Sunday May 20th 2012

‘Technology/Information’ Archives

Pakistani taxi driver

Pakistani taxi driver

Asif Hussain, a Pakistani taxi driver with barely any money in his pocket decided to pick up a pen and capture real life stories happening around him

World’s Most Innovative Technology Start-ups for 2011

World’s Most Innovative Technology Start-ups for 2011

Catharine Smith and Bianca Bosker of The Huffington Post published a slideshow of the 31 most innovative start-ups as visionary technology pioneers of 2011 by the World Economic Forum, selected from over 300 nominations in more than 12 countries. Here’s a rundown of their list with descriptions coming from the respective sites’ narrative or [...]

Facebook Advertising 10-fold in One Year

Facebook Advertising 10-fold in One Year

As Facebook reaches the 500-million mark in registered users, advertising in the popular online social media networking site rose 10-times in the past year, Bloomberg Businessweek reports. The social media site have maintained its prices while adding more features that benefit advertisers target the market in the half-a-billion membership [...]

Windows XP Will Still Be Around ‘Til 2020 ?

Windows XP Will Still Be Around ‘Til 2020 ?

Computerworld recently came out with a news item reporting that Microsoft will be extending downgrade rights on its XP products until 2020. Ed Bott, the author of this post, corrects this report: Here’s the short version: ComputerWorld missed a few important details in its calculations and thus reached the wrong conclusion. Yes, Microsoft is [...]