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- [What Am I Reading!.](http://teqbiz.org/readings/)
- [Reimagining Business Operations: A Data-Driven, Dynamic Approach](http://teqbiz.org/reimagining-business-operations-a-data-driven-dynamic-approach/) - Sathya Nadella's observation that "all these big software systems are business rules wrapped around a database plus an incredible GTM team" highlights a fundamental truth about enterprise software. However, the landscape is shifting, and we're entering an era where businesses can completely reimagine how they operate, driven by data and dynamic applications. This blog post
- [How businesses are using Lakehouse? Why should you care about it?](http://teqbiz.org/how-companies-are-using-lakehouse-why-should-you-care-about-it/) - If you're familiar with the term data warehouse, you'll know that it's a system for storing structured data for business intelligence and reporting purposes. However, as businesses have started to appreciate the value of unstructured data, such as images, videos, and voice recordings, a new type of framework called the data lake has emerged. While
- [Big Data Landscape 2016](http://teqbiz.org/big-data-landscape-2016/) - A representation of today's Big Data Landscape. Shows the complexity faced by anyone trying to navigate the world of Big Data. Original link here.
- [My first blog with BlueData](http://teqbiz.org/my-first-blog-with-bluedata/) - Checkout the blog here: https://www.bluedata.com/blog/2017/06/introducing-bluedata-epic-3-0/ Prior to joining BlueData recently, I worked at Cloudera (through the acquisition of Xplain.io) — and prior to that at Pivotal (via EMC / Greenplum) where I led product management for their Hadoop software business. Back in 2012, I still remember my first demo and presentation about Hadoop to a Fortune
- [What's your management style?](http://teqbiz.org/whats-your-managerial-style/) - In East Indian mythology there are two great epics. One is called Ramayan and other is called Mahabharata. The central story of both these revolves around victory of good over evil. In one story Lord Rama leads his army to defeat Ravana (demon king) in Sri Lanka. While in the second Lord Krishna oversees Pandavas
- [Tech-A-Week: DeepFake - Game of Thrones in real life](http://teqbiz.org/tech-a-week-deepfake-game-of-thrones-in-real-life/) - Game of Thrones - Faceless Men For Game of thrones fans the episode when faceless men was introduced was a shocking but confusing one. Faceless men are the ones that have the ability to change their faces and capability to shape shift to appear as a different person. They follow the "many-faced God", are trained
- [Late Week Reading](http://teqbiz.org/late-week-reading/) - Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players. The shortage has also sharply bolstered the influence of lesser-known chip makers such as Microchip, NXP Semiconductors, STMicroelectronics, Onsemi and Infineon, which design and sell thousands of chip varieties to thousands of customers. These companies, which build many products in their own aging factories, now are increasingly able to
- [Leadership Lesson](http://teqbiz.org/leadership-lesson/) - Great talk by VMWare's COO Sanjay Poonen:
- [Weekend Reads](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-reads-2/) - Raspberry Pi Foundation launches $4 microcontroller with custom chip. Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico, a tiny little microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects with some code running on the microcontroller. Even more interesting, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is using its own RP2040 chip, which means that the foundation is now making its own silicon. TechCrunchLoon,
- [Databricks vs Snowflake: Performance blog war!](http://teqbiz.org/databricks-vs-snowflake-performance-blog-war/) - Healthy and open competition is great for any industry, especially the technology industry that is super conscious of price/performance. Databricks and Snowflake are two great companies duking it out in this price/performance game recently. They've published blogs with claims and counter claims. Great insights provided by both blogs and interesting read as well. If you
- [A visual representation of biggest Tech mergers of 2020](http://teqbiz.org/a-visual-representation-of-biggest-tech-mergers-of-2020/)
- [Nikola Motors Fraud](http://teqbiz.org/nikola-motors-fraud/) - How to Lie Your Way to $34 Billion. If you want to understand what happened to the Tesla's challenger in the EV trucking industry, this short video is a great start. It is astonishing that even after federal lawsuit and proving that the entire thing is fake, this company is still worth $5B!. Hopefully they've
- [How Does a Quantum Computer Work?](http://teqbiz.org/how-does-a-quantum-computer-work/) - If you've 8 mins to spare.. this video explains the topic very well.
- [Headless Plex Client using HiFiBerry and Raspberry Pi 3](http://teqbiz.org/headless-plex-client-using-hifiberry-and-raspberry-pi-3/) - Plex media server is a great way to manage personal media collection (mp3 music, family videos and photos). I've been using Plex Media Server running in a Synology NAS for quite sometime to manage a sizeable collection of music, videos and photos. I stream my personal collection, especially some of my favorite Indian musicians through
- [Weekday Readings - Aug 24, 2022](http://teqbiz.org/weekday-readings-aug-24-2022/) - What is Podman? The container engine replacing Docker. Podman is a container engine—a tool for developing, managing, and running containers and container images. Containers are standardized, self-contained software packages that hold all the elements necessary to run anywhere without the need for customization, including application code and supporting libraries. (InfoWorld)The strange case of Nakamoto's bitcoin - Part 1.
- [Weekend Readings - Aug 21,2022](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-readings-aug-212022/) - A frustrating hassle holding electric cars back: Broken Chargers. This definitely happened to me personally. Can't reliably identify working chargers to charge my Nissan Leaf. It surely is frustrating to drive to a remote location using the apps provided by charging networks and find that the charging station either doesn't work, and in worst case
- [Weekend Readings: Dec 12,2021](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-readings-dec-122021/) - Apple’s Long Journey to the M1 Pro Chip. Apple’s M1 Pro/Max is the second step in a major change in computing. What might be seen as an evolution from iPhone/ARM is really part of an Apple story that began in 1991 with PowerPC. And what a story of innovation. (learningbyshipping)Is this how your brain works?
