Just two days back we reported on Yahoo setting up a hadoop cluster in IIT Bombay, and now we have news of Facebook coming up with fellowships to PhD students researching topical areas in computing that are relevant to Facebook. The relevant areas as per the Facebook blurb are:
» continue readingAs per this Forrester report, 2010 is going to be the year of the Smartphone. The report focuses on how smartphones improve productivity, and how enterprises benefit when their workers use smartphones for supplementing their work. While it is indeed true that the smartphone revolution is primarily driven by
» continue readingHadoop, is an open-source project of Apache, for distributed computing over large data sets. One of the methods it uses is the famous MapReduce paradigm for distributed computing over large data sets that Google is believed to have pioneered. Yahoo runs one of the largest Hadoop clusters- and it
» continue readingPaul Graham , a Y combinator partner, had mused about startup founders visa, to be given to entrepreneurs who want to start a startup in US , about six months back and since then the idea has resonated with many in the US. The idea is simple. Today it
» continue readingTwitter has been put to many unusual uses and the latest is the detection and responses to earthquakes in real-time based on the spike in tweets and their geo-locations. The US Geological survey (USGS), as per this BBC report, is trawling the tweets for keywords like quake and earthquake
» continue readingOneRiot, a search engine for the real-time web and developer of the PulseRank algorithm to discover trending content on the web, has recently announced its plans to monetize the real-time web by making available contextual ads that are related to trending topics. They have partnered with a few partners
» continue readingIndiagames, one of India’s topmost gaming destinations and platforms, is launching a new iPhone app called cricket T20 fever. Desktop versions of the game will be launched along with the iPhone versions while the other Symbain , Maemo, PSP etc based versions will follow later. ‘Cricket T20 Fever’
» continue readingAs per a Neilsen wire blog posting, for the year 2009 (jan-oct 2009 data) , apple’s 3G iPhone was the market leader followed by RIM’s Blackberry 8300 series. Not a single Nokia model features in that top 10 list, and I find that surprising. Nokia was once a company
» continue reading7 years since the human genome was first decoded, India too managed to decode the complete human genome of a 52 year old healthy man from Jharkhand and join the elite list of nations like US, UK, China, Canada and South Korea. Unlike the select club of countries having
» continue readingStanley Morgan has published the Mobile Internet Report along with two accompanying slide decks that collectively highlight the key themes driving the mobile internet market and its adoption. All the reports are freely downloadable form their site. The Key themes in brief are : Just like Mainfarme computing revolution
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