Authored By: Harish R:

Every firm is started with a specific target market and it caters to the needs of that segment. Once that is satisfied and the firm is established as a market leader or a monopoly, they move on to cover other market segements or entirely different markets even. One such example is Google TV. Read on to find out more. Google as we all know started as a simple search engine project of two graduate students in Stanford and later got developed into the most dominant IT firm ever that reached a place like no other company by becoming a verb in the Oxford dictionary. Now that they have conquered the search engine market, they decided to add other products to their catalogue.

Authored By Harish R:

“Necessity is the mother of all inventions.” This is very true for the greatest technological innovations and revolutions ever happened in the world. A prominent example that I can quote is the invention of telephone. The need for a telephone for customers on-the-go created the mobile phone. A similar connection is what I find between another two greatest creations, computers and cloud computing. Yes, you got it right, cloud computing is more or less like a computer on-the-go. There is a great level of similarity between mobile phones and cloud computing. Read on to find out how. Before I go on to explain what cloud computing is, I feel it is proper to know its need first. In today's world, almost every individual has access to a computer and also an email ID. Let us try comparing both. A computer and email have their own applications which they solve well.

Authored By:Harish R

As discussed in my previous article where I had related the need for distributed computing in case of a company as big as google with general stores example and mentioned as to how and why Hadoop came into existence, here I explain  how intriguing is the concept and how it is implemented. Let us start by understanding what MapReduce is first.

The MapReduce Concept

Any problem can be solved in MapReduce in just 2 steps. The first one is called Map and the second one is called Reduce. For better understanding, I shall continue with the general stores example  used in the previous article. For now, you are the owner of a large chain of general stores with people working at various levels.

Authored by Harish R

I log in to my computer. Connect to a specific remote server. I type in a few keywords and immediately that remote server orders over half a million computers to work in tandem to solve the problem that I had presented them with and gives me the output. This is not a fantasy story nor am I a millionaire to have such equipment with me. I am just a normal engineering student from a normal college in India. But how do I get access to such a resource? The truth is, not only me but everyone reading this has access to the very same resource I had mentioned earlier. Wondering how?

Authored By Maheep Gupta:

Have you ever noticed how technology is affecting our day to day lives? You might not even realize but we are actually surrounded by small yet smart technical marvels all over. In our homes be it a microwave, a television or a music system, all are smart technical wonders in one way or another. They have their own brain, however preliminary and basic, which lets them think, learn and do the actions which were not imaginable till few years back. Here we are not just talking about the electronic circuits and equipments but the smartness of these gadgets. A television these days can offer you reminders for your favorite show or record it when you are not there. How do you think that is possible?

Authored By:Maheep Gupta

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road” said Stewart Brand. I think all Mobile OS developers (mostly OEMs) have learnt this lesson by heart and some of them in a pretty hard way. Before going into further details, some background on what exactly we are talking about will help – an Operating System is the software responsible for controlling the core hardware and acts as a bridge between users and the device itself. The device here can be a computer or mobile or any other equipment for that matter, even a music player or your set top box. So in terms of mobile OS, its essentially the software which controls your mobile phones and interpret your actions to the phone.

Authored By Peeyush Kheria:

How would you feel to manipulate things with just the movement of your fingers? How do you feel of a state where you just look at a person and you get all the information about him? What if you are able to see the videos while reading the newspaper? Yeah, I am going to take you on a roller coaster ride. What if your mind becomes a knowledge center as powerful as internet and you have information on anything and everything in hand. When I say so, I mean the human mind coupled with as much resource as the internet itself  has and when the power of whole internet resides within you. It might look wild but Sixth Sense is one such application being developed by Pranav Mistry from TED