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2011-12-30T19:18:00.003+05:30

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Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL Database !

2008-01-17T19:46:00.002+05:30

Sun Microsystems announces to acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database, for approximately $1 billion. With millions of global deployments including Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile, MySQL will bring synergies to Sun that will change the landscape of the software industry by driving new adoption of MySQL's open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises.

More than 100 million copies of MySQL's high-performance open source database software have been downloaded and distributed and an additional 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. This broad penetration coupled with MySQL's strength in Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprise, telecom and the OEM embedded market make it an important fit for Sun. >>

Top16 Greatest Moments in Web History !

2007-10-02T20:37:00.000+05:30

The Web has been around for between 15 and 17 years which makes it old enough to ask for the car keys, but still an awkward teenager growing toward maturity. Yet it already has a long and storied history. Checkout this 15 greatest moments in the web history, pinpointed with the specific day, hour, and even minute the "aha" moment when the people involved got the original idea, launched the site, sold the first product, or posted the first entry. >>

Xobni : A New Look for our Inbox

2007-10-02T20:24:00.000+05:30

For more than a decade, the look and feel of e-mail inboxes has remained agonizingly static. Many of today's mail applications can predict the address a user is typing and show threads of conversations, and some are searchable by keyword, but none provide a truly innovative way to view e-mails. Now, Xobni ["inbox" spelled backward] has released a test version of software that gives Outlook, a completely different feel. Xobni's goals is to pull out relevant but sometimes buried information from a person's inbox and other folders, and make it easy to find. When a Xobni user highlights an e-mail in her inbox, a panel pops up showing useful information about the sender. If a picture is available, it appears, as does a bar graph showing the times of day when the sender has e-mailed the user. This is useful for gauging when that person may be online and working in the future. Xobni keeps track of the number of e-mails the user and sender have exchanged and even ranks the sender in terms of the frequency of e-mail contact. >>

RSSCalendar : Simple way to Share Calendars

2007-10-02T20:21:00.000+05:30

RSSCalendar is an exciting new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars with family, friends, and co-workers utilizing the latest in "Really Simple Syndication" [RSS] technology, including RSS channel creation and aggregation. Not only is RSSCalendar easy to use but it is also easy to administer, and setup is a snap. RSSCalendar is well-suited for a variety of uses, including individual calendars, family calendars, company calendars, school calendars, organization calendars and much more. >>

BluePad : Control your PC from Mobile

2007-08-28T18:52:00.000+05:30

BluePad is free software, which turns our cell phone into a remote bluetooth controller with which we can control our computer. It is composed by two programs, one to install in our computer, and another for our mobile device. With BluePad, we can control presentations as if we had a remote controller, play our music or movies remotely and play games using our cellphone as a game pad. >>

Watch the BluePad Demo video:

Best4c : Online Chart Creator

2007-08-27T18:53:00.000+05:30

Best4c [Best for chart] is a Web-based, online diagram tool that allows us to create, edit and share charts anytime, anywhere on the web. With it we can create many types of diagrams such as Flowcharts, Floor plans, Network diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram. It provide an interactive drawing and diagramming solution within all popular internet browsers like FireFox,IE,Opera,Safari. >> demo

How to be in Two places at once ?

2007-08-25T18:21:00.000+05:30

A Neuroscientist working in Britain has found a way to induce an out-of-body experience, a technique that makes people feel as if they are standing behind themselves, watching their own backs. Using goggles hooked up to video cameras, and sticks to poke and stroke, researchers subjected study participants to a variety of visual and physical cues to confuse their brain about their body's location. >>

3D Doodle Drawing Kit

2007-08-15T12:11:00.000+05:30

The 3D Doodle Drawing compass instrument allows us to draw images to be in duplicate red and blue lines which are in small but constant distance apart. This has the effect of lifting the design off the page and giving it depth when viewed through the special 3D glasses provided. >>

Gmail+Growl : Gmail Notification Bubbles

2007-08-14T19:31:00.000+05:30

Gmail+Growl makes Google Notifier show Growl notification bubbles whenever new email arrives in your Gmail inbox. While google notifier shows its own pop-up and doesn't sends out those notifications, but Gmail+Growl helps Google Notifier send Growl notifications instead. Unlike Google Notifier's own notification popup, Growl notifications can look the way you want them to by downloading some Growl displays [or by writing your own in standard HTML]. >>

Yahoo Beats Google in Customer Satisfaction!

2007-08-14T19:15:00.000+05:30

Yahoo Inc may be struggling to convince Wall Street of its future prospects, but for the first time its users gave its services overall a better rating than what Google Inc received, according to a study. Data from the University of Michigan American Consumer Satisfaction Index showed Yahoo had seen its customer satisfaction score rise 3.9 percent from a year ago to 79 out of 100 points, while Google's rating fell about 3.7 percent to 78 points. While Google remains the dominant Web search engine, Yahoo's Internet presence is gaining user approval for its network of Web sites, e-mail, social networks and other features. >>

Hijacking Gmail Session !

2007-08-09T19:01:00.000+05:30

At the Black Hat security convention, Robert Graham, the CEO of errata security, surprised attendees by hijacking a Gmail session on camera and reading the victim’s email. Taking over another person's Gmail account and then sending us sheep-loving emails. The attack is actually quite simple. First Graham needs to be able to sniff data packets and in our case the open Wi-Fi network at the convention fulfilled that requirement. He then ran Ferret to copy all the cookies flying through the air. Finally, Graham cloned those cookies into his browser in easy point-and-click fashion with a home-grown tool called Hamster. >>

Google CEO on Web 2.0 vs. Web 3.0

2007-08-08T19:38:00.000+05:30

Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the Seoul Digital Forum, explains that Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" with the characteristics that the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device like PC or mobile, the applications are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally by social networks, email, etc. Checkout the video of his explanation. >>

FreeTechBooks.com : Loads of FREE Online Programming Books

2007-08-07T20:14:00.000+05:30

FreeTechBooks.com lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. All the books listed in this site are hosted on websites that belong to the authors or the publishers. We are allowed to view, download and with a very few exceptions, print the books for our own private use at no charge. >>

Kittens Could Solve Spam !

