How Google Inc. got its name?

Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two founders of the Google Inc, first met at Standord in 1995. According to some reports and accounts, there was hardly any thing common in them and they disagreed about almost every thing discussed in their first meeting. In 1996, pursuing computer science at …

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Father of C, Dennis Ritchie, passed away.

Dennis Ritchie, also known as “dmr”, a renowned computer scientist, after a long illness passed away last weekend at the age of 70. He is best known, as the creator of C language and played a vital role in the development of UNIX operating system. C Language is one of …

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How to resolve Internal Error, wampserver.

I just installed wampserver 2 and found that whenever I tried to put it online message box pops up saying “ Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action: the service has not been started.” I went through many different posts at last found one …

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Number Nine. Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo

Experience and Ecosystem          8/10 The Neo is a new look at what a high/mid range device should look like. Sony Ericsson had to face a lot of criticism from consumers and critics alike in 2010. The X10 with all the hardware it had, had Android 1.6 and was pushed …

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OEM Manufactures in China may have already started manufacturing the next iPhone (RUMOUR)

As reported by the Japanese blog Macotakara, Chinese manufacturers, Foxconn Technology and Pegatron Technology may have already started manufacturing the next iPhone (iPhone 5). According to the blog, sources say that about 85% of the manufacturing will be done by Foxconn while the remaining 15% will be done by Pegatron. …

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Netflix Price Hike Can Effect Its Customer Base

Netflix, the premier dvd rental service and on-demand internet streaming media provider in the United States and Canada has recently increased its rates by as much as 60 percent. Previously, the rental service that included unlimited video streaming over the internet costs for as low as $10 per month. However …

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Installing uTorrent Server in Ubuntu

There are many BitTorrent clients freely available for Ubuntu such as Transmission client, KTorrent and QTransmission to name a few. However, some of you who have used uTorrent on Windows may want the same good old client in their Linux distro also. So here is a brief guide to setting …

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Qwerty For Your Thumb Love

This is the first segment of the mega shopping list saga. The QWERTY has always been considered as a serious executive/business phone, up until the birth of social networking. Research In Motion, better known for their Blackberry mobile phones, set a trend to encompass half a decade of dominance. The …

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Search Quran Software (from Pakistan) – the only Quran search engine with complete Roman Urdu Translation

Zahid Hussain, a software developer from Pakistan, has developed a Quran Searching sofware that features complete Roman Urdu translation, as mentioned on his personal blog (English, Arabic and Urdu are available as additional languages). According to his personal blog, he works as a system analyst in a private firm and …

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Nokia launches three NFC enabled smartphones

The Finnish mobile phone maker has launched three NFC enabled smartphones running the latest Symbian OS, the Symbian Belle. Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 600 smartphones have introduced the latest Symbian software update and all the three handsets have the NFC chip built into them. The built-in NFC chip …

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