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I have not been able to post much recently. But i just had to share the following post about working culture in big companies.http://theonda.org/articles/2009/07/03/work-and-meaning

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On the career front, at last I have some updates since the last post. I have landed a job as an independent consultant for a small company for some months and would be working on packetcable 2.0 IMS client for cable modem device. Well, something is better than nothing and the good thing is that I am earning and do not have to think zillion times while spending on even the basic stuff. I know, I

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Well, it's been a while since my last post. And a lot of things have happened since then, which have kept me busy and away from posting.image courtesy n0rI was let go off from my company more than a fortnight back. Since then I have been looking for a job, trying to get in touch with my friends and old colleagues to see if they have anything in their organizations that fit my skill set. And have

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Well, what more can I say - Gmail is now powered by Gears. Read about the announcement and details here...Google started off with reader and now gmail.  I see them enabling all their apps with Gears and this is the next step in making all the desktop apps irrelevant.  And they have all the right tools and pieces in hand to achieve that. The tools - Gears, the client - Chrome (& firefox?), the

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Mobile Monday meet/event for Jan 2009 is being held on 28 January 2009, from 6:30pm onwards at Sasken office. The registration is free but the number is limited, so rush for it.The schedule isTalk by Ashish Sinha on "Is Voice the King of VAS?"Demo of VoicePHP by Yusuf Motiwala, CEO of Tringme.I am curious and looking forward to the demo of VoicePHP.All the details including registration can be

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If you are familiar with facebook (or for that matter, any one of the gazillion social networking applications out there), there is a way for a user to set his status - any random string. Just like one can set a custom message on his favorite IM client. One of my friend was exploring the facebook REST api's and was trying to set the status via the REST api. Now facebook has a peculiar feature

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11th grade11th grade

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The book "Higher Order Perl" authored by Mark Jason Dominus is available for free download. Go grab it here....

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As I had indicated in my earlier post, Net::SIP module for perl really streamlines a lot of the things for quick testing and automation. Net::SIP provides the SIP framework using which one can develop any of the SIP entity functionalities like Registrar, Proxy, UA, etc.Net::SIP has a lot more associated modules, that help whip up some specific SIP entities in a couple of hours. Like for eg: Net::

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What if the Matrix was running Windows?What does Neo need to beat the Matrix? - ubuntu

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By Guy KawasakiThe Art of Laying People Off

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An interesting read...

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What does Google intend to do? Put SEO's (Search Engine Optimization) out of job!Google SEO Starter Guide

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I have been working with SIP(Session Initiation Protocol) and VoIP in general on and off for many years now. And I have been using perl whenever I could to automate stuff like testing, generate testcases, during performance testing and for recreating scenarios and fixing issues that occur at interops or at remote sites by analyzing the logs.And uptill now, I had used some very primitive level

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Activeperl from ActiveState has been the predominant flavour of perl used by many over the years. In addition to the core perl, the package release includes some of the mostly used modules and some win32 specific modules which make the life easier for a developer if he is developing anything for Windows. It also has ppm tool which is quite handful for querying and installing modules and packages

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This post is to just communicate to all the penguin lovers about the personal family blog of one of their leaders.Linus Torvalds has a personal family blog over here, where he talks of mostly non-linux stuff.

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ubuntu 8.10 for desktop as well as server is available. Personally I would not be upgrading to the new desktop version for now since the new features in this release are not exciting or useful for me. Some of the key features are3G packet connectivity Guest sessionsGnome 2.24 desktopDetails release notes is here....

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Long time, no post!The long weekend has given me some time to again tinker around with sandbox - my old desktop at home. It had been pretty much been sitting idle for sometime now.Well, I have just upgraded my ubuntu distribution to 8.04 (Hardy Heron). And 8.10 is just couple of days away :). There was no urge as such to upgrade. However, I was tinkering with some open source projects (to keep

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This blog post pretty much sums up the implications for mobile industry of Nokia buying out rest of the stake in symbian and making it royalty free and open source.Nokia had acquired Trolltech sometime back. I was assuming they would port Trolltech QT interface to their symbian platforms (S60, S40...) in addition to their tablet linux platform to provide similar look and feel interface across all

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Many of the bloggers have been critical of twitter's instability and of it going down frequently against heavy traffic. This has been attributed by many to the use of RoR framework, rails architecture, ruby speed, database issues, twitter api interface, and so on. One thing to note here is that all the twitter clients keep flooding the twitter server every x seconds, traditionally known as

