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A Training Institution that’s Going Places, while Breaking New Ground!

By targeting students from distant shores, a training and certification institution
has created a lucrative offshore travel-cum-training certification business that
could be the forerunner of a BPO-scale industry!

Ubuntu 9.10 Unleashed, Amid Windows 7 & Snow Leopard

The latest Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala gets reviewed, along with the GNOME 2.28 desktop environment.

SubConf 2009 – A Report (Day 3)

The talks in day-3’s agenda was mostly concerned on Software Configuration Management and general concepts.

SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 2)

Oct 29, ‘09, marked the Day 2 of SubConf 2009 in which there were plans for many talks by prominent subversion developers and others.

SubConf 2009 — A Report (Day 1)

1st day of the Subversion conference, 2009 — 2 events planned were the “Subversion Hackathon” and “Subversion Developers RoundTable”.

Hackfest @ Shaastra ‘09, IIT Madras

I was never into coding/development for FOSS. Though I had decent coding skills in some languages, I had never gotten the opportunity to develop mainstream FOSS. When I was told about HackFest at Shaastra ‘09, I decided to give the event a try.

WACOM Launches Interactive and Multi-Touch Tablets with Bamboo

It has been a while that WACOM is noted as a leading tablet manufacturer, among the graphic designers. However, this is the first time they launched a series of products that could not just be used by the designers, but by the “aam junta” as well, with equal ease.

ZOHO launched Discussions

Web-based productivity suite Zoho has focused in creating plenty of social tools to make the discussions more engaging and has recently launched a brand new product called Zoho Discussions.

Jolicloud: The New Social OS for Netbooks

Jolicloud is an OS based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and designed specifically for netbooks. The beta version gets released, very soon.

Nero Linux 4: Reviving CD/DVD Burning on Linux

Touted as one of the most prominent burning suite for Windows, Nero didn’t stand back when Linux is concerned either. Following their trend of providing unblemished Burning suite for Linux, Nero recently updated their Linux offering and introduced a new version tagged as Nero 4.