Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 17th, 2010
Open CourseWare
For a while now, many of the leading institutes of the world have released all their courseware under and open license. Which means anyone can download them and use them. OpenCourseWare Consortium has a list of all courseware and institutes that are participating. Some of the well known institutes: IIM Bangalore MIT UC Berkeley And […]
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
Open Source is winning in mobile phones
Not sure, how many people already know or realise that most of the cellphones sold today are based on Open Source. Android is the fastest growing Operating System for phones is based on Linux. Nokia’s N900 platform runs Linux too. Palm’s (now acquired by HP) WebOS is based on Linux too. Symbian the most popular […]
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Buffalo Technology embraces opensource firmware
Buffalo Technology which makes good WiFi routers has decided to use open source firmware. Instead of their own firmware, they are going to be using DD-WRT instead. DD-WRT is open source and has host of features, which are normally not found in WiFi Routers. DD-WRT also has open firmware for many other routers too. Her […]
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Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
Canon 550D/Rebel T2i
Canon has released the 550D as an upgrade to 500D. It has inherited some of the features of their high end 7D while offering a cheaper alternative to 7D. Key features: 18 Megapixel! Will this megapixel race ever end? ISO 100-6400 (Expansion to 12800) , similar to 500D 1920X1080 Full HD Movie Recording SDHX compatible […]