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Karan Bajaj is the newest entrant to the Indian author scene. His first book "Keep off the Grass" (KOTG) just released last month and has been fairly well received by the audience.KOTG is yet another of those books whose characters and strory revolves around India's top educational institutions and in this case, IIMB. I am not sure if Karan had any inspiration for penning this book from Chatan

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I managed to read the third book by Chetan Bhagat - "the 3 mistakes of my life" a while back.As it is with Chetan's earlier 2 books, this is again a story based on Indian youth generation. And unlike the earlier books that centred around IIT life and call centre, this one is based on the entrepreneurship and the struggle the main protagonists go through with cricket and religion mixed in.This

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For many of us who have used the google maps, yahoo maps and mapquest for driving directions while abroad and wondered when we could get the same utility for Bangalore, we have some options. In fact they have been around for sometime, but I hadn't noticed them.BTIS (Bangalore Traffic Information System) - Provides directions and live traffic conditionsYahoo! India maps

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As most of you might already know, Adobe released Flash 10 beta (code named Astro) version some days back. Its available for the developers and early testers to play around at Adobe labs.I am not a flash developer nor do I work with any of the other Adobe technologies (Apollo, AIR,...). However one key feature of the Flash 10 release caught my eye among a host of other features. Flash Player 10

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This month's Mobile Monday talk was held on 28th April at Nokia premises and was sponsored by Nokia. Ashish Thomas from Singtel group talked on "Steady Innovation for Future Mobile Services". And then Ganapathy Subramaniam from MyDuniya showed some demo of their service platform and the various services available. To conclude, a Forum Nokia representative explained the various developer

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I attended the talk on Rich Internet Applications (RIA) by Mrinal Wadhwa at this month's ACM monthly talk held at the Computer Society of India premises on 26th April, saturday.The subject matter of the talk was really quiet alien to me but given the buzz around AIR, Silverlight and AJAX and given that this was an introductory session, I attended the talk anyways. The attendance was quite good

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Startup School 2008 is one of the initiatives sponsored by the YC folks. This time it was held on 19th April and the guest talks featured some of the most eminent folks of our industry including Jeff Bezos, Paul Graham, DHH, Michael Arrington and Marc Andreessen. The videos are available at justin.tv and omnisio. The talks that are available at omnisio are great, the video and audio quality is

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Once again barcamp time. The 6th edition of Barcamp Bangalore will be held on 19th and 20th april at IIMB. As during previous versions, expect a lot of interesting talks and interactive sessions.

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The look and feel of any web page depends on the CSS style sheet specified by the author of the web page and the CSS style sheet chosen by the user as per his need or preference. The browser applies these stylesheets in a methodical way and the result is what you witness in the browser.Stylish is a firefox extension which utilises the above concept to make the web sites look more stylish and

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I have been having some really calm and idle days at work lately. That gave me enough reason to get back to reading some interesting tech stories and biographies, something I really enjoy.Couple of weeks back, I bought probably a must-read book for aspiring entrepreneurs - Starting Something: An Entrepreneur's Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture by Wayne McVicker. The book details

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Hackers say that "ideas are worthless", Entrepreneurs (non-tech) might say that "its all about THE idea, people are not all that important". Paul puts forward his views over here about this debate.

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Though as much as I hate dealing with the verbose xml format, xml has become so ubiquitous that one can no longer ignore it. Hence I decided to play around a little with xml and ruby on my ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy Gibbon). The most obvious and easier way to deal with xml on ruby is using rexml. However, if performance is your need then one will have to use the ruby bindings to the libxml library (which

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Couple of thought provoking videos... to ponder about... I need not add anything else.

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Along the lines of Barcamp, DevCamp is another unconference that is being organised on 9th Feb. However this is more focused towards the software development community. This is the first DevCamp session and will be held at ThoughtWorks office at Bangalore. The venue and session details are on the DevCamp wiki page.The number of registrations have already exceeded the planned capacity and there

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I have been waiting for these videos for long. Now that Railsconf 2008 registrations are open, the Railsconf 2007 videos are available. Though I have not yet had time to view all of them, I have noticed that the slides are not visible in the videos which is unfortunate.