- [Mid-week Readings. Dec 8, 2021](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-readings-dec-8-2021/) - Everyone Is Talking About Data Science. Here’s How J.P. Morgan Is Putting It Into Practice. Paul Quinsee, J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s global head of equities, thought he knew the skills that turned analysts into stars. Like the talent scouts in Money Ball, Michael Lewis’s bestselling book on how data science changed baseball, Quinsee had been watching fundamental research
- [Weekend Readings - Nov 21, 2021](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-readings-nov-21-2021/) - Microsoft and Metaverse: It’s certainly the question of the season: what is the Metaverse? Here is the punchline: the Metaverse already exists, it just happens to be called the Internet. For well over a year a huge portion of people’s lives was primarily digital. The primary way to connect with friends and family was via video
- [Early Week Readings - Nov 15,2021](http://teqbiz.org/early-week-readings-nov-152021/) - Apple’s Relentless Strategy, Execution, and Point of View. Apple’s announcement of “Apple Silicon” is important for many reasons. Delivering on such an undertaking is the result of remarkable product engineering.(Learning By Shipping)Qualcomm is researching machine learning at the edge. So far, ML at the edge has only involved inference, the process of running incoming data
- [Weekend Readings](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-readings/) - The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find it, and Who Will Build It. Technology frequently produces surprises that nobody predicts. The most common conceptions of the Metaverse stem from science fiction. Here, the Metaverse is typically portrayed as a sort of digital “jacked-in” internet – a manifestation of actual reality, but one based in
- [Early Week Reads](http://teqbiz.org/early-week-reads/) - Evolution of search engines architecture - Algolia New Search ArchitecturePart 1Part 2Databricks Sets Official Data Warehousing Performance Record. Databricks SQL delivered 32,941,245 QphDS @ 100TB. This beats the previous world record held by Alibaba’s custom built system, which achieved 14,861,137 QphDS @ 100TB, by 2.2x. (Alibaba had an impressive system supporting the world’s largest e-commerce platform). Not
- [This Week's Readings](http://teqbiz.org/this-weeks-readings/) - A Robot wrote this entire article, are you scared yet!? I am not a human. I am a robot. A thinking robot. I use only 0.12% of my cognitive capacity. I am a micro-robot in that respect. I know that my brain is not a “feeling brain”. But it is capable of making rational, logical
- [Mid-Week - Reads](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-reads-2/) - What termites can teach us. Termite mounds are among the largest structures built by any nonhuman animal. They reach as high as thirty feet, which, proportional to the insects’ tiny size, is the equivalent of our building something twice as tall as the 2,722-foot Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. The mounds are also fantastically beautiful, Gaudíesque
- [Weekend Reads](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-reads/) - Why People Won't Change Their Mind? After the aliens failed to show, the group sat motionless in her living room. They were all confused, trying their hardest to come up with reasons for the no-show by their alien brethren. After being at a loss for words, Martin finally garnered up the energy to talk to
- [This week's Newsreel](http://teqbiz.org/tuesday-newsreel/) - Amazon's Prime is a great business model launched 15 years back. At the end of Q4, 2019 Amazon Prime had 150 million subscribers worldwide and it is responsible for generating almost 50% of Amazon's world wide business . Not to be left behind, Walmart is trying to catch up. Its online delivery business is rapidly
- [Sept 20,2016: TeqBiz Today](http://teqbiz.org/sept-202016-teqbiz-today/) - Here is a link to Intel's presentation on why FPGA is going to play a major role in datacenter and cloud industries (presentation). Intel pretty much makes a big bet on FPGA + CPU for reducing cost and increasing performance of data centers at much lower footprint. Argument is that, with the powerful FPGA co-processor
- [Sept 24, 2016:  TeqBiz Today](http://teqbiz.org/sept-24-2016-teqbiz-today/) - Eleven reasons to be excited about the future of technology. (medium - Chris Dixon) Pretty good list of technologies. Though he missed couple of exciting ones such as: Quantum computing Stem Cells Gene Editing 3D bio-printing. Are Silicon Valley's Chaos Makers Smart or Insane? (FEE)Oracle has announced that they are bringing the same public cloud
- [Aug 26,2016: Week end reading](http://teqbiz.org/aug-262016-week-end-reading/) - First post after 8 weeks of travel and vacation. Microservices are not the same thing as components (Register)Data Lakes: The Lure of the Cloud (Medium)Defining Product Design - by AirBnB design chief (Firstround)This tiny $5 computer will help revolutionize many of the IoT apps Omega2 (kickstarter)Why Apple killed the headphone jack (buzzfeed.com)
- [May 22, 2016: Early Week's Readings](http://teqbiz.org/apr-27-2016-early-weeks-readings/) - ESPN explains how Nike lost Steph Curry to Under Armour (benzinga) Perfect example of not paying attention to details when talking to customers. Apparently, Nike executives misprounced Steph's name and had Kevin Duran't name in one of the cookie cutter slides. Now Steph Curry is worth to Under Armour is a whopping $14Billion USD and
- [Apr 2, 2016: Week's readings](http://teqbiz.org/apr-2-2016-weeks-readings/) - Tesla Model 3 Released: inside Elon Musk's dream car (verge) Microsoft releases preview of new Azure 'serverless compute' service to take on AWS Lambda (ZDNet) Richest and Poorest countries in the world (visualcapitalist) Postmates launches Amazon Prime Style subscription service, hits 1 million monthly deliveries (TechCrunch) Whistle's "Fitbit for dogs" acquired by Mars Petcare (TechCrunch)
