, TechCrunch mobile editor, Greg Kumparak once again announced the impending death of SMS, largely because of the launch of iMessage.

This is one more example of first world complacency. SMS is expensive as fuck in the US. The carriers are hanging on to it for dear life; it is one of their last milch cows and you can bet they won’t let go of the death grip anytime soon. It is an outdated technology, no doubt about it, but its death has been, perhaps, greatly exaggerated. Continue Reading →

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Whatever Happened to .mobi?

by on October 12, 2011 in Mobile

Back in 2007, I remember being in intense, heated debates on the domain extension, .mobi, over at DNForum.com. In particular, the debate focused on the future of mobile internet and .mobi’s position within the same. The arguments were often carelessly thought out, vengeful, and with little insight or analysis – something I’ve come to expect from the sheltered, inward-looking domain trading world. Investors who had pumped thousands of dollars in the extension were obviously pumping up the hype, painting it as the savior of the mobile internet. Others – and this was the majority – were more pragmatic, adopting either the ‘let’s wait and watch’, or the ‘damn, .mobi sucks’ standpoint. The latter – “mobi sucks!” – became something of a catchphrase at the forum that drove the .mobi supporters into a tizzy. It was only after a series of very ugly arguments that I pulled myself off the debates. Now, four years down the line, I see that the verbal fights haven’t cooled off yet, despite the fact that .mobi has been a massive failure with little adoption outside the domain trading community. Continue Reading →

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First Post and Welcome!

by on October 12, 2011 in Uncategorized

I hope this blog turns out to be greater than the sum of its parts. I wanted this blog to be a repository of my own curious opinion on technology and startups, but I would also cover tech news, and anything interesting that I find online. Be sure though that my focus will remain on startups, technology, business, and what makes stuff tick online.

As much as I’d like to focus on the entire technology and startup sphere, it’s not feasible – physically, or intellectually. I don’t understand solar tech startups; little sense in writing about them. What I do understand is technology, specifically, internet startups (gee, at least I hope so!), and I’ll devote this space to writing about them.

I hope to see this post buried beneath a mountain of content, so most likely, you won’t read this. But if you do, thanks for stopping by :)

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