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Smartphones are smart but buyers aren’t. [anti-review]
Let me begin with a story. A buyer went to a store and there were two doors inside. One said ‘phone’ and the other said ‘more than a phone’. He chose the second door and once inside, saw another two doors. One said ‘With camera’ and the other said ‘more than just a camera’. He...
CEOs Know that Strategy isn’t a Solo Sport
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The world of smarter tabs
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Being rugged isn’t a cliché
Jack Levine once famously remarked, ‘Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.’ And we know very well that most are not what they believe they are. Had every artist been a replica of his beliefs, we’d have been overrun by clichés. And we need to thank God that something...
The internet of things
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On curves and their performance
It is the swerves of curves that have been winning all the glances and eye-balls throughout history. I even suspect that it was never the face, but the curves… ‘that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium…’ …and so why must technology remain behind? Even Sonam Kapoor, the actress, says: ‘We...
A dramatic revelation by Nargis Fakhri
You’ve missed it all. You’ve missed the drama. You’ve missed all that the gorgeous Nargis Fakhri revealed on the 16th of April 2014. You’ve missed the fascinated look in her eyes. You’ve missed her swirls and the twirls onstage. You’ve missed the husky tone in which she said: ‘I love ChatON.’ A part of me...
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Life is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. Specky, my wife says so. She even quotes Albert Einstein: “If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.” And whenever she does that, I just...
Geometry, technology, and KarvaChauth
Geometry… Technology… and Karva Chauth… they are seemingly away from each other but actually complement each other. The truth is that when traditional flavours converge with mathematically clinical technology the output is magical. The magic, in this incidence, is the Galaxy Note3. Yes, the karva chauth app is an android app, but when you use...
This isn’t gadget gluttony!
What differentiates the real gadget connoisseur from the gadget glutton? Let me explain. Gadget gluttony is a meaningless hoarding of gadgets with little or no respect for technology and innovations… and a gadget connoisseur, on the other hand is one who dives into the uber cool and ultra modern and everything in between and remains...
A Mega Sunday
How will I describe a ‘mega’ Sunday? Lots of things to eat? No. Getting up late and being lazy the entire day? No. Mall hopping? No. Winning a few more prizes on twitter? No. This Sunday has become MEGA because it felt great bringing the Samsung Galaxy Mega 5.8 & 6.3, my Nikon D5100, the...
