Torvalds On Where Linux Is Headed In 2008
Posted on: July 10th, 2010
With new releases of the kernel coming every two to three months, Linux continues to test the limits of the open-source development process. Moving forward, the roadmap for the open-source operating system indicates a constant drive to add features, while maintaining quality and stability.
To get some perspective on what lies ahead in 2008, we caught up with Linus Torvalds via email. His responses touched on the Linux development process, upcoming features, and whether he’s concerned about potential patent litigation.
InformationWeek: Is Linux kernel development proceeding faster than Windows Server development?
E-Learning
Posted on: June 10th, 2010
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The importance of e-learning cannot be ignored. There is a growing pool of highly qualified individuals all over the world. Many people have saved time and money – students managed to get easy accessibility irrespective of their place of residence, and some have even gained higher education degrees at respectable colleges and universities without any expense on food, accommodation, and traveling.
With e-learning solutions, many businesses have trained people online and even integrated custom-made content in interactive format available in many languages. So the next time that you think of learning new things at a lesser cost, remember to make use of the latest and best technology available in the web.
Airlines take another look at inflight Internet
Posted on: May 10th, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines and service providers seeking to deliver high-speed Internet services to passengers say they’ve learned from Boeing Co.’s 2006 decision to pull the plug on its ambitions to outfit its planes with a similar service.
Analysts say Boeing’s failed Connexion online service was costly to install and operate, resulting in large expenditures before getting a single paying customer. An industrywide downturn triggered by the 2001 terrorist attacks made the system an even tougher sell to struggling airlines.
Skfire: Burning up the Mobile Browser Wars
Posted on: April 10th, 2010
If sometimes you feel the urge to look at your email through your mobile phone, most likely you be feeling that it was text-heavy, very little images, slow, and cumbersome. This was more likely due to both your smartphone’s old hardware and likewise integrated web browser. With the invention of better and more technologically capable smartphones, you may be expecting some enhancements with the browser as well. Well, here comes Skyfire to make your mobile web viewing so much better.
The new mobile browser brings the true internet (like you’d experience from your desktop or laptop computer) to Windows Mobile smartphones. Flash-advertisements, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook – any and all web-pages load in speedy fashion thanks to Skyfire’s behind-the-scenes server-magic. With integrated Flash support, animated/interactive advertisements come to life, embedded videos play in the browser, and Flash-based web-pages are finally viewable.
Available for Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be integrated whether your smartphone is touch or non-touchscreen. It is currently still under beta testing.
More info on this site.
Dell Remakes Itself
Posted on: March 10th, 2010
Michael Dell (Dell) thinks the future of his company lies in reducing IT complexity for customers. “We’re simplifying your client infrastructure, we’re simplifying your data center,” he told attendees at the Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) OpenWorld conference in San Francisco two weeks ago. “And we’re launching services to assess complexity and simplify your environment.” Dell said he plans to triple the size of the company’s services business within three years.
Sugar Magazine launches Social Bookmarking Site for Teens
Posted on: February 10th, 2010
UK teen mag Sugar has launched a new social boomarking tool for teenage girls called Sugarscape. Sitting alongside its already existing sugarmagazine.co.uk, the new site, currently in beta, is aiming to be an aggregator of cool gossip, music, quizzes and ‘stuff’ linked to by the sugar team and the readers themselves.
Users can register and download the sugarscape toolbar, then customise their personal page or ‘scape’, and add anything they find on the web by ‘sugaring’ things with comments and opinions. Involving more of a networking Read the rest of this entry »
Mozilla floats Weave as Web platform
Posted on: January 10th, 2010
Mozilla is expanding its browser platform into new realms, creating APIs and a portable storehouse for bookmarks, customizations, passwords, histories, preferences and other metadata. Just like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others, Mozilla wants its platform, called Weave, to serve as a kind of a Web operating system, managing basic services for users (more on Techmeme). Under the auspices of Mozilla Labs, the non-profit also plans to build tools and API’s to extend its framework for creating new user experiences. Read the rest of this entry »
What’s a Blog?
Posted on: December 28th, 2009
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A blog is an online diary. You can easily post entries and edit it, even if you do not have any technical expertise (depending on the platform where it is written on). You can use it for anything like properties, products, reviews, news, etc. They are managed daily ideally to increase the number of pages or keywords on the site, which will ultimately lead to more chances of being visited through search engines.
The only downside is that you have to invest a lot of time and commit to frequent uploads if you want to have a successful blog. Of course it will take some time to grow, but it all depends on you.
Technological Trading (Part 2)
Posted on: November 14th, 2009
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• An automatic evaluation of well-known market indicators is important – these are stochastic, moving average, and Fibonacci series. These indicators should be very well designed and must be capable of being easily switched from one to the other. For instance, immediately going from a 5-day stochastic to 9-day stochastic.
• Lastly, you have to be able to track your losses and profits via regular updates of the closing prices in the market.
So whether you are a stockholder or a broker – you trade assets and securities. Therefore, you are also interested in how much losses you incurred, or how you have gained in profit. All of these is difficult to do manually, but not with the advent of the new trading software in the internet.
Technological Trading (Part 1)
Posted on: October 10th, 2009
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The web has revolutionized our world in many, many ways. The latest internet technology that is available today is in the field of trading. If you want to avail of trading software, you should make sure that it has the following features:
• There should be a facility that allows simultaneous opening of different windows. Then, you can compare various markets online or exchanges. In fact, you have to be able to work on all the windows at the same time.
• It should be capable of examination of all kinds of data and comparing these items all at once.