I am not sure if it is an unfortunate coincidence or a sadistic prank by fate that three popular figures of the IT industry who died this month were all pioneers in their respective fields. If you don’t know who Steve Jobs is, I may be able to understand but you would have to be living under

Google+ may not be turning out the “Facebook-Killer” many predicted it to be, but as of yet it has been sailing smoothly. Providing API for developers was the next logical step and sure enough,yesterday it released Google+ API. Be it Facebook,Twitter or even Foursquare, nearly all successful social services provide development platform to facilitate developers build apps which eventually contributes to the success of the service.

As most of you would be aware Facebook’s promised awesomeness turned out to be a one-to-one video chatting feature. Now is that really innovative ? It is something  that has already been introduced since almost a decade by companies now vanished. Of the barely surviving companies, ICQ introduced video chatting in 2007. In fact, for

  From the looks of it, Google‘s latest foray into social web, in the form of +1 button might end up with same fate as  its predecessors. In case you are unaware,it is the button at the top with +1 caption which according to Google official blog is digital shorthand for “this is pretty cool“ 

90% of innovation in automobile industry is driven by electronics and software according to IEEE New York Monitor. It is not surprising to find that all leading software giant,IBM, Microsoft,Google and Cisco have plunged headlong into the automotive sector. The major development seems to be centered around the concept of ECS – Electronics and Control

Firefox plugin, Firesheep makes session-hijacking on an unsecured network a child’s play. This post discussses Firesheep and sidejacking and explains how to defend yourself from identity theft

Microsoft chief software architect, Ray Ozzie is retiring from the company, Steve Ballmer announced. He has been one of the key visionaries and high profile leader since 5+ years at Micosoft. The role of chief software architect was created for Bill Gates, after his exit, Ozzie came to acquire covetous position. Now as Ozzie quits,  Ballmer says Microsoft