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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Chrome Browser Gets WebGL 3D Hardware Acceleration Support

February 4, 2011 – 2:01 pm |

Google’s Chrome Browser now supports WebGL 3D Hardware Acceleration. The update will also allows users to download applications that run within the browser from the app store. It also features Chrome Instant, when enabled, Chrome will start to load the user’s most frequent websites as the URL is typed in the address bar. Google also released a new extension for its Chrome browser that will make it easier to avoid ads on the Web. Chrome recently recorded a 10% browser market ... Read More

rollApp Launches a Free Cloud Version of Open Office

February 3, 2011 – 3:31 pm |

Integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox rollApp Inc. announced the release of a free beta service http://rollApp.com that provides users with online editions of Open Office, integrated with GoogleDocs and DropBox. It offers SMBs and independent professionals a turn-key solution that combines rich functionality of the traditional office suites with all the benefits of cutting-edge cloud platforms: on-demand scalability, anywhere access, no install/support pain, and reduced cost. rollApp is ... Read More

Schematic works with Google on the Google Art Project

February 3, 2011 – 3:37 am |

Schematic, a WPP Digital company, announced it was chosen by Google to work on an exciting new site, the Art Project, powered by Google, an innovative platform bringing the world’s great museums and artworks to the Internet. Schematic supported the design and development of the Art Project’s user experience, bringing to life Google’s vision for first-of-its-kind access to the world of art through an interactive digital environment. To put the emphasis on each museum and its ... Read More

Twitter Overloaded

February 2, 2011 – 7:03 pm |

The last few day when we look at Twitter, most visits we get an error page which hangs, sometimes if you click on the home button it then goes to where you wanted to be. The “Twitter is over capacity error page” pictures a whale being lifted by birds, I wonder if the whale represents the bloated beast Twitter has become! We have also been trying to make adjustments to twitter pages and that seems to be hit or miss, Twitter also seems to use a lot of caching, so it is hard to ... Read More

Microsoft Announces Chrome H.264 Video Extension for Chrome

February 2, 2011 – 6:34 pm |

Microsoft has announced a Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome, which will let users of the Google browser play H.264 video on HTML5 pages by using the built-in capabilities found in Windows 7. Microsoft’s Dean Hachamovitch, corporate vice president of Internet Explorer, also released a lengthy blog post in which he criticized Google’s control over the WebM project and said IE9 will support both H.264 and WebM. The Windows Media Player HTML5 Extension for Chrome ... Read More

Fragmentation of Android Platform

February 2, 2011 – 2:08 pm |

Google’s Android platform definition is being stretched to include Chinese rivals, including China Mobile’s Ophone and Tapas OS, a project run by the former president of Google China, reports Appleinsider. “A report by Canalys yesterday claimed that Google Android platform had taken the top spot in global smartphone platforms worldwide, edging in front of Nokia and making up about a third of all smartphones globally. However, the report’s numbers included a ... Read More

Mobile Operating Systems Compared

February 2, 2011 – 1:09 pm |

Dean Evans has written an interesting article “iOS vs Android vs WebOS vs MeeGo In Depth: Four mobile operating systems compared” on Techradar. The article makes some important points and concludes: “Android is the next best thing (with judicious use of a task-killer), followed by iOS. Apple has been criticised for not offering true multi-tasking. Instead, iOS 4 suspends apps in the background or offers limited functionality. You can run a radio app in the background or ... Read More

Comcast’s First IPv6 Native Dual Stack Activated

February 2, 2011 – 12:55 pm |

Comcast has successfully activated our first group of trial users for IPv6 Native Dual Stack operation. These are the first Native Dual-Stack users activated in a production DOCSIS network in North America. Leveraging our state-of-the-art, production DOCSIS 3.0 network, these users can now access content and services natively over both IPv6 and IPv4. This means users do not need to use any IPv6 or IPv4 tunneling, translating, or NAT solutions; they can access IPv6 and IPv4 directly at ... Read More

Google Chrome Gets 10% Browser Share

February 2, 2011 – 12:33 pm |

Google’s Chrome browser ended 2010 with 10.70% of the browser market share, according to Net Applications. Microsoft’s internet Explorer continues to lose market share. Firefox, the world’s second most popular browser, currently has a 22% share. Apple’s Safari climbed four-tenths of a percentage point to 6.3%. The upcoming launch of Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9 may change usage, or so Mozilla and Microsoft are hoping. Top browser market share at: ... Read More

Really Strategies Announces RSuite Cloud™

February 1, 2011 – 6:31 pm |

Really Strategies announced the availability of RSuite Cloud™, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats. RSuite Cloud is a hosted end-to-end content management and publishing system for book publishers to create, manage, and distribute single-source content to multiple channels. The system also provides language translation tools to publish in 70 languages, including all major European, Asian, and bidirectional ... Read More