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The workplaces in any startup are bare of any extravagant furnitures and cabin rooms. The mantra is to keep working towards the issues at hand and leave everything else behind. Here are couple of snapshots of some web 2.0 startups. There is a lot that the corporate setups (rather people working for them) can learn from these folks. As a programmer, it's so inspiring to see another programmer

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I have been busy for the past couple of weeks trying to breathe some life into an old PC/desktop. This system was not with me for the last 3 years. And it has been an exciting and tiring journey since then. It didn't have a network adapter card (I had assembled this one almost 6 years back and in those days the motherboards didn't come with built-in network adapter and sound card). I got an

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Ruby version 1.9 has been released, as Matz had indicated earlier that he would do so on Christmas eve. Mind you, this is a development release and not to be put in production servers. However, one of the interesting things about this release is the speed compared to 1.8 series. I haven't run any comparision tests, but following the tests run from other folks it seems 1.9 release runs about 3

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How often don't we see people just suddenly ceasing to learn something new once they reach a certain stage? This is especially more applicable when one is involved in a knowledge based industry. The Indian technology industry has been spinning out more and more software engineers who are more concerned with the pay and less passionate about the work. Hence once the initial enthusiasm dies down

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Django has been a worthy competitor to rails so far. For the folks who are new to django, it is a web framework written in python and incorporates much of the principles as rails. However, django has been comparitively lacking much of the developer involvement, documentation and publicity that rails boasts of. Django Book - an online free ebook has been released, which is written by the django

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Nokia has taken notice of the consumer interest in Apple iphone, it's touch based interface and the UI. This video from Nokia has the iphone interface which we can expect from Nokia devices next year.

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The much anticipated 2.0 release of rails is out. Its been almost an year in the making. DHH has a detailed post about the release and how one can upgrade to the same.

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InstantRails has been a really nice and easy way for any novice to get started with RoR and web development. However its further development has been discontinued now and is no longer maintained. Another alternative for RoR complete solution is rubystack from Bitnami folks. Instantrails was packaged as a zip file whereas rubystack is an installable. Haven't tried it yet but will definitely give

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Even though RSS is widely used by the blogosphere and a large bunch of technical folks are aware of it, the knowledge and use of RSS by common end users has been far from satisfactory. This is a great howto article on RSS and explains how one can use RSS for their needs and the best known online and offline news readers one can use.

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I received this lesson via mail the other day. Not sure who the author is but the lesson for sure seems to make sense...atleast to some of usNote: Click on the image to read it...

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One of the ways to improve the user's perception of the website performance is to reduce the number of HTTP requests while loading a page for stuff such as additional images. CSS Sprites is a way to reduce the same and improve the web performance. You can read more about CSS Sprites here... and appreciate it.

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With this post, wanted to share some more info and resources on RoR.Peter Marklund has shared the slides of his 5 day introductory course on Ruby on Rails. The slides are quite exhaustive and lengthy (341 slides) and cover everything from MVC, ActiveRecord, Migrations, routing and deployment options.Heroku is a new venture that addresses the deployment aspect of RoR. People who are new to rails

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In an earlier post last week, I had penned my initial thoughts about the Android mobile OS/platform from Google. Just wanted to share some more information that I have come across.The early peek of Android SDK is now available for the developers to play with for Windows, Linux and the Mac. There are some videos explaining about the android development, APIs as well as some about the android

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The much awaited Barcamp 5 Bangalore winter edition (bcb5) will held on 17th and 18th of Nov (that is this weekend) at IIM Bangalore. I missed the last one due to personal reasons, and it's tentative this time as well. Though I am really interested in attending couple of sessions.For those interested, register yourself and the pick the collectives you are interested in. The sessions I am

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Google announced the establishment of the open handset alliance yesterday and also announced android, the free and open mobile platform. The alliance has more than 30 technology and mobile companies including most of the handset vendors and chip manufacturers and some of the operators as well. The mobile manufactuers as of now include Samsung, LG, Motorola and HTC.Android would be based on Linux

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YC (Y Combinator) folks put up an ad for their Summer Founder Program in The Stanford Daily newspaper. Y Combinator is a venture firm specializing in funding early stage startups (seed funding). Paul Graham is one of the partners at YC. The ad is quite cheeky and well conceived...Note: This photo was orginally shared by Martin Davidsson on Flickr under Creative Commons.

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Robert Read has written a nice article titled "How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary". As the title suggests, it as his views and ideas on what it takes to be a good programmer. Just couldn't resist the urge to share this with you all...

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As most of you might have known already, OpenSocial has been launched by Google along with some of the other members of the social networking web community. OpenSocial seeks to provide a common set of APIs based on Javascript and HTML that developers can use to pull social data from websites who are confirming to the OpenSocial interface.As of now, the web community consists of Engage.com,

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The convergence of web and voice is almost here. Couple of developments in the recent weeks have convinced me of the same.Tringme - Offers widgets that one can place on the websites and blogs and incase any visitor needs to interact with them, the visitor can just click on the widget and within no time would be talking to the concerned person. A pretty simple example would be customer support.

