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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Microsoft Bans Open Source from Windows Marketplace

February 17, 2011 – 4:26 pm |

Microsoft has upset the open source community with its Windows Marketplace licence by specifically refusing to allow software covered under an open licence to be distributed, reports Thinq. The full Microsoft Application Provider Agreement can be downloaded directly from the Microsoft Developer Network. Read more: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/2/17/microsoft-bans-open-source-marketplace/#ixzz1EEZVwQtB ... Read More

Google Announces One Pass Subscription Service

February 16, 2011 – 4:05 pm |

At Humboldt University in Berlin today, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps. Readers who purchase from a One Pass publisher can access their content on tablets, smartphones and websites using a single sign-on with an email and password. ... Read More

Microsoft Has New Plan For Making the Internet Safe

February 16, 2011 – 11:25 am |

Speaking at the RSA Conference, Itworld reports Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney said that he no longer thought it was a good idea for service providers to be the ones on the hook for keeping infected PCs from the rest of the Internet. “Last year at RSA I said, ‘You know we need to think about ISPs being the CIO for the public sector, and we need to think about them scanning consumer machines and making sure they’re clean and ... Read More

Skype Launches Skype Access WiFi Hotspot Program

February 15, 2011 – 9:55 pm |

Skype Access, pay-as-you-go Internet that uses your Skype Credit to get online, has officially launched a partner program for WiFi hotspot operators. Leading WiFi hotspot providers around the globe including BT Openzone, Fon, Tomizone and others have signed on to provide Internet access for consumer and business users on-the-go using Skype. With one click, Skype users can connect to the Internet through a WiFi operator partner in over 500,000 hotspots around the globe including 500 ... Read More

Google Chrome Extension Targets Content Farms

February 15, 2011 – 2:26 pm |

Google has announced personal blocklist extension for Chrome browser which will block domains/hosts from appearing in your Google search results and transmit to Google the patterns that you choose to block. When you choose to block or unblock a pattern, the extension will also transmit to Google the URL of the web page on which the blocked or unblocked search results are displayed. Matt Cutts has written in a post on the Google blog that the company hopes the extension will improve the ... Read More

Skype announces Mobile Partner Program

February 14, 2011 – 2:06 pm |

Skype today announced a Mobile Partner Program for operators in markets with low 3G broadband penetration. The program aims to bring the Skype experience to a broad range of mobile users and will enable carriers to differentiate their offerings in a competitive market environment. This program follows the successful operator partnerships that Skype has already launched with Verizon, KDDI and Hutchison 3. The Mobile Partner Program from Skype is a simplified operator program that utilises ... Read More

Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate Launches

February 12, 2011 – 1:13 pm |

Microsoft has unveiled the Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate (RC) during a launch event in San Francisco. After months of beta testing, the feature complete Release Candidate is available for download at Beauty of the Web. The company is now focused on encouraging developers to build new websites and user experiences on IE9, said Ziad Ismail, Internet Explorer’s director of product management. Download: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/ ... Read More

Google Announces Contracts for Java

February 11, 2011 – 4:09 pm |

Google has announced Contracts for Java, aimed at saving time debugging Java code. Contracts for Java is a new open source tool. Preconditions, postconditions, and invariants are added as Java boolean expressions inside annotations. By default these do nothing, but enabled via a JVM argument, they’re checked at runtime. The interface is now precise and every class that implements it can be checked at runtime. Contracts are a powerful language feature and can provide great benefit if ... Read More

Nokia Teams up With Microsoft

February 11, 2011 – 3:48 pm |

Nokia has today outlined its new strategic direction, including changes in leadership and operational structure to accelerate the company’s speed of execution in a dynamic competitive environment. Elements of the new strategy include: - Plans for a broad strategic partnership with Microsoft to build a new global mobile ecosystem; Windows Phone would serve as Nokia’s primary smartphone platform. - A renewed approach to capture volume and value growth to connect “the next ... Read More

200 BBC Websites Saved for $3.99!

February 11, 2011 – 10:59 am |

On Monday 24th January 2011 the BBC announced that it would be restructuring its online department – with 360 job losses and the deletion of 200 of its top level directories (including the websites that live under them – eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast). 172 of of those top level directories are due to be deleted within the coming 12 months. The purpose of this project is to show how the entire 172 public facing websites that are earmarked for deletion have been copied, ... Read More