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Google takes a big step forward by moving into mobile and introducing Open Hanset Alliance( OHA ) which includes 34 powerful companies such as Qualcomm, Motorola, Samsung, T-Mobile, Sprint, Skype, LG, HTC, KDDI, DoCoMo and China Mobile,etc. Goal of this alliance is to develop an open source operating system for mobile phones, in other words " an alternative to Symbian OS, Windows mobile and iPhone ". (I'm sure Apple will think about opening their OS and Symbian too). Google's mobile OS will be called " Android " (No "Google" word/logo attached at all .... how humble they are .... ) which is an open source OS built on Linux and Java . Since this mobile OS is available for free of charge for OEM vendors, this will be a major hit for proprietary mobile OS vendors. Further it will give more flexible environment for mobile application developers. And I'm sure ......... this will lead to come up with some more mobile OS distro like in linux des

Along with web 2.0, web traffic is getting increased day by day. Individual users as well as enterprises are getting into the the web eyeing on the SAAS type of application and moving away form the desktop apps. The amount of traffic generated by these apps are tremendous, Just to name few Over 100 million video downloads per day from YouTube . More than 4 billion queries per day on FlickR . Do I need to mention Google , ......... How these apps handle the traffic, whats the architecture behind, what are the technologies empower them ..... are some of the questions come to our mind, I came across a good web site with some of the very good informations about these apps, answering above questions. It talks about how much scalable they are , and how it has been achieved and the technologies are being used. Google Architecture info - here YouTube Architecture - here FlickR Architecture - here

Thought of sharing some experience I came across when installing LAMP stack. My intension is not to give step by step procedure for "How to install LAMP stack" [LAMP it self provides very good documentation for that ], But some of the issues you may come across. My LAMP stack compose with : - L inux [Fedora 5] ;) yeah too old. Should have gone for 7 #uname -a Linux petronas 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 14 16:05:46 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux - A pache 2.2.4 latest - M ysql - 5.0.36 latest - P HP - 5.2.3 latest. 1. If you are planning to install LAMP from the scratch, REMOVE default installations of Apache, Mysql and PHP which come with the Linux installation. Check the existence of the packages using following commands : rpm -qa | grep -i mysql rpm -qa | grep -i apache rpm -qa | grep -i httpd rpm -qa | grep -i php if you get any response for this with list of files, rpms, remove them using following : rpm -e "file name" But if you are a F

Today I came across a situation where I wanted to get some screen shots of a Symbian application we developed to update some product documents. Did bit of surfing and ended up with a very nice tool called "Best Screen Snap" which gives similar experience like "Sangit" [Desktop screen capturing tool]. I think this is a very handy tool for mobile application developers. More importantly it is a freeware. Click here for more info and download.

This may be a great news to people who carry laptops and who use google reader as their RSS or ATOM feed readers or any goooglers . You do not need internet always, to read articles anymore. When u have internet access, just download your subscribed articles [2000 articles] to Google reader, and read them leisurely... The newly released Google gadget Google gears [a browser based plugin] enables off line reading on google-reader. You can download upto 2000 articles. Google recommends Firefox 1.5+ or IE 6+. But some how I was only succeeded with Firefox but failed with IE 6 [understood still it is a beta version].

Another Freedom for Java Technology Sun started a revolution with Java technology 10 years ago. With a free runtime, an open specification, and a platform-independent promise of compatibility, Java technology became a gold standard in embedded devices, mobile phones, on the desktop and within the enterprise. Now, in 2006, Sun is open sourcing its implementations of Java technology as Free/Libre software. More