H1Bs have been criticized a lot in the US, as affecting employment opportunities for the citizens. But truth is that every year, there are thousands of H1Bs being allowed into the country and many of them hold top positions in many corporations across the country. Does the H1B temporary worker situation really pose a threat...
Read more »As we all know, Google+ has a pretty slick commenting system. Actually, it is one of the things on Google+ that I wished was available elsewhere (apart from the amazing UI and numerous features). Recently, Google+ had announced its commenting system for Blogger as an inbuilt plugin. But this was only made available to the...
Read more »“Cryptanalysis is the is the art and science of analyzing information systems in order to study the hidden aspects of the systems.” – Wikipedia. Today, cryptanalysis is used by secret societies and organizations to communicate messages without giving clues to others. But the FBI folks are experts at cracking these codes. And they are now...
Read more »So Google Reader is going off in July, and although we have this list of Google Reader alternatives, I found another little “non-intrusive” app that does the job a little bit better. I have about 1500+ feeds on my RSS feed list and going through them all the time looking for updates is a waste...
Read more »I’ve been seeing several instances of this app – DecideQuick on my Facebook feed for quite some time now. Curious, I tried it out and voila – what an useful app! Apps are many. Some fancy, some fun, some useful. DecideQuick falls into the third category. In simple terms, DecideQuick lets you make decisions via...
Read more »So, Google is looking for people to try its next big thing – Google Glass project, and you can get it before others. You’ll have to preorder the glasses for $1500 and pick it up from any of the Google offices in SF, NY or LA. But, not everyone is getting it, a selected few...
Read more »Tech blogs are many these days. But if I ask you to recall the ones that you really liked, we’d only have a few to count. TechPP.com is one such blog that stands out from the rest of the crowd on many levels. I spoke with its owner Raju, the other day. Raju is one...
Read more »So, Kred and Klout. If you have been living under a mouse, you wouldn’t know what they were. Kred and Klout are two major apps in the “social media influence grading” field. If you’re on Twitter, Facebook and other such social media networks (which we all are), let them know and allow them to calculate...
Read more »So, today I received and email saying that my profile is one of the top 1% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2012. Nice to hear, feel so special. But that is an interesting claim. 1% of most viewed profiles, hmm…..does that mean that there is an exclusive 1% or is every other percentage special? Anyways,...
Read more »Would it be possible to put the entire universe right from the microbes to the galaxies on a single scalable frame? Apparently yes. Someone has put the whole damn thing into a single, zoomable scale that you can go from a Planck length to the galaxies in one single zoom. Amazing! Check it out here.
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