Tag: Google
A Peek Into the Hadoop Distributed File System
HDFS is a core component of the Hadoop package. It is an open source implementation of the distributed file system on the lines of...
Use XMPP to Create Your Own Google Talk Client
Instant communication is the essence of social networking and the Internet. The popular Google Talk, which uses XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), made...
Fedora 17 Review: It’s an Upstream Experience
Fedora 17 came out just last week. This is the first time I've installed it as a desktop in more than a year --...
Group Micro-blogging Using WordPress
To all the Net savvy social animals out there with a Twitter, Facebook, G+ and a whole lot of StumbleUpon accounts, here is a...
Web 3.0: Building the Semantic Web
You might have come across the term "Semantic Web Applications" often, during talks about the future of Web apps. Check out what this is...
Microsoft: We Don’t Compete with Linux, But with Linux Vendors
With initiatives like the Imagine Cup and PhoneGap Meetup, Microsoft is surely taking many steps forward to engage with open source communities across the...
Chrome OS: Good Gimmicks, But What Else?
I don't own a Chomebook; and it's been a couple of years since I've tried the Chrome OS -- a pre-alpha release or something....
Taming the Big Data Beast with Hadoop and Alternatives
Turn the clock back to 1970 -- the year in which Edgar Codd published the paper "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared...
UEFI: Should Linux Users be Worried?
Microsoft intends to capture UEFI and make GNU/Linux and other free OSs "unauthorised"! Is this true, and if so, what is the community doing...
NewSQL — The New Way to Handle Big Data
Big data, big data, big data! This term has been dominating information management for a while, leading to enhancements in systems, primarily databases, to...
