Navneet Alang — Historical articles

Apple's recent behavior may seem strange - but we forget that they're fighting to own the future of the computer industry. Perhaps even more than usual,...

Ah, the interwebs: the technology that brings us all together so that people of all stripes and shades can share photographs of cats. But holed-up in our...

It is, in many ways, a grand time to be a nerd or geek who is a fan of movies. The last decade has not only seen comic book heroes be the star of movies...

You know how medical advances always sound really obscure and weird? As in: "this new combination of tetrahydrozolene benzoate wrapped up with cow RNA and...

These days, we hear a lot about the future of books and reading and how technology is changing the written word. A lot of people, it seems, are worried...

With Apple and Microsoft committed to one side, and Mozilla and Google committed to another, are consumers stuck in the middle again? A few years ago, in...

I still remember the early days of Twitter. Well, sorta'. I got on in 2007, after the SXSWi hype-storm that year introduced it the tech world. And it was...

Jobs' reasons for barring Flash sound reasonable enough. But what does it say about Apple's values? As you will have likely heard by now, today Steve Jobs...

Though still successful, Blackberry is no longer the must-have gadget for the mobile crowd. What do they need to do to reclaim their position of...

Unlike its decidedly corporate brethren, the Blackberry Pearl was the kind of phone you would see everyone using, from teenagers on the bus to seniors at...

With its most recent changes, Facebook is aiming for a more social and accessible web. But at what cost to privacy? As Facebook closes in on half a...

Have you ever looked at a scene of a family on vacation in 1950s and thought "you know what would go really well here? Star Wars!". Yeah, me neither. But...