With the end of April, one of the most anticipated project by HP has been end, reported by TechCrunch. It has been informed by TechCrunch that Hewlett-Packard allmost killed off its much ballyhooed Windows 7 tablet computer, says a source who’s been briefed on the matter.
The device was first unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer at CES 2010 in January and was supposed to hit the market in mid 2010. But source from TechCrunch informed that HP is not satisfied with Windows 7 as a tablet operating system and has terminated the project (something CrunchGear mentioned months ago).
HP may also be abandoning Intel-based hardware for its slate lineup simply because it’s too power hungry. That would also rule out Windows 7 as an operating system.
So what will HP use as an operating system? Look for Google-powered devices, which have already been announced. And HP really does seem determined to make a go of the Palm WebOS. They said how important it was to them yesterday, and they will likely experiment with porting it to a slate-type device.
Will WebOS emerge as a successful operating system for tablet devices? That seems very unlikely given the dominance of the closed Apple OS and the likely success of the open Android and Chrome operating systems from Google. To get traction from third party developers with WebOS HP will need to sell a lot of units. And it’s not clear what they’d gain from all that effort, anyway. HP knows how to build and sell hardware, not operating systems.
Let us know your comments on actual story behind. Here’s the video promoting the HP Windows tablet from January:
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) chief Natarajan Chandrasekaran has made the cut as best CEO in the country while Infosys’ Kris Gopalakrishnan has been ranked the second best by the FinanceAsia magazine.
The publication has named Mr Chandrasekaran and Mr Gopalakrishnan as best CEOs, based on a poll of over 300 investors and analysts in Asia.
FinanceAsia today published the India list for various categories, including best CEO, best CFO, best managed company, best corporate governance, best investor relations, and best corporate social responsibility.
Among the CFOs, TCS’ Sethuraman Mahalingam has been named the best in the country and is followed by Infosys’ Vibin Balakrishnan.
The magazine has named Infosys as the best managed company while Bharti Airtel has cornered the second spot.
We all think that why I am like that or more important Why I am not that some one else ?….Why Idont have that….Or Allas, I wish I could have some more………BUT…..God kept on saying that..see what do you all have….finally God said..I lost…See this Video…Amazing Power of selfbelief !!!!!
Google has integrated a virtual or on-screen keyboard into Google Search in 35 languages, including Hindi, Persian and Malayalam, that will allow users to type directly in their local language script. According to Google, if one uses Google Search in any of the supporting languages, he would see a small keyboard icon next to the search field, on both the Google homepage and search results page.
“Clicking on that keyboard icon brings up a virtual keyboard in your language. You can input text by either clicking on the on-screen keyboard or pressing the corresponding key,” Manish Bhargava, product manager, Google Internationalisation, has said. “We hope virtual keyboards help you find information more easily — especially those of you who speak/type/read in non-Latin scripts.”
Anurag Dod, founder and CEO, Guruji.com, has been arrested in Bangalore on charges of making available copies of the copyrighted musical works owned by T-Series (Super Cassettes Industries), reports MediaNama. Guruji.com, a Sequoia Capital funded search engine focused on Music Search, allows users to locate and play music from sites like Songs.pk, MusicPlug.in, PZ10.com and BollyMobile.in.
The FIR (first information report) registered in Bangalore states that this is “for infringement and displaying in Guruji.com website film songs of 1) Om Shanthi Om 2) All the best 3) Bhool Bhulaiya 4) Apka Suroor 5) Aashiq Banaya Apne which belong to Super Cassettes Industries Ltd Copy Right Owner Ship”.
Rahul Ajatshatru, legal counsel for T-Series, has said, “This is a criminal action. The police on examining the complaint filed by T-Series and examining the website, understood the modus-operandi of Guruji, and then lodged an FIR. During investigation, the offices were raided, equipments were seized, and arrests were made.”
Commenting on the arrest, T-Series VP digital content Neeraj Kalyan has said, “Guruji.com was infringing our copyright under the garb of a search engine. The website was working in nexus with some music pirate websites and was exploiting our content.”
