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.

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SAPPHIRE NOW Roundup: Key Opportunities for Customers, Partners, Consultants and Users

SAP holds a number of conferences to provide “key opportunities for current and future customers, as well as partners, consultants, and users, to learn about SAP solutions.” SAPPHIRE NOW is one of these events, and is a world's premier business technology event offering unparalleled insights and opportunities to drive business results across all levels. Is ...

Increase in Smartphones Drive Mobile Ad Market by 17%, says Inmobi

A report release by Inmobi, the world's largest independent mobile ad network, details the findings of Mobile Insights Report: North American and Global Editions April 2011. Inmobi currently serve 35 billion monthly mobile advertising impression to 314 million customers all over the world. The report underscores the stronghold of mobile advertising as it grows 17 ...

PopCap Favors Amazon over Google in Android Games Debut

Amazon’s got a good deal today with PopCap’s first two Android titles debuting on its Appstore. PopCap will bring its popular Chuzzle and Plants vs. Zombies to Amazon Appstore within the month, the first one on Tuesday and the other sometime later. The games will be available for free on the first day or release ...

EMC World 2011 Keynotes, Highlights and More

It was a huge. EMC World 2011 held at The Venetian in Las Vegas had 500 educational sessions, 100 hands-on labs and exhibits from a hundred leading IT companies and was attended by more than 10,000 people. And I’m glad that there was a virtual exclusive access pass available at Facebook for us who can’t ...

Nokia and RIM on a Slump, Honeycomb and Mango Get Upgrades

One of the buzziest news we’ve heard this week is the announcement of Nokia’s dropping of Ovi Mobile Services by the end of 2012. Nokia find both Symbian and MeeGo unable to keep up with Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. It is making a transition to Microsoft Corporation’s Windows Phone 7 as its next smartphone ...

Citrix Takes Windows Apps Experience to Chrome OS

Good news, good news to people who want to make a transition from Windows to Chrome OS. Sounds like you won’t have to entirely abandon your fondness for Windows as Citrix Receiver, a front end for Citrix's desktop and application virtualization software, allows Windows applications to be accessible via the Chrome OS. We’ve witnessed this ...

The Unremitting Privacy Chase

Privacy’s never going to entirely materialize on the internet, or so I assert. There’s always going to be something online that will make us want to put up personal information even it sounds a bit too much. And let’s face it, overlords Google, Facebook and Apple holds too much information. I won’t be surprise if ...

Chromebook Vital for Google’s Chrome OS Push

If the conference’s focal point on day one was Android, Day 2 was Chrome-centric. There had been a lot of notes on HTML5, Chrome and Chrome OS, and the entire show was neatly tailored together for developers and ordinary geeks (like me) to enjoy. It was stirring as I feel it to be more realistic ...

Visa to Unleash a Digital Wallet Service This Fall

This is one of those “OMG, that’s shocking” news as we have been expecting this to happen, Visa finally announced the roll out date of its digital wallet, a mobile payment service that it has been hinting to shell out this week. Its acquisitions lately, including CyberSource, Authorize.net and PlaySpan, gives an aroma of e-wallet. ...

On Day 2, Will Google I/O Continue to Impress?

Day one of Google I/O was over and the show was profuse. It was a superfluity of statistics and exciting software updates for smartphones and tablets on top of a new movie and music service release to stand on level pegging with the likes of Apple. And I certainly can’t hide my jealousy at the ...