Following is a list of selected posts, all posts can be seen here
- Towards a broken future of Internet
December 24, 2011
Internet, which initially started as a DARPA experiment is under the indirect control of USA government through ICANN despite several objections from Europe as well as IBSA. This worked when most users were from the western world with notable exce... - A fundamental problem with Aakash (Indian Government tablet initiative)
December 10, 2011
This blog post is not about how good/bad the product technically is or how indigenous it is, its about a fundamental problem with tablets. It amazes me to see that even a journalist like T. Friedman missed it. Anyone who had ever used a tablet(even the be... - Random thoughts: goals and company types in tech world
August 26, 2011
Start-up One goal May have multiple products but all products aimed at a single goal. All teams are working towards the same goal. Diversified Multiple similar goals Have several products (or several part of single product) aimed towards d... - How do you store my password?
May 15, 2011
As world moves towards cloud based storage (and computing), the task of storing our data on a PC hard disk is being replaced with cloud based storage providers. This includes our emails, social data, professional data and financial data. Accessing this da... - Preliminary analysis of Facebook clickjacking (aprilfoolsprank)
April 4, 2011
If you have been already a victim of this, then change your password and unlike the page as soon as possible. A malicious app called "aprilfoolsprank" which likes a page on user's behalf and tries to phish user into disclosing his/her facebook login an... - EA Sports vs Zynga : the battle for games in smartphone era
March 21, 2011
Zynga's market valuation has surpassed EA Sports market evaluation. Even though EA Sports is trying hands in social and acquired Playfish, their main source of revenue is still video games. Though, the current user base of EA Sports (35 million) does not ... - FOSS (Free and Open Source Code) Licensing FAQ
January 23, 2011
There are two choices while writing on this topic, to write a detailed (and accurate) or to write a concise (but avoid all details) post, I preferred latter and have added appropriate links to dig further. To whom is this meant for? Anyone who (w... - Cablegate and the aftermath: a few observations
December 29, 2010
Wikileaks released a set of United States diplomatic cables on Nov 28, 2010 popularly referred as cablegate. Lets consider the events which happened afterwards. Events: A hacktivist brought down wikileaks(just before the cable leak) using Distribute... - Analysis of Facebook Rotating Images worm
December 5, 2010
If you are looking for how to avoid/recover : read this one instead. In past few weeks, a lot of facebook users have received following (or similar) messages posted by their friends Hi Friends see Face-book images rotate 360* see here >> http://... - Nokia and the smartphone era
December 2, 2010
Nokia is facing some serious issues some of them are technical but the major issue right now is how it can rebrand itself as a smartphone manufacturer (rather than just a mobile phone manufacturer). A bit from history, Xerox invented and popularized p...