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Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
India hosts 30 percent of global top R&D companies
According to research firm Zinnov, currently 30 percent of the top 1,000 R&D spenders across verticals have a presence in India. As per the report titled “Global R&D Benchmarking Study: FY2011†released, there is a total installed talent pool of 2,20,000 in MNC subsidiaries in India and these MNCs have spent USD 7-7.5 billion on […]
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
AMD embraces ARM
AMD is now embracing ARM to beat Intel with 2 major announcements recently: AMD, ARM, Imagination, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments would be joining forces to form the HSAÂ (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation. MediaTek is one of the leading wireless chipset and are very important supplier in the low cost smart phones. The companies will work […]
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Saturday, June 23rd, 2012
If AWS is the Walmart of cloud, is OpenStack the Soviet Union?
The Cloud Faceoff! The stage was set for a lively debate between public cloud rivals at GigaOM Structure in San Francisco Thursday – representatives from Citrix, Eucalyptus and the OpenStack project certainly delivered. Nebula CEO and OpenStack co-founder Chris Kemp didn’t even get past the introductions before he challenged his fellow panelists on their “closed†[…]
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Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Cloning Amazon Is a Dead End, Says Cloud Rival Rackspace
Does the rest of the cloud computing world really need to clone Amazon Web Services in order to succeed? Probably not, says Lew Moorman, the president of Rackspace, the San Antonio, Texas, company that plays second fiddle to Amazon in the cloud game. According to him, some customers want companies like his to clone all […]
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Wednesday, June 13th, 2012
My quote in Times Crest
From the The online vigilantes In a similar vein, industry watcher and erstwhile journalist Prakash Advani says, “For any democratic country, freedom of speech is important… And even though ours is a democracy, it is not easy for people to express their opinions freely… groups like Anonymous have found ways to express themselves. “
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Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Another ARM Server form MiTAC
After Dell and HP, now MiTAC has announced that they are doing an ARM server. 1.6 GHz 4 Cores Ubuntu 12.04 4U Rack server with 64 CPU and 256 Cores 32-Bit processor Read More.
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Friday, June 8th, 2012
Galaxy S III sets Android pre-order record
From TG Daily.. UK carrier Vodafone has confirmed that it has received more pre-orders for the device than any other Android phone in history. Finally Samsung has an Apple killer! [amazon_enhanced asin=”B0080DJ6CM” container=”” container_class=”” price=”All” background_color=”FFFFFF” link_color=”000000″ text_color=”0000FF” /]
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Thursday, May 31st, 2012
Olympus E-M5 is a professional quality compact camera
Olympus has a new baby in the micro four-third category. The OM-D E-M5. This is new OM-D series as compared to the PEN series. Here is what is cool: 16 Megapixel Micro Four-third mirror-less camera with interchangeable lenses Magnesium alloy body In Body image stabilisation Three inch touch screen display with tilt Weather sealed body, […]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
Desktop-like smartphones soon to be reality
From Deccan Herald Article: The Android-based smartphones which can work like PCs by connecting them with a monitor, keyboard and mouse, will be out in the market in a matter of months, said Canonical, developer of the Ubuntu Operating System. Read more.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Insight into Enterprise Cloud Storage
It may be known to some as the Dropbox-for-the-enterprise, but Box.com could be forgiven for insisting on its own identity. With more than 120,000 customers, including 82 percent of the Fortune 500, the company has made a name for itself as one of the leaders in the enterprise cloud storage and data management space. Read […]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
My article in Times of India: Is Linux ready for your PC?
In the battle of the desktop operating systems (OS), there are only three dominant players left – Windows, Mac and Linux. At some point, Windows was cast as the platform for the common man, Mac as the one for the artist, and Linux as the geek’s playground. Linux found favour in powering servers, supercomputers, large […]
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Saturday, May 5th, 2012
Samsung Galaxy SIII is here
After having a very successful Galaxy S II, now samsung has come up with SIII. It is Samsung’s flag ship brand and they seem to make no compromise in the configurations. Here is what is cool. Quad-core 1.4 GHz 4.8 inch display Super AMOLED Resolution 720 x 1280Â with 306 ppi pixel density, close to […]
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is now available for Download
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is here. This is the first time Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Desktop) will be supported for 5 years. Torrent is preferred method for me. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Torrent Links Direct Downloads Ubuntu Desktop 64-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server Ubuntu Desktop 32-Bit Edition Torrent Main Server Ubuntu Server Edition 64-Bit Torrent Main Server Ubuntu […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
Zotac Nano now available
For those who got excited with the Zotac Nono, you can now buy it and build your media center/small PC. Ideal for loading Ubuntu/XBMC. [amazon_link id=”B006HFVYUC” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link] Config: AMD Fusion processor: Dual Core 1.6 GHz DDR3 Expandable memory (1 slot) WiFi Bluetooth 3.0 2.5″ hard rive bay (laptop hard drives) USB IR […]
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Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
ASUS Transformer Pad, the inexpensive prime
After the successful ASUS Transformer Prime which also comes with a full size keyboard dock, ASUS has launched a lower priced version of the Prime the ASUS Transformer Pad 300. The prime has better display and Aluminum body, while the Pad had plastic body. Here is what is cool. 10.1″ Display Android 4.0 Quad Core […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2012
How HP Cloud Will Differentiate from Amazon, Rackspace
HP has now jumped on the bandwagon as a cloud service provider with HP Cloud. Here is an excerpts from Senior VP of HP Cloud services: On When OpenStack Reached Its Tipping Point: My thesis: The day Canonical shifted Ubuntu’s cloud bet from Eucalyptus to OpenStack, it was a wake up call for small vendors […]
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 to competes with Amazon Fire
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is being priced to compete with Amazon Fire. The Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 with WiFi is priced at US$249, just $50 more than Kindle fire but offers a lot more features. Here is how they compare: Features Amazon Kindle Fire Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Processor Dual Core 1GHz […]
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Insagram: Behind every billion dollar company there is a Linux :)
The recently acquired Instagram is powered by Ubuntu! Instagram was recently acquired by Facebook for $1 Billion. Its a 13 people company almost all of them in their 20s and just 2 years old. It is not just Ubuntu, the site is completely built on Open Source: Apache Solr, PostgreSQL, Redis and Django. Read more […]
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Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
8000 developer and 800 companies build Linux!
Linux is today powering Android phones, TVs, set-top boxes, enterprise data centers, cloud and supercomputers. Here are some stats. The Linux Foundation has released its Annual Linux Development Report, here are the excerpts: More than 7,800 developers from almost 800 different companies have contributed to the Linux kernel since tracking began in 2005. Just since […]
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Microsoft, Google in open war in India
Google and Microsoft, two of the world’s largest technology firms, are raining blows on each other as they hard sell their so-called cloud services and vie for dominance in a market estimated to grow to $15-18 billion by 2020. “Google is the largest cloud services company in India,” claimed Rajan Anandan, Google’s India head since January […]
