GOOGLE’s latest feature, Google Buzz, is a social networking coup d’etat, and looks set to snatch the cheese right out of Facebook’s mouth. Launched on February 9, 2010, Buzz is designed to integrate with Gmail and provide a platform for Gmail users to share media content, links and make status updates.
Apple has reinvented the wheel with the iPad, arguably a middle of the road hybrid of the iPhone and Macbook. The iPad is neither a notebook nor a smartphone, but a sort of mule that combines the functionality of the two, and does more. Aesthetically, it takes advantage of the Kindle market, which has softened users to devices larger than smartphones but still smaller than netbooks, and it remains to be see what exactly the iPad will carve out as its niche.
Avatar, the latest Hollywood blockbuster to hit the market, is not just another 3D picture. It is in every respect a cleverly composed and unrelenting feat of political satire, criticizing use of the military industrial complex as an instrument of global power and manipulation and the insatiable corporate greed that drives global affairs.
The new Google Nexus One smartphone has been touted as an “iPhone killer” with impressive specs backed by the Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair) Operating System.
