I am a long-time Apple customer. I’ve been using Macs for the past 16 years. I had an iPad since it came out. I admit, however, I was late adopting a smartphone, but I did buy an iPhone 4S and had been using an iPhone ever since. Two years ago I tried Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Owning a Samsung phone from Verizon was like owning … Continue reading Why I switched to Android and Google Project Fi and why should you
Google recently launched Cloud BigTable – a cloud NoSQL service that is compatible with Apache HBase API. What this means is that an existing ecosystem of Hadoop applications is immediately binary-compatible with this new service and it doesn’t require any changes to the API. Google is not only marketing this as an alternative to Hadoop, but it is also marketing it as an alternative to … Continue reading We Need a Cloud Version of Cassandra
Desperate times call for desperate measures at Microsoft. Frobes reports: Despite a lacklustre start, Chromebooks are becoming relatively popular in the super-budget end of the portable market. This has worried Microsoft for some time. After all, with a Google-centric experience, not to mention an operating system in the form of Chrome OS, there’s little if anything to be gained here by Microsoft and everything to … Continue reading Microsoft and Apple Have Everything to Lose if Chromebooks Succeed
