PuneTech:Mentor India internship for tech students: entrance exam on 4th July |  |
Posted: 28 Jun 2010 08:25 PM PDT For the last few years, Pune startup KQ Infotech has been running Mentor India, an year-long, free, internship program for technology students, aimed at giving students a very strong base in systems programming, web development, or web design and animation. The next batch of Mentor India is starting in July, and the entrance exam is on 4th July. Interested students may register here  Click on this icon to see all PuneTech articles related to tech education in Pune Mentor India is a fusion of the cultural heritage of the ancient Gurukul system with modern methods of teaching and learning. This unique concept emphasizes experiential learning by the Shishya with the Guru skillfully facilitating it. Thus, students of this program would be paying from the day one but in the form of their contribution on live projects.Here are highlights of the program from the KQ InfoTech website:
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We had the chance to check out the Samsung GalaxySamsung Galaxy S at CommunicAsiaCommunicAsia recently and here is a video of the Galaxy S i9000 phone playing some video on the it’s 4 inch SuperAMOLED display. Does the display live up to the name ? find out in our video below
Reference: PuneTech:Tech events in Pune this weekend – 4 & 5 June | |
| Tech events in Pune this weekend – 4 & 5 June Posted: 03 Jun 2010 07:24 PM PDT There are a number of interesting tech events in Pune today and tomorrow. Here is a brief overview of each. All of these events are free, and no registration is required. PLUG Meet – Presentation on Unicode by G KarunakarTomorrow, Saturday, June 5, 4pm-6pm, 7th Floor, SICSR, Model Colony, The Pune Linux Users Group’s monthly meeting happens on the first Saturday of every month, from 4pm to 6pm at SICSR, Model Colony. This month, the agenda includes a talk by G Karunakar on Unicode. Linux CD/DVDs will also be available at the meeting for anyone looking to install linux. This is a great place to meet open source enthusiasts in Pune For more details, see: http://plug.org.in Mentoring Workshop on clean energy financing in PuneToday, Friday, June 4, 10am-1:30pm, 1st Floor, Hotel Le Meridien Private Financing Advisory Network (PFAN) is a multilateral, public-private partnership initiated by the Climate Technology Initiative (CTI) and funded by USAID. PFAN seeks to identify clean energy projects at an early stage and act as a project financing coaching and consultancy service to facilitate financial closure of such projects. After establishing dedicated in-country networks in China, Indonesia and Philippines, PFAN has now launched its services in India. This workshop will introduce Indian clean energy entrepreneurs and stakeholders to the PFAN initiative and how they can leverage this platform to connect with investors and avail pro-bono mentoring services. Agenda: 9.30 pm: Registration For more details see: http://www.cti-pfan.net/ PuneCleanTech meet: Energy Efficiency – Opportunities and ChallengesTomorrow, Saturday, June 5, 11am, Venture Center, NCL Innovation Center, Pashan Road The new gee-whiz technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, biofuels et cetera take all the limelight these days. But the fact remains that they are still a miniscule part of our energy mix and will remain so for the foreseeable future. A far bigger opportunity, however, exists all around us. There is enormous potential for making the conventional energy generation, distribution, storage and utilization much more efficient than what it is. What is this opportunity? Where is it? How does one find it? How big is it? What can be done about it? How can it be addressed? Does anyone address it today? How do they do it? What qualifications do they need to do it? Mr. Shishir Athale, founder of Sudnya Industrial Services, an energy services company, will discuss all these questions on June 5th, 11am at the NCL Venture Center (June 5th is also the Environment Day, a fitting coincidence!). For more details see: http://punecleantech.com/energy-efficiency-opportunities-and-challenges/ POCC Meet: How to build a great startup teamTomorrow, Saturday, 5 June, 4pm-7pm, 4th Floor, SICSR, Model Colony The initial stages require only a handful of core team-members (3 to 5). These few are crucial to the success of the startup product or service. Finding these people, is one of the primary challenges facing startups today. Chetana Mehta will tackle a whole bunch of questions related to this topic. Chetana Mehta, ex-VP HR at GS Lab helped grow Persistent Systems, GS Lab when they were at a similar stage has offered to cover some aspects of nurturing and training teams. For more details see: http://punetech.com/how-to-build-a-killer-startup-team-pocc-event-5-june/ |
Newly formed company Linaro is backed financially by a coterie of big companies.
Typically, companies wanting to develop for ARM processors--one of the most prolific chip designs in the world--need to wade through a morass of different operating systems and versions of those operating systems. Those include Google's Android and Chrome OSes, Ubuntu Linux, Palm's WebOS, and MeeGo from Intel and Nokia. The new company, Linaro, is a non-profit software engineering outfit that intends to simplify the development process and is backed to the tune of "tens of millions of dollars" by its founding members, Tom Lantzsch, an executive officer at Linaro, said in a phone interview.
