May 23, 2013

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Google launches interactive e-book;It’s time to learn about “Web”

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Today the world is moving from eBooks to interactive ebooks. But there are several users who aren’t fully aware of the technical terms and functions of the browsers and Web, in an attempt to teach the average person about the fundamentals of browsers and the web, Google has released an interactive online book that explains [...]

Android 2.3 Gingerbread to be launched in a few weeks;Google CEO shows off ‘Nexus S’

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At the Web 2.0 summit, while   people were expecting Gingerbread launch, Google CEO Eric Schmidt did not disappoint fully.Although there was no Gingerbread launch, but a lot of things came up this version of Android. Schmidt said Gingerbread would be out in the “next few weeks,” and it will have NFC support Showing off both [...]

Welcome UEFI; Say Good Bye to BIOS

BIOS, One of the oldest pieces of technology, that is still widely used today could be on its way out following the development of a newer, more efficient alternative. A new technology known as Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) will replace Bios, which has been booting up PCs for 25 years. Given the technological advances [...]

Google Brings Gmail Voice And Video Chat to Linux

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Good news for users of Debian-based Linux distributions out there. Google has finally updated their web based talk service to support voice and video chat on Linux. Visit www.gmail.com/videochat to download the plugin and get started. The plugin is only available for Debian-based distros and only in binary form. Getting it is straightforward, just download [...]

Google Music Store Will Open Later This Year – Google Targeting the Apple iTunes Store

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Google has been in talks with a selection of large music companies for a number of months according to the Wall Street Journal regards Googles new music store that is expected to roll out in two stages and help surfers purchase music they search for directly from their searchs. The first stage of Googles Music [...]

Canonical Make Ubuntu to Target Tablet PCs

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OPEN SOURCE software developer Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu Linux operating system for tablet computers. Canonical is hoping to step up its presence in the mobile space, but it might find itself having a tough time against other open source offerings like Google’s Android and Chrome. It might also encounter tough competition [...]

Apple Safari 5 about Release at WWDC

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Apple, Safari 5 might be ready to go at Apple’s developer conference, WWDC, later this week. Although the focus of WWDC looks like it will mostly be mobile that impending new iPhone and the just-released iPad. New to Safari 5 will apparently be “a Reader functionality that will make web page reading easier by extracting [...]

Apple Reveals New Open HTML5 Web Standards Showcase

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Apple’s new HTML5 page on its site is a showcase for what you can do with the technology. There are seven impressive examples of things you can do using only HTML5: Video, Typography, Gallery, Transitions, Audio, 360, and VR. “Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web,” Apple writes. But what’s a bit [...]

IE6 Share Drops to Below 5 Percent

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Internet Explorer 6 has finally dropped to less than 5 percent share in the US, new data from StatCounter shows. The browser from 2001 has sunk to just over 4.7 percent in May. It accompanies an even faster decline from IE7, which dropped most of a point to 16.6 percent; only IE8 gained share among [...]

Google IO Conference 2010 at San Francisco

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If you will be unable to attend Google’s developer’s conference held at the San Francisco Moscone Center on May 19-20. The event is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PDT Wednesday morning at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. Google hasn’t released a specific agenda, but we believe that Wednesday’s event will focus heavily [...]

Google Chrome OS – Business Version Coming Next Year

The first version of Google Chrome OS isn’t even out yet, and there’s already talk of additional editions as Google will be releasing a “business” version of Google Chrome OS next year. Details on it are still pretty light at the moment, as you might expect, but it will supposedly offer more “management muscle” than [...]