Monday, July 11, 2011

Will Microsoft Wipe Out the Google Android Advantage?

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Microsoft seems to be working many different angles to wipe out any advantage that Google should get as the primary developer of the Android...
Friday, July 01, 2011

Fired!

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It happened yesterday. They just sent me an eMail. How is that a good way to be fired ? Anyway, from today onwards I can tell you that I am ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Bitcoin as an Economic Entity

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Bitcoin is the new peer-to-peer virtual currency that I wrote about previously . This post evaluates Bitcoin as money from an economic point...
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eReaders Arrive

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After writing about the Kindle for some time , I can let you know that I am now a proud owner of one. I can also tell you that it is a wond...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Bitcoin, a Peer to Peer Virtual Currency

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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer virtual currency that seems to pop up in the conversation everywhere I look . A virtual currency is is a curre...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

On Copyright and Open Source

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Copyright is a key part of an Open Source or Free Software project. It may sound like copyright is antithetical to Free and Open software,...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Facebook PR Fiasco

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Last week came the revelation that Facebook had secretly hired a prestigious Public Relations (PR) firm to plant negative stories about Goo...
Saturday, May 07, 2011

Living In the Stream

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It used to be that "stream of consciousness" was a pejorative. It was a phrase you used to put down the type of person who talked ...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Understanding MapReduce Performance: Part 2

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Getting good performance out of MapReduce is a matter of understanding two concepts. I discussed the first one, that MapReduce is designed t...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Understanding MapReduce Performance: Part 1

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Currently MapReduce is riding high on the hype cycle. The other day I saw a presentation that was nothing but breathless exhortation for Map...