Posts Tagged ‘Microsoft’


Why NBC dumped Silverlight for Flash?

Saturday, September 6th, 2008 - 11:54 am

Because, while 40 million US visitors to NBCOlympics didn’t have Silverlight installed, Adobe Flash is already installed on some 98 percent of Internet-connected computers.

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How free software makes money!

Friday, September 5th, 2008 - 4:58 am

Many big corps support Free and Open Source Software in different ways. Everything’s strictly business, just that the company doesn’t need to burn down half the Amazon Rainforest to do it.

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Be super-productive with Linux

Thursday, July 10th, 2008 - 6:50 am

Productivity is a term which involves one’s personal interest apart from the tools/services which an Operating System can offer. Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

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Windows Vista SP1 Video

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 - 6:48 am

Allegedly leaked by a Microsoft Employee, this Springsteen-inspired Music Video is about the awareness of Windows Vista. It looks polished though cheesy. It is some sort of a Windows Vista SP1 promotional music video.

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iAccelerator Summer Start-up Camp (India)

Monday, April 14th, 2008 - 1:11 pm

iAccelerator is an IIM Ahmedabad initiative done in conjunction with Microsoft, Kuruvindum, NASSCOM and Kickstart.in bringing a unique opportunity for young developers to convert their ideas into reality.

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Developer Summit 2008, India

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 - 11:38 am

In 2008, India is celebrating product excellence and professional achievements in the IT developer ecosystem. The Great Indian Developer Awards will acknowledge and honor Top Ambassadors, Top Committers, Ecosystem Leaders, and Products Par Excellence.

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Java creator, James Gosling does his part of Flash Bashing

Saturday, January 5th, 2008 - 10:04 am

If you look at something like Flash, when you get to the much more advanced stuff — richer interfaces, more complex network protocols, more complex APIs — it really falls short.

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OpenID 2.0 launched

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 - 10:23 am

If you register with any of the OpenID Providers mentioned above, you can login with it on any website that supports OpenID. You can also use your existing accounts from a humungous number of services as an OpenID login - AIM, Bloglines, WordPress, et al.

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A Preview of HTML 5

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 - 7:49 am

The advantage of defining HTML 5 in terms of the DOM is that the language itself can be defined independently of the syntax. There are primarily two syntaxes that can be used to represent HTML documents - the HTML serialisation (HTML 5) and the XML serialisation (XHTML 5).

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Silverlight 1.1 will be released as Silverlight 2.0 early 2008

Monday, December 3rd, 2007 - 6:57 pm

Microsoft still has a long way to go before it even stands a chance of displacing its main competitor, Adobe’s Flash technology. Still, Silverlight 2.0 does appear to represent a major step forward for Microsoft.

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Web video gone wild

Sunday, September 16th, 2007 - 2:56 pm

Adobe will not allow third party streaming servers to stream H.264 video or AAC Audio into the Flash Player? One would need an appropriate license from Adobe to do so! So, for the future high quality Video on Web, will Adobe have the last laugh?

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Quick notes, scribbles, somehow related to this website and to what I do. Or perhaps I'm just plain lazy to make them into a full article.

Introduction to Adobe AIR (NetTuts)

Nettuts have a nice Introduction to Adobe AIR which focus on using HTML/JS to build an AIR Application. It covers -- Adobe AIR Architecture, How to install AIR, Get the development SDK, Configurations, gets on to ...2nd Oct, 2008

Decide Team Type from Books

What do you think of the "Team-Type" if they got these books recently? What "Team-Type" do these books suggest? ( surveys) 29th Sep, 2008

What do investors look for in a startup?

A great video Interview with Venture Hacker Naval Ravikant answering the age-old question: What do you look for in a startup? Investors look for two things that are paramount above all: # Great team: It's obvious. It's a ...27th Sep, 2008

You don't mess with the 'Englineer Bother'

(Via: Hiring Horror) 24th Sep, 2008

Dear Adobe

Do you have a gripe with the Adobe Softwares that you use? Do you have complaints about Adobe Softwares? Please visit Dear Adobe to file your informal gripe with Adobe. 15th Sep, 2008

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