Imagine a device that acts as virtual personal assistant and can answer all your questions like “How’s the weather outside ?”. Well, Apple has introduced an intelligent software based personal assistant called “Siri” on its brand new iPhone 4S. If you ask Siri, why it’s so great, it answers with disarming humility: “I am what [...]
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10. They have a lot of data but are always clueless. 9. A better model is always around the corner. 8. They look nice and shiny until you bring them home. 7. It is always necessary to have a backup. 6. They will always do whatever you say if you push the right buttons. 5. [...]
READ MORE »Are You A Good Developer?
‘Good’ means having qualities that are desirable and distinguishing. From a developer’s perspective, these qualities are both technical as well as non-technical. Here are some qualities that a developer should possess if he/she aims at becoming a ‘good’ developer. 1. Good Communication skills - In the software world, people usually define good communication skills as fluency in [...]
READ MORE »LETTER OF THE EDITOR OF “THE TIMES OF INDIA ” TO PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA
Must Read ! Very Powerfully Worded. Bravo - Prakash Bajaj, Editor of Times of India . I am born and brought up in Mumbai for last fifty eight years. Believe me, corruption in Maharashtra is worse than that in Bihar . Look at all the politicians, Sharad Pawar, Chagan Bhujbal, Narayan Rane, Bal Thackray , Gopinath Munde, Raj Thackray, Vilasrao Deshmukh all are rolling in money. Vilasrao Deshmukh is [...]
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Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently. -Henry Ford If fifty million people say a foolish thing it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that won’t work. -Benjamin Franklin
READ MORE »MacBook batteries vulnerable to hack; could be explosively dangerous
A potentially dangerous security hole in Apple’s range of MacBook battery micro-controllers’ firmware could be exploited to destroy the batteries inside the notebooks, according to security researcher Charlie Miller. When looking into batteries in MacBooks, MacBook Pros and MacBook Airs, Miller found that through using passwords hidden in a 2009 software update designed to fix [...]
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