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Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
Interesting story about Abdul Kalam’s human side
When a subordinate of President Kalam at DRDO couldn’t take his children to an exhibition due to work pressure, Kalam surprised his subordinate and took the children instead! During a significant project of the DRDO, the work pressure was high. A scientist approached his boss – Dr. Kalam – and asked to leave early that day considering […]
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
India sole emerging market bright-spot in IBM Q2 results
India was the sole emerging market bright-spot in IBM’s second-quarter earnings, as the other BRIC countries weighed down the technology giant’s results. Read more at:Â http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/48170664.cms
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2015
Google backs OpenStack
GOOGLE HAS BECOME the biggest name yet to back the open source cloud system OpenStack. Specifically, Google will help integrate its own open source container management software Kubernetes. This may seem like in-the-enterprise-weeds news, but it represents another significant step as Google tries to make up ground against Amazon’s wildly popular AWS suite of cloud […]
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Thursday, July 16th, 2015
Raspberry Pi stays high in Hacker Survey
Last month, LinuxGizmos.com and the Linux Foundation’s Linux.com community website sponsored a 10-day SurveyMonkey survey that asked readers of both sites to choose their favorite three Linux- or Android-based open-spec single-board computers. This year, 1,721 respondents — more than twice the number from the 2014 survey — selected their favorites from a list of 53 […]
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Thursday, July 9th, 2015
DSLR performance in a pocket camera body
Since the onslaught of mobile phone with cameras, camera sales have been on the decline. The point-and-shoot camera are getting quickly replaced with mobile phones with decent camera functions. The other high-end are the DSLRs. If you need something more than a point-and-shoot but don’t like the big and bulky DSLRs, keep reading. These high-end pocket […]
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
What’s Blocking The $11 Trillion Internet Of Things Opportunity
Unfortunately, there are plenty of factors impeding this data-rich future. The problems range from the 400-plus competing IoT standards to lack of global Internet connectivity, and more. Vendors largely control the 400-plus competing standards, but the battle for developer hearts won’t be won by a corporate logo-laden home page. Open source, however, could help, allowing […]
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2015
Building an Ubuntu based multi-touch table
I had been thinking of my Touch Table project for a long time. My research on existing solutions was a bit disappointing: mostly insanely expensive, large, or platform locked, they did not fit my vision of a [Android or Linux-powered] ‘desktop’ that would allow me to fit it into my existing workflow, rather than hope […]
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Tuesday, June 30th, 2015
Open source is ‘only reliable way’ to preserve human history, argues Vatican
OPEN SOURCEÂ is key for humanity to preserve its history in the digital age, Vatican Library CIO Luciano Ammenti has argued. “The Vatican Library is a conservation library. We try to preserve our history. We tried to expand the number of reading rooms available for people that want to use our library,” he said. “But we […]
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Friday, June 19th, 2015
Why e-commerce payment options is complicated in India
E-commerce was supposed to simplify things, but in reality it is getting more complicated. While purchasing online is getting easy, however making payments is painful. First these sites give you a dozen option to make payments, for example they will say if you pay using a third-party wallet you would get 2% off, but if […]
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Thursday, June 18th, 2015
How green is Amazon’s cloud?
One of the drives to Cloud is that it is suppose to be green, but is Amazon Web Services green itself ? Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy. In […]
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2015
New OpenStack will make it easy to move between private and public clouds
The latest Kilo release of the OpenStack software, made available Thursday, sports new identity (ID) federation capability that, in theory, will let a customer in California use her local OpenStack cloud for everyday work, but if the load spikes, allocate jobs to other OpenStack clouds either locally or far, far away. “With Kilo, for the […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
10 Key Insights On PC Usage In India
Dell commissioned Greyhound Research to understand PC usage in India. The ‘The PC Users Trends of Emerging India’ survey polled 6000 citizens from 40 cities from Tier 1 to Tier 4, across five user groups broadly defined by age and sociological factors like life aspirations and purchasing capacity. According to a recent study by MAIT and […]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2015
Alibaba in a ‘cloud wars’ against Amazon, Google, and Microsoft
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is upping its investment in cloud computing in the United States, making it more of a competitor to Amazon, Google, and Microsoft than ever before. Alibaba’s cloud division, Aliyun, has signed a series of new partnerships with the likes of Intel and data center company Equinix to localize its cloud offerings […]
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Amazon Cloud is a $4.6 Billion business
For the first time Amazon has revealed its numbers for AWS. In its latest financial earnings report, Amazon said AWS grew 49 percent in 2014, pulling in $4.6 billion in revenue. After reaching $1.57 billion in the first quarter of this year, AWS is on track for $6.23 billion in sales by year’s end, the […]
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2015
One Plus One Phone available without an invite
The best phone money can buy, one plus one is now available without an invitation. If you are in the market for a new phone, here is your chance.
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Monday, April 20th, 2015
One Plus One Invites
Here are three invites for One Plus One – India edition. Grab them before they last 🙂 Click on the link below. Use any of these 3 4 invite codes: INFN-X2IG-EPM5-ZGRT INBM-589Q-DPIM-WQYQ INBV-E96S-OZS0-SMWH INL1-ZVCC-ZAXY-NIXS Â
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Friday, April 17th, 2015
Apache vs Nginx vs OpenLiteSpeed
We’re setting up a new production web server for our own site and as it’s a chance to start fresh, the thought of course turned to “what’s the best web server for our site?†After looking around at various benchmarks and reviews of the more common web servers, none of the benchmarks seemed to have […]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2015
Linux beats OSX on Mac hardware
Benchmarks show Linux beats OSX on a MacMini: All of the benchmarks under both OS X and Linux were facilitated using the open-source Phoronix Test Suite benchmarking software. All of the hardware was the same throughout testing: the reported differences on the automated table above just come down to differences in what the OS reports, […]
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Friday, March 13th, 2015
MediaTek’s first 64-bit process for Tablets
Code Name:Â MT8173 Features:Â Quad Core 4K Video Support 64 Bit Support for upto 20 Megapixel cameras Read More:Â http://www.pcworld.com/article/2890656/mediatek-claims-new-64bit-chip-will-power-the-fastest-android-tablets-on-the-market.html
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Thursday, March 12th, 2015
Scientists have figured out what makes Indian food so delicious
Indian food, with its hodgepodge of ingredients and intoxicating aromas, is coveted around the world. The labor-intensive cuisine and its mix of spices is more often than not a revelation for those who sit down to eat it for the first time. Heavy doses of cardamom, cayenne, tamarind and other flavors can overwhelm an unfamiliar palate. Together, they […]
