Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

India Unveils World’s Cheapest $10 Laptop

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The 'world's cheapest laptop', developed in India, was unveiled by Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening. The laptop, jointly developed by several organisations, such as the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will ...

Technology In 2008, Some Important Trends And Events

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

A number of technologies have exploded throughout 2008, improving and influencing our daily life. Here is a quick look at some of the technology events that happened during 2008. Big Bang Experiment: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of ...

How Much Is The Software In A Linux Distribution Worth?

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

The Linux operating system is the most successful open source project in history, but just how much is the software in a Linux distribution "worth"? The Linux operating system is the most popular ...

Nokia OVI Mail Beta Is Live Now

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

If you are one of the 110 million Nokia phone users around the world, now you can set up your Ovi email account directly on your Nokia phone using the recently announced 'Mail on OVI' Beta. Mail on Ovi, the free email account from Nokia, is now 'live' and can be ...

NVIDIA Unveils World’s First Personal Supercomputer

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled. The NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores. Until now, supercomputers were massive systems made up of thousands ...

Mobile Application Architecture Pocket Guide

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Microsoft’s pattern and practice team released a pocket architecture guide for Windows mobile developers as well as for architectures. Windows Mobile Application architecture pocket guide provides real world information and best practices for mobile development. The purpose of the Mobile Application Architecture Pocket Guide is to improve your Effectiveness when building ...