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Mobile web use explodes, Apple, RIM to profit…
2008-05-22 14:33:00 9 to 5 Mac – Apple ?s iPhone has sparked interest and use of web browsing using smartphones, particularly in the US, where such use has climbed 89 per cent. Smartphone users (and let?s face it, mobile web usage is most prevalent among iPhone users) are running to social networking and e-commerce sites, spending an average of four hours and thirty-eight minutes online using their phone every month (in the US) and ... read more More About: Mobile , Profit , Mobile Web
No API? You Suck
2008-05-22 14:33:00 Feld Thoughts – I have a long documented love of APIs. Ever since I started programming in the late 1970s the idea of writing software that interacted with other software was a cool idea to me. Abstractions 30 years ago weren’t very sophisticated, but when I look back at some of the Apple II documentation in my own personal computer museum I am amazed at ... read more More About: Suck
Google Sites now open to everyone
2008-05-22 14:32:00 Technology Bites – Google sites is now available for all users, earlier it was open to only Google Apps users. Any one can create web pages using Google sites. It provides a WYSYWIG editor to create pages. The number of pages you can create is unlimited. The URLs of the sites you create look like ... read more More About: Open , Sites
Be wary, phishers targeting iTunes users
2008-05-22 02:51:00 Appletell – For the first time in Apple?s history, an Apple program is the target of a Phishing scam. Recently, thousands of iTunes users have received fraudulent emails, asking them for personal information including credit card numbers, Social Security numbers, mother?s maiden name, and more. ... read more More About: Itunes , Users , Targeting
Metal Gear sneaking onto N-Gage
2008-05-22 02:51:00 Gamertell – SWhile the ill-fated N-Gage phone/handheld gaming device quietly disappeared into the night, Nokia has brought back the name as a mobile gaming service. While gamers have every right to be skeptical, it looks as though the service will have at least one big name title behind it. ... read more More About: Metal , Gear , N-Gage
Live in the US? Then Microsoft pays you to use its Live Search.
2008-05-21 22:56:00 GoMo News – Todd Bishop has got a feeling that Microsoft ?s big search initiative that it will announce today (wed 21st) will be cashback for using it?s Live Search service. Microsoft?s web site, ?Live Search Cashback? promises to ?pay back a portion of the purchase price ranging from about 2 percent to more than 30 ... read more More About: Pays
Twitter Home Automation
2008-05-21 22:55:00 Hacked Gadgets – Looking for an inexpensive home automation system that can be controlled remotely? Look no further than Twitter and iLink INSTEON. Using Twitter, a new social networking site, you can set up your laptop and connect it to your light switches (or any other electrical device) and control the device by sending text messages to your twitter ... read more More About: Home , Home Automation , Automation
Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF — and not OOXML
2008-05-21 22:54:00 Standards Blog – Microsoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to implement its own OOXML format. Moreover, it would also join both the OASIS working group as well as the ISO/IEC JTC1 working group that has control of the ISO/IEC version of ... read more More About: Microsoft Office , Support , Office 2007
Apple, CBS sued over Mighty Mouse
2008-05-21 14:02:00 9 to 5 Mac – Apple and CBS are being sued for trademark infringement by a competing interface manufacturer. The case against Apple and CBS was filed by a firm called Man and Machine. It alleges Apple began selling its Mighty Mouse over one year after Man and Machine began selling waterproof and chemical resistant mice under the same name to labs and ... read more More About: Sued
The Roku Netflix Player, The Shape of Things to Come
2008-05-21 14:02:00 The Far Side of Technology – Today Netflix announced the full details on their long-awaited set top box. Developed by Roku, a company which already has some experience in the streaming media arena, the device is meant to offer an easy way for Netflix subscribers to access their streaming Netflix media on their televisions. While the device is a logical step ... read more More About: Player , Shape , Things
Integrate the News in Google Earth
2008-05-21 14:01:00 Technospot.Net – Google News now has been integrated with Google Earth , which means pin the place and you can read the news of that area. That sounds a good technique to me. If you computer is pretty powerful to support Google Earth , this will totally change the way you had been reading the news. A direct quote from ... read more More About: The News
Fearful of web 2.0? Take control
2008-05-21 04:38:00 The AppGap – At Web Directions Government 08, Jason Ryan, Communications Manager at State Services Commission New Zealand, suggested that rather than be afraid of loosing control that we should step up and take control of interaction in our social computing projects. While, at first glance, this may seem rather contrary to the open, trusting, and free nature of ... read more More About: Fearful , Control
Managing Huge, Fast-Moving Traffic Spikes
2008-05-21 01:25:00 Data Center Knowledge – Startups arent the only web properties struggling to scale their sites when large traffic spikes arrive. Established sites with years of experience in traffic management are also finding themselves struggling to manage huge, fast-moving spikes from major news sites and social media hubs. Todd Hoff… read more More About: Traffic , Moving , Fast , Huge
Sybase preps up software for iPhone
2008-05-21 01:24:00 Appletell – Sybase announced that it would be launching a new software for the iPhone that will let users access their email in a secured environment. This new program will be similar to the ones used in BlackBerry and Palm Treo handsets and will be made available to iPhone users sometime before the end of this year. ... read more More About: Software , Iphone
Voxel: Why Is CDN Pricing So Mysterious?