Wall Street is the global image of Capitalism and increasingly, post the recent financial crisis, it has become the symbol for unfettered greed and casino capitalism. Mathematicians and computer nerds on the street (known as “Quants”) are the unlikely culprits as they are the ones who designed those dangerous computer programs which helped structure complex financial products, which nobody else understood and ultimately brought the US economy to its knees.
This video explores the quants’ world and tells us their side of the story and reflects on what is wrong with banking today.
How and when Google has been turned a hungry beast. A race with few biggies in IT like Microsoft, Oracle…..Google is exploring multiple options to have some say everywhere. Few important facts which stamps my theory in this Vido. Have a look and then judge yourself. Eager to listen more towards this through comments.
Few of the interesting facts which you may not be knowing about the Technology 2009. Have a close look for this video.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q75KhAeqJg&feature=related]
AOL has sold the instant messaging company ICQ to Russian investment company DST (Digital Sky Technologies) for $187.5 million. AOL had acquired the Israeli startup in June 1998 for $407 million. The sale is apparently part of AOL’s new CEO Tim Armstrong’s decision to sell all internet holdings that are not in line with the company’s strategy. AOL, the internet company spun off from Time Warner, has reported a decline of 58 per cent in its net income at $34.7 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2010, as compared to $82.7 million for the first quarter of 2009. Revenues fell by 23 per cent from $864.0 million in the first quarter of 2009 to $664.3 million in the first quarter of 2010. According to AOL, its first-quarter profit dropped on declining advertising sales.
Linux as an operating system has it’s share of victories and losses. It has been victorious on the server front with more than 90% of all webservers running on it. On the desktop front however, Microsoft has remained king. To give you a fair idea the following is the market share of OSes (desktop & mobile) as reported by internet usage data :
We see that Linux has a very dismal presence. The reason for its bad performance in the desktop space can be attributed to a lot of factors. Initially Linux was not meant to be a replacement OS at all. It was the brainchild of a student in the University of Hensinki called Linus Torvalds (hence the name). Torvalds wanted to make a unix clone for the educational community. After it’s potential was realized, big and anti-MS corporations such as IBM, Sun and Oracle started pushing their weight behind the penguin (Linux’s Mascot) and Linux gained acceptance in the Enterprise market.
It is important to note that Linux as the OS is completely free. Linux companies such as RedHat, Oracle or Novell make money on Linux by support and training. Unlike Windows Linux does not come in any single flavour. Multiple distributions offering Linux exist, and they differ esentially in look and feel but support common LINUX file standards. On the enterprise front, the most popular is Redhat Linux and Ubuntu is popular for desktops. Earlier on, What kept back people away from linux is unfamiliarity and unfriendly user interface. Application support has also been a problem as there were few useful applications for office, entertainment and internet. Cut forward to 10 years and the scenario has changed somewhat. Due to the fact that Linux is heavily supported by the community, Linux was fine tuned and made more user-friendly and more and more useful apps started showing up. It wasn’t linux alone, but included the whole open-source ecosphere which gave us great free technology such as Java and OpenOffice. The advent of web 2.0 sites and apps made native desktop applications unnecessary and mobile technology for internet use has caught up with PCs. You can do pretty much all you need on a browser.
So why is Microsoft still king?
What has really kept Microsoft unhinged has largely been Microsoft Office and proprietary file standards like FAT and NTFS. It also had to do a lot with an aggressive company maintaining it’s monopoly position by all means. But that’s another story. However in 1999 a free software called OpenOffice arrived on the scene. It was horrible free alternative to microsoft office and supported a format called odf. The company behind it was acquired bu Sun which itself got gobbled up by Oracle. It has improved by leaps and bounds and is a very capable office suite. here’s a screenshot :
Now that is a PPT clone running under windows of course, but provides the same slick functionality in Linux. then there’s online/downloadable apps like skype, messaging (GAIM), acrobat, MP3 players, basically whatver you run on windows. and a linux browser renders the web and online apps the same way a Windows browser would do.
