Why running Windows 8 on a Mac is better than running it on a PC

I’ve made no secret of the fact that OS X has replaced Windows as my primary platform to do day-to-day work on. The reasons are many and varied (and of you want the long story I suggest you check out this post) but the TL;DR version of it is that…

Posted on: January 19, 2014 7:00 am

India politician’s wife found dead just days after Twitter spat with husband’s …

Sunanda Puskhar Tharoor and her husband Shashi Tharoor celebrate their wedding on August 22, 2010. The 52-year-old was found dead in a New Delhi hotel room on Friday. By Sanjeev Miglani, Reuters NEW DELHI – The wife of an Indian government minister was found dead in a New Delhi hotel room on…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 5:00 pm

Android this week: Galaxy S5 specs; Nokia’s Normandy; mo’ Moto X wood backs

As each annual Consumer Electronics Show passes, there seems to be fewer and fewer major phone announcements at the event. That’s likely due to hardware cycles and companies now wanting their own individual launch events. Samsung did have four new Android tablets to show off this year but no new…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 5:00 pm

Nintendo thinking about “new business structure,” studying smartphone market

Nintendo is thinking about forming a "new business structure" that could incorporate smartphone initiatives, president Satoru Iwata said today as part of a press conference addressing dismal Wii U sales. It was also during this conference that he vowed not to resign as top executive. "We are thinking about a…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 5:00 pm

New Asus Netbook Turning Into A Threat For Competitors: iPad Air vs Asus …

Tech giant Apple launched the iPad Air some months back. However, it already has some serious competitors in the market. The Asus Transformer Pad has challenged the supremacy of the iPad Air and how! One big reason why the Asus Transformer Pad has emerged as immensely successful is that much…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 12:00 pm

Can we call Windows 8 the new Vista? Not so fast, analyst says.

When it launched Windows 8 two years ago, Microsoft was trying to introduce an entirely new approach to desktop computing. But for a lot of average computer users, the experiment didn’t work. Just a year later, Microsoft had to walk back some of its changes in a Windows 8.1 update. On And…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 12:00 pm

New Blackberry Ad Promotes Its Keyboard and Little Else

One of Blackberry’s latest ads shows off the Q10 smartphone and keyboard, calling it "a smarter way to type." But in the world of smartphones, where processing speeds and display resolution are the usual benchmark of a phone, a keyboard seems like an dated feature to highlight. But the keyboard…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 12:00 pm

Bluebird’s new ruggedized handheld can run Android, Windows Phone variant

There’s been a lot of talk in the past couple of weeks about whether Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS could and should coexist on a single device and/or form factor. It turns out that at least one OEM already has put Android and an embedded variant of the…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 7:00 am

Lenovo India launches IdeaPad A10 Android netbook for INR 19990

Lenovo has announced the launch of Lenovo IdeaPad A10 netbook in the Indian market today. Featuring Android 4.2, the A10 is now available in the country for INR 19,990. "The market is witnessing a surge in Android based smart connected devices as it continues to be the OS of choice across form…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 7:00 am

Box’s iOS app gets a revamp, early users get free 50GB for…

Storage and collaboration service Box wants you to use its newly-revamped iOS app so bad, the company’s giving out 50GB to anyone who downloads it in the next 30 days. That’s five times as much storage as it usually doles out to people for free, a hint at just how New…

Posted on: January 18, 2014 7:00 am