Few days ago Cisco Systems, Inc announced an innovative family of data centre-class switching platforms, the Cisco Nexus Series, to meet customer demands for next-generation mission-critical data centres. As the data centre transitions to a more services-centric model, the network plays a pivotal role in orchestrating virtual IT resources and scaling workloads. The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed with this environment in mind, delivering the infrastructure chapter of Cisco’s Data Centre 3.0 vision. The series is designed specifically for the data …

22 January 2008 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released the first public working draft of the HTML 5.0 specification. The official press release can be found here. Its taken nearly 11 months since work began on HTML 5.0 for this first public working draft to get released. Too slow! No that’s way faster compare to most of the W3C working group’s pace. Slow or fast at least this working draft is the milestone to the bright future ahead, especially future of dynamic web development. …

The mass improvements of Internet technology and virtualization bring us in a stage where we nearly buy/want to buy everything from online. But as the online shopping spree grows so is the online scam and fraud. There are thousands of online shopping sites out there with lowest quality products (that they can’t sell on site), some with zero customer care, much worse some are just crooks/frauds. So they only way to be safe is buying from someone reliable, certified by proper authority. In United States BBB online reliability program is one such scheme, where they scrutinizes online companies to …

The web standard body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a new type of query standard designed to gather data from multiple sources. This new query standard SPARQL, pronounced ’sparkle’, will allow users focus on what they want to know over distributed data sources rather than relying on data format. It’s is no brainer that, this will certainly boost the development speed of Web 2.0 applications (which is actually not so different than semantic web).So why is it so hot! Our known traditional query languages such as SQL/XQuery /DMX are engineered for accessing to a single source …

These are very easy to do stuffs, nothing complex yet in time you will find it useful. Most no-tech blogger intend to do everything through plug-ins, but why install dozens of plug-in while you can get away with just adding few tweaks? So here are five simple tweaks that will make your WP life a lot comfortable.

Denying access to non-referrer request/Spam-bot request via .htaccess

This is simple and straight forward way to deal your referrer spam. Well off course considering your server is …

After the first beta release of the much-anticipated Firefox 3 Web browser which offers some nice enhancements over the previous version, Firefox 3 beta two is now available for testing. Though it doesn’t differ much from its predecessor’s functionality or looks but there are some major performance upgrade has brought. Since it’s a beta release there are still some known bugs, which obviously will be taken care off before Firefox 3’s anticipated debut. Firefox 3 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering …

Acquired in a management buyout in 1987, Go North East is the founding company of the Go-Ahead Group. Go North East is now the largest bus operator in the North East of England. Now bus passengers using Go North East are now able to order and receive tickets by mobile phone, very fancy right? Well North East bus giant claims its scheme of selling bus tickets by mobile phone is first in UK. Launched this week following a trial late last year, …

Philippine’s booming IT and gaming group IPVG announced today it has acquired a Delaware-based IT security firm for $10.45 million, the latest acquisition in its aggressive expansion strategy. IPVG Corp., through its subsidiaries, operates in the information technology and telecommunications, online computer games, and business process outsourcing sectors in the Philippines. The company provides various Internet data center services. IPVG’s purchase of Prolexic Technologies Inc, which is basically an anti-virus company, comes just a few weeks after IPVG said it would buy around …

Just a few days ago when OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen announced her departure, optimists were still hopeful that Nicholas Negroponte will turn the things around in no time; after all it all is for a good cause. But just a few days before mass production begin when Intel announced it’s puling the plug on its dealings with Nicholas Negroponte’s brainchild’ things are not looking good at all for OLPC. When Intel joined OLPC’s educational programme last July, the aim was to combine two major attempts …

A search engine from the creator (Jimmy Wales) of online encyclopedia Wikipedia will be made available to the public next week. After just a few weeks of invitation-only testing, Wikia Search/Search Wikia (Not quite sure about the actual name as the logo shows one name but text shows something else) will debut on Monday, 7 January. Co-founder Jimmy Wales said the open source search engine would be released for public viewing in “alpha” so users can complain about flaws and developers can work out …