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Thursday, January 27th, 2011
Introducing IWM at NMAMIT
NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte held an International Level Conference on “Computer Architecture, Networking and Applications” (IC-CANA 2011) at Mangalore on 7th and 8th January, in association with Penn State University, Harrisburg USA. The conference was co-sponsored by Nitte University, Nitte Education Trust, ISTE, NewDelhi. CSI Division-V (E&R), VTU Belgaum, TCS, EMC, Veriguide and Robosoft [...]
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Monday, January 24th, 2011
Moved to our new house
It was a long journey that took close to 27months from here to here…. And still, a lot more to do…..
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Friday, August 20th, 2010
Intel Buys McAfee: Security in the chip vs. virtual environment
This was the big news I read yesterday. Everyone talked about the price Intel is paying – $48 per share – which is 60% premium over McAfee’s previous day close of $29.93. What is Intel going to get out of this deal? I found a not-so-encouraging analysis from Forrester. One of the reasons everyone talked [...]
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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Technical Writing and Cloud Computing
One of my technical writers asked me how they can leverage cloud computing. Interesting thought!!!. From a developers perspective, we have been talking about cloud as a development and testing resource. For eg. I can easily scale up my resources using the cloud environment if I need to run a scalability test. In the past, [...]
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Did You Share Yourself Today?
I have been reading Times Life. The theme for today was sharing. A few of the captions particularly caught my attention as I myself believe in that. The author was trying to convey the message that not having enough money to donate is not a reason to hold back on sharing. You get the meaning [...]
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
ACM India Launch
I was attending ACM India Launch at Taj Residency today. ACM India was formally announced today though ACM India was active for over 3 years now. The program started with a brief introduction by Dr. Anand Deshpande. Co-Chair, ACM India, Prof Dame Wendy Hall, FRS. President, ACM and Dr. John White CEO, ACM. Dr. Rick [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Eye Safety During Solar Eclipse
We just viewed our first Solar Eclipse of the year 2010. As usual, there were many reports of losing the eye sight if you view the eclipse with a naked eye and ways of viewing the eclipse. I didn’t see much of scientific evidence to the above arguments. Why would I lose my eyesight? UV [...]
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Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Using Airtel International calling card
I have been using Airtel International calling cards for a while. Rate to US is relatively cheaper compared to the full international calling rates. Only problem I had was the long dialing procedure which used to take almost a minute to get into a conference call. I worked around the manual dialing process by storing [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
My Experiences with Sony Reader Touch
Like everyone else, I watched for the release of Sony Reader Touch with great enthusiasm. Though I prefer to read while traveling and during my free time, I was not sure that I will be that comfortable with a digital device. I checked out Sony PRS-505 at Staples and I must say that I was [...]
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Friday, November 13th, 2009
Google Buys Gizmo5
Rajesh brought this news to my notice. This is interesting for me as Gizmo5 is my VoIP provider and Google Voice provides me connectivity to all US numbers which I bridged through my Gizmo5 account. Great to see this development.
