I'm Just Being Manan

MSFT Might Use NFC For HP’s ‘Touch to Share’ Like Tablet-Phone Love Making

January 25th, 2012

Unable to justify market economics for products and some hesitation to disrupt markets, Microsoft missed the tablet revolution and in many ways the ebooks revolution too. Microsoft was doing tablets and ebooks before Apple, unfortunately, Apple beat them where it mattered–the markets.

I came across a patent that Microsoft has been granted that deals with NFC based communication. The thing about the patent is, it was filed back in 2006. Like always, Microsoft was working on a technology before it became cool.

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The Information Systems Triangle & RIM’s Failure

January 23rd, 2012

As part of an in-class assignment I and a friend on mine prepared this article based on the Information Systems Triangle and how the three corners collapsed for the company.

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Selling More Windows Phones

January 16th, 2012

Apps… the final frontier for Windows Phone—the stuff that will make Scoble buy a Windows Phone 7 device and tell others to buy too. It’s an interesting discussion around apps.

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Plethora Of Location Services, None A Travelogue Make

January 5th, 2012

Why do I use Foursquare, I’ve been asked this question several times. The service that wants you to tell others where you are makes little sense to many. I don’t blame them. I never started using Foursquare to tell others where I was, on the contrary to know where I was. It’s data for me. Where I was, with whom I was, what was I doing. When did I see a specific film, which restaurant I was at when I was traveling to a new city. These aspects of my life that I want to look back at. These are memories captured in time through technologies like GPS, a smart phone, 3G and services like Facebook or Foursquare.

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Shooting Themselves In The Foot

December 13th, 2011

While I slept back in Bombay, Microsoft announced two very interesting applications. One of them was the SkyDrive app for Windows Phone 7 and iOS; the other was Kinectimals for iOS and the Xbox app for iOS. This much iOS love in the same week where OneNote now supports the iPad and rumors of an actual Office version for the iPad.

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