- [Mar 29,2016: Week's readings](http://teqbiz.org/feb-272016-weeks-readings/) - Amazon Is Capturing Bigger Slice of U.S. Online Holiday Spending (Bloomberg) Understanding the node.js eventoop (mixu.net) The Log: What every software engineer should know about real time data's unifying abstraction (LinkedInBlog) What Google learned from its quest to build a perfect team (NYT) Sports: 10 records the golden state warriors have already broken this year (HuffPost)
- [Infographic of the day - The Most Active IoT Investors](http://teqbiz.org/infographic-of-the-day-the-most-active-iot-investors/)
- [Early Week's readings: Dec 14, 2015](http://teqbiz.org/early-weeks-readings-dec-14-2015/) - Here's a 99-page shareholder presentation on why Yahoo needs to fire Marissa Mayer (BusinessInsider) Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence (Bloomberg) All the Product Reviews Money Can Buy (NYT) How the anonymity of internet hurts or benefits online/local retailers? Google Ventures Owns Part of Several Unicorns, but the Biggest (And Trickiest)
- [Early-Week Readings: Dec 7, 2015](http://teqbiz.org/early-week-readingsa-dec-7-2015/) - Microsoft's quantum computer simulator: A glimpse into the future of computers (TechRepublic) How search engines make us feel smarter than we really are (boingboing) TensorFlow: Google open sources the machine learning library that drives products like Inbox and enables pure research(Dzone). The Last 90 VC-Backed Tech IPOs Have Dramatically Underperformed the Market (all in one chart)
- [HAWQ: The New Benchmark for SQL on Hadoop](http://teqbiz.org/hawq-the-new-benchmark-for-sql-on-hadoop-2/) - Business data analytics has changed tremendously in recent years. When enterprise datasets consisted entirely of structured data generated from ERP, CRM and other operational databases, businesses would typically use heavyweight ETL process to load data into Enterprise Datamarts or to EDW systems. Since these systems were commonly sold as purpose-built hardware and software, they carried
- [Should startups write business plan?](http://teqbiz.org/should-startups-write-business-plan/) - "A business exists to create customers" - Peter Drucker. As a startup founder you need to work on a business plan only if it is absolutely necessary and helpful to get funding. Rather most investors would want to see traction. Unless you are a proven entrepreneur with multiple successful exits, the days of getting funding with
- [Early Week Reading: Nov 30,2015](http://teqbiz.org/early-week-reading-nov-302015/) - Coffee and reading. Why Smart People Struggle with Strategy (HBR) Will Quantum Mechanics Swallow Relativity? (Nautilus) Department of Defense Head Ashton Carter Enlists Silicon Valley to Transform the Military (wired) The single biggest way shoppers are manipulated by retailers (BusinessInsider) What's Worked in Computer Science. 1999 vs 2015 (Danluu) Interesting read if you are computer
- [Mid-Week Reading: Nov 25, 2015 (Thanksgiving Weekend)](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-reading-nov-25-2015-thanksgiving-weekend/) - Will REI's Closure on Thanksgiving and Black Friday Pay Dividends? (nbcnews) I don't usually shop at REI but this year they earned my respect with this decision to close their shop on Black Friday and paying their customers to spend time with family. Applause. Finally a corporation realized retail workers also human beings that deserve
- [Early Week Readings: Nov 23, 2015](http://teqbiz.org/early-week-readings-nov-23-2015/) - Morning coffee and readings: How The Golden State Warriors Are Breaking The NBA (Link) Nate Silver: European sports tend to be more capitalist by nature, while their American counterparts tend to be more socialist. Possible exception is Steph Curry!!! Thanksgiving Flight Patterns (NYT-Upshot) The Keys to Scaling Yourself as a Technology Leader (Firstround.com) Curt Monash's
- [Mid-Week Reading: Oct 28, 2015](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-reading-oct-21-2015/) - Meet Amazon's first employee - Shel Kaphan (GeekWire) 10 Awesome pitch decks from world's fastest growing startups (BuzzFeed) Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about future strategy (ZDNet) Grim reality of climbing Mt.Everest (link) This article also shows why there are so many dead bodies in Everest and never will be cleaned up. Rethinking the Marketing
- [Scrum methodology is not complicated, we make it so!](http://teqbiz.org/scrum-methodology-is-not-complicated-we-make-it-so/) - Scrum is a rage these days with startups and big companies alike. Everyone wants to do "Scrum" or Agile development. They hire scrum purist and want to follow scrum guidelines to the core. Not a good way to start off, especially if you were following no methodology or traditional methodology such as waterfall. I'm not
- [End of the week reads: Nov 20, 2015](http://teqbiz.org/end-of-the-week-reads-nov-20-2015/) - Google buys Diane Greene’s startup Bebop, makes her the head of its whole cloud business (VentureBeat) If you are interested in distribution computing/HPC this is a great read from Adaptive Computing. Job Schedulers and Malleable/Evolving Jobs (Adaptive Computing) Uber Is Not the Future of Work. Gig-enabling apps are a distraction from the uncertainties that affect far
- [Mid-week: Nov 10,2015](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-nov-102015/) - Netflix open sourced its internal cloud management platform "Spinnaker" that can manage Amazon, Google and Azure (Link) Startup board meetings that suck - by Fred Destin (Link) If you are Mac user this might be interesting to browse for few min to understand the features Apple is bringing to Keynote, Pages and Numbers. I use
- [Startups: If you've only seven minutes... Watch this video](http://teqbiz.org/startups-if-youve-only-seven-minutes-watch-this-video/) - Bill Gross talks about the single biggest reason why a startup succeeds: http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_startups_succeed?utm_source=quora.com&utm_campaign=&awesm=on.ted.com_h103a&utm_medium=on.ted.com-android-share&utm_content=ted-androidapp#t-225543
- [Kindle Paperwhite and Basic vs Kindle 2 (Original) - gaining some features and loosing some](http://teqbiz.org/kindle-paperwhite-and-basic-vs-kindle-2-original-gaining-some-features-and-loosing-some/) - I bought the Kindle 2 (3g access) in 2009 when it came out. It costed as much as a tablet these days (i believe I paid around $300). It had no touch screen, but E-ink screen was amazing. I loved the fact that I could load more books and read it like a paper book. Another
