Archive for June, 2011
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
A window to open source OS
From my interview in Hindu Business Line: “I have been using the latest Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop that’s almost three years now and I don’t see any degradation of performance,†says Prakash.
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Sunday, June 19th, 2011
Nikon Coolpix S9100 18x Optical Zoom in a compact boday
[amazon_link id=”B004M8SVFM” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]The Nikon Coolpix S9100 is a Super Zoom in a compact body. The advantage of a Super Zoom is you can take wildlife photos without getting too close to your subject such that you get extinct. The problem with existing Super Zoom were that they were big and bulky which […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Why America Is Second Best after India With Its Innovation Culture
Forbes has this interesting article on why USA is second after India for Innovation. USA is a clear second to India and that the USA’s innovation interests tended to veer towards incremental change and efficiencies (Six Sigma) rather than the more open, greenfield area of creativity and ideation. Read more.
No Comments » - Posted in India by Prakash
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Whatsapp a nice cross platform instant messenger
[amazon_link id=”B00414WBT4″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Do you envy when your Blackberry friends talk about BBM, short for Blackberry Messenger. Time to show them Whatsapp. What is Whatsapp? Its a cross platform instant messenger, think SMS/BBM. It works on iPhone, Android, Blackberry and Nokia. Currently BBM is restricted to Blackberries only. It offer messages, videos, photos, […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
Patents hoarders are the new age mafia
[amazon_link id=”0470339454″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Earlier Microsoft sued Android phone makers, now Oracle is suing Google for Android. Patents were to protect innovators instead its being used to stop innovation. The big old daddies of the IT industry are going after the new companies. The old ones have nothing new to innovate. Thy are too comfortable […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Dark Clouds Over iCloud, Apple Sued
I have been quoted in this article. Apple released a feature of its Mac OS named LaunchPad. LaunchPad is a development, bug tracking platform of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Canonical doesn’t seem to have deep pockets to sue Apple over the usage of name LaunchPad. Canonical’s Prakash Advani told our editor that “We are glad […]
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
1Gbps Internet for US$20 (Rs. 900)
Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited is offering high speed 1Gbps Internet at Rs 900 only! at that price I get a 4 Mbps connection. What if we had such a high speed?
