Mobile Market Going Open Source?
At this year's GSMA Mobile World Congress, 3 ½ hours were devoted to the topic of "Mobilizing Open Source", which was no doubt spurred in part by the... more »
Android Shmandroid, Who Cares?
It's a clear case of something that's just gone too far.
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How to transform a broken laptop into a server
Towards the end of 2008, I felt the need for a development/staging server at home, as part of my freelancer work with php applications. The server did... more »
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How We Made GitHub Fast
Now that things have settled down from the move to Rackspace, I wanted to take some time to go over the architectural changes that we’ve made in order... more »
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Dungeons & Dragons done right on Microsoft Surface
I don’t want to put any pressure on Michael and the team over at Carnegie Mellon University, but you guys should be getting an A for your class... more »
Nvidia RealityServer - Graphics Rendering Cloud
Cloud Computing started from the cloud based processing then expanded steps to storage and now comes the third contender: Graphics. Now, Nvidia will... more »
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Google + Motorola + Verizon = DROID = iPhone Killer ? Droid Revealed
Google, Verizon and Motorola have come together and they have created Droid, which is being seen as the iPhone killer.
Apple introduces revolutionary new multi-touch "Magic Mouse"
Suddenly, everything clicks. And swipes. And scrolls. Introducing Magic Mouse. The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse. Now included with every new iMac.... more »
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Does your office have a weather system?
I wrote a post a while back when I purchased my iobridge module which you can use to control switched and sensor. After that post I had my module... more »
Verizon’s Silly Commercial Against iPhone – Promoting Untouchability!
Yesterday Verizon launched a commercial against iPhone. It highlights all the features an iPhone doesn’t have and then ends up saying “Everything... more »
The State of Solid State Hard Drives
I've seen a lot of people play The Computer Performance Shell Game poorly. They overinvest in a fancy CPU, while pairing it with limited memory, a... more »
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Bye Bye Bluetooth
Come 2010 and no longer would you be using Bluetooth for short range file transfer. Apple, Intel, Cisco (and other major players) along with WiFi... more »
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Nokia’s Booklet 3G (Netbook) Comes With 12 Hour Battery Life?
Nokia will start selling its first netbook in US, which will run on Windows 7 from Oct 22nd along with Windows 7. Nokia will start selling its first... more »
Oracle Taunts IBM with $10M Challenge
At Oracle OpenWorld 2009, Larry Ellison offers $10 million to companies if Sun-Oracle servers don't perform twice as fast as the competition. Oracle... more »
Larry Ellison shows Sun-Oracle Benchmarks, hits IBM, offers $10M Prize
Larry Ellison took the stage during the keynote, kick-started by clarifying the common questions- Hardware Business Strategies: Sun SPARC and Open... more »
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Nuclear Batteries, Now A Reality
Everyone had though of using nuclear batteries as a source of energy in the past, this though has now become a reality as research engineers at the... more »
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RAM is the new Disk, Disk is the new Tape
With disk speeds growing very slowly and memory chip capacities growing exponentially, in-memory software architectures offer the prospect of... more »
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Hitachi’s Face Recognition TVs turn off when you look away
Hitachi demoed a very basic face recognition system at CEATEC this week. The system is a normal TV, with a built-in webcam that runs face recognition... more »
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The database for solid state drives.
In our previous post we discussed the optimal block-size for B-trees on solid-state drives. A few people mentioned page alignment – an issue that can... more »
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VMWare Fusion 3 is snappier, Faster, more scalable, GPU accellerated
Tehre are lots of new things with the upcoming VMWare Fusion 3. It will let users Run, Migrate Windows seamlessly onto Mac OS
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Pentagon: Our cloud is better than Google's
The U.S. Defense Department is offering cloud computing services that military officials claim are safer and more reliable than commercial providers... more »
Rethinking B-tree block sizes on SSDs
One of the first questions to answer when running databases on SSDs is what B-tree block size to use. There are a number of factors that affect this... more »
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Parallelism /= Concurrency
If you want to make programs go faster on parallel hardware, that you need some kind of concurrency. Right? In this article I’d like to explain... more »
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OpenCL4Java 1.0-beta-2 released
Support for OpenCL images, barriers, markers, type-safe buffer objects, compatibility with ATI Stream 2.0 beta 3... OpenCL4Java is progressing... more »
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TDK breaks the bar, invents 320GB 10 layer Blu-Ray Disc. Time to dump your dvds?
TDK has invented a new technique to combine 10 layers into single Blu-Ray.
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