The rise of the App store
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This will sound odd, and might date me the way radiocarbon dates old trees. The first mobile phone I bought was just to make phone calls. At Rs 16 a minute, to boot. Oh well, this was 1996, a different era. Hey, it was an earlier century, in the last millennium.
This – now this is the iPhone age. That thing in your pocket, it ain’t a phone. It’s the Communicator from Star Trek. It’s a universal infotainment terminal. It does stuff we couldn’t have dreamt of in the nineties, from letting you read books and watch movies on it, to storing (and editing) all your life’s documents, telling you your exact location on the planet and tomorrow’s weather… Read on» » » »
It’s quite a relief to see a QWERTY handset that seems to have its own ‘personality’ and doesn’t look like a BlackBerry. This Q5 or ‘ezpad’ as it’s been dubbed, was apparently designed to be real bliss for the avid social networker and here’s how it fared.
Of course I’m going to talk about what everyone else is talking about Google Buzz. What’s the big deal? Is it worth it? And do how you go about getting the best from it?
You have just come across a new website at xyz.com that offers an interesting ebook for free. The offer is simple — you give them your email address and they’ll send you the download links for the ebook directly to your Inbox.
An iPod dock needs to look good and offer non edgy sound. The Philips SBD7000 is a cute-looking Docking station that works with iPods and also other personal media players. 
BlackBerry launched their new Bold 9700 model last week. It is as elegant as the original. Its business functionality receives a fillip with the new BlackBerry 5.0 operating system that looks promising. 
This has been one gadget-packed year: a zillion phones (and 500 million mobile users in India), the rise of the netbook, 3G data cards, power-packed cameras with incredible resolutions and HD video…