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Monday, February 23rd, 2015
Facebook’s open-source Android debugging tool
Facebook said today that it’s giving away a tool it built to spot errors in Android application code. Facebook has gradually improved its main app for Android, as well as other apps for the mobile operating system, including Messenger, Facebook Groups, Facebook Pages Manager, and most recently Facebook at Work. Read More: http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/18/facebook-unleashes-stetho-its-android-debugging-tool-under-open-source-license
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Friday, February 13th, 2015
Sam Ramji takes lead at Cloud Foundry Foundation
In 2015, many Linux and open-source vets still distrust Microsoft’s conversion to open-source. In 2006, no one believed that when Sam Ramji, who oversaw BEA Systems move to open-source software, became Director of Platform Technology Strategy for Microsoft’s Open Source Software Labs, that Microsoft was doing more than paying lip-service to open source. They were […]
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Monday, February 9th, 2015
OnePlus One available without an invite
If you have been eyeing the OnePlus One, you have good news! Buy the OnePlus One without an invite at Amazon India. This deal is only Tomorrow Tuesday 10th Feb at 10AM.
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Friday, February 6th, 2015
Raspberry Pi 2
Raspberry Pi 2 is here. A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM Compatible with Raspberry Pi 1 $35 And now runs Snappy Ubuntu Core.
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
The best open-source office suite, LibreOffice 4.4, gets new release
Who says you can’t have fast, good and cheap? The Document Foundation’s latest release of the most popular open-source office suite, LibreOffice 4.4 is quite fast on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows; it works well on all three desktop operating systems, and it won’t cost you a penny. Read More:Â http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-best-open-source-office-suite-libreoffice-4-4-gets-new-release/ Download Here:Â http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/?version=4.4.0
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Friday, January 23rd, 2015
WhatsApp on Ubuntu ?
Yes you can install WhatApp on Ubuntu Desktop! It currently works with Chrome browser only (no Chromium support yet). In Chrome go to :Â https://web.whatsapp.com On your WhatApp on your phone, go to Menu (top left) – WhatsApp Web and add your web client. That’s all, now all your WhatsApp messages will also show up on […]
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Thursday, January 15th, 2015
8 Free Online Tech Courses
From Introduction to Linux to Web development, CIO magazine covers 8 online courses which are completely free. Read More: http://www.cio.com/article/2847396/it-skills/8-free-online-courses-to-grow-your-tech-skills.html
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
India fastest growing smartphone market in Asia Pacific: IDC
The Indian smartphone market grew 82% from a year ago and 27% over the preceding quarter, making it the second consecutive quarter of more than 80% year-on-year shipment growth for smartphones. There were 23.3 million smartphone handsets shipped in the reporting quarter, comprising 32.1% of the overall mobile phone market that touched 72.5 million units […]
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Which is the most reliable public clouds?
Amazon EC2 was the most reliable compute and Google Cloud Storage was the most reliable storage. The Laguna Beach, California company tracks status of more than 30 clouds from AWS to Zettagrid: Service provider Outrages Downtime Amazon EC2  20  2.41 Hours Amazon S3  23  2.69 Hours Google Compute Engine  72  4.41 Hours Google Cloud Storage 8 […]
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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
Amazon Phone on Fire at $199!
This Thanksgiving, Amazon Fire Phone is available at a special price of $199. For that price it looks like a great phone. Unlocked 2.2GHz quad-core processor 2GB RAM Bright 4.7″ HD display 13 MP camera with optical image stabilization, HDR, and LED flash 4 G LTE NFC support Free Headphones Free Amazon Prime for 1 year. […]
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Monday, November 24th, 2014
Dual Booting Android 5.0 and Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 4
My setup: Laptop with Ubuntu 14.04LTS Â and Nexus 4. I also assume you are comfortable with the command prompt. You need to run some commands from terminal. If you are already running Android 5.0, you can skip Step 1 and go directly to Step 2 to root your device. In my case, I didn’t wait […]
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Friday, November 14th, 2014
.NET goes open source
With other languages such as Java and Python getting large user base, this is a good move to gain some users. Microsoft is open sourcing .NET, this should reduce the compatibility challenges with cross-platform applications developed using Microsoft Tools. http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Tox: Secure and Open Source alternative to Skype
The main thing the Tox team is trying to do, besides provide encryption, is create a tool that requires no central servers whatsoever—not even ones that you would host yourself. It relies on the same technology that BitTorrent uses to provide direct connections between users, so there’s no central hub to snoop on or take […]
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Friday, September 12th, 2014
Cloud customers are still paying for twice as much as they need
An independent survey of 200 UK-based CIOs has revealed that they are only using about half of the cloud capacity they’ve bought and paid for, and that 90 percent of them see over-provisioning as a necessary evil. Cloud provider ElasticHosts, which commissioned the survey, says: “Essentially, bad habits like over-provisioning and sacrificing peak performance are […]
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Thursday, September 11th, 2014
iPhone 6 Plus vs Android Phablets: Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Note 3 Neo, LG G3 and Sony Xperia Z3
After the  iPhone 6 vs Android: Samsung Galaxy S5, HTC M8 and Xiaomi MI3,  I am now comparing the Phablets: iPhone 6 Plus, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and LG G3, Sony Xperia Z3 and Note 3 Neo. I picked the top Phablets and also the budget Note 3 Neo. Features iPhone 6 Plus Note 4 LG […]
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
iPhone 6 vs Android: Samsung Galaxy S5, HTC M8 and Xiaomi MI3
I was watching the iPhone 6 launch last night and was wonder what the fuss is all about? Well it’s from Apple and people may be drooling. Lets find out how the iPhone 6 compares with the Leading Android phones. I am only comparing the specifications and features and not the actually quality which is very subjective. Here […]
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Friday, September 5th, 2014
Most popular open-source cloud projects of 2014
At CloudOpen, a Linux Foundation tradeshow held in conjunction with LinuxCon, the Foundation announced that an online survey of open-source cloud professionals found OpenStack to be the most popular overall project. That wasn’t surprising. Although OpenStack is only four years old, the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud project is very popular with support from such industry giants […]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2014
2 Billions containers at Google each week!
That tech is called Linux Containerization, and is the latest in a long line of innovations meant to make it easier to package up applications and sling them around data centers. It’s not a new approach – see Solaris Zones, BSD Jails, Parallels, and so on – but Google has managed to popularize it enough […]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2014
Zen story on religion
This also explains why meditation (truth) got converted to religion. Why conflict arises from religion, was religion created for vested interests ? One day, Mara, the Evil One, was going through a village with his attendant when he saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up in wonder. The man had just […]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
Economic Times: India Opens Up to Ubuntu
Front page news Economic Times, Bangalore Edition. “India is the fastest growing market for us with great stickiness and adoption of Ubuntu. It is definitely one of our key focus markets globally,“ said Prakash Advani, regional manager for Asia Pacific at Canonical. Read More: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/hardware/india-opens-up-to-operating-system-ubuntu/articleshow/39682855.cms http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31815&articlexml=India-Opens-Up-to-Ubuntu-05082014001077
