Fedora 17 Review: It’s an Upstream Experience
Fedora 17 came out just last week. This is the first time I’ve installed it as a desktop in more than a year — last time was Fedora 14 (or was it 13?)….
Group Micro-blogging Using WordPress
To all the Net savvy social animals out there with a Twitter, Facebook, G+ and a whole lot of StumbleUpon accounts, here is a more exciting way to get going with your latest…
Web 3.0: Building the Semantic Web
You might have come across the term “Semantic Web Applications” often, during talks about the future of Web apps. Check out what this is all about. There are two aspects to the possible…
Microsoft: We Don’t Compete with Linux, But with Linux Vendors
With initiatives like the Imagine Cup and PhoneGap Meetup, Microsoft is surely taking many steps forward to engage with open source communities across the globe, including India. At the sidelines of OSI Days…
Chrome OS: Good Gimmicks, But What Else?
I don’t own a Chomebook; and it’s been a couple of years since I’ve tried the Chrome OS — a pre-alpha release or something. Anyway, the new version came out yesterday. Most of…
Taming the Big Data Beast with Hadoop and Alternatives
Turn the clock back to 1970 — the year in which Edgar Codd published the paper “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks”. In it he described a language called…
UEFI: Should Linux Users be Worried?
Microsoft intends to capture UEFI and make GNU/Linux and other free OSs “unauthorised”! Is this true, and if so, what is the community doing about it? This article attempts to answer some questions….
NewSQL — The New Way to Handle Big Data
Big data, big data, big data! This term has been dominating information management for a while, leading to enhancements in systems, primarily databases, to handle this revolution. Though there are many alternative information…
Aseema CEO: High Time Non-telecom Device Engineers Latch on to Android Skills
Android has always been associated with the telecom industry, being an OS for mobile phones and tablets. Few are aware of the use of Android in other areas of the electronics sector. Aseema…





