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I have been doing academic research for about eight (8) years now. That is not much compared to the other leaders in the field who have been at it for their entire professional careers. I would consider myself a starter in this respect. At the same time, I have been doing corporate research and development […]

Here is a story from Ars Technica entitled Cisco sues Apple over iPhone trademark. Yup. Cisco sues Apple on the iPhone trademark.
Cisco has sued Apple over the iPhone name, a day after media reports suggested that Apple was licensing the name from the networking giant. Cisco acquired the trademark “iPhone” in 2000 from InfoGear […]

I just read an article on the Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux loses. The author gives a nice little summary on the realities of the desktop market. The top four (4) reasons are stated below.

Install Base
PC Vendor Support
Hardware Support
Software Support

These are all valid reasons and they are all factored in when people make […]

I have worked with Liberty Telecoms (Philippine Wireless Broadband Telecommunications Provider) before and am pretty pleased with their rates and their nationwide radio network. They have pretty good coverage for a number of government projects we were working on before. However, it seems to have not been able to compete in the marketplace. Here is […]

Things seem to be amiss in Google-land this Christmas season. Maybe too much partying is causing them to slip a bit? Techcrunch covers this scoop on a rare Google Gmail blunder.

Regretfully, a small number of our users — around 60 — lost some or all of their email received prior to December 18th. Once […]

There are numerous schools of thought about 20% time in the corporate world. This concept was popularized by Google. But, it has been around in mostly academic and research circles for quite sometime now. According to Google,
Google engineers all have “20 percent time” in which they’re free to pursue projects they’re passionate about. This freedom […]

Here is an interesting and funny article from RoughlyDrafted.com about the parallels of Microsoft’s Cairo and Longhorn visions. This should fill my a whole month’s Microsoft bashing quota for me.
Automatic PC sales of DOS rapidly made Microsoft one of the largest software companies of the 80s. As its market power increased, it gained a reputation […]

While I was reading a newspaper in Israel, I bumped into an article (in the Haaretz) about the state of undergraduate prospects in India. The story painted a very bleak, but realistic, picture. Since, I could not find the original Haaretz article on the web here is a NY Times article on the same issue. […]

Here is a story from Om Malik about a virtual currency called QQ by Tencent devaluing the Chinese Yuan.
And a genuine concern for the Chinese government, which now fears that the QQ is deflating the official yuan. “QQ” is the virtual currency created by Tencent2, China’s largest instant messaging platform based in Shenzen. Originally, […]

In this article entitled “GoogleOS: What To Expect?“, its gives three (3) possible scenarios about a future GoogleOS.

Web-based Desktop OS. This is made possible because of AJAX technology and a lot of companies are already trying to develop and OS with this in mind.
A Full Linux Distribution. This scenarios assumes Google will want to compete […]