Sudev Gandhi

You may have noticed that Google has a new favicon, the small icon you see in your browser next to the URL or in your bookmarks list. Few days ago Google changed their favicon, from “Big G” to “small g“. It was a surprise! Why would google change the “Big G” which is recognised all over the world! Lots of questions filled my head… • Why would google change the “Big G” which is recognised all over the world and create a dip in its brand recognition. • Is this one of the google’s marketing trick to create buzz(as if they need one!) • Is it trying to re-brand? (why would they do! everything is working more than fine for them) No need to ponder more... I just "googled" it and found the answer on their own blog .

Inside This Article you'll find 1. Introduction to How Cloud Computing Works 2. Cloud Computing Architecture 3. Cloud Computing Applications and 4. Cloud Computing Concerns read more | digg story

Although most people today will never set foot on the moon, everyone likely comes in contact with a NASA by-product every day. Partnering with various research teams and companies, NASA continues to spawn a vast array of new technologies and products that have improved our daily lives. read more | digg story

Stacks of chips, one on top of the other, will power the next generation of superfast PCs, IBM has announced. Laying chips vertically, instead of side by side, reduces the distance data has to travel by 1,000 times, making the chips faster and more efficient. Big blue has said that it will start producing the compact silicon sandwiches in 2008. Chip manufacturer Intel has previously announced that it is also developing similar vertical chip technology. Last year, the firm unveiled a chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) that used vertical stacking technology. Other firms, such as Tru-Si, have also developed techniques for creating 3D stacked chips. High rise Today most chips are laid out side-by-side, connected by wires. The new technique involves placing chips directly on top of each other, connected by tungsten filled pipes, etched through the silicon. These "through-silicon vias" (TSV), as they are

SQLinForm is an automatic SQL code formatter for all major databases ( ORACLE, SQL Server, DB2 / UDB, Sybase, Informix, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc) with many formatting options . No installation needed. No database driver necessary. Even incomplete SQL statements or SQL statements with syntax errors are formatted Run it out of your browser It is secure. No SQL statement is transferred from the applet over the internet Written for Java and .NET environment

One more stuff thing for Google Lovers. It's Google shell (goosh, it's unofficial though). It's again a cool and simple thing developed for Google Lovers like me. Though you can wonder what is the need of such a thing, but hey, you never know where it can be used. I like the web, images and video searching options. And surprisingly, it's pretty damn fast, as if we are really using a shell. Check out this link. http://www.goosh.org/

Microsoft has released details on a flaw in the Safari browser that, coupled with the correct Windows or Internet Explorer vulnerabilities, could be used to execute malware. Changing the default download location on Safari is enough for a workaround. read more digg story

In previous versions of SharePoint (or other platforms), if you had some task you wanted to perform on a scheduled basis, you'd have to either create a console EXE and schedule it to run via Windows Task Scheduler (ala AT.EXE) or create a Windows Service that went to sleep for a period of time. In order to install (and maintain) these tasks, you had to have console access to your production SharePoint (or other app) servers... something IT or admins wouldn't easily hand out. Addressing this issue, Microsoft has added something called timer jobs to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. Microsoft uses timer jobs to do things like dead web cleanup (purging unused sites from site collections) among others. To see what other timer jobs are out there, from Central Administration , click Operations and then Timer Job Definitions . Not only does Microsoft use timer jobs in MOSS, but you can create your own custom timer jobs to do your own scheduled tasks. What's nice a

They are members of one of Earth's last uncontacted tribes, who live along the Brazilian-Peruvian frontier, and are thought never to have had any contact with the outside world. read more | digg story

Hitachi Maxell and a number of universities and firms in Japan have created a design for a Li-Ion battery that will last 20x longer than current unitsElectric cars with 2000miles range on single charge, cell phones requiring outlet once in a month, laptops with batteries for 1 week. Lets hope technology finds its way to life sooner than later. read more | digg story