Blogs by Mahesh Chand

Rumors say, iPhone 5 will have a a faster processor, faster data download, and more advanced camera.

In a report, eMarketer reported that Google captures nearly 41% of total ad dollars spent in the United States. While Google gained shares, both Yahoo and AOL lost their shares.

Microsoft’s Bing.com share of searches increased 6% within a month while Google lost 3% of search share to Bing.

Check out new features added to Firefox 5.

Firefox 5 is available now.

Do you ever wonder why college days are probably the best days of your life? The answer is simple. In college days, you are truly socially active.

Mobility and social networking have changed drastically in last couple of years. I remember going to a club and see people talking to each other. Today, I go to a club and see everybody is on their cell phones either tweeting or texting. This is how social we are. We announce our club activity on twitter to our virtual friends who we merely know personally.

Firefox 5 Beta 7 was released on June 15. After less than a week, Firefox 5 will be available o June 21.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are in a battle over smart phones operating systems and devices. Here is my take, from a perspective of developer, user, and author.

The data released for May 2011 month by comScore, Google continues to hold its 65% market in US searches. Yahoo and Microsoft (Bing) are close to 15%.

Apple recently announced its iCloud services that will be available this fall. You can use iCloud to store your music, photos, apps, calendars, documents, and other data.

Whether using MVVM or building data driven browser based plug-in experiences, Silverlight 5 addresses many of the top Data asks.

Ready to take your visuals to another dimension? Silverlight 5 gives you a direct path to the GPU with a powerful immediate mode 3D graphics API.

In 2010, the MIX session "Understanding the MVVM pattern" helped you to understand the basics of this very important pattern used in Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone 7 applications.

Microsoft Office 365 much more than just Outlook, Word, Excel, and Access. It is powered with SharePoint 2010 and Lync technology.

If you are still looking for the next niche, that would be multi-touch and surface computing. Check out Windows 8 for multi-touch support. Apple recently announced the new features in its OS X Lion and multi touch is one of them.

iOS 5 is coming this fall and Apple just announced over 200 new features added to the OS. iOS 5 is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 3rd/4th Generations, iPad, and iPad 2.

I believe, eventually, the LightSwitch templates will be a part of Visual Studio 2010 or 2012.

Learn how to become a Visual Studio coding guru! In this fast-paced session,learn to write code faster than a speeding bullet,leap around large projects in a single bound,and become more powerful than a locomotive with the debugger. We take a wild ride through C# and Visual Basic IDE features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and indispensible out-of-the-box solutions that will help you get your job done better and faster.