Google introduces Books in India Play Store

Google has extended its Google Play Books service to the Indian market. Users will be able to download ebooks from a

Apple iPhone 5S

Apple launched iPhone 5 with much fanfare just five months ago, but reports say the company is already working on not one but two iPhones as well as next generation iPad and iPad mini.

Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst with KGI Securities, says that Apple is working on an iPhone 5 successor that will have new features like snappier processor, fingerprint sensor, better camera and more powerful LED flash. Kuo's claim of fingerprint recognition system gains a little

Apple sells 47.8M iPhones in Q1

Apple closed out 2012 on a high note with

Internet marks a milestone

The story of the Internet began in an iconic year; the year when man took that “one giant leap for mankind”, musicians set the stage on fire at Woodstock, two hackers spent a summer developing the path-breaking UNIX operating system, and two engineers at a military research facility stumbled upon a way to make computers talk to each other.

Though the engineers at the ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) made history by enabling exchange of data between two giant computers, via a 15-foot cable, it wasn’t until January, 1983 that the possibility of a World Wide Web was born. A new protocol, the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), invented by hackers Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, paved the way for a network that could link many, many more than the 1,000-odd computers at ARPANET and made it possible for technologists of the future to envisage a stable and scalable Web of computers. The protocol, which went live on January 1, 1983, became the international standard on which the Internet was built.

Of course, we still weren’t talking about the Internet as the mass medium it is today, for, it wasn’t until at least a decade later that British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, or the Internet as we know it.

30 years

Earlier this week, marking 30 years of the operable Internet, Cerf, who now goes by the title of Google Inc.’s chief Internet evangelist — where his self-proclaimed job description is to “protect and promote the Internet” — wrote on Google blogs about his “great adventure” at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), where he co-engineered this crucial protocol.

Predictions for Open Source

It’s that time again, ladies and gentlemen: Time for the predictions to start rolling down the pike. With open source, prognostications tend to run toward things like “world domination” and “the year of the desktop.” Most predictions fall flat. But that doesn’t stop us from diving headfirst into the murky waters of the future. And sometimes, a gem will appear that actually nails it.

So with that in mind, I wanted to hop into my Linux-powered TARDIS and offer my own predictions for 2013 and open source. You might find some repeat offenders from previous years. You might even find some entries here that knock you for a loop. Are you ready for the future?

1: Finally breaking double-digits in market share

Linux is already at 9% market share in the enterprise market. 2013 will be the first year that the open source platform reaches double digits. Though Linux has had a much easier in-road at the enterprise level (they actually get it), Linux has typically struggled with the small to midsize market. 2013 will also be the year Linux finally breaks the double-digit barrier for the SMBs, in part because of growing discontent with Windows 8 and the rising cost of Microsoft products.

2: Ubuntu taking over as default desktop platform for a major company

It’s already happened within one of the largest companies in the world (Google) and will happen again. This time around, the company won’t be as tech-savvy or tech-centric as Google, so the win will be all the more profound. Which company this is remains to be seen — but I believe it will be based in the United States and will begin a major shift in the way the business world perceives Linux.

3: Linux gaining major ground as a gaming platform