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GeekTorrent is a new torrent tracker site for programming, technical and gaming related screencasts and videos. As per the site, it has been written purely in django and its good to see newer web frameworks such as django and RoR slowly penetrating the world which was dominated by php.Right now there are not many videos in the programming and technology sections which I am keen about. But I hope

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The preview release of Rails 2.0 is out. This is a precursor to the public release. DHH has a detailed post about the same which includes instructions on how to upgrade to this release as well as changes in 2.0.

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Patrick Lenz's book - "Build your own Ruby on Rails web applications" is available for free download for the next 60 days. Guys interested in RoR can check out the same...

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On this Labor day, Seth Godin has written a nice post on hard work in current times. As he says, working harder is not about spending longer hours or slogging during the weekend. In his words,"It's hard work to make difficult emotional decisions, such as quitting a job and setting out on your own. It's hard work to invent a new system, service, or process that's remarkable. It's hard work to

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Satish Talim is one of the better known Ruby language hobbyists in India. He has started free ruby lessons on his ruby learning forum, where one can learn along with the other interested folks.Given the limited penetration of ruby language among the programmers in India, this is a good opportunity for folks to learn this upcoming dynamic language.

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Jeff Haynie has written an excellent post on what matters for entrepreneurship. Its not ideas that matter a lot but the execution part. Especially for folks who have full-time jobs, or don't have funds or are out of job. I have seen and heard from many friends and colleagues about different ideas and plans. Even I have ideas. But they remain ideas. And end up creating a lot of frustration if one

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Paul Graham talks about the reasons why people do not want to start a startup in his latest essay. Definitely a must read.Go check out the essay...

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Apple has been finding it difficult to patent the highly acclaimed and appreciated thumb wheel interface that it engineered for iPod way back in 2002. More info here...

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A must see video about the firefox vs IE war.... I wonder how the response would be if his video were to be shot at one of the universities in India. I am not sure how much students in India are aware about Firefox. Anyway, go have a look at the Firefox Flicks campaign, that's been initiated to promote the launch of Firefox 1.5.

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Here is an interesting article on the speeds of the various browsers for each of the target platforms. Quite interesting figures. Of course, its left to you how much you want to believe it. In brief, this is what the analysis recommends for each platform 1. Windows - Opera is the fastest 2. Linux - Konqueror 3. Mac - Opera and Safari

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Firefox has clocked 100 million downloads. wow!!. It's an incredible feat considering that it has been achieved in less than a year. Way to go firefox.... I am now more eagerly waiting for the 1.5 final release...

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At last Google has some competition in blog search from Sphere. Though it is yet in beta, and about to be unveiled in a couple of weeks. Sphere claim to have faster blog search performance and uses new relevance-based algorithms. Lets wait for the covers to come off...

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CNET News.com has published the top 100 Blogs. They have categorized them into different sections depending on the purpose these blogs cater to. Checkout here...

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"In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears - and that is our problem" - says Thomas L Friedman in his book 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century'. Checkout 'Chapter 1 While I Was Sleeping' here...

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Check it out here...

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Well, most of the americans have a serious difficulty with geography. May be even George Bush will respond in the same way...if asked to locate Iran on a map.. Go checkout the video here...

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My favourite firefox extension that's right there on top of my list is 'ReminderFox'. Since I spend so much of my time using the browser, it helps to have some utility that helps you to keep you organized. Especially for an unorganized person like me... I am desperately waiting for Lightning from mozilla folks, hopefully we will have a 0.1 release in Nov 2005. I hope it meets the expectations of

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Speculation about the unveiling of a video capable iPod are rampant on the net. Apple is hosting a special launch event next week on Oct 12. Curious what Steve will get out of his pocket this time...

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Well, browser is market is again abuzz with activity. Back in 2000-01 when Microsoft stopped working on the IE after it had won the browser war against Netscape, everybody thought that that's the end to the browser war. It was perceived as if there was no fresh ideas and innovation needed. IE was thrashing all the web standards apart by imposing their own extensions. IE was the undefeated king

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Motorola looks set to gain some more market share away from Nokia and other low-segment vendors with the introduction of 5 new handsets - C118, C139, C168, C257 and C261. Some are thin, some fat, some with FM Radios, Cameras and a Lantern, but all with a stylish design.

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There's an article on firefox at O'reilly by Brian King. Anybody new to firefox needs to read it. Check it out here.

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Firefox version 1.0.7 has been released which has some bug fixes and security updated. Not sure if these fixes are already part of 1.5 beta!.

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Opera has decided to be freeware rather than adware. That means now one wont see an ad bar and this simplifies the user interface. This is a rather sudden turn around for Opera since they always considered themselves for niche markets and power users.

