Author: Prarthana Mitra
Prarthana Mitra
Prarthana is an undergraduate student who loves poetry,music,films,technology and food,all of which she looks forward to incorporate in her articles at Yaabot.She is a big English TV series buff,and co-convener of a photoblog.She is probably the biggest Coldplay fan out there.
There has been a general trend creeping into the global (including the Indian) Smartphone market – a trend that is very very unsettling to the keen tech-savvy eye. Over the last couple of years, it is pretty apparent how local mobile brands and other comparatively new smartphone companies have gradually eaten away on market shares of major OEMs – especially Samsung’s. I will spare you the gory details (read, statistical analyses) because it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that Samsung has indeed been failing to deliver desirable results to its target audience. Very rarely do you find a friend…
A very portentous question that is doing the rounds in tech circles these days is whether Windows is losing its relevance in the age of growing BYOD fad, and fast evolving rival OS’s. To delve deeper into the annals of this loss of relevance, one must first take a short trip down Window’s history. Microsoft Windows Operating System has been a part and parcel of our lives, since its inception in 1985, dominating the global personal computer market. What had once only just included Calculator, Calendar, Clock, Control Panel, Notepad, Paint and the like, went on to incorporate upgraded start…
The principal dilemma in the tech world now seems to be “To be or not to be”- an SSD user. For a layman like me, who is wondering what the great hype about installing an SSD is anyway, one must fully understand the ramifications of making such a decision- of whether one ought to stick to the traditional Hard Disc Drives or upgrade one’s desktop or laptop to Solid State Drives(SSD). After doing some research work and conducting a general survey among some of my tech savvy pals, I found a general trend of inclination towards this newer form of…
Since subscribing to cool YouTube channels is the fad right now, here’s a list of really awesome YouTube channels you might want to browse through although I must add, there is a fair chance you could get glued to them. So here goes. 1. VSAUCE Vsauce is a channel that can answer all the questions that cross your mind in your moment of clarity, like, ”Is anything real?”, “What if everyone jumped at once?’, “How old can we get?”, or “How much does the internet weigh?” Hosted by Michael Stevens, Kevin Lieber, and Jake Roper, the channel is one…