First came IPv4 — an interesting story in itself given that the original protocol for the internet was named TCP, and entered into its third version before IP came about — giving birth to Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). IPv5 was quickly eclipsed by the speed of technological advancements and now we have IPv6 — [...]
The all-out web browser brawl has competitors throwing dirty punches in a below-the-belt free-for-all fight for market share. As Microsoft IE’s web browser market share slips to an all time low, the gloves have come off as Microsoft begins to exploit the bugs in their competition. At just 54.3% of market share IE has been [...]
If you’re a tech geek like me you undoubtedly follow Google – and you also probably know all the transformers by heart. By using Transformers as an allegory we can put Google’s transformation into context. Google has been acquiring companies, technology and people — aggressively, and now they are joining them all together to build [...]
The big difference in modus-operandi are, that, Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook Inc; whereas Google is a search engine for any information. On prima-facie, there shouldn’t be any competition, as the businesses are different. But, it’s definitely not the case. According to a report, Facebook used [...]
There is a new form of self-indulgent online unaware narcissism going on — news filtering. Many of the most popular internet sites are skewing the information that you see online, to your likes and habits. And while some argue that this helpful tool personalizes the web, Eli Pariser thinks that it is turning us all [...]
In a surprise move Facebook has gone back to their “hacker roots” — their words not mine, by releasing their data center designs to the public. In a project dubbed the Open Compute project, Facebook has busted open the secretive world of data centers by making their designs public and open source. We decided to [...]
Just when we thought that Symbian had joined the technology graveyard — buried alongside the Betamax and AmigaOS, it gets OS CPR. Symbian gets a revival even after Nokia executive Stephen Elop’s internal memo was leaked, a memo in which he pronounced Symbian DOA by comparing it to a platform on fire (and not in [...]
If Microsoft is the evil empire, then their Office Suite is their “Death Star” — a product of epic proportions. 500 million users just about qualifies the suite as epic. And just like the Death Star it has a huge vulnerability and can be taken down in a swift and calculator attack.
In times of war, strategy matters. And Google, by limiting access to the source code for Android 3.0, or Honeycomb, is playing the game right. Despite its image as a campaigner of open source, this step was deemed necessary by Google. For the obvious reason being – Business Competition. According to Business Week, throngs of [...]
In the 50th year of internet, when more is less and less is intolerable, where everyone is in a hurry to reach somewhere, and multi-tasking comes naturally, Google is going all out to become the be-all and end-all of the webbed world. With mailing, chatting, documenting, scheduling and searching available on Google, it is now [...]