2007-08-07T20:06:00.000+05:30

As spammers get better at defeating text-based Human Interactive Proofs [HIPs], the next step in anti-spam technology may rely on photos of kittens and other images that are easy for humans to identify, but difficult for machines. An executive at Microsoft has an unusual idea for beating spammers. Powerful software tools and supercomputers aren't involved, but kittens are or rather, photos of kittens. Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft's advanced reading technologies group, has found that asking a user to identify the subject of a photo, like a kitten, could help block spam programs. One twist on the HIP idea that they've worked on is to display 16 or more photos and ask for identification of the photos. In an example, he suggested using pictures of cats and dogs. The problem with the concept, however, is that Microsoft would have to create a massive catalog of photos, otherwise the programmers could match the correct response with each photo in the catalog and begin to spoof the system. >>

Amazing Catapult Watch !

2007-08-02T20:00:00.000+05:30

Catapult Watch, the only watch that's also a weapon ;) it shoots dried peas, popcorn kernels, lentils and more up to 8 feet accross the room! This stainless steel watch will be the envy of the classroom or the meeting room. Use it to "wake-up" those sleepy headed co-workers and classmates. When they look around to see who's been pelting them with spitballs, you'll just be casually checking the time. >>

Songbird : Play music, Play the Web

2007-08-02T19:32:00.000+05:30

Songbird is a desktop Web player, a digital jukebox and Web browser mash-up. It is built on Mozilla, cross-platform. We can play anything MP3, AAC, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and search the web from the context of our collection or tell Songbird to search on the currently playing track. It also allows us to create our own custom mixes and play web pages as playlists and view any web page as a playlist. Songbird makes the web and music so fun! >>

Securing Cell Phones !

2007-08-02T19:18:00.000+05:30

Last week, researchers from a security company found a flaw in iPhone software that allows it to be remotely controlled. The weak spot was in the Safari Web browser, software that's also used on Apple's computers. It's a good example of how flaws in PC software show up in a similar guise on cell phones. Cell-phone viruses have been around for nearly a decade, but many experts believe that serious threats could become a serious problem in the next couple of years. Cell phones have their own set of problems. For instance, mobile devices are easily lost or stolen; they are accessible via a number of methods, including the cellular network, Bluetooth, and, increasingly, Wi-Fi. A number of security companies that provide antivirus software for computers including Symantec, McAfee, and Sophos have also introduced products for mobile phones. >>

CubeBrowser : Six Display Cube Browser

2007-07-28T19:05:00.000+05:30

The CubeBrowser is a six display cube with high-res screens that makes it possible to browse online databases like Flickr.com. It is an exploration of image databases using gestural input to navigate through tag clouds. The control of navigation is exclusively realised by performing manual actions on the cube, which creates a playful way of discovering networked image collections using keywords. >>

WIRED Magazine's How To Wiki

2007-07-25T18:53:00.000+05:30

WIRED Magazine just launched the 'How To Wiki,' a collaborative site dedicated to the burgeoning DIY culture. Here we'll find all kinds of projects, hacks, tricks and tips on how to live, work and play better. Anyone can contribute new items or edit an existing item. >>

Domain Names Selling: The New Real Estate

2007-07-24T19:18:00.000+05:30

The Domain Names markets are in boom times estimated $2 billion industry that involves the buying and selling of domain names. When people type the generic names into their browser's address field, sites that generate pay-per-click ads appear. Such "direct navigation" bypasses search engines. Some believe the industry's market value could reach $4 billion by 2010 as people continue to purchase approximately 90,000 names a day and the number of domain registrars swells. At the end of first quarter 2007, at least 128 million domain names had been registered worldwide, a 31 percent increase over the previous year, according to VeriSign Inc., which runs some of the core domain name directories for the Internet. >>

Hand Gestures Replace Buttons Clicks

2007-07-21T18:55:00.000+05:30

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology wants to do away with the keyboard altogether. They’ve designed a wristwatch that recognizes hand gestures and uses them for touch-free control of electronic devices such as MP3 players, cell phones, and home appliances. The technology could also be used by a doctor to control a medical device during an operation. Such a watch could help keep operating rooms sterile and make diminutive evices less silly. >>

Apple co-founder Wozniak on his Early Days

2007-07-21T18:32:00.000+05:30

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talks about the early days of the company, speculates on artificial intelligence and future inventions, and reveals his unfulfilled dream. He isn't perhaps as well known as his Apple Inc. cofounder Steve Jobs, but "Woz" invented the Apple I in 1976 and the Apple II in 1977, which was one of the best-selling PCs of that time. In this interview, Wozniak, who turns 57 on Aug. 11, talks about how he met Jobs, his most cherished inventions and why he believes thinking robots and artificial intelligence will never happen. >>

Search Engines Watching You !

2007-07-17T19:09:00.000+05:30

What if there were a database containing what you've searched for, even embarrassing info? There is. The fact is, search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search all record and retain in their vast data banks any term that you query in addition to the date and time your query was processed, the IP address of your computer, and a cookie-based unique ID that unless you delete it enables the search engine to continue to know if requests are coming from that particular computer, even if the connection changes. Microsoft Live Search also records the type of search you conducted [image, Web, local, etc.], while Google additionally stores your browser type and language. And when you click on a link displayed on Google, that may also be recorded and associated with your computer's IP address. >>