Apple sued Samsung in the US, Korea and Japan for violating their patents. Some of them include the basic shape of a rectangle with rounded corners. Strange that a patent was actually issued for that. In the US, Apple won…
Cloud services
What is this new fangled cloud services? Nothing new I will tell you, its been around since the start of computer networks, just in various incarnations. Remember dial-up bulletin board service or BBS? You dial up to a particular BBS…
Review of Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Review of Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich
Curiosity has landed… on Mars
Curiosity (hmm American spelling) a Mars rover has successfully landed on Mars on 6 Aug 12. The video of the landing is here. video Note the whole package traveled for 8 months to reach Mars and radio signals takes ~15…
The Android upgrade journey.
I have a Samsung Galaxy SII. It came with a Android OS, Gingerbread version. Slowly all the new phones came out and with the new versions of Android. Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and now Jelly Bean (4.1). The Cyanogenmod project…
How to bring down the Internet.
Or oh no you can’t do that. On the Trend Cloud Security Blog, there is an excellent post on how 4 things that can bring down the Internet but did not. The undersea cables are still vulnerable. If a group…
Yaaahhoooooo!!!
Are you a Yahoo user? You might want to change your password. At the same time to any other web service that you have the same user id – password combination. Yahoo just been hacked via some really old tech…
Making it easier to read the New Ramblings.
I noticed that the full browser theme simply cannot make it for small screens. The mobile browsers just zoomed out to put everything on screen. The result is an unreadable webpage and the reader have zoom in and scroll around. …
Visitor logs
I regularly check the visitor logs for the blog. Mainly to see who else, besides myself is reading it. There is the National Library Board Web archival crawler (very cool!), some Ukrainian crawler (hmm?) and these guys. Screenshot is from…
Certifications and you.
Have you checked what is the state of your IT certifications? Ok, now have you checked what is the market expectations of your IT certifications? That is not so easy, right? Employers are now expecting all project managers to be…