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Zynga: About 90 Out of 100 We Plan To Hire Would Be FOSS Experts

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Zynga, the US-based company creating ripples in the gaming industry with FarmVille, Mafia Wars, etc, is a game changer in the gaming world. Recently they decided to explore new soil by opening an office in India and are betting big on open source technology to meet their future aspirations. Shan Kadavil, country manager, Zynga (India), talks to Vanisha Joseph about open source technology as a tremendous opportunity for developers.

An Ubuntu-powered MID

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This year's CES2010 in Las Vegas had SmartDevices' SmartQ V5 MID on display.We had a chance to examine its sibling, the SmartQ5. The operating...

Castle Rock Research India: We Plan to Double Our Headcount by Next Year

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Castle Rock Research India is a part of Castle Rock Research Corporation, a premier educational resource development company headquartered in Edmonton, Canada, offering print and digital educational resources in K-12 and higher education market. With a strength of 70+ innovators and two outstanding R&D centers in India – Bangalore and Kolkata – they are now launching a series of path breaking products mainly in open source domain. Vishwas Maudgal, CEO, Castle Rock Research India, talks to Vanisha Joseph about the pearl and thorns in open source domain for companies and developers.

Cradle to Grave – A Look at Arch Linux

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Why consider another distribution when I have been happy with Red Hat/Fedora for the last 15 years?