With 160,000 Android phones activated every day, Android is becoming fastest growing smartphone, ever! Yesterday at Motorola Droid X release with Verizon, Eric Schmidt announced Launch of Android froyo and industry adoption of Android as … Read more
There was a along lived myth that claimed “java is slow”. Over the years, we’ve seen Java going faster, and occupying the enterprise, eventually, the mobile space. Running the desktop Hotspot JVM sure is an … Read more
The Open Source Programming language that powers much of the Internet and many commercial applications today, could replace Java in the Future. Scala is widely adopted for popular Social networking sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn … Read more
VirtualBox has always been leader in performance in the Virtualization world. With more than 30 million copies of VirtualBox downloaded worldwide average a rate of 50,000 per day is now more popular than VMware workstation. … Read more
The popular mobile OS, Android, has been ported to support Intel Atom processors. Currently, the Android OS is exclusively available for ARM based architecture, however, Since it’s open source, we’ve seen few x86 ports for Netbooks. One of … Read more
This would, perhaps, be the second most shocking/sad news after the resignation of Jonathan (former Sun CEO). I’m sad and upset after hearing the confirmed news that James Gosling will be leaving Sun/Oracle. James has … Read more
Tablets are everywhere, and everyday there’s a new one that aims on targeting the iPad. Last time we saw WePad, Android based Tablet doing exactly that. But something that was missed from several eyes was Notion Ink’s … Read more
Google has taken the next step to make Web Applications Robust, it has released a Web application security scanner called Skipfish. The free (and Open Source) scanner is designed to work within a variety of existing … Read more
So you thought Microsoft is lonely at the Top with DirectX accelerated IE9 web-browser? Well, not for long. Google announced a new project yesterday for Chrome that will let the browser run a wider range … Read more
Forget Flash, Silverlight is coming to the iPhone. Even though Flash was self-sufficient, Microsoft developed Silverlight to create it’s own market. But it was never as portable as Flash, but the horizon seems to be … Read more
For application developers who are hunting down to rewrite GUI for every other OS, there is a simple and yet, an elegant solution : Qt Qt (pronounced “Cute”) is cross-platform application and UI framework developed … Read more
It was predicted long back that RIA (Rich internet Applications) no longer needs Flash’s domination. AJAX/ JQuery, HTML 5, CSS will together form the best army against the closed Flash (which can’t be open sourced). … Read more
In the need for speed, Facebook had been working under the hood to boost PHP runtime to crazy levels which were not possible before. Facebook has now Open sourced the underlying code, as predicted. The … Read more
PHP offers a light-weight runtime for small-to-medium sized webapps. If you are not a PHP developer, you will be surprised to know that PHP doesn’t support multithreading natively, though there are ways to make it … Read more
A typical full-fledged OS could ranges from 1-20GB before/after installation. But How small can it really get? Few Megabytes? Kilobytes, perhaps. BareMetal is an open source CLI-based Operating system. The OS is written entirely in … Read more