Technology

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Insightful, not necessarily engaging

Book Review — Industries of the Future

Industries Of The Future is a must-read for anyone who is curious about the bleeding edge changes occurring in…

Net Neutrality

One of the reasons we — the consumers or the end-users of the internet — are relatively unaware of the meaning of Net Neutrality (NN) is that, we have always had it good and took NN for granted. We were not aware of internet being any other way.

Why I moved to Medium

I had previously hosted my blog on Wordpress hosted version, using AWS’s EC2 based hosting service, which in turn used a Wordpress Multisite AMI from Bitnami.

Everything went well. Until it did not.

The next big thing

The next big thing is about to happen. If you noticed, that is. Phone OEMs like Apple and Samsung crushed the economics of phone buying, hitherto completely dominated by the carriers, with little or no say from the OEMs, even on their own profitability. Even the mainstream devices were…

Software defined phones

There was a time when people’s “cool” factor was measured by how small their phones were. Innovations in hardware and manufacturing segments allowed phone makers to pack more transistors into the same form factor and as a result, phones got better and smaller.

Small Innovations

Just like media has reduced “technology” to Internet and Phones (or specifically Apple and Google), innovations are often thought of as something big. Something that changes the paradigm. Something the re-imagines the whole. From business context, innovations are implementations of ideas that…

Prime Air

What we need to understand prior to getting excited about Prime Air

Prime Air, at its simplest, is a mechanism to deliver goods using Unmanned Aircraft Systems, aka Drones. The video that was published today looks like a skunkworks prototype, a different idea nevertheless. Since we…

Coin — Review

Coin seems to be a veritable candidate to transform how our wallets (or purses) look. It is veritable not because it is uber-cool, but because it aims to “co-exist”, not destroy other industries. We still need to buy credit cards. And all the new payment technologies (such as QR codes, NFC) have…

Authentication Technologies

I am not a prediction guy. But I feel strongly about 2 technology services that are emerging — both happen to be related to authentication.

1. Twitter — 10–15 years back, Microsoft had the potential to become the defacto authentication gateway for several…