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An Impressive Profile I found out – Thanks to the Google Blog!

Today when I was skimming through the Official Google Blog in my RSS reader, I came upon a post by Dr. T. V. Raman. This intrigued me to navigate on to his profile.
He has done and achieved many things, especially in the areas of speech recognition and enhancing the electronic experience of [...]

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Searching Enterprise data – Thanks to Google!

Google hinted its interest in the Enterprise world through Google Apps. Google Search Appliance (GSA) is one such initiative, to bring what Google does best to the Enterprise world – SEARCH.
Google claims to search upto 10 million documents, through the familiar Google search interface. GSA uses the core Google search technology and can [...]

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Google Visualization API

It’s a cherry on top of the Cloud Computing paradigm. In short this is what Google Visualization API does:
Google Visualization API aims to fetch data from any data source connected to the Internet and provide useful visual outputs like Graphs, Charts, Dashboards etc. Earlier, the API worked with Google Spreadsheets and now Google [...]

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Force.com – Platform-as-a-service

“Web 3.0 is broadly defined today as the semantic Web. I think Web 3.0 really could be platform as a service,” – said Marc Benioff, Chairman/CEO of Salesforce.com. What he was talking about, is the Force.com platform provided by Salesforce.com.

Force.com is a cloud computing platform, provided by Salesforce.com, for building and deploying enterprise applications. [...]

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Indonesia turning “porn-less”…

Anti-porn bill has been passed in Indonesia, that would ban images, gestures or talk deemed to be pornographic.  Following is the justification by the Islamic groups:
Islamic parties said the law was needed to protect women and children against exploitation and to curb increasing immorality in Indonesian society.
Interesting! What is to be seen is how [...]

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Azure – The Cloud Computing Platform from Microsoft

 

The Azure Services Platform (Azure) is Microsoft’s answer to the cloud computing platform.  Azure provides an operating system and a set of developer services, all required to build applications on the cloud. 
As with any cloud computing service, Azure has the following benefits from the Business standpoint:

Reduce the need for Upfront Technology Purchases
Higher [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Google Gears

 
Many of us know about Google Gears as Google’s innovation to store web data offline, that can be viewed even in the absence of an Internet connection.  But Gears is much more than that.
What is Google Gears?

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web [...]

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Backup your Firefox extensions

FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) is a cool Firefox addon, that enables you to backup your Firefox extensions.  It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files, that enables you to synchronize between office and home PC.

This extension is available for Firefox 3.x.
As claimed by the addon description, FEBE backs up your extensions, [...]

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Google Blog Search

Google Blog Search is yet another Google Labs product.  This enables you to search for keywords, across the blogging community.

Once a search is performed, results are returned in a new page.  You can filter the search results based on the time of the post – for instance, you can view only those posts, that were [...]

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