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For non believers of blogging Most of the times when some techie (my colleague or any friend) asked me “what is blogging?” or “how blogging can help us”. I just got attentive and its my time to sell my stuff I started narrating the benefits of writing blogs. I have come up with many developers [...]

Apple has released iPhone firmware update 3.1 with some new features. iPhone 3.1 offers recommendations for ring tones and apps. You can expect to get support for iTunes 9 for both Mac and Windows downloads. Moreover, there are options to sync music, movies, TV shows, podcasts. Now you will have options to sync music, TV [...]

Just found on Oracle website that they have placed a message for Sun customers about their objectives and their focus on Solaris and SPARC. And more interestingly you can find Larry Elison (CEO of Oracle) challenging IBM to compete in hardware business. A marketing tactic. Picture reference: oracle.com/features/suncustomers.html

Yahoo has also introduced its micro blogging service named Yahoo! Meme. At first look it contains features like Twitter. It sounds that they develop their service by keeping Twitter and what its lacking in mind. They even adopt the terms “following” and “followers” from Twitter. Interface is more enriched and appealing than Twitter. By using [...]

CS graduates come up with superb knowledge of computer, networks and other IT skills. If they are programmer they write sharp logic and design and code software well. These skills helps them to advancing them in their technical career. But being a technical practitioner a CS junkie should know some non-CS skills and abilities. Because [...]

When I came to know that Sun is giving away the opportunity to sign up for newly launched SCJP i.e. Sun Java Programmer Plus certification. I registered for it. According to them Selected candidates will be given the opportunity to appear in beta test for free. But still they have this announcement on their website. [...]

I was reading about collection framework of Java. And was studying Hashtable, HashMap and HashSet. Its quite interesting to know the differences between them. In this post I will discuss these three with examples. Hashtable Hashtable is basically a datastructure to retain values of key-value pair. It didn’t allow null for both key and value. [...]

Windows Genuine Advantage notification checks genuineness of Windows XP. It validates it against black listed serial numbers. And if your serial number is listed there you would likely to recieve this error message in your tray. But there is nothing to be worry about this is not virus, its just a reminder to purchase an [...]

Google has announced its annual programming competition for year 2009. According to Google blog Registration is now open, so you can find out more about the contest, and practice on some sample problems. Practice hard! If you make it to the top 500, you’ll travel to a nearby Google office for our semifinal round. If [...]

Information Technology has completely changed our lives. No matter who you are, you can’t escape to be affected by it. It has a divining force on our lives. I have drawn some tips that I have come up by discussions with friends, colleagues and students directly or indirectly attached with IT fields. These tips can [...]