Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Here's a cool use for a phone that has both cellular broadband and Wi-Fi: Turn it into a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot so your friends can surf the Internet on their laptops.
A couple startups have created and made available software like this in the last year. But a more established software ...
Posted in Software, Innovative, Smart Phone, Networking, Laptop, Ideas, Research, Mobiles, Gadgets, Trends, Internet, Nokia, Computers | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
The Firefox browser has been downloaded more than 500 million times, according to SpreadFirefox website. Mozilla is celebrating this by raising 500 million grains of rice on FreeRice. Which is enough to feed 25,000 people for a day.
In honor of the 500 million download mark we're celebrating by raising 500,000,000 ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The most popular search engine Google added one more feature to its search, where you can search within a search. If you type in popular company/website key words, like 'amazon', 'wikipedia', 'intel', 'microsoft' on Google, it brings up the relevant result at the top and immediately underneath is a second ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Microsoft Corp. announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Google announced the open source mobile operating system Android, and released the SDK for Android in November.
By combining an Android Software Development kit with an emulator and a Poky Linux kernel, a hacker called Cortez has created an installer which enables interested parties to run the platform on the Sharp ...
Posted in Software, OS, Open Source, GPhone, Linux, Google, Mobiles | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Firefox 3 Beta version is now available for download for testing purpose.
These beta releases are targeted to Web developers and our testing community to gain feedback before advancing to the next stage in the release process. The ...
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