Ready to rev up a new search engine? Microsoft is gearing up to launch its newest search engine effort, the succinctly named (and Web 2.0-ish sounding) Bing, set for June 3, to compete in a market that Google currently rules.
It was no secret that Microsoft was getting ready to roll out a new search engine, [...]
Google Friend Connect on Wednesday added a “social bar” that lets webmasters consolidate Friend Connect features. Google offical site released a post “Google Friend Connect introduces the social bar”
“The social bar concentrates many of the basic social functions into a small strip at the top or bottom of your webpage,” Christopher Wren, a software engineer [...]
For that past year I’ve been using OggSync for Windows Mobile to sync my Google Calendar directly to my Windows Mobile phone (see OggSync Mobile). I only have one calendar to sync, so I’ve just been using the free version. Only downside is that it isn’t automatic or on demand, so I’ve had to try [...]
Brief: Google announced on their blog this week that their amazing and comprehensive Google Book Search has gone moible. Google Book Search is the best entertainment web idea since Hulu, and now you can access 1.5 million books from it, including classics like Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, The Canterbury Tales, and Macbeth.
Google has liberated [...]
Google Latitude is a new feature of Google Maps for mobile. The application is going to be available for Android handsets and not only. With Latitude you will be able to monitor your friends and family. You’ll always know where they are and you’re always going to know how to get there.
Google Latitude is tightly [...]
Concerned about the Web OS from Palm and recommended patience to read this article — Web OS portability Pre after birth has been a lot of people look forward to the text.
Following is the full text, if there is no patience or can not read, focusing on black fonts look especially the underlined part of [...]
The Google has flipped out. Starting a few minutes ago when I try to click on any Google search result, I am shown all the sites were marked on “This site may harm your computer“. The one below was the result when I tried to click through to http://google.com/, the first result for searching for [...]
It’s always fascinating when stealthy technology companies get acquired before announcing what they are doing. It happened earlier this month when eBay quietly purchased Positronic, a Seattle startup led by former Microsoft search chief Christopher Payne. And now it has happened again with yet another former Microsoft big shot.
Lenovo Group Ltd., China’s biggest personal-computer maker, [...]
It seems that the number of computer makers entering the smartphone market is growing daily now. Just one day after it was revealed that Acer would unveil a smartphone at next month’s Mobile World Conference, Dell is apparently thinking about doing the same thing. At the very least, it has been working on its phone [...]
Yesterday Microsoft announced the release of Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1). This release is the first update sice the public Beta 2 release last August.
For those of you that use a windows-based computer, and have windows update set to automatically apply updates, you will see IE8 appearing as your browser in the [...]
Firmware update 2.2.1 (5H11a) for iPhone and iPod Touch is now available from Apple via iTunes. Besides some bug fixes, 2.2.1 also includes a baseband update, which brings the modem firmware to version 02.30.03. The iPhone Dev-Team immediately suggested that users with jailbroken and/or unlocked devices wait for further instructions while they continue to inspect [...]
Google is about to launch the ‘GDrive’, according to industry reports, which would allow people to store almost all their data on the internet and access it from wherever they are. TG Daily, an American technology news website, predicted: “Throw your hard drive away, Google’s Gdrive is arriving in 2009.” The GDrive would enable people [...]
t’s been 25 years! On January 24, 1984, a then 28-year-old Steve Jobs and 33-year-old Steve Wozniak (nicknamed “Woz”) introduced the very first Macintosh — a computer “for the rest of us.” (Note the friendly, cursive “hello” they included on-screen to attract non-corporate types.)
At the time, IBM dominated the PC scene, and computers were viewed [...]
Here is new feature just added to Gmail chat: YouTube and Google Video previews. If you receive (or send) a link to a video in a chat message, you’ll see a preview of the video right in your chat window.
Gmail Chat added a feature that was initially released in the Google Talk gadget: playing videos [...]
A week after disclosing to Apple investors that he had a “hormonal imbalance,” CEO Steve Jobs announced that he is taking a five-month medical leave. Apple’s chief operating officer Tim Cook will take over day-to-day operations until the end of June.
In an email message to all Apple employees, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced today that [...]
That would be great news for iPhone and iPod touch users, if it were true, but it ain’t necessarily so Joe. The four apps that are the recipients of today’s buzz are: Edge Browser (Free), Incognito ($1.99), WebMate:Tabbed Browser ($0.99) and Shaking Web ($1.99).
Apple his approving third-party mobile web browsing applications for the iPhone. There [...]
As reported yesterday “Microsoft Announces Windows7 Beta“. However, the Microsoft servers to deliver the Windows 7 beta ISO images have been overloaded pretty much as soon as the download page went up. It got so bad that Microsoft stopped the Windows 7 beta download.
“Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in [...]
There’s a new release of Google’sowser, Chrome that is doing the rounds; which has a set of new features including support for Greasemonkey (Yeay!). There’s still some way to go before it has all the features I’d need to make it my mainstreamowser (I’m just too comfortable in Firefox), but considering the last drop was [...]
Yesterday at CES, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the public availability of the Windows 7 beta release. Finally, the beta version of the most awaited Windows system, Windows 7, is available. Just few hours more and we’ll be able to download it at the Official Microsoft Page for Windows 7.
Windows 7 is faster than Windows [...]
In an act affecting owners of 2G cell phones on AT&T Mobility’s network, including the highly visible, and originally highly expensive first generation iPhone, Open for Business has learned that AT&T has been quietly sacrificing 2G signal strength in an effort to speed up the build out of its next generation 3G network. The first [...]