Open Source Tablet [Touch Book] Kills iPad
From what I heard, Steve Jobs had been working hard to develop a killer device that would change the face of the industry. Well, I blogged live for iPad launch event but I didn’t see … Read more
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Sun CEO Set to Resign
Oracle recently announced that Approval from EU for the Oracle-Sun merger. Rumors of layoffs may have just started, but there is a move from the CEO before it all happens. Sun’s CEO Jon Schwartz’s recent … Read more
Open Source GSM Base Station [OpenBTS]
Closed Technologies have had the enough, the future is bound to be open. I can’t think of a stream where Open source has not contributed. In few of the relatively newer streams, like telecom, Open … Read more
Google upgrades to EXT4 FileSystem
EXT4’s large filesystem support and performance improvements made it popular over time. Today, EXT4 supports up to 1 Exbibyte – 260 bytes and files with sizes up to 16 tebibytes – 240 bytes. Usually, these numbers are … Read more
Android x86 Optimized for Netbooks
Android-x86 is an Open Source project which provides easy means to install Google Android on a Netbook. The project supports a wide variety of existing x86 netbook hardware.: Android-x86 Features – Version: The latest version … Read more
Run your Own Twitter Clone
Twitter created a revolution no one can avoid being part of. The Idea which looked initially to be a vague one came out to be a superpower in Social Networking. Now, a startup open source … Read more
Nobel Peace Prize to Linux Architect?
Nobel Peace Prize is given out to contributors who worked for the betterment of the society by bringing more harmony. Last time U.S Nobel Peace prize went into the hands of Barack Obama. This time, … Read more
Google SPDY: Protocol to Speed Up the Internet
As part of the Google’s ever growing aim for perfection, and “Let’s Make the web faster” initiative, Google has now released a new Experimental Protocol that promises to speedup the internet. Google just announced that it is … Read more
Google Go: New Programming language
In the Era where we are surrounded by millions of programming languages, Google gives us a new GO. Go is a new Open Source programming language from Google that aims at performance. The performance we … Read more
Symbian Kernel goes Open Source
Symbian, the largest smartphone OS, was bought by Nokia and converted into Symbian Foundation last year. Nokia Open sourced most of Symbian Foundation and made it a nonprofit organization whose sole goal is the advancement … Read more
What Powers YouTube
YouTube, founded in Feb 2005, with initial army of 2 developers, 2 architects, 2 network engineers, 1 DBA, YouTube grew incredibly fast to what we know it today as. It wasn’t just the user popularity that grew, … Read more
Larry Ellison shows Sun-Oracle Benchmarks, hits IBM, offers $10M Prize
Oracle is grabbing huge attraction on it’s annual event: OpenWorld. This year’s OpenWorld means more to Oracle than it, possibly, ever did. This time the hottest Sun-Oracle deal has grabbed whole Industry’s attraction, which many … Read more
Develop Java Native-like WebApps on iPhone using PrimeFaces
iPhone SDK doesn’t support Java for the development code. Neither does Java runs on iPhone (though you can Compile, Run, Install Java apps on iPhone by jailbreaking). But there is just one legal way of … Read more
Open Source to Purchase 22 Patents from Microsoft to Defend Linux
Open Source lovers will do anything to save Linux’s future. Though Microsoft claims themselves to be Open Source friendly, proof being their 20k lines of code drop for Linux Kernel a month ago, but still … Read more
Will Oracle kill MySQL ? Why they Can’t and Why they Wouldn’t
Oracle’s pending acquisition of Sun has been hit with a new hurdle. The European Commission(EU) won’t let Oracle proceed till it clearsout the new matter raised. EU is concerned that Oracle’s will terminate the open … Read more