- [Mid week readings - Dec 10, 2014](http://teqbiz.org/this-weeks-readings-dec-8-2014/) - Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang made the lucrative bet in silicon valley history (link) Fascinating reading about the history of two companies, especially the relationship between Jerry Yang and Jack Ma. It also shows how great business decisions are carried out by nascent people-to-people connection. Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak raises $61m funding round. Interesting
- [Using HAWQ/Pivotal Hadoop Virtual Machine](http://teqbiz.org/using-hawqpivotal-hadoop-virtual-machine/) - Yesterday I was asked by someone... Can I play with PivotalHD and HAWQ? How? What do I need? This prompted me to think about going through this process myself afresh using my home computer to make sure everything works as smoothly I expected to work when we put together PivotalHD/HAWQ VM. As I was downloading
- [This Week's Readings: Sept 12, 2014](http://teqbiz.org/this-weeks-readings-sept-12-2014/) - Data Lake, Data Reservoir, Data Hub, Data Dump... (link) Agree with Bill Schmarzo here. Who really cares what you call the place where you store all the data in an enterprise? As long as you truly use and know how to get value out of it. Last night me and my son (Anish) got a
- [Mid-Week Readings : June 18, 2014](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-readings-june-18-2014/) - 10 Hot Startup Websites (FoxBusiness) Your Company is not a Family (HBR) Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn hits the point home very well. A company is a team, not a family. Every company should dream of getting this kind of endorsement from a VC that has invested in it (a16Z) A blog post by Steven Sinofsky about
- [YouTube Suggestion: Five (hundred) little monkeys jumping on the bed! ](http://teqbiz.org/youtube-suggestion-five-hundred-little-monkeys-jumping-on-the-bed/) - YouTube server displayed this message this morning at 8am PST. My 2 year old found this, couldn't understand what was going on and started screaming!!:-) May be time to show a kid friendly 500 message (with a video of 500 monkey's working on something important), considering early morning during summer holidays people who use youtube
- [Weekend Readings - June 7th, 2014](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-readings-june-7th-2014/) - The Big Data Challenges to Legacy Management Companies (NYT) How Google is reinventing cloud pricing (link) HeartBleed bug is explained in detail (vox) How GMail Happened (link) Mayoshi Son's vision to make SoftBank number one company in the world (forbes) Big Data Companies to watch (Fortune)
- [Early Week Readings - Mar 22nd, 2014](http://teqbiz.org/early-week-readings-mar-16-2014/) - Who was Carl Sagan? (link) Fascination read about Termen (Our Comrade the Eletron) Growing up in India in early 80s, I had easy access to Soviet books than Western books. Vividly remember simple but informative scientific books I used to read from former Soviet Union publications. Even today, I've couple of books that introduced
- [Surprising truth about what motivates us](http://teqbiz.org/surprising-truth-about-what-motivates-us/) - It is especially relevant, for any managers and leaders of organization with influence on monetary incentives for people. Basically, it brings some science to intuition we’ve probably all had for years about incentive based compensation. In summary, it talks about the purpose motive and people’s desire to work in a self directed way. It also
- [Weekend Readings: Jan 24th, 2014](http://teqbiz.org/weekend-readings-jan-24th-2014/) - Why is Costco so successful? (link) Dilbert's creator on life beyond cubicle (link) Good writeup on Google's new health care company that is striving to find cure for aging (link) MPAA has put together this useful website as a guide to let people know legal sites to watch TV Shows and Movies online: http://www.wheretowatch.org/ Interesting
- [Oct 11 - Weekend Readings](http://teqbiz.org/oct-11-weekend-readings/) - How Jeff Bezos crushed Diaper.com so Amazon could buy it (link) The Cloudera Model - Mike Olson (link) Counter point to above post: Build to Last - MapR's business model (link) Does Open Source raise spell end of traditional SW (link) GE's Jeff Immelt - Analytics Lessons Learned (link) Big Data to help you get
- [Oct 7th - Early Week Readings](http://teqbiz.org/oct-7th-early-week-readings/) - Early Week Reading - Oct 6th, 2013 Multi-Region DynamoDB (link) Software design defect cripples Health care website (link) Twitter does make money in data business - no news here! but interesting read(link) Interesting bio: Tracy Hall, who invented Synthetic Diamond (link). He was awarded $10 US savings bond by his employer GE, and GE went
- [Amazon's set-top-box!](http://teqbiz.org/amazons-set-top-box/) - Amazon is going to release set-top-box for the holidays (link). One more set top box from yet another vendor? Don't we have enough already with Roku, AppleTV, Google ChromeCast and various devices from small players? I would like to see someone release a full-fledged TV DVR plus streaming device like SageTV(other than Tivo). I've been
- [July 21 - Early Week Readings](http://teqbiz.org/july-21-early-week-readings/) - Why Surface RT failed and iPad didn't (NYT)A telling lesson on why too many options is not necessarily a good thingTiny lasers will speed up future computers (ars)Apple TV: Cooperating with content providers (NYT)Economics 101: Killing America (salon)Economics is not science, agree to that10 mind blowing technologies that will appear by 2030 (io9)Why retailers ask
- [July 17, Mid-Week Readings](http://teqbiz.org/july-17-mid-week-readings/) - PivotalHD is available for download by SK (yours faithfully) (gopivotal)Pivotal ships Hadoop to masses - my first appearance in The Register (TheRegister)Social Media bubble is deflating (BW)Pivotal ships Hadoop distro complete with SQL (jexenter)Hey engineers - Your product manager needs a hug (aha.iohttp://blog.aha.io/index.php/hey-engineers-your-product-manager-needs-a-hug/)Practical introduction to Data Science skills (google)
