It is clear that Apple would not be able to compete with Google on pricing. The Android platform and great handset choices have helped Google capture more than 80% of the market. The strength or unique selling proposition of Apple has always been the quality and feature rich nature of their products. That helped Apple get market attention and also enabled it to price its products at a much higher pedestal. It had its own niche and people wanting to buy an Apple product went for it despite the…
One of the most common phenomena of the human brain is beginning something with full force and having all the energy fizzled out. It happens very often. We always manage to lose all the motivation we started with while beginning something, be it studies, business projects, art, exercise and everything that requires us to get tired mentally, physically or both. It is the easy way out and humans are to easy what thorns are to roses. We still manage to get through with doing stuff when we are…
We cannot imagine our lives without phones. By that I mean that we cannot imagine our lives without the cellular technology. Having a landline qualifies as having a phone but it also qualifies as cracking a joke in today’s time. A phone has become synonymous with a mobile phone or should I say a smart phone. We are not far away from a time when phones, the ones that were used for making calls – the reason why phones were invented, would be found in museums and be considered vintage and not…
Post the Google I/O developer meet in June, Google released a preview of the Android L and developers were happy that they could test applications on this latest update. However, for the consumer waiting for this new OS version from Google, the point of interest is, who is going to get the update the fastest? Let us look at the favorites and why they are well poised to get Android L over others? Nexus The reason is obvious. It is a Google phone and would come with inbuilt Android L.…
Owning a vehicle is expensive. Unfortunately, it’s a virtual necessity unless you want to be a slave to public transportation. Thanks to a new Android app, it’s easier than ever to track vehicle-related expenses. That Android app is called Car Logbook and it aims to simplify how you track the costs of vehicle ownership. Car Logbook is available for free on the Google Play Store. Here’s how it works: -Users can log fuel refills and other regular costs directly through the…
As much as we love buying it, we do not feel like applying it all the time. Makeup does enhance one’s looks but it usually ends up being a long and tedious process thanks to a range of various products for every square inch of the face, some of which does not even make much of a difference visually. Yet we buy all of it because of all the attractive marketing techniques around us and let it rot away in our drawers. Let us be honest, money spent on too much of fancy makeup is money wasted.…
For those of us who are not aware of ‘Dumb Ways to Die’, it was a campaign started by the Australian Railways as there were a lot of deaths happening at the metros, most of them were avoidable accidents caused only because of carelessness. The campaign was based on the fact that human nature does entertain preachers and we tend to do things that we are told not to. So the campaign highlighted different, extremely dumb ways to die. The campaign used reverse psychology on people in order to…
Google has started sending out invites to Indian tech news publications. These invites tell tech publications to “block their date” on September 15 for an “exciting new announcement from Google.” Most people have connected the dots and realized that Google is probably going to announce Android One. Android One is Google’s attempt to create a unified Android operating system (and cheaper devices) to cater to consumers developing countries. Smartphone users in developing countries…
The Fappening will go down as one of the craziest days in tech history. On Sunday, August 31, 2014, a hacker released nude photos of dozens of celebrities on 4Chan and Reddit. The identity of the hacker is unknown but a lot of people are really mad. That hacker somehow managed to find his/her way into the private iCloud files of numerous celebrities. Apple, so far, has remained totally quiet about the leak. People are demanding an explanation. A truthful response from Apple may…
Those of you in India looking forward to the release or introduction of Android One handsets are in for a disappointment. The earlier expectations of them being available for below $100 may not fructify. Indian manufacturers like Spice, Karbonn and Micromax are all ready to price these handsets at much over $100(between Rs.7000-10,000). The Google Android One Project Readers would recollect that the Android One project of Google was conceptualized to provide users with a smart phone…
