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

Looks Like the iPad Could Prevail in 2011 After All

Seeing a dramatic increase in iPad sales after conducting additional consumer surveys, supply-side research, and an SMB and enterprise survey, as well as briefing many companies that are to release tablets at CES, Forrester realized that they were too conservative of the previous prediction released last June 2010. Today, the research firm published a revised ...

Amazon Preps Developers for Their Android App Store

Google has just gotten one hell of a rival with Amazon's Appstore Developer Portal targetting Android developers to submit their applications to Amazon's soon-to-be-launched Appstore.

Fuugo To Offer User-Centric TV and Video Consumption

Today announced at the Consumer Electronics Show 2011, an addition to Axel Technologies' Fuugu offerings is the first ever TV and video application that personalizes video content from the internet mobile and broadcast TV.

Eye-Fi’s Direct Mode: Visual Memories with a Twist

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Eye-Fi Inc., makers of the world's first wireless memory card, today announced a service called Direct Mode. This capability mashes the ease and fun brought by camera and the connectivity of smartphone or tablet.

Dell Inks Agreement to Acquire SecureWorks

As part of its plan to return to former glory, Dell today announced an indefinitive agreement to acquire SecureWorks Inc., an information-security service provider.

Google and the Digital Newsstand

According to a Wall Street Journal report, Google is in talks with newspaper and magazine publishers to import some of their content to devices that runs Google's mobile OS as strategy against its competitors Apple and Amazon.

Skype Credit Giveaways After the Outage

An announcement today by Skype CEO Tony Bates contains three things: an apology for the recent major outage, a holiday greeting, and free Skype credits!

Amazon Kindle Books Now Available for Loan

So the feature that Amazon has been hinting a few weeks back is finally here. You can now lend your eligible Kindle books stored in Amazon to family and friends once for a period of 14 days.

Skype Launches Video Calls on the iPhone, Competes with Apple’s Facetime

Skype has expanded its video call offerings from PC and Mac to the iPhone as well.

Sears and Kmart Launch an Online Movie Download Service

Sonic Solutions, a company that enables digital media from Hollywood to Home, today announced the launch of Alphaline Entertainiment, an online movie download service running on the RoxioNow platform.