Apple iPad the Major Misses!!

After three years Apple is back to what it is known to be best at — launch new product. The computing giant launched iPad, a sleek table that aims to revolutionize the publishing business the same way as Apple iPod transformed the music industry and iPhone transformed the telecom industry. But there are many misses [...]

Processes and Thread

Parent & child process have different Code, Data & Test segments. But two threads of the same process share the Code & Data segments and have separate stacks. A thread is a stream of instructions which can be scheduled independently(i.e it has its own program counter and stack).But a thread shares its resources like program [...]

What is Multi tasking, Multi programming, Multi threading?

Multi programming: Multiprogramming is the technique of running several programs at a time using timesharing. It allows a computer to do several things at the same time. Multiprogramming creates logical parallelism. The concept of multiprogramming is that the operating system keeps several jobs in memory simultaneously. The operating system selects a job from the job [...]

Google Latitude

The search giant Google has released a software that allows users of mobile phones and other wireless devices in 27 countries, including India, to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends. The feature, dubbed `Latitude,’ expands upon a tool introduced in 2007 to broadcast their location to others constantly, using Google Latitude with the [...]

How do Cookies Work ?

What is a Cookie? A cookie is a piece of text that a Web server can store on a user’s hard disk. Cookies allow a Web site to store information on a user’s machine and later retrieve it. The pieces of information are stored as name-value pairs. Where can you find it? On Windows – [...]

Does Google Have a Secret OS?

Net Applications caused a bit of a stir this week with a report that showed Microsoft’s operating system share had dipped below 90 percent. This played very well where anti-Microsoft sentiment was strongest, not surprisingly. Net Applications uses software sensors at 40,000 Web sites around the world to measure traffic and come up with its [...]

The Effect of Virtual Methodologies on Operating Systems

ABOUT The location-identity split must work. Of course, this is not always the case. After years of unfortunate research into interrupts, we validate the investigation of write-back caches, which embodies the robust principles of e-voting technology. My focus here is not on whether superpages and e-business are never incompatible, but rather on proposing an analysis [...]