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Apple has posted a memorial video on its homepage , with footage of Steve Jobs over the years speaking at keynotes and Apple events, showing images of him and the products he created that changed the way we think about and use computers and mobile devices. The video begins with the famous Wayne Gretzky quote that he loved(and so do I ) “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Steve Jobs co-founder and CEO of Apple passed away one year ago. I wrote about it  here  and shared how he inspired me and was my living legend. To me, he was an Idol, Guide and a Mentor to whom I never met but always looked up to as a source of inspiration. He was the first person in my early days of Technology career from whom I learned what is PASSION and how great it is when you love what you do, it shows in your work. A message from Tim Cook, Apple’s current CEO "Steve’s passing one year ago today was a sad and difficult time for all of us. I hope that tod...

For someone who has been working with smartphones for so long and loves mobile technology, what took me so long to get a Google Nexus phone is something you may be wondering. I have always been a huge fan of HTC phones & their layer of Sense on Android, I think that it adds quite a bit to the OS that I find useful. I really thought that getting a HTC device would be the best device for me, Sense, great camera with sturdy premium hardware, nice look, all that I could really want in the device, but then I began thinking again. Up until recently, I didn't feel the same way about Android devices, I was always afraid of buying what would quickly become outdated, and that always scared my wallet away from the purchases. I knew it was going to be supported, but I did feel like I was spending money on something that would be out of date the next month. With too many choices on the market, and even more rumors of future product announcements from HTC ( One series phones ) and Samsung...

According to O2’s ( UK based telecommunications company), recently released report about smartphone usage ,  smartphones are being used in ways that are remarkably different from the way we used phones five years ago. Smartphone users spend more time browsing the internet (25 minutes a day), social networking (17 minutes a day), playing games (14 minutes a day) and listening to music (16 minutes a day) than they do making calls (12 minutes). We spend about 11 minutes a day on email, 10.2 minutes on text messaging and when you total it all up, we stare at our smartphones for a whopping 128 minutes i.e over 2 hours a day. Whoa! But wait there is more. The study shows that phone has also started to replace a range of other possessions : Over half (54%) use their phones in place of an alarm clock Almost half (46%) have dispensed with a watch in favor of using their smartphone Two-in-five (39%) have switched to use their phone instead of a separate camera Over...

After months of speculation, Google revealed some information (on April 4th, 2012 to be specific) about the Project Glass. Instead of using a smartphone to find information about an object, translate a text, get directions, compare prices, you can use smart glasses that augment the reality and help you understand more about things around you. Google says "We think technology should work for you—to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don't. A group of us from Google [x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore and share your world, putting you back in the moment". Since, it has been more than a week, I had a good chance to read and analyze most of the views several Tech blogs and experts shared about this project. Here are few more details, about Project Glass and with whom my opinion synced well. Google's concept glasses have a: a) Camera, b) Microphone, c) 3G/4G data connection (to send and r...

For the first few seconds after I read this news on 5th, my world came crashing down on me. It was perhaps the only time that I didn’t care for the technology news; I didn’t want to write about it. Why doesn’t the world realize that my Hero is dead! I don’t care about a world that is a lot less exciting than it was when Steve was around. Can’t you see that my soul is being put through a grinder. Every generation has its heroes. Among the people, who inspire me, I've read about Mahatma Gandhiji only in books. So for me, Steve Jobs was the only living legend, I could look at. I don’t know why, how and where that happened but Steve was my icon. To me, just the idea of Steve was powerful enough. For many of us who live and die for technology and the change it represents, he was an example of what was possible. Steve put life and soul into inanimate objects. Everyone cared for specifications; he saw opportunities that inspired emotions. People saw a phone ; Steve saw a transpo...

Former Wired editor &  Futurist,  Kevin Kelly  writes  that, 10 years from now, an average person will carry two gadgets with him everywhere s/he goes.  Over the long term, say 100 years, we may carry no devices. How many Gadgets will people carry? The two devices we'll carry (on average) will be: 1) A close-to-body handheld thingie(The handheld will be our wallet, purse, camera, phone, stopwatch, navigator, watch, keys, etc.), and 2) A larger tablet thingie at arms length. The tablet will be a bigger screen and multi sensor input. It may unfold, or unroll, or expand, or be just a plain plank. Different folks will have different sizes. Kelly notes that he's not counting devices we'll wear, like  quantified self-tracking devices  built into your clothing or accessories (as he notes, you don't carry a watch). We'll have devices built into belts, wristbands, necklaces, clothes, or more immediately into glasses or worn on our ears,...

Google  and Motorola today  announced  that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire  Motorola Mobility  for a total of about $12.5 billion in cash. The news is a shocking turn for the fast-growing Android ecosystem, which was built off of Google’s operating system but did not include any actual hardware built by the company. Soon Google will have a hardware platform that it controls and could offer the sort of integrated hardware-OS package that Apple is famous for. Google co-founder and CEO  Larry Page  writes in a  blog post , that Google has acquired Motorola not only because of its strength in Android smartphones and devices, but also for being a “market leader in the home devices and video solutions business.” It’s also a move to build up the company’s patent portfolio, he adds, as it will “enable us to better protect Android from  anti-competitive threats  from Microsoft, Apple...