Geekovation

Sphinx search (www.sphinxsearch.com) is one of the fastest developing search engine. Sphinx is used by Craigslist amongst several popular sites. If you have not already tried Sphinx and you are interested in a building your own search engine, give it a shot. Some of the salient features of sphinx is around easier integration with [...]

Today Nokia released its much publicized Ovi Store and reviews have not been too kind. Nokia expects 3.5 million developers in Forum Nokia ‘creating hundreds of thousands of apps‘. Nokia had originally released Ovi in October 2007 allowing customers to buy music and games. By that time, AAPL had already crossed $600M revenue in it’s [...]

The swine flu epidemic (leading to a pandemic) has terrified the world. It’s impact can be felt across industries - with travel and hospitality being the worst hit. I tried to see which companies report a hit in performance because of swine flu. Using Gridstone’s Search Engine, I searched for swine flu. Here is a [...]

Gridstone Search (http://search.gridstoneresearch.com) is avilable as beta for all the information seekers who have to sieve through SEC documents and company transcripts. Gridstone Search is now loaded with EDGAR filed documents (includes the five most important filing types - 10K, 6K, 10Q, 8K and 14A) starting 2007 and Transcripts provided by Seeking Alpha (through a [...]