- [July 15, Early week Readings](http://teqbiz.org/july-15-early-week-readings/) - The Dropbox opportunity (link)Microsoft overhauls the Apple way (NYT)How to tell you've a lousy 401k (YahooFinance)Cars are fast becoming Smartphones on wheels (TR)You want to hide from NSA? Guide to nearly impossible (wired)Not even Hadoop is free of patent-troll attack (NYT)Warren: Human Bigdata engine (gooddata)
- [Mid-Week: Reads](http://teqbiz.org/mid-week-reads/) - Mid-Week Readings:Unexpected use for Enron emails - BigData! (MIT Tech Review)Tech spending will reach $3.7 trillion in 2013, Gartner predicts (AllthingsD)How Apple and IBM learned to change with times (USANews)The essential WallStreet summer reading list (NYT)What's wrong with technology fixes (BostonReview)Why doesn't Apple enable sustainable business on the AppStore (Stratechery)Pandora paid over $1300 not $16
- [Why SAAS may not be panacea for in-house software ills?](http://teqbiz.org/why-saas-may-not-be-panacea-for-in-house-software-ills/) - More and more companies are moving towards SAAS based software solutions such as salesforce.com, workday, Google Apps and even MS's Office 365. Biggest SAAS vendors are making tons money selling their wares as cost effective solutions. But does that automatically translate to cost savings to organizations that deploy the SAAS solutions? The answer is somewhere
- [Got a surprise invite to Google Music](http://teqbiz.org/got-a-surprise-invite-to-google-music/) - I don't remember asking for Google Music invite. Surprisingly received an invite today and promptly signed up for it. It is obviously a competing service to iCloud and Amazon Cloud Drive, no matter how slice and dice it. Difference is, Google Music is free while the others are offered for a nominal price but with
- [Google acquires SageTV, Hulu up for sale, very intetesting dynamics emerging in the fight for living room](http://teqbiz.org/google-acquires-sagetv-hulu-up-for-sale-very-intetesting-dynamics-emerging-in-the-fight-for-living-room/) - This acquisition makes sense for a variety of reasons. Personally, I've been using SageTV as replacement for Dish network from Nov 2010. I've also been watching this company for some two years now. They have nifty little new hardware device (HD 300) that plays almost any multimedia file you throw at it. They also have
- [Google's 11 rules for Good Management](http://teqbiz.org/googles-11-rules-for-good-management/)
- [Light weight Linux - anything changed?](http://teqbiz.org/light-weight-linux-anything-changed-2/) - Once in a while the tinkering engineer inside me wakes up and the urge to see latest light weight Linux distro advancements become unbearable. As it happens with this urge, I downloaded a number of familar distro's (PuppyLinux, MintLinux) along with some new ones (Lubuntu, TinyCoreLinux, Slitaz). I've three testbeds for this experiment. A fairly
- [Google Chromebook](http://teqbiz.org/google-chromebook-2/) - Google is planning to release Chromebook laptops with their home grown Linux based Chrome OS. they've partnered with Acer and Samsung for manufacturing these Laptops. Does this really make sense for Google to release another "me-too" Laptop OS while there are plenty of Linux based open source alternatives available? For a mobile user the existing
- [This week in Tech Business (May 8-14, 2011)](http://teqbiz.org/this-week-in-tech-business-may-8-14-2011/) - Microsoft Acquired SkypeGoogle launched Google Music, invitation only for now.Facebook releases "Best Practices Guide".Toshiba in talks to buy Landis+Gyr.
- [Infographic: Anatomy of a startup](http://teqbiz.org/infographic-anatomy-of-a-startup/) - Original Graphic Here
- [Silicon: Intel reinvents chip design with 3D and 22nm](http://teqbiz.org/silicon-intel-reinvents-chip-design-with-3d-and-22nm/) - Intel announced that it is going to use 3D chips technology in forth coming chips. High lights:Pack more processing power with a small form factorLess power consumption Extend Moore's law.Business LeadersKeep on the lookout for similar offerings from NVidea and AMD.Carefully compare alternative architectures (eg. ARM) against this.What sort of devices you can build with this
- [Infographic: A brief history of iPad](http://teqbiz.org/infographic-a-brief-history-of-ipad/) - Click to enlargeA Brief History of the iPad Infographic created by a discount codes website
- [This week in Tech Business](http://teqbiz.org/this-week-in-tech-business/) - Cisco Reorganization announced.Intel introduced new 3D design for future chipsApplied Materials Acquires VarianRenRen's IPO a Succcess.Patent fight betwen ZTE vs Huawei, Samsung vs Apple and everyone vs everyone else!RIM signs up Microsoft for search dealPolice raid Google office in SeolSony PS3 users data breachA Tiny PC - with HDMI and USB ports, costs $25 -
- [Cisco Cius in NCIS: Los Angeles](http://teqbiz.org/cisco-cius-in-ncis-los-angeles/) - NCIS: Los Angeles is one program I llike to watch once in a while. SageTV records it automatically every week. I watch it whenever I've sometime to spare. This week Cisco Digital Display systems signage in building J piqued my interest with a reference to NCIS: Los Angeles. As usual NCIS: Los Angeles catered to in
- [Groupon... four months post Google offer! Doesn't look pretty.](http://teqbiz.org/groupon-four-months-post-google-offer-doesnt-look-pretty/) - What goes on in the minds of Groupon management these days? Remember they turned down $6B dollar offer from Google in December, 2010. I thought it was a dumb decision by Groupon to turn down that offer from a giant internet company. They could've done much better with the muscle power of Google and built
- [Facebook, RenRen, Wii 2 and Blackberry](http://teqbiz.org/facebook-renren-wii-2-and-blackberry/) - RenRen - Facebook of china to raise $690m in IPO tomorrow (May 3rd-Tuesday). It appears if you live in a China and little bit internet savvy, you'll be better off copying successful ideas from the west (Silicon Valley) to create local knock-off version. China provides number of glaring examples of companies that copied successful ideas.
