Native Apps v Web Apps

by Varun Nagappa on August 6, 2010

It’s almost like every developer and his donkey are creating new mobile native device applications these days. With the runaway success of the iPhone and the Google Android Smartphone OS its not hard to see why. There are a plethora of start-up companies who base their business modeled around the development of native applications for [...]

What’s Guaranteed To Make My Eyes Roll.

by Varun Nagappa on July 29, 2010

many many things…I don’t know where to start. But if it’s a single situation where I won’t fail to do this is during a business meeting where a process centric person refuses to move forward because it would mean breaking “process”. I’m not advocating being a maverick but rather being practical – and being practical [...]

Fast Fact: Hewlett Packard

April 21, 2010
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I considered Hewlett Packard as a ‘has been‘ in the IT services sector ever since the acquisition of PWCC by IBM, the rise of Accenture from the split of Arther Anderson and the increased dominance of Indian tech giants such as Wipro, Tata & Infosys.
I was so wrong !
HP have completed an astonishing turn around. [...]

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Fast Fact: Samsung

April 19, 2010
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Last year Samsung was awarded 8 prizes at the international design excellence awards (IDEA). Who did they beat…? Apple! Cupertinos giant took home 7. What’s more is South Korean Samsung raked in USD$84billion more in revenue. What I found amusing with this figure is that a large chunk of that revenue would have come from [...]

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Quake Powered By HTML5

April 4, 2010
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HTML5 has recently received loads of attention. Will it be the way we will consume the future Internet? … I personally don’t know – and doubt anyone you ask can give you a firm and gospel answer. So rather then pretend that I know enough about it or preach about it’s destined capabilities, I thought [...]

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“What Speed Is It?”

April 2, 2010

For any photographer out there planning on taking wedding photos using sub standard equipment….word of advice…DON’T!
You might just end up having to defend yourself in front of a judge who evidently knows all about photography lingo – zoom, speed, f/stops & tripods.
readers….”where is your 28-70?” and “what happened to your 1 series?”
Judge Joe Brown knows [...]

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Google Pulls Out of China…be it in a round about way

March 22, 2010
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After much speculation and months of tit for tat verbal jostling between Google and the Chinese government it seems Google has finally pulled the plug and pulled out of China….well in a fuzzy way…
Google.cn no longer behaves as a search portal, rather the system directs you to Google.co.hk where interest results are uncensored. Sneaky!
About time [...]

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Firefox Mobile Released

February 5, 2010
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OK so it’s been a while since the announcement, but as I pointed out late last year in my previous post Firefox mobile has been released. Simply called Firefox mobile (not advertised as Fennec as previously thought) it’s an exciting announcement which include some great featured such as:
Weave Sync: allowing users to synchronize their browsing [...]

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Lomo Crazy

February 2, 2010

This is a short post to share an interesting visit to a Lomography store located in Soho, London during the weekend.
Lomography in short is all about quirky, over saturated, over developed, mono, underexposed, cinematic, blurry, happy, co-incidental and natural photos.
WHAT!
Yep…it’s all of those things and more – most people will be familiar with the style [...]

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Fords Appetite for Mobile 2.0

January 10, 2010

The Ford Motor Company has announced an increase in-car mobile internet services during CES 2010. With partnerships already in place with map supplier Mapquest, Internet radio provider Pandora, micro-blogging service Twitter and audio news service Stitcher this comes are no surprise. However whats really interesting is the announcement by Chief Executive Alan Mulally about a [...]

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