Tech Productivity

Violence in Silicon Valley ?

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:24:18 +0000

Some news often make you upset. Like recent news, an Indian origin CEO Sid Agrawal of a Radio semiconductor chips making company being killed by his lead test engineer who was laid off by him. Layoffs are common nowadays. The board of SiPort Inc. decided to layoff Jing Hua Wa during this economic crisis and he in turn after few days shot them (2 other i suppose) dead in their offices. Now that’s crazy. You don;t expect this in a region like Silicon Valley where Violence is unknown. Sid Agrawal was CEO and Director of the company. The killer (engineer) was then arrested. Why should one kill just because you get laid off ? That’s curious. But a place where growth and development of technology happens at every moment, The Silicon Valley, incidents like this just disturb the environment of growth. My condolence to his family members.

See Google or Yahoo HQ and Office Pictures

admin — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:59:09 +0000

Not only google or yahoo, but most of other tech companies offices and Headquarters pictures, their inside look and interiors. Office Snapshots is a great site according to me because it shows you pics of offices of various tech companies like symantec, skype, eBay, Xobni, Microsoft, etc. Its rare that i link to any site except i really like it or its worth linking for me. Office snapshots, you lucky. I am linking it. The picture quality is great although it may take some time to load this pictures and sometimes its frustrating.

AMD to enter Netbook market soon

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:21:25 +0000

Until now, we had Intel’s Atom Processor in most of the netbooks announced by HP, Asus, Samsung, Dell and other brands. Now AMD has announced that it will soon enter netbook market. It wishes to sell netbooks having its processors. But there arises a lot fo questions whether it would consume more power because netbooks have smaller batter life compared to notebooks. Plus we can ex[pect to see some high quality graphics and high performance also with ability to play some good games (I don’t mean those flash types ). AMD i suppose would put its high end graphics card. The pricing should be cheap like Intel instead of putting high price because netbooks are meant to be cheap, we don’t care if AMD puts its better graphics card because that’s not what primarily netbooks are made for (We didn’t talked about gaming costly netbooks). AMD processors have made their way in desktops. AMD’s processors generate a lot of heat and that’s one problem. Well, lets see how it goes.

Yahoo messengers sucks !

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:06:17 +0000

Frankly, the only thing yahoo messenger can be used is for chatting or IM. I have never been able to call anyone in past 2 years on yahoo messenger. Also its video quality sucks. I suppose yahoo made the first IM and made it popular and then there were further no useful development. Yesterday i was chatting with my near ones in gulf and skype wasn’t working there so we shifted to yahoo. The only thing we could do was chat and just chat. The video quality sucked and i tried calling them on yahoo several times but the calls didn’t mature. If their call facility is not working then why do they keep, just to show off ? Also now Yahoo’s PC to Phone call service is handled by Jajah as they dealed back few months ago. Jajah also sucks in calling with several technical problems, both in calling and on their site issues. Yahoo really sucks !

Orkut adds advertisements in your account

admin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:27:33 +0000

I am not someone who is a social addict but frankly, the only social network i like is orkut. Well, facebook was not my cup of tea…lol..Today i logged in to my orkut account and i saw google ads on right sidebar middle.

Social networks earn from CPM so better the pageviews any social network has, more money.

Google adds Video chat and Voice chat to Gmail talk

admin — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:27:08 +0000

The latest news is that Gtalk will now support Video chat and voice chat. This are some great news for gtalk addicts. Google released new version of google talk as its lab edition on 7th April this year with drawbacks as unable to support voice and video chat. Now that update comes as well. You wont need to download any new messenger, just get that update plugin which you can get it by visiting this official google blog post. You don’t need to open any other application to start Video and voice chat, all is seamlessly integrated in one. So text, video and voice in one. Skype and other video providers now need to watch out from google because it is known to dominate any market it enters into. Most webmasters use google talk and this can be goo news if you want to talk online. This feature has been designed with Internet standards such as RTP, H.264 and XMPP, meaning this open source feature can be used by other apps on your PC (Third party apps).

You will soon see this feature in your Gmail inbox also. This feature has been especially developed by engineers in Sweden office. I don’t want to copy paste the instructions on using this feature because you can get it from official google’s post (I have linked above). If this feature turns out to provide really good uninterruptible video and voice quality, then skype will face real problem. Time for Ebay to look for skype buyers !

Apple iPod sound quality

admin — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:59:49 +0000

I haven’t been much a fan of gadgets except iPhone. I haven’t heard much music on iPod either but yesterday when i herd it, i them came to know why iPod had such craze among geeks. The sound quality in their headphones is what actually fantastic with good storage features like of 8 GB, 16 GB, etc. The ability to transfer music files from your PC to iPod and vice-versa is great. The music quality seems as if you are sitting in some Dolby sound system Cinema hall. iPod rock ! Actually all products of Apple, the MacPro, iPhone and iPod. iPod has some great simple colours choice and they actually make its look quite cool and geeky. iPhone launched in India with great buzz but now i see no talks of it. Seems is fused out due to its high price and no 3G facility support from service providers.

No fuss about Dell

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:41:35 +0000

Its long time Dell should launch some exciting unique product of its own when other giants like apple are busy working of innovations in form of iPhone or something else. Michael Dell said that Dell will soon launch some innovative item in market but it seems he is on ling holiday. Past several months, we have witnessed no surprise from Dell. Its the era of creativity. Apple is surviving because it earns amidst global recession due to its lucrative products. Google has done no layoffs because it earns significantly still from search. To survive in this global competition of notebooks, Dell as being a reputed brand should come up with new notebook or maybe a gadget or maybe some app based device with some extra-ordinary functions.

CJ requires targetted traffic

admin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:51:58 +0000

For those who are new to CJ (Commission Junction), CJ is an affiliate program where site owners or publishers meet worlds topmost advertisers and earn commission by selling their products via there site or blog. I have been trying out CJ and regret to say it isn’t working as i thought. I built castles. Would put CJ and earn commissions from sales. But its hard to make even one sale. Most depends upon how much targeted your site is. Like if you write about specific products category, like writing about laptop models, etc. More targeted and more interested you users are on products, likely they will buy it from your site if it provides good deal.

Poor quality battery in notebooks

admin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:59:26 +0000

One thing that is general complaint is poor quality batteries in notebooks. Except few models, most notebooks have batteries which start giving less no. of hours per recharge. In Dell Inspiron 1525, i have got complaint about battery life getting from 2.5 hours to 1.5 hours. Now what the hell you expect for 1.5 hours battery life. What mobility does it actually serve. why cant companies make battery as good as other general component of PC. A bad battery life kills the purpose of mobility in notebook. I have seen models in Toshiba giving some excellent battery life up to 7 hours and some models in Sony Vaio like TZ series which gives 10 hours battery life. Battery life satisfaction is never seen in less price range laptops.