Kristina Farrah

A ninja, a tech enthusiast and a lover of sparkly things. Writing in the tech space has become an important part of my role as an observer and historian. As passionate as I am in what I do, I look forward to telling stories of how technological advancement broke out to unprecedented levels, and that I was right there in the middle of it –watching the world change before my very eyes.

Latest from Kristina Farrah

TigerText, Others Develop Mobile Security around SMS

Survey shows that 93 percent of mobile users have sent a text message to the wrong person, and some of these messages are too private to be sent to others. It is for this reason that startup TigerText is launching a new iOS application that assimilates social nature in group messaging. TigerText allows users to ...

Google Brings Mobile Search Features to Desktop: Voice & Image Search Offers More Ways to Search

The search giant is taking two mobile search features to the desktop, enabling voice and image search with Voice Search and Search by Image, as announced at the Inside Search press event in San Francisco. They will also offer Google Instant on Images and Instant Pages for faster search results. Voice search has been existent ...

Mobile Games: the Perfect Guise for Android Malware

Angry Birds sound too good; an addictive, time-fritting game that’s now monetizing in every way possible. However, here comes the drawback: a plethora of malicious Android apps is piggy backing on its popularity, disguising themselves as Angry Birds add-ons. Though Google claims to have already removed there, a new crop just keeps on coming back ...

Your Television is Ringing! Skype Finds More Points of Integration.

Television is about to become one of the devices where you can make and take calls as Comcast partners with Skype. This can be done by renting a video kit from Comcast, enabling a television to make and receive calls from Skype users, regardless of what device the other end is using. The kit will ...

Minecraft Revels in Social Game Glory

“2.5 million sales! That's as much as Diablo 1 and FarCry, according to Wikipedia,” said Markus “Notch” Person in a tweet heralding the success of the game Minecraft. There will be versions for Xperia Play and xBox live Arcade as part of their expansion but Persson said he will not have his hand on any ...

Female Bots Taking Over European Fashion Retail

Buying clothes without having to try it on might pose significant hassles in the future. This is one of the major reasons why people avoid buying clothes online. But it seems like Estonian start up Fits.me already found a solution to this drawback with FitBot. This custom-built mannequin first launched last year to fit male ...

Golf Goes Mobile, Jack Nicklaus 2011 Guide to Congressional App

An avid golf fan and waiting for the 2011 U.S. Open being played at Congressional Country Club this coming June 16-19, 2011?Jack Nicklaus' Guide to Congressional may heighten your interest. It’s a mobile app with Android and iPhone versions that lets users get some exclusives during the event.

Skype Engineers Spin Up $1M for Innovative Nordic Startup

In an effort to become the biggest mechanical engineering marketplace in the world, Boston-based GrabCAD announced that it got $1.1 million series A funding from investors Matrix Partners, Atlas Venture and Next View Ventures , as well as angel investors John McEleney, Alex Ott, Angus Davis and Jon Stevenson. ” Our plan is to be ...

iPad and Xbox Expanding Game Cloud Ecosystems

Here is Apple making efforts in tackling the gaming demographic with some pretty awesome update. First off, we have OnLive app for the iPad which allows users to play full retail titles that were once only possible with PC or games console, and it has live micro-console that can be tethered to a TV. The ...

ClickFox Leads Customer Experience Analytics Market, Grows Sales Team

In an effort to address the growing need for better customer intelligence tools to improve service and streamline business among Fortune 500 customers, Clickfox, a leader in customer experience analytics (CEA) software and solutions, proudly announced the foundation of a top sales talent from software giants from Oracle, SAP, IBM, Salesforce.com and couple of others. ...