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Symbian takes thousands down
.. or is it Android?
Nokia announced the biggest job cut in its history sending shock-waves to Finland’s economy.
Windows platform as an alternate of Symbian looks weird choice, but then it was a war between Google and Microsoft, and …
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Tagged nokia disconnecting people, nokia job cuts
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The Indian Express
Once upon a time, were Lee-hesh known to exhibit unparalleled game of doubles tennis that was unconquerable by the contemporaries. In their era, they were a force to reckon with, they were a fear for the opponents. Now they have …
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Tagged australian open, leander paes, mahesh bhupati
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AgileNCR is back
Having participated in the last edition, I am eagerly awaiting this year’s conference. The announcement suggests it will be held in Feb’11.
This year organizers seem to have tightened their belt to make it the biggest Agile affair in …
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Mobile Subscriber figures: are they real?
Recently I overheard a conversation where my friends was suggesting taking a new mobile number to a person. The reason was: a new SIM gives you a talkime of 90 INR when you pay 45 INR. In comparison to this, …
Facebook email is coming
Holding my breath to see what facebook email has in store for me.
I hope to see another good email service, which should be worth a try. If it is a service without requiring a facebook social networking account, would …
Another Rural innovation.. impressive one this time
Gaon ki Awaaz, an initiative by The International Media Institute of India has been in news lately. It is yet another innovative communication based initiative in rural India. This particular initiative is impressive because the motive seems to be …
AWS cloud computing conference
The Amazon Web Services‘ Cloud Computing Conference was held at Hyatt Regency, New Delhi on 19th October. I was impressed by the organizing agencies’ skills because they personally tracked each and every registrant throughout registration process, and ensured a …
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Tagged AWS, cloud computing, map reduce, RDS, S3
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WebP: who gains?
Google announced open sourcing its so called revolutionary image format on their chrome blog.
The image format looks promising, as it claims to cut down the image size by 40% on average. Google have tested this image format …
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Tagged caffeine, GPEG, hadoop, jpeg, map reduce, page speed, webp
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a noble effort
ReactOS team has a noble cause at hand – liberating the world from Windows.
Sort of relief for the guys who are tired of windows, but still dependent on a plethora of applications that are only available on Windows.
ReactOS …
.. and he’s gone now
Thanks dear (former) minister for helping me keep my words.
This despite media’s belief that he might be able to save his skin.
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