ARM's chief rival, Intel, has an advantage because it doesn't face as unwieldy a ecosystem as ARM does. In short, Intel is one chip company with one chip architecture. ARM chips--used widely in cell phones, smartphones, and expected to populate a raft of upcoming tablets--are designed and manufactured by range of companies including Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Freescale, ST-Ericsson, and Samsung.
"On the one side you have many chips, and on the other side you have many distributions (software versions)," said Lantzsch. Linaro's goal is to make sure the latest software version can be readily "ported" to the latest silicon. "Imagine two tablet makers going to the same silicon vendor. Let's say Texas Instruments in this case. And both want to get a tablet into the market and both want to do that, for example, on Android. What you'll find is there are differences in the versions (of Android). And then you'll have other tablet makers wanting to do a tablet on Chrome or MeeGo," Lantzsch said. The resources of TI and its customers will be strained to meet all these competing demands, he said. Linaro aims to streamline and optimize this process.
"Linaro will provide a stable and optimized base for distributions and developers by creating new releases of optimized tools, kernel and middleware software validated for a wide range of (chips), every six months," the company said in a statement. Linaro's first software and tools release is due out in November and will provide optimizations for the latest range of ARM CortexTM-A family of processors, the company said.
You can find FAQ which answers questions like -- Q5. Is this just Ubuntu on ARM? and Q8. How is Linaro different from Android, MeeGo, LiMo or other similar distribution?Linaro - Software foundations for an open digital world
Linaro™ brings together the open source community and the electronics industry to work on key projects, deliver great tools, reduce industry wide fragmentation and provide common foundations for Linux software distributions and stacks to land on.
Why Linaro?
Making open source development easier and faster
Open source has been one of the biggest trends in embedded electronics over the last few years and it has enabled a diverse range of products with a multitude of software stacks and distributions. Today's web enabled gadgets often have millions of lines of code, built from thousands of open source software packages. Much of the complexity of using open source is the wide choice available for each component and software package. Choice of software components at the top of the software stack helps enable differentiation of products such as Applications framework, Multimedia framework, UI and web components. This software choice is not limited to the application level but extends all the way down to low level software around the Linux® kernel e.g. power management, boot process and includes choices over version of Linux kernel and tools used.
This is just Major Distribution list of latest GNU/Linux distribution release list from http://distrowatch.com. My main intention to just collect all latest and greatest Linux Distribution Release Information on one page.
Ubuntu 10.04, the latest version of the popular Linux distribution for desktops and servers, has been released: "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support). This release incorporates the Desktop edition and the Server edition. The Server edition can be used on physical servers, on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), and on Amazon's EC2 public cloud. Code-named 'Lucid Lynx', 10.04 LTS continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. We are also pleased to announce Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition, which is not a long-term support release. Ubuntu 10.04 LTS will be supported for three years on desktops and five years on servers. Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook edition will be supported for 18 months." See the release announcement, press release, release notes and feature list for further information. Download (SHA256): ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso (699MB, torrent), ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso (697MB, torrent).
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Now with various ARM & Atom based microprocessor end user can best of best gadgets/phone/notebook. With dual-core we can find more power in these small devices with less in size, cost, heat & power consumption. Now we can enjoy full blown applications using these processors.
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After months of waiting since the official announcement last November, Google has finally picked a time to release the Chrome operating system: this fall.
According to AFP, Google execs have confirmed that the open-source Chrome OS will be available for free, although no month nor date during autumn has been specified.
It’s also yet to be known whether any new (or old, maybe) devices to be released at that time will be running on the Chrome OS. It could be an interesting selling tool for the holiday season, although it’s not clear cut how much this will challenge Microsoft Windows just yet.
New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.”
"On Wednesday Google's vice president of product management said that this fall Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows. More than 70 million users already use the Chrome Browser, and Google expects at least 1 million users of the OS by day one of release."
Google is phasing out the internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous Windows operating system because of security concerns, according to several Google employees.
The directive to move to other operating systems began in earnest in January, after Google’s Chinese operations were hacked, and could effectively end the use of Windows at Google, which employs more than 10,000 workers internationally.
“We’re not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort,” said one Google employee.
“Many people have been moved away from [Windows] PCs, mostly towards Mac OS, following the China hacking attacks,” said another.
New hires are now given the option of using Apple’s Mac computers or PCs running the Linux operating system. “Linux is open source and we feel good about it,” said one employee. “Microsoft we don’t feel so good about.”
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