Aditya Banerjee

I finally gave up on the Android dead end (no ICS upgrade) that was my Galaxy S i9003 and decided to jump to the ICS bandwagon. The only options for an out of the box ICS experience in India at this time are the HTC duo – One X & One V. Of these, the One X was beyond my budget, and so it was a pretty simple decision to go for the One V in the end. Reviews have been pretty positive, and I’m throwing in my 2 cents based on a 2 weeks of usage experience that wouldn’t have shown up in initial reviews. A caveat on my usage experience – I use the One V (and the Galaxy S before it) primarily as a mobile internet device (mails, browsing, e-commerce, social networking etc.) rather than for phone calls. What did I get over the Galaxy S i9003? The build quality is definitely impressive with the metal body, and it is also sleeker than the Galaxy S. I personally prefer the One V’... (more)

The Death of RIM (Infographic)

Not much hope for RIM despite Blackberry 10 which seems to be a long way from being finished. Created by: MBAOnline.com Filed under: Technology Tagged: infographic, RIM ... (more)

Chrome is better than Firefox but…

Chrome gobbles up RAM and makes other programs run slower, while Firefox in its newer incarnations is the ideal socialist citizen, sacrificing browsing experience for the performance of other programs. Filed under: Musings Tagged: Browsers, Chrome, Firefox ... (more)

Interesting links (weekly)

School excursions Transparency Life Sciences | drug development you control Interesting idea, but will it fly? “Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Our goal is to develop medicines for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising drug compounds, designing studies via crowdsourced methods, and conducting those clinical studies with unmatched productivity.” tags: transparency development medicine opensource Comparing today’s computers to 1995′s | Relatively Interesting My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 ... (more)

Weekend Diversion: Fighting on the Internet : Starts With A Bang

Quite a lot of interesting graphics, and as Calvin said ”As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.” – explains trolls pretty well. Page Link Tags: internet, argument, comics Filed under: Uncategorized ... (more)