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Firefox makes it to the CNET's Top 10 products (digital living). Others as expected include the iPod and Google apart from others. Complete list here.

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Google launched the blog search yesterday. Accessible at http://www.google.com/blogsearch or search.blogger.com.

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Here is a review of the new Apple iPod Nano unveiled last week. The Nano shows that Apple isn’t sitting on its laurels - it's evolving the iPod and expanding its market appeal.

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As per sources, EBay is to buy Skype in deal worth $4.1 bln. More details here.

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Here it is...Firefox 1.5 beta 1 is out. Just installed it and looks fine till now. No problems so far. And this release is for testing purposes only. The regular users should go for the stable Firefox 1.0.6 release. That makes me a beta tester of firefox :). In case you want to try out this beta release, go get your own FF.

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Well, I have recently taken up reading the book "The Pragmatic Programmers: From Jorneyman to Master" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. My comments are reserved for later once I finish... From the stable of Pragmatic Bokshelf, I came across yet another new book titled "My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job" by Chad Fowler. I just read the introduction and couple of other sample chapters

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Last week I read the book "Barbarians led by Bill Gates". It was quite fascinating and I completed it in 3 days flat which included a holiday. Bill gates and microsoft are topics that never cease to fascinate me. Further, there is another novel called "Five point Someone" written by Ashwat Bhagwad about his college days in IIT while doing his graduation. You just cant keep the book down once you

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Its been quite a while since I updated the blog. Quite a few things are happening that have got me curious... 1. Rumours are up again about the iphone from Motorola that has the iTunes client from Apple. Cingular is supposed to be the operator. The day is Sept 7th and I am looking forward to it with great expectations and how customers will react to this. 2. This is an old news. Google talk was

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Qualcomm has announced intentions to buy Flarion, the pioneer of Flash-OFDM for mobile IP based broadband services. Flarion was desperate since it had many trials going but, no commitment from any operators. Its sad to see a kid in telecom being bought. Especially an European one. However, Qualcomm is set to gain with this. Considering the fact that its Media Flow Technology is based on OFDM.

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Found some really cool firefox wallpapers. Check them out.... 1. http://www.isolated-designs.net/stuff/firefox.jpg 2 .http://www.isolated-designs.net/stuff/isolated-designs-firefox-wallpaper-2.jpg

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An interview of Henning Schulzrinne of Columbia University by Jeff Pulver (FWD founder). The interview goes into details of SIP, it's future and the implications for SIP from Skype. go read it here.

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That's the message from Steve Jobs to Stanford grads. Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never

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Xten is certainly going places as it's eyeBeam SDK was licensed by Portugal Telecom.

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Here is an interview with Linux Torvalds, the person behind Linux.

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Yahoo has acquired Dialpad, an IP voice solutions provider. In order to bolster its IM based service, it was on the lookout for a VoIP service, which it could easily integrate into it's yahoo messenger. The acquisition has laid to rest the rumours going around that Yahoo was planning to acquired Skype. Now, Skype has another competitor in the IP based Voip and IM service.

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Finally, BT has announced launch of BluePhone as well as the fixed-mobile convergence service. This has been a long-awaited service. The convergence is achieved using UMA technology, and UMA has since then been integrated into 3GPP. Everybody is curious how will this be embraced by the customers. I guess, this is one of the first commercial convergence services being deployed. The Bluephone is

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Sun has decided to open up the source code for its much touted Solaris OS. This Sun hopes, would help it to compete more effectively against the likes of Redhat and IBM. Check out the code at here.

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VoIP start-up Telesym is closing down. The company pioneered in VoIP and was one of the promising companies prior to 2004 in the VoIP field. Here is an inside story of how the company started off and the reasons why it had to shutdown. Make for interesting read. Software startup TeleSym calls it quits

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As expected Firefox is THE best product of 2005. Well among browsers, I see Maxthon at #12 and opera way down at #88. As expected, Skype is on the list at #8. go checkout 'The 100 Best Products of 2005'.

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Came across one more cool free browser called maxthon. Looks quite lean and fast and there are a lot of stuff that one can configure. All together a powerful browser... But hey, I am not planning to switch from my fav browser firefox. :)

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Was a quiet day yesterday. Spent quite a bit of time trying to get klocwork tool running on solaris.Watched the funny movie Happy Gillmore on TV yesterday night starring Adam Sandler. Adam Sandler is terrific in the movie. It had been quite a while since I had watched a comedy sports movie, and I guess the first one based on golf.

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Hi folks,Welcome to my world. Just got the courage and motivation to start my own blog with help from Murli.Watch out this space for more updates.

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