Samsung announces new hi-end displays at CES

January 10, 2012 – 2:47 pm |

Samsung Electronics America Inc., introduced a new generation of premium monitors with its visually striking Series 9 monitor. With over five years of global market share leadership, the new Series 9 monitor incorporates the best that Samsung has to offer in monitors, including its exclusive Natural Color Expert technology, which provides a richer viewing experience for discerning consumers working with photos and video content. The new 27-inch Series 9 monitor (S27B970) will be shown ... Read More

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Huawei Offer Free London Underground Cellular Coverage

February 21, 2011 – 11:17 am |

China’s Huawei are offered to pick up a £50 million bill for equipment to line London’s sprawling subway system with mobile phone reception, a package it says it’s extending as a gift from Olympic host nation to another (London will host the 2012 Summer Olympics, reports Engadget. The new system would enable emails and calls while on the tube. Huawei said it would make its money back over time through maintenance contracts. Full story: ... Read More

Social Networking Site For Bloggers Announced

February 21, 2011 – 10:05 am |

With the increasing demand for social interaction and engagement in the blogging community, so too has the demand increased for sites to accommodate this interaction. Facebook, MySpace, and other social media / networking sites have by all means covered the territory for social interaction, sharing, and generally keeping in touch with friends and family. Blog Interact was developed as a platform for this form of engagement between bloggers. By sharing post “excerpts” and commenting ... Read More

Nokia Gives Developers Free Windows Phones

February 19, 2011 – 12:36 pm |

Nokia will be giving away one E7 smartphone and one Nokia-made Windows Phone to each developer in Launchpad, it’s program for mobile app developers and waive its tech support charges for developers for the next three months, according to SlashGear. Launchpad is Nokia’s mobile app development program, usually priced at €300 annually but currently free for the first year. Membership is available – on an approved application basis – for individuals and companies, and regularly ... Read More

Twitter Suspends Popular Mobile Apps

February 19, 2011 – 12:14 pm |

Twitter has shut down popular mobile apps such as UberTwitter, UberCurrent, and twidroyd, writes Tony Bradley on PCWorld. “The Twitterverse is abuzz with news that Twitter suspended popular mobile apps such as UberTwitter, UberCurrent, and twidroyd today. The services had not recently changed anything about the functionality or behavior of the apps, which leads one to wonder why Twitter suddenly decided to shut them down.” Full article: ... Read More

Microsoft Bans Its Self From App Store

February 19, 2011 – 12:08 pm |

Microsoft has accidentally banned its own licenses from the App Store according to Techdirt. Microsoft got itself in some hot water lately, when some people realized that the rules for Microsoft’s phone app store appeared to ban certain types of open source software. The specific claim was that it said certain types of licenses were to be excluded. Among the excluded: “Excluded License” means any license requiring, as a condition of use, modification and/or ... Read More

Drupal 7 Web Content Management Review

February 19, 2011 – 11:21 am |

Jim Rapoza has posted a review ” Drupal 7 Simplifies Web Content Management” on Informationweek which is worth reading for those thinking of using Drupal 7 to power a website. The article covers: More Intuitive Interface – Better Module Management – Improved Theme Technology. Drupal, which uses the standard GNU general public license (GPL) open source license, can be downloaded from Drupal.org Full post: ... Read More

Woomark Announce New Android Geosocial App

February 19, 2011 – 9:16 am |

Woomark has announced the launch of its newly-redesigned website and Android mobile app, that aims to give a new approach to location-based services by adding GPS social networking, user reviews, sharing, Facebook like, and follow “a la Twitter” as part of the many other popular features that made the modern social web space. Users can publish and explore places of interest around them either on the Woomark website or directly using the GPS on their Woomark mobile ... Read More

Google Chrome Browser Versions Updated

February 18, 2011 – 10:52 am |

Google Chrome Browser has been updated to Version 10 for beta users and Version 11 for developers. Google now has a six-week update schedule for new releases. Google say about Version 10: “In the spirit of the lunar new year, we’re excited to kick off the Year of the Rabbit with a slew of enhancements in the Chrome beta channel,” “With a new speed boost that we previewed in December, Chrome’s JavaScript engine V8 runs compute-intensive JavaScript applications even more ... Read More

Tools To Start HTML5 Project

February 18, 2011 – 10:43 am |

Smashingapps has posted an article “Seven Tools To Start Your Hassle-Free HTML5 Project” reviewing HTML5 tools. Tools include: Initializr a HTML5 templates generator to help you getting started with an HTML5 project. It is built on HTML5 Boilerplate, a powerful HTML5 template. It will generate for you a clean customizable template based on Boilerplate. and Modernizr HTML5 test What’s my IP SproutCore SwitchToHTML5 When can I use Full article: ... Read More

DHTDroid v3.2 Android Performance Test and Benchmark Toolset

February 18, 2011 – 9:23 am |

Over the last few months, several large companies cited Android performance problems for not upgrading some of their products. In order to benchmark and stress-test any hardware and OS component, a sound performance test and benchmarking toolset is required. The proliferation of Android based systems, as well as the rather rapid release cycle of new Android OS versions, further intensifies the necessity for a sound Android performance evaluation and stress-testing toolset. In other ... Read More