Apple today announced its much hyped product iPad. Steve Jobs introduced the product as something in between iPhone and McBook. When he explained this, it made perfect sense to me and by the time presentation ended I wanted to get one. Price point for 16 GB device is $499 and it seems reasonable for a [...]
Four years back I bought a Sony Ericsson w700i and along with that I adopted a habit that changed a lot of things in my life. That habit is listening to podcasts and I started with the best tech podcast of all time – This Week in Tech (TWiT) by Leo Laporte. I got hooked [...]
I found out about this quiz from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on This Week in Tech (TWiT) and thought sharing this information is important. This quiz (yep, its a quiz to demonstrate how harmful they can be) tells you the data accessible to third party applications when you give these small quizzes. Worst part [...]
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Part II of The Unfinished Internet. Here Vint Cerf discusses the new challenge, how to extend Internet to different planets and what are the issues associated with TCP/IP that does now allow that.
Interplanetary Internet – Vint Cerf from Kumar Veetrag on Vimeo.
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10:51 AM – Vint Cerf is already here, presentation is up and hall is almost full.
11:01 AM – Introduced by someone from Computer Science department. Widely recognized as father of internet because of his contribution to TCP/IP. Currently holds position of Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. Pioneering work in packeting technology and won many [...]
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Earlier this year I did a podcast on Facebook platform and why it is attractive. But since then I am losing interest in Facebook’s capabilities and thus this blog post. In that podcast we discussed how Facebook connect/Google connect are going to be used as openIDs and would help build communities around external sites. Those [...]
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This post is (exactly) not about GDGT podcast, but about their founders Peter Rojas and Ryan Block. I have been following them since Peter used to work at Gizmodo and when they started Engadget.
I like the way they think and kind of perspective they bring to the table. In the gadget world which moves [...]
I faced a unique problem yesterday, while installing RAID drivers for Windows Server 2003. I have setup RAID on many Linux distributions but this was my first chance with Windows Server.
As we know, the option is to press ‘F6′ as soon as the windows setup starts and we will get a prompt at later [...]
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A set of tweets in a language I don’t understand made me think of about the problem of twitter groups. Many a when I tweet I face the problem that I am going to annoy my followers who are not interested in certain topics such as F1, Cricket or Web2 technologies. Since we have [...]
Twitter suspended the account ‘F1‘ 3 weeks back and after I lodged a complaint I got a auto-generated response 2 weeks later. I filed my request again today like this:
I own the Twitter account @f1 for more than 2 years and have 4000+ followers. I have been using it for broadcasting Formula1 related news and [...]