Archive for February, 2012
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
HTC One @ MWC
HTC doesn’t want to be left behind in the Android race. They are coming up with the HTC One in 3 different models. The top end: HTC One X Nvidia quad-core Tegra 3 processor 1.5 GHz 1 GB RAM 4.7″ Display with 1280×720 resolution 8 MP Camera: f2.0 lens and a back side illuminated sensor, […]
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III coming
The hugely successful Samsung Galaxy family is having a new Galaxy S III. Hold your breath.. 1.5GHz quad-core Samsung Exynos processor 4.8-inch “full HD†1080p resolution with 16:9 aspect ratio display A 2-megapixel front-facing camera and an 8-megapixel rear camera Ceramic case 4G LTE Android 4.0 What more could you ask for ? [amazon_link id=”B004QTBQ2C” […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2012
Eight features Windows 8 borrowed from Linux
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal!” — Pablo Picasso said it. So did T.S. Eliot. And, more recently, Steve Jobs. Let’s face it: If something makes sense and succeeds, it gets imitated. Though Windows 8 and Linux distributions differ greatly from each other in design, ideology and — last but not least — their primary […]
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?
Gigaom has a nice article comparing the costs of hosting your website on Amazon Web Services or self-hosting your own site. Zynga has made it known that for economic reasons, they now use their own infrastructure for baseline loads and use Amazon for peaks and variable loads surrounding new game introductions. Read more at Gigaom.
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
52 Devices That Will Receive Android 4.0 Update
For those who have been waiting for Android 4.0, there is a good news and bad news. Good news for those who’s device will receive the update, bad news for those who won’t get the update! Here is the list. 1. Acer Iconia Tab A200 – mid-February 2. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer – no date […]
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
How a chef made the move to Linux
Chef Yash Amin, is our guest blogger today. He is greatest chef I have known and has moved to Ubuntu, here is his experience. Why i made the move from being a slave to windows to open source and Linux. For years since I’ve been using computers, windows has been the mainstay of things and […]
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
MIT Genius Stuffs 100 Processors Into Single Chip
Anand Agarwal directs the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s vaunted Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, or CSAIL. His company Tilera sells chips with 16, 32, and 64 cores, and it’s scheduled to ship a CPU with 100 cores. It is green cause its power efficient. A 400-watt Tilera server provides as much processing power as […]
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Dropping the “L” Word
The root cause is branding. “Linux” (the brand) is muddy, confusing, and unfriendly to the mainstream computer user: those on the other side of the chasm. They are the exact people that we need to embrace Ubuntu and they don’t *get* “Linux”. They don’t know what it is. They get a negative connotation when they […]
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
The Ultrabooks are here
[amazon_link id=”B005SRZATG” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Ultrabooks are thin and light weight Notebooks which has similar look and feel to Apple MacBook Air. Many vendors have started offering these at competitive pricing. These use standard Intel Core i5 or i7 processor, SSD and 12″ or 13″ Display. Advantages: Standard ports: Many of them have USB 3.0 […]
