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Blogged by Nitin

The introduction of Bing as the new ‘avatar’ of Live Search from Microsoft has undoubtedly left the users in a paradox,competition in SE domain has never looked more farce than fierce .The Bing making its much hyped (trumpeted) re-entry or say reincarnation, Google vengefully coming out with Chrome, Microsoft feeling the jitters and heating up talks with Yahoo for a tie up,its all happening and its happening fast, so a MIcroHoo or say a YaSoft is very much on the cards.With Google going Goo Goo and Microsoft going Gaa Gaa  about their respective products..some progressive display of marketing histrionics from both sides would certainly suffice for the entertainment the software industry has long been yearning post recession.  Read more... (727 words, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)

Graphics Cards

Blogged by Shachi Paul

Ever wondered how you are able to see the fast paced pictures on your desktop, laptop or mobile devices??? What makes the gaming experience worthwhile for all the gaming enthusiasts??? It’s the video adapter or the Graphics Card(GC).

The images that you see on your monitor are made up of tiny dots called pixels. At most common resolution settings, a screen displays over a million pixels and the computer has to decide what to do with every one in order to create an image. To do this, it needs a translator – something to take binary data from the CPU and turn it into a picture you can see – this translation takes place on the graphics card.  Read more... (738 words, 1 image, estimated 2:57 mins reading time)

(Blogged by Nitin)

Google, the 800 pound gorilla ,as rhetorical it may sound but yes, one should avoid any reservations in accepting that it is undoubtedly the most prevalent search engine today ,accounting for about 85 percent of the search engine traffic. The launch of Google has certainly laid down the strategic traversal path for other large scale search engines . Undermining its algorithmic complexity would certainly be a mistake, though it might be encouraging to know that Google progresses with a set of rather simple recursive mathematical formulas. The algorithmic development of Google can be better visualized in the form an evolutionary story, its inherent zeal of keeping in sync with the ever growing demand for query satisfaction is precisely what makes Google so successful today.  Read more... (1415 words, estimated 5:40 mins reading time)

An interesting white paper i came across regarding virtualization using open source is this one from Sun’s open source labs

https://www.sun.com/offers/docs/open_virtualization.pdf

Blogged by Akshay

The speakers were Sandeep Agrawal and Nitin Bajaj, professionals currently working with TCS. Sandeep Agrawal is an Account Manager at TCS for the wireless and wireline customers of TCS. Nitin Bajaj is an Alliance Manager for a leading telecom equipment vendor.

The workshop discussed the new technologies coming  in the near future. There is greater emphasis  on software  rather than hardware. New services and applications are being launched by the companies. Winning Formula involves hardware design, user interface, software and online services. Telecom value chain pyramid is:

Some of the equipment manufacturers are Nokia and Ericsson. JDSU and Agilent are Test  And Measurement vendors. Examples of service providers are Airtel and Vodafone.

A shift in technology is taking place from GSM to3G.UMTS,WiMax,HSPD(High Speed Packet Data),LTE(Long Term Evaluation) will be launched in India in the near future.  Read more... (272 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)

Live blogged by Vrinda.

The next session was a presentation session about a project by Narendra Sissodiya called “Eduvid”.

Eduvid is a whiteboarding and presentation tool, an e-learning platform. Eduvid creates automated slideshow based on presentations timings which are recorded automatically in browser.
They have not completed this project yet,this project is still under construction.

The project’s presentation can be reached at the following link http://www.slideshare.net/narendra.sisodiya/project-eduvid-presentation

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At around we started off with a informal discussion about the Creative Commons License by Ankur Banerjee.

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.

He quite well unambiguated Creative Commons License. With a Creative Commons license, you keep your copyright but allow people to copy and distribute your work provided they give you credit — and only on the conditions you specify at the license generator.  Read more... (308 words, estimated 1:14 mins reading time)

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At around 2:30 we started with a session on “SCALA” by Vikas and Meetu.

It has been stated that Scala is ‘Java as it should have been’, but there are also numerous complaints about the language and its features (like not being side effect free, overly complex, too much of everything, too much abstraction, having a weird syntax, etc). The latter might actually be a proof of its popularity, since people seem to be actually using the language instead of just looking at it briefly and stopping, tired but happy, after having written hello world with it. Scala has become more and more popular over the recent months/years. Its hybrid nature of being an imperative as well as functional language attracts a crowd from the Java world as well as functional fundamentalists coming from the world where statements like x=x+1 are looked at with the utter disbelief.  Read more... (259 words, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

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At around 2 30 we began with a session on “Rules with Drools ” by Saket and Gaurav.

Rule engine solutions have been known for their complexities in terms of usage. Most of the rule engines are available as commercial solutions. Drools has been in the market for quite some time now, and after taken over by Jboss, it has matured to offer more than just a rule engine.This session would be about, how rule engines(basically drools) can be used in an enterprise application(J2EE for example), and in ways it can add to the application.

It was basically a Demo session.

Drools is a business rule management system (BRMS) with a forward chaining inference based rules engine, more correctly known as a production rule system, using an enhanced implementation of the Rete algorithm.  Read more... (268 words, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

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The talk  was given by Anil Yadav, it started around 1:00pm. This was a talk about Datamogration to MySql.

There was a presentation regarding migration of database to MySQL. It focussed on how it was a major advantage while migrating from Oracle  to MySQL. We can also migrate database from any DBMS to MySQL. Migration of PL/SQL is also totally possible now.

It is highly flexible and can be customised to quite an extent in migration depending on your needs, demands, user requirement.