Chicky Moves

Apple’s latest move to ban Google voice has not gone well with FCC and users. While users are hot happy with this ban, FCC sees this as an anti competitive move “conspired” by Apple and AT&T. The conspiracy theory doing rounds in the web community elaborates on how Google VOIP and telephony product collides with interest of Apple and AT&T, its mobile carrier.  Apple, who has long guarded the application business notified Google of application’s duplicating features, AT&T doesn’t perceived it positively either as it offers free SMS and cheap international … Continue Reading

Today photos of  HP iPAQ K3 “Obsidian” phone surfaced on internet with somewhat similar specs what came through leaked information earlier this year. It will be coming up with AT&T as its mobile carrier and is loaded with full QWERTY keyboard and 2.43-inch OLED touchscreen. Obsidian will have 3.2-megapixel camera, tri-band 3G UMTS/HSDPA network support, a Wi-Fi connection, GPS and preloaded with new Windows mobile 6.5 operating system.

It will have 528MHz Qualcomm chip processor with 256MB of RAM.  In-built storage capacity would be 512 MB with provision … Continue Reading

In the midst of claims and counterclaims, TechCrunch today claimed that they contacted twitter before publishing the controversial documents. Reportedly TechCrunch published excerpts from “leaked”  confidential documents which claimed to be of a twitter employee. The document is said to be hacked to Google doc account and sent to TechCrunch is a zip file. The report which was said to be more than 300 pages has many document for twitter “internal” consumption  as it include twitter expansion plans, interview schedules, financial forecast and  many other sensitive documents.

TechCrunch claims that … Continue Reading

Now you can publish your YouTube insight stats to public. As per the latest announcement on Wednesday, YouTube would now allow the uploader to publish there ” insight” stats to public. Insight which is a free in-built analytical tool for analysis of the traffic and various other data like popularity, geographic audience, and viewer demographics. But this information was only accessible to the uploader till date.

But now these information can be viewed by all viewers by clicking a simple toggle button at the right hand side of screen. … Continue Reading

Following to my all time favorite list of application for iPod touch, here are the new must have applications for your iPhone 3GS. These applications include new breed of tools which is coming up fast as business grows around building applications for iPhone. Right now there are more than 65000 applications available for download on iPhone. Popularity of these application can be easily sensed with sheer number of downloads which apple has facilitated. Over last one year more than 1.5 billion applications has been downloaded from … Continue Reading

Thanks to price cuts across notebook range, apple’s margin has been under pressure for a while. Come iPhone 3G/3GS, it has substantially helped improved  overall margin of the company which has been reflected in increased stock prices. Stock prices has going up consistently from march and now stands double of what it was then. The stock price shoot to $156 yesterday where it was almost double of its price in march which was around $83.

Right now the profit margin apple commands is source of envy from many others in the industry. … Continue Reading

Today twitterfeed server went down for a while, coincidentally just after i posted my post about twitterfeed’s new “robust” and “reliable” system. And before the speculation starts, i just want to clarify that, it not because of this post. But it actually reminds the need for twitterfeed to ramp up its infrastructure quickly to meet the growing usage of its services.

Infact till i checked last time, it was still not accessible. We have been trying to contact twitterfeed but till now no official reason has been given by them … Continue Reading

Twitterfeed was one of the twitter application which has caught investor’s attention in recent weeks. After new round of funding by Betaworks and TAG, twitterfeed has improved on its backend making it faster and reliable. It has gone beyond just a project to a full fledged company of itself. And as per compete, in last three month the number of pageviews has gone up by 10%.

Besides improving on the reliability, twitterfeed has worked to create simpler login process for the users. Initially it

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As per latest report published by latest U.S. Census Bureau, number of internet users in china has crossed 338 millions users, which is more than entire US population. This was 13.4% jump from last year and the growth is likely to continue  as internet penetration in Chinese is still only 25.5%.

Despite the control and information and business overall which i talked about in my previous post about internet activism, business around the world cannot ignore the potential of hugh number of Chinese internet users. In fact it … Continue Reading

As professed by many, Google is moving closer to building a operating system based on web browser as platform. Many already have started talking about Google stack as it builds a series of application like Operating system, browser, google applications called Google apps, android and others.

In the process Google has also proved that it is moving closer to Microsoft in building a hype around its product launch. It is yet to be seen if Google as going Microsoft way in over committing early and under-deliver later and … Continue Reading