A Tech Event List for 2010

Happy new year .2010 will be the very interesting year for the Tech World. There are many major events lined up which have the potential to change the whole industry itself . Stay tuned to these dates so you don't miss any of these.

1. January 5 -Launch of Google Phone (Nexus one)

Google entered the mobile world with their open source OS
Android. Google earlier said that they are not interested in making their
own smart phone . But the time is changed now. It is rumored that Google
is launching their own smart phone with brand new Android 2.1.It will
sold in unlocked version for a price of $599.So stay tuned get the
glimpse of Google Phone aka Nexus one

2. January 12- Stable version of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac.

Google Chrome is the fastest browser on earth. Its still in beta
version for Linux and Mac. But the first stable version of chrome is
releasing on Jan 12 for these platforms . If you are a Linux/Mac user
you probably don't want to miss this.

3. January 26 – Rumoured launch of Apple Tablet

Apple has the habit of redefining the market. It done it in past
with iPod and iPhone. This time they want to do it with latest Apple
Tablet (called as iSlate , iGuide etc..not yet confirmed ).If you like
the gadgets stay tuned to it.

4.March – Google Wave stable version

Google wave is new way of collaborating . Its now used by one million
users through invitations. But in march it may go to stable version
and more and more people will have access to it.If you dint get the
invitation , March will be your month.

5.April – Launch of Ubuntu LTS 10.04

Ubuntu is one of most popular Linux distors.Its releasing its Long
Term Supported version on April 29. Its more interesting release since
9.10 was a major hit. So can ubuntu reach 10 second boot up time?

6. September/October- Launch of Chrome OS netbooks

Chrome OS is a browser based OS which runs Google chrome on Linux
kernel. The first netbooks with Google chrome OS pre-installed will
be shipping from middle of next year. Ready to catch one

It is a very short-list .May be you should add this to your to-do

list or event list so that you don't miss them .Do you have any interesting
event to share? Share with us.

Most Misread stories of 2009

2009 was year of Tech . Every month there was a breaking news. Right from Sun-Oracle deal till the Google chrome Mac version there are many breaking news came through.

This post summarizes some of the most misread stories of this year.

1. Google Chrome OS is a windows killer.

From the day of announcing the Google Chrome OS , this story surrounding in Internet. Too many sites and blogs written about it.

But the truth is Chrome OS is not a Windows killer, atleast for next 5 years...Read more here.

2. Java is Dead (after Sun-Oracle deal)

Many feared Java will die if Sun is bought by Oracle. Though the deal is not over yet its certain that Java is here to stay , at least for 2 reasons.

1. Java is most used language in server side programming and there is a large pool developers for java.

2. Java is released under GPL which means anyone can fork and develop it in the future

3.Bing to beat Google in search

When Microsoft search engine Bing launched , many wrote that is a highly innovative product and it will beat Google.

But the truth is that after one year of launch , Bing is only stealing market share from poor Yahoo not from the Google

4. Cloud computing will replace Desktop computing

Cloud computing is the most talked technology of this year. Companies like Google are backing the cloud computing as future compute padigrim.

Yes cloud computing will hold the future but its not going to replace Desktop as a whole at least for some coming years. So stick to your Desktop .

5.Linux is a Geek OS

Yes its true till Ubuntu came into Linux World. Ubuntu changed the look of the Linux from a geek OS to most user friendly OS. With the release of latest

Ubuntu 9.10(aka Karmic Kola) Linux is no more a geek OS.

So what you think about these stories? tell us

Cloud Services

It is the third article of the series "Cloud computing - not only for big boys".

In cloud computing world everything is service . So we say cloud employs a service - oriented deployment model.
There are 3 main type of services provided by the cloud and now they became the buzz words of cloud computing

SaaS (Software as a Service)

1. It is the most popular and well known service provided by the cloud

2. Here software is provided as a service over a network like Internet

3. No more software installation, configuration . All is done at cloud and you just need a browser to access it.

4. No more software licences . Payment is done in subscriptions

Some of well know SaaS are Google Docs , Zoho Office Suite

Check out more SaaS services here



PaaS (Platform as a service)


1. It is least known but emerging cloud service

2. It provides a platform for building different kind of software

3. It includes an operating system , middle-ware etc.

4. You can use a nice Operating system over Internet !. Check out a cloud OS here

Well know PaaS are Google App Engine , Amazon EC2


IaaS(Infrastructure as a service)

1. More useful for start-up companies who don't want to invest in high-end servers

2. It provides the storage facility for the users

3. One of the simple example of IaaS is storing our mails in GMail servers.

Well Know IaaS are Joyent, Esnips etc.

Many think SaaS is cloud computing . But cloud is more than that. Its a combination of different technologies.
Try cloud services and tell us what you think about them .

GMail Offline : Use with care

Google today graduated its Offline feature for GMail from Google Labs to main product.GMail off line lets user to use GMail when
they are not connected to the Internet.It uses Google Gears technology to store the emails in the user's machine.Its a competitor
to the products like Microsoft Outlook which are used for accessing email in absence of Internet.

But there is twist in the story. When you enable off line mode in GMail it stores emails in your systems and also installs a desktop
shortcut. So if you are in off line and if you click on that shortcut you will be shown page as below

OMG!! It only asks for user name....not mention of password!!!.

It means if your laptop or netbook stolen , thief can access all your off-line messages by just entering your username. Its a serious threat since GMail off line feature holds key in its fore coming Chrome OS.It lacks the password locking facility provided by the products like Outlook.

So think before you enable off-line feature in your account .

Cloud computing as I see (Interesting views of different people about cloud computing)

It is the second article of cloud computing series “Cloud computing – Not only for big boys” .

This article brings you some of the interesting quotes about cloud computing by different people. Article will show how there are many different views about the cloud computing.

“I think whether you’re an enterprise or an individual, it rarely makes sense for you to have your own buildings, fiber cables and infrastructure. It takes a lot of time and effort to

maintain. Ultimately, your resources are available to you wherever you are, and you want those things there. There’s an economy of scale that makes that easier and more powerful because there’s a lot of interoperability that’s not otherwise possible.

There’s less time-burn in managing your digital life”. - Sergey Brin , Google Co-founder

“We believe that the cloud is a game-changing paradigm shift” - Lanham Napier , Rackspace CEO

“It's stupidity. It's worse than stupidity: it's a marketing hype campaign

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control” - Richard Stallman,FSF founder

"The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop?".

"We'll make cloud computing announcements. I'm not going to fight this thing. But I don't understand what we would do differently in the light of cloud."

- Larry Ellison , Oracle CEO

“ Cloud computing is the future of Open Source” - Jonathan Schwartz, CEO , Sun Microsystems

“In the extreme case, we can take some body's data center and run it for them on the cloud. All the issues about administrative, capacity, who owns the data, what happens when things go wrong, when people are getting error messages, that's cloud computing and there is a lot of deep invention and work”

- Bill Gates ,Co-founder of Microsoft

If you came across any other interesting quotes , feel free to share with us.