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Monday, November 3rd, 2008We all know that the global economy is going through a crisis…We all know the chances of the economy bouncing back in the near future is not very promising…We all know that it would be very difficult for corporations to show a growth or even sustain the topline… Hence the only way for companies to show an acceptable bottomline in these challenging time is by cutting costs and increasing efficiency…We all know that the most practical way to reduce cost is by bumping off a few from the payroll…We all know that a lot of companies have laid off lots of people in the last couple of months…
What we don’t know is the complete set of numbers of the people laid off from these companies. Well, here is a list of 109 companies that have laid off a total of 38, 551 employees in the last few months…
A buyers guide to LCD TV
Sunday, October 5th, 2008CRT TVs are going to be history soon…the only thing that is stopping LCD/Plams TV in taking over the market is the huge price tag that come associated with it. But, sooner or later, with the competition in this sector increasing and more and more people going the LCD way, manufacturers will start earning on volumes rather than margins.
I came across an article on indiatimes infotech on things to consider while buying an LCD TV. I agree with all of it. Apart from all that the article mentions, I would also like to stress the importance of research on the warranty the TV comes with and the cost of repairing it if something goes bad.
Here is the article:-
Load Testing using Load Runner
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Load Runner is a tool (by Mercury Interactive, now HP) to test the performance of an application and also determine how it would behave under stress. Load Runner consists of four main components. The Virtual User Generator, the Controller, an Agent and the Analyzer. Click me to know more »
Test Server Performance using Load Testing
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Load Testing
Load Testing is testing the performance of an application server when it is under heavy user load. Lets take www.amazon.com for example. Assume it gets 500,000 hits on an average per day. The systems architects have designed the system to support 40,000 concurrent users without any performance hit. They also vouch that the system will not crash for 100,000 concurrent users, but, will have a 30% performance hit once the number of concurrent users exceed 40,000. They also claim that the system will be able to absorb 1 million hits without needing a server/db cleanup/restart. Moreover, amazon expects an insane amount of load during the holiday season. So they would like to know how the system would behave under immense load like 500,000 concurrent users and if the system is scalable so that they could make informed decision. Performance degradation or even worse failure of the webapp during the holiday season even for half an hour can lead to millions of dollars of losses in revenue. Just ask turbotax who had to refund millions of dollars because their online tax filing system crashed due to heavy load a day before the tax filing deadline in 2007. Click me to know more »
iphone3g voice and data plan charges by AT & T
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008So finally its time for iphone3g to hit the markets. The new generation iphone will be available at apple stores and over 1800 AT & T outlets from 11th July. Now we all know that the 8 GB model is priced at $199 and the 16 GB model at $299. But what about the service charges by AT & T? Click me to know more »
6 biggest disappointments of iphone3g
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008Six biggest disappointments of Apple’s new iPhone 3G:
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Doesn’t support Adobe’s Flash
Flash is used in most websites today to play video, display animation, etc. With iphone3g not supporting flash, iphoners are sure to miss out on a lot of stuff. Click me to know more »
Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 ???
Friday, June 20th, 2008I was just hiking around and hit upon a page that said something about Web 2.0. To be frank, this was the first time i actually came to that that www had a version as well…It caught me my surprise so i decided to dig in a bit further…herez a brief… Click me to know more »
Firefox 3.0 new features review
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008I haSo firefox 3.0 is out of the door and onto the machines of millions of firefox lovers (and probably the bashers as well :)) I got a chance to download it on my office machine as well as my personal laptop and i am mighty impressed with firefox’s new baby. Here are my observations… Click me to know more »
How to download new firefox 3.0
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008The latest firefox 3.0 is finally available for public downloads. I just tried to get on to firefox.com, but the server was down…looks like too many hits brought the server down…i expected better from them, but, on second thoughts, they can scale up their hardware just to support more concurrent users for one day…doesn’t make too much of business sense… Click me to know more »
google image labeler
Monday, June 16th, 2008Came across Google Image Labeler. Its another innovative concept by google to improve their image search. They are basically asking the users to label images in a fun filled way.
They have formatted it as a game. Go to http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ to paly. Click me to know more »