Google Acquisitions

I found an interesting blog worth sharing. It is indeed a wonderful research into the acquisitions done by Google and the niche areas in which the companies worked. Here it is…SeoByTheSea

Red Herring fields questions to TCS CEO

I visit Red Herring site on a daily basis to get a feel of what’s up in the Technology Business. Recently the CEO of India’s largest company TCS was interviewed by Red Herring team on a variety of aspects right from domestic competitors to the international bigwigs. Questions fielded included India’s stand on China’s capabilities. Mr.Ramadorai has his task cut out to make TCS a $10 bn company in the near future. For more, click TCS CEO.

Riya sell-off rumours finally buried!!!

Munjal Shah, the founding CEO of Riya has finally put to rest all the speculations around Google acquiring Riya. There had been rumours of a $30m deal offered by Google. All these started once Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. The tagging space has since gotten more hotter since.. For more on Mr.Shah’s comments check out Riya Rumours

Opera Buys itself

I donot know whether this is for sure, but I found this blog which says Opera bought itself
for $0 million. We all know, of late, the tech bigwigs MSFT and GOOG have been fighting it out to buy Opera. This news of Opera buying itself is not even published on their site…This may just be rumour spun off from constant speculation as to who is gonna get the pie… n e wayz chk it out for more…

TPM - Trusted Platform Module

TPM is a tiny security chip that comes equipped in a PC, will do something never before seen on the Internet: provide virtually fool-proof verification that you are who you say you are. This chip was created by a consortium of biggies in both s/w and h/w industry. As you browse through the URL below, it becomes obvious that users of unlicensed/unregistered s/w will not go scot-free… Of course this for all this to happen, the chip needs to be enabled first …

chk it out.. TPM.

AMD-MHz != Intel-MHz…y n how

I was browsing through digg and found an interesting blog I felt worth sharing. It explains the arcane details of internal workings of a processor in a layman’s language and he is has done it very well @ that.

For more check out: Intelv/sAMD

Gmail goes mobile!!!

Google has come out with the latest offering for Gmail - access your Gmail messages from the web browser on your mobile phone or device. Chk it out 4 urself @ MobileMail

A new search engine…and good one too

Found this new search engine which offers real cool features…. The one I found worth sharing is the categorizing the search….Hmm, hope Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are watching.
Check it out for urself @ previewseek

There is another search engine doing rounds. Chk it out @ meaningmaster

Performance tuning and OutOfMemoryError(OOME)

For the past few days, I have been trying to find out the cause for OOME occuring in our application. In the rigorous web-searching that followed, I have found lot many sites/blogs/bug-databases which were helpful in deciding our next approach to be taken to resolve OOME.

It is after we started to see lot many OOMEs that we started worrying seriously about nailing down the application to find memory leaks. The profiler tool we used did not provide any lead either… It was then that I started to search web to see if someone was in our shoes earlier. Fortunately, there have been many and some have suggested workarounds for such problems. Below are some of the URLs that are worth browsing. Hope these enlighten u into tuning ur application to improve its availability.

Configuring heap, internal workings of the Garbage Collector and JVM are a must when you are deploying a critical application that requires a high degree of availability and a good performance. All the very best in finetuning ur app… So get set go….

http://cretesoft.com/archive/archive.jsp

http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/newsletter.shtml

http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/tools/hpjtune/

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-11-2000/jw-1117-performance_p.html

http://www.opensourcetutorials.com/tutorials/Server-Side-Coding/Java/optimize-java-app/page8.html

http://www.petefreitag.com/articles/gctuning/

http://www.unixville.com/~moazam/categories/java/

http://www.unixville.com/~moazam/stories/2004/05/18/debuggingHangsInTheJvm.html

http://www.lambdacs.com/debugger/UserManual/ODBUserManual.html

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-dyn0429/

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-threads3.html

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-perf06304/

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-dyn0429/

Info abt GC

http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/GCPortal/

Blogs…

http://blog.arendsen.net/?p=14

http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin/2005/6/8/outofmemoryerror_with_free_mem

http://rifers.org/blogs/gbevin/java?offset=5

http://www.szegedi.org/articles/memleak.html

http://www.szegedi.org/articles/memleak2.html

http://www.szegedi.org/articles/memleak3.html

http://www.patrickpeak.com/page/patrick ( Read under the section : Your Web App is leaking memory during restarts - Here’s why…)

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1996/jw-10-indepth.html

BUGS filed

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4405807
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6232010
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4957990
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do;:YfiG?bug_id=4697804
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4705373

MIT’s Technology Review

Got to know this cool site today. Have a look at it