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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been some days in my office an activity is going on to shift operating system of all machines from Windows XP to Fedora and Ubuntu. Most of employees got their PC’s operating system changed and remaining are under process. This is a great edge to use Java and open source based softwares that you [...]

Microsoft announced its new search brand – “Bing“. According to Microsoft they are calling it a “decision engine” instead of calling a “search engine”. Microsoft has a reason for that. They thought customers want to go beyond the usual search. Normal search engines help people in the best to provide them the information they want [...]

On 20th April Oracle has eaten up another company. SUN Microsystems which was dangling around in the corridors of IBM, now at last got settled with Oracle on price of  approximately $7.4 Billion in equity value or $9.50 per share in cash. Both companies have been collaborating in Java platform and have strategic relationships. Oracle [...]

Availability of Symbian OS in Nokia mobile phones has created outsized number of mobile application developers. Who are developing softwares to make your phone, more than just a calling device. If your mobile has Symbian S60 platform software then a big mass of software is there to choice. Here I am compiling a list of [...]

Yesterday I participated in ComSPEC’09 and presented my final year project with my group member Aisf Shehzad. This event was organized by computer science department of CIIT Lahore. My project was Open Source Healthcare Management System which we guys developed as our degree project under supervision of Nadeem Ghafoor with the intention to make it [...]