Tushar Nene
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Author and creator of Technical Fowl. IT/Tech hero. Jiu Jitsu brown belt. Enjoying the venn diagram intersection of tech, gaming, business, and politics.

25. microsoft’s mobile hail mary – windows phone 7

microsoft’s kin two in mobile device tech, the last two years have generally been the era of two companies – apple and google.  apple successfully took the “device” approach, focusing all of their efforts into the iphone line.  google focused…

24. iphone’s antenna issues – motorola with the burn, new york times with the assist.

apple iphone 4 in what seems like the eternal saga of apple and google’s android (for my younger readers, it’s kind of like edward and jacob, just for phones), the war continues to play out in the media.  generally the two tech…

23. the great escape (chinese internet addiction center edition)

probably not this cool while i do always tout that we are living in the digital age, there is a line that can be drawn between “web enthusiast” and addiction.  a web enthusiast may be bored without his or her…

22. the hollywood whitewash

left: prince dastan from the two thrones, right: jakegyllenhaal now that it’s out, i find myself going back in my mind to seeing the previews for the new prince of persia movie last year.  i recall watching it a couple…

21. IBM spreading malware, google celebrates pac-man in style

i know it’s been a while, and yes, i’m still alive.  now that that’s out of the way: i’m sure some of you have had to attend some sort of conference for work or school before.  generally these are pretty…

20. the difference between “pirate” and “jerk”

yes, i know i’ve been slacking for about a week – but if i’m going to be writing about anything related to consumer technology and/or tech news, the last couple of weeks of available material has been all apple all…

19. adobe and apple and microsoft, oh my!

a lot of you that read anything about mobile tech probably know that one of the sticking points with the iphone and the newly released ipad is that these apple mobile products don’t support flash – and on that topic…

18. common damn sense – oh mcafee, you poor bastards

mcafee. holy damn. can i ask, was pcp involved? was that it? was your damn dev team high on the dust? this outburst was real – actually said out loud while reading the morning news in my office concerning mcafee…

17. iphone 4.0 lost and found, controversy abound

i really didn’t mean to rhyme that. lately there have been stories floating around the interwebs about how the guys over at gizmodo got their hands on a prototype for the iphone 4.0, which should sound very strange to anyone…

16: product placement has finally gotten out of control

(the following was prompted by recent ridiculous screencaps from konami’s metal gear solid: peace walker from kotaku and kotaku japan) ADVERTISING. a fundamentally basic concept that over the years has become so complex, twisted, and ubiquitous that sometimes i just…