Coming to Ubuntu, it’s a Linux flavour developed by a company called Canonical, a private company founded (and funded) by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth for the promotion of free software projects. They have been at it since 2004 and are in their 9th version. What makes this post relevant is that they are releasing the game changing 10th edition this weekend. And this is what it will look like this :
Not too shabby eh?
It will have excellent interoperability with Windows and introduces several improvement in terms of Social Network integration (facebook, twitter etc). Mind you no desktop OS (windows/mac) has done this yet. It is also entering Apple Territory with the introduction of UbuntuOne which is an iTunes like music application and will allow purchase of DRM-free music (plain MP3).
Bottomline! boys and girls. If you have a PC which still runs on WinXP or earlier and you dont do anything fancy like gaming or Media authoring, and are not dependant heavily upon Microsoft Office or native windows apps, then give Lucid Lynx a go.. It may turn out to be a cheaper and a lighter alternative to Windows 7.
Useful links : Click for review of the release and UbuntuOne
Installation Screenshots
Tech Commentary of the release
…………….. and lastly a cute pic of Tux eyeing Windows
what the first thing most of the professionals do when they come to office everyday ? Probably the same what many of us do to start our day……Logging to Internet……purpose may be different but linked with Internet. Today Internet has become one of the most prominent source of internet. Many entrepreneur has been lived upto their dream life bcoz of internet. Most of the people think that biggest source of Information is Internet. for media Internet is one of the biggest and most effective source for advertising……for many it is a part of life and can’t live without it.
But have you ever thought what is actual utilization of Internet…..OR…..how many actual & real people are using the Internet…..Have a look on this video…..
Online marketplace eBay India has introduced eBay Guarantee under which the company promises to offer eBay buyers a replacement or refund on all transactions in case they do not receive the item or are not fully satisfied with the product they purchased. According to the company, eBay Guarantee is aimed at instilling consumer confidence in online shopping. According to eBay, the guarantee covers both the product price and shipping charges and is valid on all transactions on eBay India (ebay.in) and eBay Global Easy Buy (ebay.in/geb) regardless of payment method (PaisaPay, cheque, demand draft or cash on delivery). Consumers can benefit from the eBay Guarantee by contacting eBay Customer Support online on eBay India or via email or phone. Vasundhara Bhonsle, head, operations, eBay India, has said, “Shopping on eBay has always been a delightful experience for our buyers as they get great variety, the best deals, the convenience of shopping round the clock from the comfort of their homes and finally the ease of having great items delivered right at their doorstep. However, as India is still in the early stages of online shopping some buyers tend to be concerned about the item purchased. The eBay Guarantee programme is designed to provide 100 per cent satisfaction for buyers.”
Booming online shopping gave wings to many of the entrepreneur and business ideas. Many succeed and failed also. The most important aspect one need to understand the behaviour of online shopping. A below image shows how the trend in details.
MONDAY, April 26 (HealthDay News) — A combination of four unhealthy behaviors — smoking, lack of exercise, poor diet and substantial alcohol consumption — greatly increases the risk of premature death, a new study has found. The study, published in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, included 4,886 people, aged 18 or older, who were interviewed in 1984-1985. “A health behavior score was calculated, allocating one point for each poor behavior: smoking; fruits and vegetables consumed less than three times daily; less than two hours of physical activity per week; and weekly consumption of more than 14 units [one unit equals 8 grams, or about 0.3 ounces] of alcohol (in women) and more than 21 units in men,” wrote Elisabeth Kvaavik, of the University of Oslo, and colleagues. Over an average follow-up period of 20 years, there were 1,080 reported deaths among study participants: 431 due to cardiovascular disease, 318 due to cancer and 331 due to other causes. Compared to those with no bad health habits, those with all four unhealthy behaviors were about three times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease or cancer, four times more likely to die from all other causes, and had an overall death risk equivalent to being 12 years older. “Modest but achievable adjustments to lifestyle behaviors are likely to have a considerable impact at both the individual and population level,” the researchers concluded. “Developing more efficacious methods by which to promote healthy diets and lifestyles across the population should be an important priority of public health policy.”
