A (Larra)Bee in Intel’s bonnet : The real nVidia and AMD story

THIS is one superbly researched, behind-the-scenes, whistle blower article. Wow. A window into the murky world of billion dollar CPU and graphics designs. Personally, I am rooting for nVidia (thanks for the Linux support!). But, just last week I built a machine for virtualization – Quad X4 620, on a Gigabyte 785GS board with integrated [...]

iPhone OS 4.0: is it low-power, multitasking heaven?

Q. What is the difference between iPhone OS and Android? A. Android (or even Pre’s WebOS) is a multi-tasking operating system – which means you can check your email while Pandora’s music is playing in the background. You cannot do this with the iPhone . Q. Err.. why? A. Because Apple claims to have tested [...]

S40: How Yahoo can take over the mobile world

Very easy – the strategy is to take a huge ignored segment and hijack them with an offering to knock them off their feet. Huh? One of the interesting news released today is Nokia prepping an App Store with almost 20K apps. The problem with this story is that it is going to be restricted [...]

Global chip sales reverse trend

The Semiconductor Industry Association issued a press release that the sales for semiconductors in March rose to 14.7 billion USD from 14.2 billion USD, the month before. One of the possible reasons it comments is that, chip buyers have used up their inventories. Well if that is true, it bodes well for the IT industry [...]

Hi Jaunty

The latest and greatest Ubuntu release Jaunty Jackalope is here. I prefer mine in the KDE flavor, with the Skulpture theme, the excellent Droid fonts and switching on autohinting. In case of using KDE, also remember to install the “gtk-qt-engine” for better looking Firefox. For first timers, I would suggest the Gnome flavor. It comes [...]

A Business case for Infosys to deploy its “bench” towards FOSS

This is an open letter to several of India’s IT offshoring companies, who are suffering the problem of too much idle manpower to utilize this lean period to contribute towards Free and Open Source Software and in the process gather free PR and Marketing, as well as expose their employees to excellent mentorship. Dear Project [...]

Transmeta and the Ipod

What does Transmeta and the Ipod have in common? Well, that question was posed by this post and its comments .The question was, did Transmeta never have a foot to stand on in the first place? I dont think so. Take a look at this article. What we have here is a prediction that 30% [...]

Antivirus shootdown

As the resident geek, I am often asked about which antivirus I use on my WinXP PC (for those times I need to update my Zune…sigh). The products I use are not very well known among those who know about antivirus, but they have 3 features to love – they are good, they are lightweight, [...]

Build an el-cheapo hi-def portable audio system

So what do you use to listen to “music” ?  Any music-player with its supplied earbuds, right.. in which you play your 192 kbps mp3s. Let’s take the red pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes. First.. dump mp3s. Period. FLAC, ALAC (if you are too closely tied to iPod + iTunes), WMA [...]

Thar she flows!!!!

Oh it hurts so much … in India, we have been living under the looming spectre of oil prices. And right now, when Im staggering bewildered asto how it came to pass and trying unsuccessfully to supress my anguish at them oil kings, I came across this post which puts it all into some kind [...]