Shopping or browsing on Main St? India’s Big Data firms know

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The business of storing, decoding and analyzing unstructured data – think video, Facebook updates, Tweets, Internet searches and public cameras – along with mountains of facts and figures can help companies increase profits, cut costs and improve service, and is now one of the world’s hottest industries.

It’s called Big Data, and although much of the work is done in the United States, India is getting an increasing slice of the action, re-energizing an IT sector whose growth has begun to falter.

via Shopping or browsing on Main St? India’s Big Data firms know – chicagotribune.com.

An Introduction to Computer Networks

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This is an introductory course on computer networking, specifically the Internet. It focuses on explaining how the Internet works, ranging from how bits are modulated on wires and in wireless to application-level protocols like BitTorrent and HTTP. It also explains the principles of how to design networks and network protocols. Students gain experience reading and understanding RFCs (Internet protocol specifications) as statements of what a system should do. The course grounds many of the concepts in current practice and recent developments, such as net neutrality and DNS security.

via Stanford Online | An Introduction to Computer Networks | Preview.

This is a free course for online but the first class starts tomorrow.

Prerequisites

Students need an introductory course in probability, a strong understanding of bits and bytes, and knowledge of how computers lay out data in memory.

Entire Cities in World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected

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Some particular user going by the name ‘Jadd’ has posted a video claiming to have nuked entire cities. There is no official news of Blizzard as yet about the reason behind the dead cities. We have got the videos [below].

[Update]: There is a lot of chatter on Ycombinator and WOWInsider about this story.

via Entire Cities in World of Warcraft Dead, Hack Suspected – ParityNews.com: …Because Technology Matters.

Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Govt

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Claiming to prevent the unauthorized distribution of Windows 8 Beta the software company listed 65 “infringing” web pages. However, nearly half of the URLs that Google was asked to remove from its search results have nothing to do with Windows 8.

via Microsoft DMCA Notice ‘Mistakenly’ Targets BBC, Techcrunch, Wikipedia and U.S. Govt | TorrentFreak.

Judging from the page titles and content the websites in question were targeted because they reference the number “45″.

Zynga’s weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious

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Wall Street’s excitement over a game publisher once counted among the stars of the new social Internet has cooled since its December initial public offering. On Friday, analysts slashed their price targets on a stock that dived as much as 22 percent, to $2.21 – more than three-quarters off its $10 debut.

via Zynga’s weak pivot to mobile, loss of casual gamers turns serious – chicagotribune.com.

Intel wants to micromanage tablet makers in the name of battery life

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Intel even wants to dictate the components in displays—it wants manufacturers to begin putting small amounts of RAM into their display panels to make them capable of storing static images. That way, if a user is reading a document or webpage but not interacting with anything on the screen, the computer could display a static image of the screen rather than continuously refreshing it for no reason.

via Intel wants to micromanage tablet makers in the name of battery life | Ars Technica.

Next Linux kernel release supports more ARMs with less code

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A new coding effort recently folded into the next version of the Linux kernel may finally resolve the long-running problems associated with Linux on ARM processors. While devices like the Raspberry Pi have shown what can be done with Linux on the low-cost, low-power ARM processor, the burden of developing Linux on the growing number of ARM-derivative processors on the market has been, as Linus Torvalds himself has described it, “a fucking pain in the ass.”

via Next Linux kernel release supports more ARMs with less code | Ars Technica.

Until now, each implementation of ARM by manufacturers has had its own associated kernel code tree, creating a code management nightmare.

Don’t sweat 802.11ac Wi-Fi – because 802.11ad will knock your socks off

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802.11ac is a development of the current 802.11n standard, producing improved performance on the same 5GHz frequency bands. Some routers using the 802.11ac have already been deployed, and the experts on the panel agreed that it will become commonplace by early 2013.

via Interop: Don’t sweat 802.11ac Wi-Fi – because 802.11ad will knock your socks off.

Devices using the 60GHz standard could begin to appear in 2014 and become more prominent in 2015. This means that the next major transition is still well over a year away – in part because 802.11ac will not be a particularly testing upgrade for most end users.

f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system

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F2FS is a new file system carefully designed for the NAND flash memory-based storage devices. We chose a log structure file system approach, but we tried to adapt it to the new form of storage. Also we remedy some known issues of the very old log structured file system, such as snowball effect of wandering tree and high cleaning overhead.

via LKML: =?utf-8?B?6rmA7J6s6re5?=: [PATCH 00/16] f2fs: introduce flash-friendly file system.