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Is Linux-Google combo inevitable?

Android has recently been successfully tried on netbooks by Mobile-Facts.com. They have compiled it within neat four hours and run it as OS on a netbook. Android now is expected to storm the market and the future generation mobiles. Android is Linux and therefore it can run on virtually anything. Google has many products under [...]

Browsers still running faster on XP SP3 than Windows 7 RTM

Lots of us in IT world believe that XP will never die. We don’t know why Windows is having definite plans to phase out this sturdy OS which after so many years is still in use in many parts of the world. Many have tried, used Vista and then have come back to the all [...]

Right time to buy a netbook

One of my acquaintances asked me recently, Is this the right time buy a netbook? I looked at him quizzingly and tried to figure out what’s there in his mind. The question reminded me that netbooks sales are still rising sharply and probably its the only segment in PC market which is registering the positive [...]

PC sales records negative growth… General Elections to blame?

PC sales have recorded negative growth in Q1, 2009 in India. The percentage fall of 11.7% has been more in India  vis-a-vis rest of the world sales growth figures which stands at negative 6.6%. Market and economy watchers feel that the impact in India has been more as the country is feeling more jittery over [...]

Client Linux desktop is steadily gaining ground.

Linux comparatively has better market share as the server operating system than a client operating system. Servers have been running Linux for quite sometime and it’s quite well accepted there. Windows OS no doubt provides everything, sometimes even more than what you would have bargained for but it’s dominance has stifled other rivals.

Windows ruling Netbook market

Recent proclamation by Microsoft citing market research statistics from NPD that 96% of netbooks market is dominated by Windows OS is in fact, a revelation. It was believed that Netbooks where the size and processing has been optimized to carry out the basic tasks like surfing the web, sending mails and simple word processing tasks, [...]

Netbooks, the high growth segment in PC market

India was in news few days back over launch of “The Cheapest Car of the world“, Nano. Car has caught the imagination of whole world because of its low pricing in these troubled times that too without sacrificing any safety or emission norms.

Wasting time in surfing aimlessly – read this.

How much of our time goes in to social networking? How much of our time we tend to waste aimlessly surfing the web?