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Tata Motor’s “Air Car” – now in 2nd phase of Development
World’s first Air car may be on its way in the coming years. As discussed earlier, Tata Motors had signed a license agreement in Jan 2007 with Motor Development International (Luxembourg)...
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Epic Browser: The amazing Indian Browser
The world of browsers has a new kid on the block – Epic Browser. It is billed as an “Indian Browser”. It is a product of Hidden Reflex, a software...
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Modi’s Innovative Solar Energy Initiative by Using Narmada Canals
Just as Modi’s critics go on ad nauseum with their mindless criticism, he goes on working on ways to improve the lot of his people and state. Not only is...
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The Hacking Wars and the coming “March Storm”
Unbeknownst to many, there is a virtual war going on. Hackers vs the US Government. Recently, computer hacking group LulzSec has been brought down by the FBI, when they arrested...
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Rare footage of Steve Jobs sharing his beginning in the Computer industry
Very few people in the history of technology have impacted the world as profoundly as Steve Jobs had done. Until his death recently, he had reinvented the world of computing...
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Internet could come down on March 8
A malware called DNSchanger Trojan has infected many computers and many are still corrupted. What does it do? It alters user DNS settings, such that it starts pointing users to...
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UPenn Prof Vijay Kumar unveils “Self Guided Agile Flying Robots” which Swoop and Swarm together
University of Pennsylvania professor Vijay Kumar showcased a set of autonomous, agile and decentralized flying robots which can not only do maneuvers that are difficult for any machine but also...
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Indian Users Trump US Smartphone Users in Net Access
Interesting finding from a survey conducted by IPSOS and Google about the smartphone usage by customers in US and India. It seems that when it comes to using the Smartphones...
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Don’t get addicted to Twitter, its Unhealthy: Twitter’s Co-founder
After some debate about the utility of sharing in only 140 characters, Twitter has emerged as one of most powerful social platforms. According to some studies, people stay logged...
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Facebook updates analysis can predict success in Jobs and Academics
Huh!? Now it is possible to predict your success or failure in academics and job by analyzing your FB profile updates! Better be careful!! Your Facebook profile holds more valuable...
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Anant Agarwal, MIT scientist, creates a 100 core breakthrough computer chip
After Vinod Dham, the father of Pentium chips, there is another Indian – Anant Agarwal – who is creating the next breakthrough in the world of computer chips. Anant, who...
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Indian Prime Minister is now on Twitter
The Indian PM is now on Twitter. So, if you want to have a close conversation with him, you can tweet him your mind. GIven his reticent nature he had...
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Drishtikone transforms from Drupal to WordPress
Since last few months, I have been analyzing the platform I was using for Drishtikone.com with a view to see how it can be made simpler and also more user...
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Moron Kapil Sibal’s Rajnikanth-like desire for gagging India’s Internet and Social Media
Welcome to the latest Banana Republic which passes off as a democracy, India.
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How floods in Thailand are impacting your Computer Hard Drives
In the world of today, the businesses around the have become intertwined like never before.
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Backup your Facebook sharings and data
If you often share some useful information with your facebook friends, you would often wonder how to save all those sharings.. right?
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Impact of Social Media on Teens and Young Adults
Social Media is useful if its used for the right reasons. What we are seeing is that kids are glued to Facebook etc in a way that never happened before. Is that good?
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Infosys in midst of Three-Phased Reorganization: Will it be a Game Changer?
Infosys is realigning itself. The entire realign work has been going on for last year or so. Broadly speaking there are 3 phases to it:
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Cognizant is #3: the How and What of it
How did Cognizant become #3 of the Indian IT companies? That’s an interesting question.
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Death on Facebook!
Facebook is an interesting platform for one to keep in touch with friends and family, specifically the extended one. And since it even suggests people’s birthdays so one can always be on time.
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Browse Facebook at work in Corporate format
These days the professional and personal lives are very closely entangled. Many companies – like HP – are specifically making products that cater to both people’s personal and work requirements.
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Why Fall of Indian IT Companies is imminent?
On a typical project done by an Indian IT company, the resources in India are charged at an average of $25-35/hr. Some years back it used to be $45, but it has steadily fallen.
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Google makes Ice-Cream out of Gingerbread and Honeycomb and the War of OSes within
Google is going crazy with Operating Systems. They have two – well kinda three – out there already:
- phone OS on Android 2.3/2.4 called Gingerbread
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Even the Dead Can’t Get enough of the iPads!
Getting an iPad2 in Asia is no easy feat – specially with long lines and short supplies.
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Google comes out with a “like” button
As the social media war heats up, Google has come out with its own version of “Like” button, which beckons recommendations from the public for the various web pages, sites, products etc. What is it?
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World without the Toilet Paper tubes
Unless you have severe issues and have been holding back for a long time or are from the sub continent where a healthier way of water is used, chances are you have seen a toilet paper roll.
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Living in the World of Facebook and Twitter
The world is a reflection of who we have become. What works in the world is somewhat a manifestation of what we espouse – consciously or unconsciously.
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Cyber Attacks: Biggest Emerging Threat?
Asymmetric attacks on computer networks are amongst the biggest emerging threats to the UK, the government has said in its new National Security Strategy (NSS): “A Strong Britain in An Age of Uncertai
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Cyber War between China and India: Stuxnet, INSAT 4B, Attacks and Indian Operating System
In July this year, half of the 24 transponders on INSAT-4B shut down. The DTH companies in India from Doordarshan to VSNL and Sun TV were without service.
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Future World of Computing will be defined by Smartphones of today; not the Laptops
New products and new markets are defined by players who catch the giants of the current industry on the wrong foot.
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Top 16 Google Apps for a Professional Firm
Managing small businesses are becoming more and more efficient using technology.
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Intelligent Search from Yahoo’s experiment could predict future events
Semantic and contextualized search is an important area which will impact our ability to quickly do “intelligent” searches around the web.
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Free SMS texting chat style from your laptop
Do you want to SMS a friend in a hurry who is in US or India or Malaysia or Pakistan or maybe even Canada?