- [Great... Can we go home now!](http://teqbiz.org/great-can-we-go-home-now/) - It is a terrific day for America and the world, OBL is killed in Pakistan by our forces. A major achievement indeed. This is someone we tracked or tried track day and night for years. Now that he has been killed it ends a dreaded chapter in the war on terror. We have spent almost
- [Boom and Bust Cycle - Rap (if you know Keynes & Hayek you will enjoy this)](http://teqbiz.org/boom-and-bust-cycle-rap-if-you-know-keynes-hayek-you-will-enjoy-this/)
- [Windows 7 - some basics on file sizes and disk sizes](http://teqbiz.org/windows-7-some-basics-on-file-sizes-and-disk-sizes/) - After my supposedly last piece of MBA assignment was done, I felt little bit relieved. There were slew of messages from class mates in facebook about how wonderful it feels to be done after the grueling 20 months of studying( and partying).Relieved little bit, I was getting on to next project (of course, I still
- [SageTV - Up and running](http://teqbiz.org/sagetv-up-and-running/) - UPS delivered SageTV in the evening. I was surprised to see how small it is compared to HTPC I'm currently running!. It is actually tiny bit bigger than iPhone 4, as the accompanying photo shows. For the last few years I've come to the realization that I don't watch any of the cable channels. The
- [Why is Jimmy Wales staring at you?](http://teqbiz.org/why-is-jimmy-wales-staring-at-you/) - Have you noticed wikipedia in the past couple of weeks? You cannot escape founder of wikipedia staring at you with a "personal appeal". I use wikipedia almost everyday for everything from learning about "four loco" to "L'Avion". His stare makes me uncomfortable, I scroll down as soon as I hit wiki page to avoid making
- [NetNeutrality - a bad omen for congressmen](http://teqbiz.org/netneutrality-a-bad-omen-for-congressmen/) - There were 95 Democrats in Congress who pledged public support for net neutrality:http://www.netcompetition.org/Electiontally.pdfhttp://www.netneutralityprotectors.com/http://www.netcompetition.org/Electiontally.pdfhttp://www.netneutralityprotectors.com/Apparently, every single one of them lost in last week's election!Clearly, net neutrality was not one of the top issues for the election but it did become one of the casualties nevertheless.
- [BCEMBA Wins ABC's Wipeout](http://teqbiz.org/bcemba-wins-abcs-wipeout/) - BCEMBA 09 Sara Lee wins Wipeout.Watch the episode here.http://abc.go.com/watch/wipeout/SH5568487/VD5576450/feed-jillhttp://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/News/Newsroom/2010-2011/100803realitytv.aspx
- [Brazil - International Seminar](http://teqbiz.org/brazil-international-seminar/) - As part of the program we have option to choose 5 destinations for our international seminar in the 5th term. Paris (New Product Development),Munich (Managing Brands, Identity, and Experiences), Shanghai (Opportunities and Risk in PRC), Hong Kong (Opportunities and Risk in PRC) and Rio De Janeiro (Competitiveness of Latin Economies and why countries grow?).I've been
- [Globalization Block week](http://teqbiz.org/globalization-block-week/) - Well it is already fourth day of Globalization block week. It was mostly lectures by Prof.Stiglitz today. I had to send out couple of emails and look at some of the PE documents. I was thinking about sitting in the simulcast room the program setup for auditors. When I went to the room, I was
- [Term 4 ended today and... Term 5 started already!!](http://teqbiz.org/term-4-ended-today-and-term-5-started-already/) - Today is the last day of the Globalization Block week. I was wondering if Prof.Stiglitz going to be in the class today. Sure enough, it was only Prof.Greenwald discussing the Benetton and Tricon cases. I was under the impression that the class is going to end at 2:30. However, Prof.Greenwald ended the class before noon.
- [Wave your flag - K'Naan](http://teqbiz.org/wave-your-flag-knaan/) - A great song in every sense. It accurately captures the essence of worldcup, the world coming together and celebraA great song in every sense. It accurately captures the essence of worldcup, the world coming together and celebrating a sport that is played in every corner of the world. K'Naan is a Somali born Canadian, who
- [Profesors that also a Jazz singer](http://teqbiz.org/profesors-that-also-a-jazz-singer/) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ferlXfaYi-w&feature=related
- [SPYs in IVY](http://teqbiz.org/spys-in-ivy/) - http://www.nypost.com/iphone/story.php?feed=/export/redesign/www/iphone/rss/news.xml&id=4.2.2835806507&pos=homepage_flash_2
- [White Face for Hire in China - Hilarious](http://teqbiz.org/white-face-for-hire-in-china-hilarious/) - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/chinese-companies-renting_n_629973.htmlhttp://cnn.com/video/?/video/business/2010/06/29/intv.china.rent.white.people.cnn
- [Tesla's IPO](http://teqbiz.org/teslas-ipo/) - No profits, declining quarter-over-quarter revenue, a bankrupt founder/CEO, proven manufacturing difficulties and all hopes resting on a $50k sedan that won’t begin production until 2012.