2008-05-21 01:23:00 Data Center Knowledge – When you visit the homepage of a web hosting provider, its not hard to find pricing information. Most hosting companies provide clear and detailed information about their plans and features and how much they cost. Why isn’t the same information available for content delivery networks (CDNs)?... read more More About: Mysterious
Broadband for Home Working
2008-05-20 22:50:00 Jason Slater Weblog – When planning to work from home you need to ensure you have a sufficiently capable Broadband service as you will probably be placing extra demands on your service than those you might typically use domestically. Something to bear in mind with Broadband is its asynchronous nature (The A in ADSL) – this means that what is ... read more More About: Home , Working
Windows Vista vs. Windows XP – Hardware compatibility
2008-05-20 22:49:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – Compatibility has been Vista ?s weakest point since its release. Hardware compatibility was even more problematic than software compatibility, because Microsoft mostly depends on third-parties here. The fact that they have changed the driver model will pay off in the long run, ... read more More About: Windows Vista , Windows Xp
Forget Kids, $100 Tablet Targets Amazon Kindle & Sony Book Reader
2008-05-20 22:49:00 Digital Inspiration – The new XOXO tablet computer that One Laptop Per Child plans to sell for $75 in 2010. It could well be used like a book reader as you have Kindle or Sony Reader . read more More About: Kids , Amazon , Book
GRC is NOT dead and it also NOT a Tool.
2008-05-20 22:48:00 Andy ITGuy – There is a debate going on involving the validity of GRC and whether it’s living, dead or was every around. You can find some of the discussions here, here, here, here and here. I’m here to tell you that GRC isn’t dead. It’s alive and well and living in a business near you. At the same time it also was never a viable option for a business to buy. If we look at GRC as a tool then we are missing the point of GRC. ... read more More About: Tool , Dead
Roku Arrives And Completely Owns Apple TV
2008-05-20 17:20:00 PCMech – Said honestly I?m not hot on the idea of little digital boxes to rent movies from. However there are companies who feel there is a market for this. When Apple first released Apple TV it crashed and burned so hard sales-wise it was a wonder they even kept it around for more than six months. ... read more
Napster takes DRM-free fight to iTunes
2008-05-20 17:20:00 9 to 5 Mac – We?ve been watching Napster ?s decline for some time, but now the company is fighting back with the introduction of a new download service that takes the market wars to Apple – because it?s made a move to drop DRM. Napster has announced that all six million tracks it sells through its music service will from now on be ... read more More About: Itunes , Free , Fight
[Confirmed] iPhone Take Two Coming On June 9th
2008-05-20 17:19:00 DailyApps – Looks like the iPhone fever is not gonna die anytime soon. The Rumor mills have been abuzz over the past few months with talks about what features the 3G version of the iPhone would bring to the table. As everyone suspected the 3G iPhone would indeed reveal itself the coming June 9th. According to ... read more More About: Iphone
Firefox developers planning for new security protections
2008-05-20 17:19:00 Technospot.Net – Firefox developers have started planning for new strategies for securing the browser more specially against the major ones: Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks Cross-site request forgeries According to this source, the protection would allow developers of one site to explicitly define which domains are allowed to initiate or answer cross-site requests for code, cookies and other site resources. These ... read more More About: Security , Planning , Developers
Google Adsense Introduces Third-Party Ads On Content Network
2008-05-20 14:07:00 Tech Guide – Google Adsense is now accepting advertisements served from qualified third-party vendors for its content network, opening its content network to third-party vendors should increase the revenue for publisher. Currently, third-party ads are only available in image or Flash formats, and publishers will be able to control display of these ads using Adsense Ad Review Center ... read more More About: Party , Network , Google Adsense
Upload files to multiple file sharing sites
2008-05-20 14:07:00 Technology Bites – If you use many file sharing services and upload lot of files then TinyLoad is for you. This will allow you to upload files to multiple file sharing sites. Currently it supports Megauploadn File factory, Rapidshare, Divshare, Bestsharing, Sendspace, Uploading, Files end, Easyshare, Badongo, zShare and Amazon S3. Upload file size limit is 100MB, and the service ... read more More About: File Sharing , Sites , Sharing
Worldproxy202 – Proxy that?s pretty useful
2008-05-20 14:02:00 Technospot.Net – When we hear the word proxy the only thing that bells our mind is surfing websites which are banned at your office or on any network. These proxies are most of the time safe but you don?t get anything useful other then surfing. But WorldProxy 202 is making a difference and its really useful in case you ... read more More About: Pretty
Why digital nomads need Wi-Fi finders
2008-05-20 01:00:00 The World Is My Office – I do a lot of business travel in the United States, but I never understood the need for those Wi-Fi finder gadgets until I embarked on my current adventure in extreme telecommuting. After six week living and working in Greece as a digital nomad, Im certain read more More About: Digital , Nomads
Windows XP vs. Windows Vista – Performance
2008-05-19 22:10:00 4sysops – For Windows Administrators – Today, I can just quote Kennedy because he expressed the essence of his stance in just two sentences: Windows Vista is a bloated pig of an operating system. In fact, compared to Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or 3, Vista requires roughly twice the hardware resources to deliver comparable performance. He knows what he is talking about, because he ran numerous performance tests. I have been discussing some comparable performance tests before, and I don?t want to go into this again, since I think that they are rather pointless. ... read more More About: Performance , Windows Xp
Arduino: Open source hardware
2008-05-19 17:41:00 Pito’s Technology Blog – Check out Arduino, a totally cool tiny embedded computer suitable for creating smart things – art, robotics, sensors and controllers. You program it on your laptop, and download the program to the device. It appears to be a vibrant community with lots of people building compatible boards as well as add-ons which they seem to call ... read more More About: Hardware , Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source
Enterprise Library 4.0 Released
More articles from this author:2008-05-19 17:39:00 .NET with me – Vikas Goyal – The new version of very popular and useful Enterprise Library has been released. What’s New in Version 4? Integration with the Unity Application Block. The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) 2.0 support and improved instrumentation ... read more More About: Released , Enterprise Library 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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