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Android Security related tools
A lot of work is happening in academia and industry on tools to perform dynamic analysis, static analysis and reverse engineering of android apps. Following is a collection of few tools that I am aware of.
Book Summary: The Start-Up of You
The book tries to reflect on individual’s professional growth in contemporary era of fickle employment guarantees. The best part about the book is that it tries to offer pragmatic (as opposed to principled advice) regarding career development and branding. Following … Continue reading
Vivek Wadhwa: “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities”
(Opinions expressed here are my understanding of Vivek Wadhwa’s opinion) “The next Trillion Dollar Opportunities” (in this decade) China’s manufacturing and India’s call center business is saturated. PC industry is dead, Laptop is flat and mobile is going up. Next … Continue reading
Book Review: Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson
The book is 50% story of Jobs and 50% history of the Valley. From the beginning of Apple to it becoming the world’s most valuable company, book covers everything in depth (and is a bit too long) Some of the … Continue reading
Book Summary: In the Plex by Steven Levy
An amazing book which describes Google’s journey right from its beginning in the Stanford dorm. The author interviewed several top echelons of Google and presented several interesting insider anecdotes and stories of Google. The book provides details of major projects … Continue reading
Is there any USP of Toyota Prius?
Let us say an average American drives 15, 000 miles per year (exact average being 16550 miles)
Towards a broken future of Internet
Internet, which initially started as a DARPA experiment is [still] 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 exception of … Continue reading
A fundamental problem with Aakash (Indian Government tablet initiative)
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 … Continue reading
Preliminary analysis of Facebook Click jacking Attack “Chica Sexy”
Came across a few interesting posts like this on my wall today.
Random thoughts: goals and company types in tech world
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 different goals. … Continue reading