Category: Technology
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Top 100 Engineering Colleges in USA
Today we are publishing the list of the top 100 engineering colleges in United States of America. As many of the universities have started admission process for the next batch of 2010, students all over the world are looking for the top colleges. US News Corp and World report has recently published their list of…
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Mozilla launches Firefox Mobile Browser for Nokia N900
As people are shifting from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox or Safari internet browser, there is also new development taking place for mobile browsers. In last few years Microsoft powered Internet Explorer (Popularly known as IE) has lost the ground on retaining its users as other browsers like Firefox and Safari are providing totally new…
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What is Struts?
Today I am going to discuss a top level Apache project, Struts. It is an open-source web application framework for developing Java EE web applications. It uses and extends the Java Servlet API to encourage developers to adopt a model-view-controller (MVC) architecture. It was first created by Craig McClanahan and donated to the Apache Foundation…
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10 things you should know about Nokia
Nokia is the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile telephones. Its total market share is around 38% . It is a Finland based company with its branches in more than 100 countries. Nokia produces GSM, CDMA, and W-CDMA (UMTS) mobile devices. It also offers Internet services for its mobile users, which include music, maps, media, messaging…
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10 things you should know about APJ Abdul Kalam
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam was the 11th President of India, from 2002 to 2007. Before holding this position he was an aeronautical engineer with DRDO and ISRO. Due to his great contributions in the field of missile and aerospace technologies, he is popularly known as the Missile Man of India. He played major…
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Early days of Infosys
Infosys is India’s second largest software company. Today I will tell you the story of its birth, initial struggle, growth and success. As you all know, Infosys was founded on July 2, 1981 in Pune by N. R. Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, N. S. Raghavan, Kris Gopalakrishnan, S. D. Shibulal, K. Dinesh and Ashok Arora.…
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See how Twitter works
Last month, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest growing site on internet for February 2009. Twitter had a growth of 1382%, whereas Zimbio which is on second place had a growth of 240%, followed by Facebook with a growth of 228%. It is actually one of the first micro-blogging sites on internet. It…
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The most expensive cell phone in the world
Don’t you think it is really ridiculous product especially in this period of economic recession? Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson has designed the world’s most expensive phone by decorating the iPhone 3G King’s button with gold and diamonds. The iPhone 3G’s ‘home’ or main operating button is set inside a high quality 6.6 carat solitaire diamond.…
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Computer mouse is now 40 years old
This week the mighty computer mouse is celebrating its 40th birthday. Still mouse is one of the most important parts of a desktop PCs. Actually Mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user’s hands,…
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Twitter has become a new tool for terrorists
According to the latest report by US army, twitter can be used as an useful tool for terrorists. The report presented by the 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and posted to the Federation of American Scientists Web site carefully examines the possible ways terrorists could use the latest mobile and web technologies such as the GPS(Global…