Archive for July, 2013

Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Amazon CDN CloudFront in India

Amazon CDN (Content Distribution Network) service CloudFront is now in India. They have launched with edge servers in Mumbai and Chennai. If you are already using CloudFront, you don’t need to do anything. Now users in India will get faster services through the CloudFront. Read more on the announcement.

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Saturday, July 27th, 2013

India among top 3 countries in KPMG technology innovation survey

India ranked second in becoming the leading innovation centre for the world, third in the list of the most promising countries for disruptive breakthrough and fourth-most friendliest technology innovation country. Read More: http://www.livemint.com/Industry/r6N1pw1LVz1D8fYDUcWBDL/India-among-top-3-in-KPMG-technology-innovation-survey.html

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Friday, July 26th, 2013

5 Benefits Of Cloud Computing You Aren’t Likely To See In A Sales Brochure

From Forbes: Cost savings… elasticity….  scalability….  load “bursting”….  storage on demand…  These are the advertised benefits of cloud computing, and they certainly help make for a solid business case for using either third-party services or a virtualized data center. But after the agreements are signed, systems and processes are set up, and users are retrained, […]

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Thursday, July 25th, 2013

IBM partners with Open Source Cloud Foundry

IBM is backing Cloud Foundry the Open Source PaaS platform. By teaming up with Pivotal and Cloud Foundry, IBM wants to help developers focus on getting apps to the cloud without having to worry about whether the underlying technology will be compatible. The first product of the IBM-Pivotal partnership is IBM WebSphere Liberty, a lightweight […]

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Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Open Stack is now 3 years old!

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Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

The Ubuntu Edge

Next generation converged device with Phone and PC capabilities is here. Here is the specs: Dual boot Ubuntu mobile OS and Android Fully integrated Ubuntu desktop PC when docked Fastest multi-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 128GB storage 4.5in 1,280 x 720 HD sapphire crystal display 8mp low-light rear camera, 2mp front camera Dual-LTE, dual-band 802.11n Wi-Fi, […]

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Wednesday, July 17th, 2013

Using a cracked phone/tablet

If you have a cracked phone/tablet where the touch is broken. You can can use it by connecting external keyboard and mouse. How to do it ? If your device has a micro USB port, you can use a USB On-The-Go cable (provided your device supports USB On-The-Go. CNET has a good article on this and also how to […]

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Tuesday, July 16th, 2013

Microsoft helped the NSA bypass encryption, new Snowden leak reveals

According to an article published on Thursday by the British newspaper, internal National Security Agency memos show that Microsoft actually helped the federal government find a way to decrypt messages sent over select platforms, including Outlook.com Web chat, Hotmail email service, and Skype. The Guardian wrote that Snowden, the 30-year-old former systems administrator for NSA […]

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