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

Toshiba Corporation Acquires All Shares of Toshiba Storage Device Corporation

Japanese corporations Fujitsu Limited and Toshiba Corporation today announced that Toshiba Storage Device Corporation (TSDC) is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation, as Toshiba buys back all of the shares from its partner Fujitsu.

3VR Raises $17M for Intelligent Video Search and Analytics

3VR, a global leader in intelligent video search and analytics, today announced that it has secured $17 million in a series E round of financing to fund the development of its product offerings and expansion to the global market.

Kindle Beats Harry Potter as Amazon’s All Time Best Seller

Amazon has set quite a number of records this holiday season. Perhaps one of its most glorious marks is the third-generation Kindle's overthrow of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" as the bestselling product in Amazon's history.

Skype Gets a Patent Infringment Lawsuit for Christmas

It seems like Skype's never going to catch a break this Christmas season. After the outage that caused tens of millions of users to delay their transaction, the free telephony company is facing yet another challenge when Gradient Enterprises filed a patent infringment lawsuit against them.

Foursquare Updates Android, iPhone App, Greets Users With Photos and Comments

Foursquare today gets even more interactive and social with the availability of photos and comments. They were among the most requested features for the local check-in tool with several cool capabilities such as history page and push notifications.

VocalTec to Compete with Skype and Google Voice with magicTalk

From the company which brought us voice over internet IP (VoIP) and magicJACK, VocalTec today announced that a free version of its telephone service will roll out to the global market on, of all dates, 25th of December.

Skype Stabilizes from Downtime, 10M Back Online

So there has been a significant increase of people back on their Skype transactions over the last hour. Though the exact figure cannot be determined, estimates is said to be over 10 million.

Lookout Secures $19.5 Million Funding for Round 3

n order to improve mobile security offerings and accommodate millions of users, the company raises an additional $19.5 million in a series C round of funding led by Index Ventures, in participation of Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures.

Oracle’s Latest Open Cloud Launch: VM VirtualBox 4.0

Oracle, the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company, continues to live up with the promise of open source with the availability of cross-platform virtualization software dubbed as Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.0.

Skype Responds to Downtime with “Mega-Supernodes”

Caused by compatibility issues with some versions of Skype, a large number of "supernodes" were interpreted as offline resulting to a large number of Skype users today to greatly deplete.