Monthly Archives: January 2011

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Canon U.S.A. Showcases imageFORMULA Scanning Technologies

Demonstrating the versatility and benefits of its award-winning document scanning devices, Canon U.S.A., Inc., a leader in digital imaging, will showcase its line of imageFORMULA solutions at LegalTech, the leading technology exposition in the legal arena. Attendees will have the opportunity for hands-on demonstrations of imageFORMULA products designed to meet […]

Google Wants Android Developers

Google is trying to recruit dozens of software developers to create applications for smartphones and other mobile devices, according to The Wall Street Journal. “The Internet company has begun recruiting software engineers, product managers, user-interface experts and others who have ideas for mobile apps. Benjamin Ling, a Google product – […]

New Android 2.3 Exploit Found

Android version 2.3 Gingerbread has a security hole in the OS., reports Kelly Jackson Higgins writing on Darkreading. “Xuxian Jiang, a security researcher at NC State University, has tested and confirmed the bug on a Nexus S smartphone running Android 2.3. An attack would work like this: An Android user […]

Google Tackles Content Copying

Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team has written a post announcing a specific change to Google’s search algorithm to reduce content copying and spam in search engine results. “we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly. The new classifier […]

TYPO3 Version 4.5 LTS Announced

The TYPO3 Core Team and the TYPO3 Community are proud to announce TYPO3 Version 4.5 LTS – the first “Long Term Support” release of TYPO3. This release will be maintained for the next 3 years and guarantees maximum compatibility and a long lifespan for your website. TYPO3 Version 4.5 LTS […]

Android 3.0 Preview and SDK Tools

Xavier Ducrohet writes on the Android Developers Blog about highlights of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) a new version of the Android platform that is designed from the ground up for devices with larger screen sizes, particularly tablets. Highlights: UI framework for creating great apps for larger screen devices: Developers can use […]

Gmail Timesavers

Kristin Burnham, writing on Macworld has posted an interesting article, “Five great Gmail timesavers Tap into advanced features in Google’s e-mail service” Tips are: Granting access to your Gmail account allowing someone to read and respond to your e-mail on your behalf. Toggling between two Gmail accounts in one browser, […]

Google Announce Cloud Print

Google has launched Cloud Print, an online printing solution for Windows users which means you can print from your phone with Gmail for mobile and Google Cloud Print. You need to connect your printer to Google Cloud Print. For now, this step requires a Windows PC but Linux and Mac […]

Document Foundation Releases LibreOffice 3.3

The Document Foundation has launched LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the free office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to well over one hundred today. This has allowed […]

Social Networking Modern Madness

Sherry Turkle a sociologist, says “the way in which people frantically communicate online via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook can be seen as a modern form of madness”, according to a Telegraph report. Writing in her new book, Alone Together: “A behaviour that has become typical may […]

WikiLeaks Julian Assange Movie Planned

A film about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange moved a step closer after studio producers Barry Josephson and Michelle Krumm picked up the screen rights to the upoming Julian Assange biography The Most Dangerous Man in the World by award-winning Australian writer Andrew Fowler. The book details Assange’s life. Julian Paul […]