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Daylight saving time woes continue on Apple iPhone / iPod touch
Apple’s iPhone and iPod users reporting on Twitter and Apple’s officials forums that the daylight time and Clock app is been demonstrating all kinds of behavior. Some of the alarms going off early, others late, and some of them working perfectly. Some of them are reporting that the DST adjustments occurred in the places that…
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Angry Birds Rio Will Be On Amazon Appstore On Android Launch
Rovio today introduced the most anticipated Angry Birds Rio game will be introduced for Android platform exclusively in Amazon Appstore. It seems they will achieve the universal distribution through the market., but in the mean time the Amazon has scored a pretty big scoop in its efforts to attract the users to its own repository.…
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Twitter Asks Third-Party Developers To Stop Developing Twitter Clients
In the official statement issued by Twitter, it asked third-party developers to stop developing clients for Twitter. This was posted on Twitter’s official developer mailing list by Ryan Sarver.
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Kill Session Privileges To Users
As a DBA you may face issues like “Large number of sessions are opened while accessing the database through front end and these sessions are not closed properly (Database sessions are hanging). In this article we will see how to resolve such issues.
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Sony Xperia Play hits the UK on March 31
UK is ready for the day to see the Xperia Play in the market. The news today is Sony releasing their Xperia Play in UK by March 31. Readers in UK are waiting to see the Sony’s new launch in the market. The shocking commercials showed that the release will be this month end. On…
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Behavior Modification
Behavior is motivated by a desire to attain some goal. But an individual may not be always aware of the root of his behavior.
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Angry Birds for Facebook Announced
Angry Birds has been portted to many platforms and now it is available for Facebook. The Facebook version will differ from the other versions by offering a more “collaborative” gameplay according to the developers.
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Samsung Galaxy S Pro Candy Bar Phone Unveiled
Samsung has unveiled it next smartphone in the Galaxy S line-up, a brand new Galaxy Pro smartphone for the masses with physical QWERTY keyboard. This device will run on Android 2.2 aka Android Froyo. It was reported that the Galaxy S Pro will be Google experience device and will not have the Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz…
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Sony PSP Go System Price Cut Was Revoked
Last week, Sony has listed the price of “PSP Go” to be $150 in their US website, revealing an obvious reduction of its price by $50. The new price of $150 was clearly listed on PlayStation US website but now, the price change has been reverted. Sony PSP Go now continues to carry the previous…
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Apple iPad prices slashed in India
Apple has released their iPad2 in March 2, in many countries except India. Now they slashed their prices of original iPad by $100, they announced the price cut officially for US. For India they cut their price by $ 75.6 (Rs. 3,400 approx) and now the Apple iPad 16 GB Wi-Fi models are available at…
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One of the sessions having slow performance when compared to other sessions
If one of the session is having a slow performance while compared to other sessions, then this is because, this session is waiting for some event. First of all we go to tune the Query using EXPLAIN PLAN / EXECUTION PLAN.If we face the same problem even after that, then we approach it with the…
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Apple iPad 2 Launch Event Video
On the recently concluded Apple’s iPad 2 launch event, Steve Jobs, despite his health condition, showed up on the stage and announced a variety of new products and good news for Apple users. The full event is now available as video, thanks to Apple; You can view the video here.
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Apple iOS 4.3 Announced For All iOS Devices at Apple iPad 2 Launch Event
With iOS 4.3 beta released sometime ago, Apple has announced the new iOS 4.3 update for all iOS devices, at the Apple iPad 2 launch event. The new iOS update will be released on March 11 for all iOS devices and is expected to bring lot of enhancements, and new features including improved Safari performance,…
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Apple iPad 2 Has Been Unveiled
After all the fanfare and rumours, Apple has finally unveiled its second generation iPad that is thinner, lighter, faster with smart covers.The new iPad 2 boast a hardware specification of 1GHz Apple A5 processor (this is 9 times faster than the first iPad), 9.7 inch Multi-Touch display, WiFi and optional 3G, Bluetooth, Front/Rear cameras with…
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Schema Refresh on Same Database
In Oracle most DBA will encounter database fragmentation and uses schema refresh frequently. In this article we will see how to do a schema refresh during database downtime.
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How To Recover From Failed Windows Phone 7 Update
If you are among the many Samsung Windows Phone 7 users who has gotten Windows Phone 7 update and faced problems, resulting in a bricked device,
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Windows Phone 7 First Update Faces Its First Problem. Affects Samsung Handsets
Microsoft has revealed that the first update for Windows Phone 7 has been put on hold for Samsung handsets after repeated reports from users that the update has failed to install correctly and in some cases even bricked their phones.Microsoft figures that around 10 percent of users attempting to update has encountered the error and…
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First Update For Windows Phone 7 Expected Today. Improves Software Update Process
The first update for Windows Phone 7 is expected to be released today. This update will improve the software update process and eases the update process of the much anticipated March 8 update. The March 8 update will bring several improvements to WP7, copy/paste functionality, performance improvements and improvements to Windows Marketplace Search feature.
