Archive for the ‘ Assorted Gyaan ’ Category

On Farmville Addiction!!!

For weeks now, there has been a serious issue demanding my attention… It’s even worse than drug addiction; even worse than nicotine addiction; even worse than food addiction; even worse than gambling addiction; even worse than shopping addiction… Its called Farmville Addiction… [ READ MORE ]

Windows Phone 7: First Thoughts…

Alright, today at last Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer unveiled their newest Windows Mobile OS, called “Windows Phone 7 Series”, and launched a website to show it off at the Mobile World Congress… I can actually say that I am excited for Microsoft announcing a new mobile OS… It hasn’t just created another version of Windows Mobile, from [ READ MORE ]

Nokia Meamo and Intel Moblin merge to bring MeeGo!!!

At the Mobile World Congress, Nokia and Intel announced the MeeGo platform, a merge of Maemo and Moblin… MeeGo will be rolled out on Media phones, Netbooks, Pocketables/Handhelds, In-car entertainment systems as well as Connected TVs… Meego is an open source platform which apparently will ‘accelerate industry innovation and time to market for a wealth of new internet-based applications [ READ MORE ]

Youtube turns Five!!!

5 years ago Chad Hurley registered a URL that has revolutionized the way we see online videos… More than 20 hours of video are uploaded every minute on YouTube… Personally i think that if it wasn’t for YouTube, we might not be as far down the road as we are with online video… From the YouTube Blog: When [ READ MORE ]

My take on Web 3.0!!!

Before i start talking about Web 3.0, i think its important to view how the web has evolved over the years… As clear from above, Web 1.0 was the era of Geocities & Hotmail, where all content were readonly and static HTML websites… People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz… Web 2.0 [ READ MORE ]

Google Drops Support for IE 6!!!

In my mailbox is a nasty looking mail for Microsoft by Google today… Dear Google Apps admin, In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, [ READ MORE ]

Symbian goes FOSS!!!

Symbian 3 (the successor of previous Symbian versions, S60, S40 and others), the new version of Symbian OS, will mark the change of Symbian from being a closed OS platform to become an Open Source platform where anyone can download and modify it for free… The source code is published under the Eclipse Public License [ READ MORE ]

Steve Jobs on Google and Adobe!!!

Steve Jobs daring comments on Google and Adobe during Apple’s company wide “Town Hall” meeting at corporate headquarters, is surely gonna be criticized over this week… Taken from WIRED : On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t [ READ MORE ]

Rumor: Microsoft’s Bing to Replace Google As Default Search Engine on iPhone…

Businessweek reports that Apple and Microsoft are currently in negotiations to replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone with Microsoft’s Bing.com… The talks have reportedly been underway for weeks… Read the Article here… [ READ MORE ]

Google’s approach in China!!!

As many of us would be aware, Google has openly announced that they will take an active stance against internet censoring by China… I find this move by Google to be very interesting and feel it would have a huge effect in the near future on the freedom of speech in China.. This move makes it [ READ MORE ]