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Here’s an interesting take on how an enterprise application can be made to achieve high performance, scale and high availability, using mid-tier caching. Modern enterprise applications are being pushed to become faster, with a higher scale. Consequently, the 3-tier architecture model is changing to move data closer to the applications […]
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Android pioneer Andy Rubin has a message for developers carping about Android fragmentation: Calm down. Posting on Google’s Android Developers blog, Rubin said that Android owed much of its success to the fact that it could be modified by device manufacturers and thus isn’t a “one size fits all” platform […]
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Want to get tech fans fighting? Ask them to pick the 10 products that most shaped the industry. It’s an experiment we attempted earlier in the week, to fairly disastrous results. Since our very opinionated editors and analysts couldn’t whittle the list down to anywhere close to that number, we’ve […]
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These handy add-ons do everything from automatic spell-checking to easy image cropping and resizing Hard-to-find IE9 enhancers Microsoft’s just released IE9 offers many improvements, particularly in the area of security. On the other hand, none of the new features blew us away. One unfortunate thing about Internet Explorer is that […]
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GUI Industries starts its cutover on a Friday after hours. The new circuit tests clean and they’re ready to do the cutover. Armed with printouts of the spreadsheet, the DNS and firewall admins sit down in front of their workstations and painstakingly go through each record in DNS, and each […]
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A while back, I wrote about the critical roles CLIs (command-line interfaces) play in just about every facet of the IT infrastructure. I got plenty of nods in agreement via email and in the comments, but I still receive emails claiming that I’m trying to drag computing back to the […]
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With an inadequate computing infrastructure impeding IT penetration in rural India, Microsoft’s MultiPoint SDK 1.1 may provide the much required impetus. “IT lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” These words of Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft […]
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The vision to convert job-seekers into job-generators through science and technology (S&T) interventions led Amity Innovation Incubator to set up a state-of-the-art facility in Noida, UP. We take a look at what makes this incubator a promising destination for those with innovative business ideas, looking to set up their ventures […]
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There are a number of third-party Twitter tools that allow you to, as they say, Tweet longer. In other words, they let you go beyond the Twitter prescribed 140 character count. These services will put your full tweet on a web page or break them into multiple tweets. Decent solutions, […]
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Steve Jobs’s micromanagement has been something of a mixed blessing for Apple. It’s assured a high standard across Apple’s family of products, but it has also given the majority of the company’s devices a walled garden approach to content, helping to assure that you only see what Apple wants you […]