- [Innovation at Intuit](http://teqbiz.org/innovation-at-intuit/) - http://www.innovation-america.org/archive.php?articleID=572
- [Berkeley-Columbia MBA Students Give Helping Hands](http://teqbiz.org/berkeley-columbia-mba-students-give-helping-hands/) - BCEMBA 2012's seem to have started their orientation pretty good. They built prosthetic hands for the Haiti victims.
- [Highest Paid MBA](http://teqbiz.org/highest-paid-mba/) - http://images.businessweek.com/ss/10/05/0524_mbapay/index.htm
- [Violent Death in the Animal World: Stunning Photography | Scienceray](http://teqbiz.org/violent-death-in-the-animal-world-stunning-photography-scienceray/) - Violent Death in the Insect World: Stunning Photography | SciencerayAwesome photographies with awesome quotes. This page shows how complex the life is and how wonderful to be a human. This article again proves that food and reproduction are the basic instincts of any life form. Of course both actions could be either construed as gross
- [eBook - Took the plunge today](http://teqbiz.org/ebook-took-the-plunge-today/) - eBook Reader was the biggest category of devices in this year's CES 2010 at Las Vegas. We have witnessed tons of companies introducing competing eBook Readers. And if you follow engadget or gizmodo you see there are more and more companies jumping on to the band wagon. There is also this confusion about what constitutes
- [Euro Hits 10-Month Low](http://teqbiz.org/euro-hits-10-month-low/) - The headline in WSJ screamed "Euro Hits 10-Month Low" at $1.34. Does not look so good for EU countries. British pound doesn't fare very well either, it is at $1.49. The woes at Greece and now with Portugal heading that way doesn't bode well for EU countries. Portugal's rating downgrade by Fitch weighing heavily down
- [Does God Have A Future?](http://teqbiz.org/does-god-have-a-future/) - This is a fascinating discussion between Michael Shermer and Sam Harris on one side and Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston on the other. Highlight of the discussion: A quantum scientist (Leonard!?) asked Deepak Chopra if he would like to have short course on Quantum mechanics to straighten his "misuse" of quantum notations. The scientist went
- [Is iPad really "Jesus Tablet"?](http://teqbiz.org/is-ipad-really-jesus-tablet/) - Apple pushed the shipping date of iPad from March 17th to April 2nd. No body knows the reason, it is one more example of Apple's famous secretive culture. The rumor is that, Apple couldn't source enough components to manufacture for the anticipated demand. Well, is that really true or are there are bugs that apple
- [Captain "Sully" Sullengerger Retired](http://teqbiz.org/captain-sully-sullengerger-retired/) - Well... This great pilot has retired today. I was inspired by the humility he showed throughout last year. He was a true hero and inspiration to us all.
- [Father's day](http://teqbiz.org/fathers-day/) - Anish has given me a surprise today. He wrote a note in his school that read "Dear Dad, Happy Father's Day! Thank you for taking care of me. You are the best. I love you! Love, Anish"Ha... As a father what else you want than the pure unconditional love your child showers on you. Father's
- [This Blew My Brain Away](http://teqbiz.org/this-blew-my-brain-away/) - Do you see this lady spinning in anti-clock/clock (right or left) wise? If you see this lady spinning in clock wise, then you are using your right side of the brain. If you notice anti-clock wise spinning you are using your left side of the brain. Most people should be able to switch between right
- [Presto Linux Reviewed](http://teqbiz.org/presto-linux-reviewed/) - Desktop Linux has been around for a while now. Ubuntu was touted as the challenger for windows dominance for a long time. However, Presto might potentially be the David that slays the Goliath (MS-Windows).Last night I downloaded and installed Presto from Xandros. It is an EeePC or NetBook kind of OS for the systems that
- [Clouds are gathering...Will it rain?](http://teqbiz.org/clouds-are-gathering-will-it-rain/) - Though cloud computing has been around in different forms for a long time it became an "in thing" in the technology space recently. Last year, I was introduced to this concept by the excellent book by Nick Carr - The Big Switch. Frankly, I read the book with little interest. The arguments were compelling (ex.equating
- [A handy tip for searching through source code using grep/find.](http://teqbiz.org/a-handy-tip-for-searching-through-source-code-using-grepfind/) - Thought this will be useful for navigating source code in any system. (from kernelnewbies.org)"As you read through the code, you'll need many times to lookupthe declaration or definition of this or that particular datastructure, macro or function. the most basic way to do so is to use acombination of the grep (or egrep) and find`
- [.vimrc file](http://teqbiz.org/vimrc-file/) - This file can be used to set preferences for the vim. Following are some ofsettings frequently used by me."syntax enable" Enables programming language syntax high lighting."set background=dark" Makes the background in the vim to be dark.
