t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

Zdnet ran an interview with Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla (the person who worked on Netscape and father of Javascript) in one of their shows, “_super_ _techies_”. A must watch, sincere and awe inspiring interview, especially for those who are thinking of breaking through to the IT industries.
Watch the video here.

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I was trying to get work done today when all of a sudden, my internet connection started to crawl to snail-speed. And it has been happening quite often lately. It’s so frequent that I find it unproductive to do work online at times! Initially, I thought I was the only soul experiencing the speed problem. […]

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With the advancement in wireless technology, WiMax (IEEE 802.16e) is touted to be the next generation wireless broadband connection. And with speeds attainable up to 40-70Mbps, WiMax has a great potential to compete with existing wireless broadband networks such as 3G/3.5G and WiFi networks. However, in some countries, the adoption of WiMax tends to be […]

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Today is really not my day. I woke up at 9 am to look for articles/inspirations to blog when I realised that my Google ads are gone! At first I thought it was just a script error and I decided to check on my adsense account and my script tags. Upon logging into my adsense […]

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Berkeley (CA) – Remarkable research findings on energy conversion have been published in the most recent edition of Nature: Scientists believe to have discovered a much more efficient way to use silicon to convert heat into electricity – for use in a variety of products ranging from cars to portable electronics.

Imagine a time in which […]

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It was totally unexpected. As usual, after a long day of writing articles, I decided to spent the rest of my night listening to Purple Rain & The Best of 80s on iTunes (either that or Coldplay). My usual routine before I sleep is to have a last look at my site, check/answer e-mails, check […]

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During his keynote at CES 2008, Bill was challanged by Mircosoft’s president of entertainment, Robbie Bach on Guitar Hero III. Well, he invited Slash (former guitarist of Guns N’ Roses) on stage and together they totally pawned both Bach & Guitar Hero champion, TipperQueen! Watch the video!
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Won’t that be the computer of your dreams? A sleek white/black MacBook with touchscreen functions (like the Apple iPhone) that works with a touch of your wonder fingers. It has a detachable keyboard that has an in-built bluetooth function that can connect to your MacBook Plus wirelessly from a distance. The MacBook Plus not only […]

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The iPhone kid — young George Hotz of Glen Rock, N.J. — came back from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) this week with his head full of new ideas.
Not surprisingly, the tinkering teen’s also been up to a bit of mischief on the upstate New York campus.
Next month, the Bergen Academies grad is headed for […]

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2007 was touted as ‘the year for Linux’ and indeed the first quarter looked promising but things never really took off. Why is that?

Ultimately 2007 was a good year for Linux but it wasn’t “the” year. 2008 won’t be the year either unfortunately. I hoped Vista would be the catalyst for the mass […]

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