Video Games And The Human Brain
Is It Wrong To Play Video Games? For most people, video games are meant just for children and teenagers. Now, with advancements in the gaming industry, we have games that interest different age...
View ArticleLucid Dreams
Looking closely at the dreaming process Dreaming is something we all do, some of us get deep into figuring out what our dreams mean, while some of us just forget and never think of them ever again. It...
View ArticlePlight And Flight Of Blackberry
This week two important events took place in the corporate sector. One was the launch of BlackBerry 10 OS and the other was the selling off of the Consumer Lifestyle division of Philips Electronics....
View ArticleThe Next Victim: Twitter
Is Your Account Safe? The media and technology companies of the United States of America have recently been experiencing a spate of cyber attacks. Recently, the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and...
View ArticleYahoo Google Deal
No, it’s not a merger Is this the beginning of the end for Yahoo’s Right Media Exchange? As confirmed by a Yahoo blog post, it has reached an agreement to allow Google Inc. to advertise on some of...
View ArticleApocalypse Now?
Meteorite hits Russia, injuring 1200. After the entire “the world will end” fiasco in December last year, you’d have thought that something like that would never really happen. Turns out, a meteorite...
View ArticleHTC One X S720E: A Review
The Gem of a Phone Since the dawn of smartphones, mobile-phone design was trapped in a box-shaped mold. Even the Samsung series of phones and Sony Experia S stayed away from trying something new. But...
View ArticleFuture Made Present
Racing ahead with technology. When I was talking to one of my very good friends, he pointed out that a lot of new technologies have been coming up, things we never thought we would see within the...
View ArticleIntroducing The Google Glass
A computer on your head? Google Glass seems like the next step in technology. When we look at the future, head wear is the unavoidable next step for personal computing and for others. And in this...
View ArticleSony Announces The PS4
Everything you need to know Sony seems to have gained the upper hand in their war with Microsoft (Xbox360) by recently launching the new PlayStation 4 and it’s done so with great vengeance. Sony...
View ArticleInternet Governance An Oxymoron
Kapil Sibal talks about self-regulation and freedom of expression Censorship of the web and social media has been a topic debated on for a long time. Requests for removing content and protests against...
View ArticleGoodreads Under Amazon
Amazon announced that that it will acquire the popular social network for Goodreads Goodreads is a social networking site for books. On this site you can have your personal bookshelves. You can rate...
View ArticleNovartis Loses Bid On Cancer Drug
Public Health Advocates and Doctors Jubilant On Monday, The Supreme Court rejected a patent application by Novartis for a major cancer drug, which will allow poor patients continued access to many of...
View ArticleOnline Pranks!
On April Fool’s Day, popular websites pulled clever pranks on people! This year instead of your friends and family, the internet was ready to fool you. On the day that celebrates pranks and jokes,...
View ArticleBiggest Cyber Attack In History
Also, Cable cut in Egypt damages networks in South Asia It’s been one week of slow internet now. First, there was one of the worst cyber-attacks ever on the Internet; second, an undersea cable off the...
View ArticleIntroducing Facebook Home
Not a Phone or OS, but much more than an App When the rumours actually began, it seemed like Mark Zuckerberg was planning to introduce a whole new “Facebook Phone” for android users. It turns out that...
View ArticleNASA Scientists Discover Earth-Like planets
Planets located 1200 Light years away NASA scientists have recently discovered two new Earth-like planets in the habitable orbit of a Sun-like star, 1,200 light years away; which could potentially...
View ArticleBPOs Eye Social Media
Social Media And BPOs: A Perfect Combination? A social media strategy has now become a survival tool for almost all corporate companies. To everyone’s surprise it’s proving to be a game changer in the...
View ArticleJawbone Up: A Review
For the most part of our lives we live on autopilot. Majority of the actions that we indulge in all through the day such as walking, sleeping, sitting, eating and other such very basic activities are...
View ArticleExploring Veterinary Science In India
I had the pleasure of interacting with a faculty member during my visit to KNP College of Veterinary Science in Shirwal, Maharashtra. This professor spoke about how people are unaware of the existence...
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