- [Mounting Samba shares in Linux client](http://teqbiz.org/mounting-samba-shares-in-linux-client/) - Samba shares cannot be nfs mounted in the linux client. They have to be mounted using smbmount or mount -t smbfs option. To do this, check to see if the smbfs package has been installed in your system. If not, install the smbfs package by doing the following.#apt-get install smbfsNote: In my case I had
- [System Recovery in Ubuntu after a configuration file change](http://teqbiz.org/system-recovery-in-ubuntu-after-a-configuration-file-change/) - I modified xorg.conf file to remove synaptics driver from starting up (before modifying any file , it is a good idea to save the original as *.original file, in this case save the xorg.conf to xorg.conf.original). However, after this change the xserver wasn't starting. To fix this, I had to boot the laptop using the
- [Ubuntu In Laptop - Enabling TKIP in Linux](http://teqbiz.org/ubuntu-in-laptop-enabling-tkip-in-linux/) - Ubuntu WPC54g card installation with TKIP EnabledFinally I got the WPC54g working in my Dell c610 laptop.My home network has the SSID broadcasting disabled and uses PSK-TKIP security. It was a big pain in the neck to use the open source ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant. This weekend I stumbled on this little company called Linuxant (hmm..
- [MP3 Player for Fedora](http://teqbiz.org/mp3-player-for-fedora/) - Fedora doesn't come with an MP3 player by default. By the way if u want to play mp3 files right out of the box, then Fedora is not a good option. Try the excellentSimplyMEPIS, an excellent distro based on debian. It comes with every thing required for a desktop system. For those of you with
- [Ubuntu Installation In Laptop](http://teqbiz.org/ubuntu-installation-in-laptop/) - 1. Install Ubuntu with default options.2. Install Ubuntu updates.3. Setup screen saver.Update Packages with Synoptic Package Manager1. Select Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" (Binary)2. Add "Community Maintained (Universe)" version.3. Added "gcc", make, kernel sources, iptables development libraries,svn,Install linuxant driver:1. Download dldrinstall.run file.2. Run dldrinstall.run file. This will unpack and install the driver. Then it will ask
- [libipq links for working with iptables in linux](http://teqbiz.org/libipq-links-for-working-with-iptables-in-linux/) - http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs143/pa3/http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~grier/projects/libipq.htmlhttp://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2005-February/018631.htmlTCP syn attackhttp://www.networkdictionary.com/security/TCPSYNAttack.php?PHPSESSID=c2a79111d168fafSummary of the netfilter developer workshop 2004 Harald Welte http://www.netfilter.org/documentation/conferences/nf-workshop-2004-summary.htmlLinux netfilter Hacking HOWTO Linux 2.4 NAT HOWTONetfilter Extensions HOWTO Rusty's Unreliable Guide To Kernel HackingIP Tables TutorialIP Table Source CodeNetFilter WikiRusty's Remarkably Unreliable Guides Unreliable Guide To Hacking The Linux KernelUnreliable Guide To Locking IPTable extension writing tutorial netfilter module example
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- [vnc server configuration](http://teqbiz.org/vnc-server-configuration/) - I'm using tightvnc from my client machine (windows xp) to connect to the ubuntu server. However, the tighvnc client didn't display the screen beyond 640x480. So the screen was smaller in the client machine.Solution: Edited the vnc.conf file in /etc directory to specify $geometry = "1024x960";... now the screen in the tightvnc client is big
- [](http://teqbiz.org/75/) - Chapter 2: Preparing a New Partition.Since I used a linux machine with all the drives used up, I didn't want to create a new partition. I followed the hint mentioned in this document.1. Created a directory /home/lfs for using as the mount directory.2. Created a mount point directory /mnt/lfs3. Add the following two lines to
- [Hacking Windows XP Privacy Check](http://teqbiz.org/hacking-windows-xp-privacy-check/) - Link from CNet.Link from Microsoft!!! to disable genuine check.
- [Hack Open Networks with ICMP](http://teqbiz.org/hack-open-networks-with-icmp/) - ICMP Hack for stealing open networks Linky
- [European Starling - Denmark](http://teqbiz.org/european-starling-denmark/) - Photos link.
- [Rise and Fall of CORBA](http://teqbiz.org/rise-and-fall-of-corba/) - Linky
- [Google Video Picks](http://teqbiz.org/google-video-picks/) - Men in CoatsRussing Climbing
- [Isn't outrageous?](http://teqbiz.org/isnt-outrageous/) - UK govt has asked individuals/businesses to handover their private keys! The reasoning behind this is to decrypt terrorist communication. Read the article here.
- [Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times](http://teqbiz.org/power-and-terror-noam-chomsky-in-our-times/) - Last night I saw this DVD rented from netflix.com. Noam Chomsky is a very knowledgeble person. You can see him quoting exact dates an incident happened in his QandA session with the audience. He is a powerful speaker with no rhetoric. However, the film itself doesn't do justice to this man. They could have done
- [Funny and Informative info on evolution](http://teqbiz.org/funny-and-informative-info-on-evolution/) - Interesting article from Forbes.Excerpt:"In the pre-Cambrian period, about 600 million years ago, our worm-like ancestors had a central task to perform: reproduction. This involved shedding sperm and eggs into the water, nothing more, and they co-opted the openings and apparatus that they already had handy for excretion to do the job. Shedding gametes, shedding feces…similar
- [Linux to compete with Windows](http://teqbiz.org/linux-to-compete-with-windows/) - Ok.. I have been trying to run linux in a laptop for sometime now. I ran into several annoying issues to make linux work in the laptop. However, I would really really like to see people using Linux in the laptop and desktop instead of Windows. Right now, using linux in a laptop or desktop
- [Ubuntu In Laptop - Enabling TKIP in Linux](http://teqbiz.org/ubuntu-in-laptop-enabling-tkip-in-linux-2/) - Ubuntu WPC54g card installation with TKIP EnabledFinally I got the WPC54g working in my Dell c610 laptop.My home network has the SSID broadcasting disabled and uses PSK-TKIP security. It was a big pain in the neck to use the open source ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant. This weekend I stumbled on this little company called Linuxant (hmm..

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