Archive for August, 2010
Thursday, August 26th, 2010
Lower-powered ARM processors coming to servers
Smooth-Stone, a chip startup company is coming up with low powered ARM processors to power servers. ARM processors have been very successful in smart phones consuming less than 1 watt at its peak and still running at upto 1 GHz. They have now started moving into tablets (iPad), Netbooks, Plug Computers, personal servers and more. […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Creating micro products for India the Allianz way
Consumer companies have successfully launched micro products to reach out to Indian customers by having Shampoo sachets. The advantage of this that people who cannot or do not want to invest in the whole bottle , can buy a small sachet for 1% of the cost of a bottle. The end result is more volume […]
No Comments » - Posted in India by Prakash
Friday, August 20th, 2010
HTC Desire HD coming
After the HTC Desire, HTC has announced the HTC Desire HD. Here are the specs: 4.3 inch LCD screen: Thats big! 8 Megapixel Camera 1 GHz Processor (same as HTC Desire) 720p High Definition Video Capture HD Video Playback DivX playback Surround sound. 4 GB Internal Memory: Nice but more the better. Android 2.2.: Will […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
98 percent use Open Source
98 percent of people surveyed out of a total of 75,000 users, confirm that they use Open Source. If you still fall under the 2 percent that doesn’t, please do the honours of telling us why. In fact 48 percent says there is no reason not to use Open Source. Reason for using Open Source: […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Monday, August 9th, 2010
Automated caching of your Ubuntu updates
If you wish to automatically cache all you Ubuntu/Debian updates on one computer, you can use Squid-deb-proxy. This is useful if you have multiple Ubuntu/Debian clients in your network and they all download the updates. Instead of each system connecting to the internet to get the updates, it will get the updates from the caching […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010
5 Linux powered e-book readers
Linux powered devices are experiencing an exponential growth. E-book readers are gaining popularity because they can carry huge volumes of books, are environmental friendly and can do other things amongst being a book reader like listen to music or run apps. I didn’t realise that so many of the popular e-book readers run Linux: Amazon […]
