Archive for March, 2009

  • Dad I need an iPhone to do my homework

    Nowadays you cannot find out even a single child without cell phones. The turn of iPhones is on the way, say experts. A report in NY times says that about one third of the students in a NJ public school have cell phones. As the citizens of the 21st c... More

  • Hackers using Excel files to attack PCs

    Microsoft has confirmed that hackers have started using Microsoft Excel sheets to attack PCs; the problem has been detected in all the versions of Excel including Office 2007. “There is a flaw in Excel sheets that hackers are exploiting. They send pe... More

  • Certain endangered iPhone applications

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    20 Mar 2009

    The software updates in 3.0 iPhone, announced by Apple earlier this week, is ready to bring about 100 new features. But the free updates will make many of the paid applications (that are in high demand now) in App store obsolete. Voice recording and ... More

  • iPhone OS 3.0 is ‘jailbreakable’ says experts

    Noted tech experts of the Dev-team Blog say that Iphone OS 3.0, released by Apple recently, is 'jailbreakable'. A short notice appeared in their blog, just hours after the release of OS, stating that ‘jailbroken iPhones will not be left out of the 3.... More

  • Microsoft Releases IE8

    microsoft, IE8

    20 Mar 2009

    The race to provide the best browser has taken a new turn when Microsoft released IE8 with the newest features and best security. Although the major browsers have been competing to provide a fast and full featured web browser, one among the chief iss... More

  • Web Inventor Says No To Internet Snooping

    internet snooping

    17 Mar 2009

    Sir Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, expressed his grave concerns about the future of online privacy, while addressing members of the UK Government, in Westminster last week. He said that third parties, including commercial companies s... More

  • Potential Bidders For Satyam Computers

    The Indian government and the newly appointed corporate board, struggling amid the mess-up, are trying hard to save Satyam from bankruptcy or dissolution. They have asked the bidders’ interest in buying a 51% stake, even the future of the company is ... More

  • Kumo Vs Google

    Microsoft has announced that the testing of their new search engine is going on in their corporate network. If it’s found successful the search engine will be rolled in to http://www.live.com/ or perhaps introduced as a new search engine. The compa... More

  • RDFa with Dreamweaver

    dreamweaver, rdfa

    09 Mar 2009

    One of the biggest obstacles in using the newest technologies is the unavailability of good tools to work with. It is the same with RDFa too. Hence web designers have welcomed the launch of the RDFa extension for Dreamweaver version 8 to CS4 with mu... More

  • Appeal to make online maps blurred

    This comes from a law maker of California. He wants Google Earth and similar services to blur images of the “soft targets” like schools, hospitals, churches and government buildings so that they remain protected from terrorists. Joel Anderson, a Repu... More

  • PC Sales to Fall Faster Than Ever Before!

    According to the leading IT research and advisory firms like Gartner, the sale of personal computers will fall by double digits during 2009. This huge fall would be for the first time in history.According to the reports from Gartner, the shipments of... More

  • Open Source, The New Rage!

    03 Mar 2009

    According to a recent survey among 360 web developers conducted by Evans Data Open Source Development , 40% of them, working on open source projects prefer to provide web service applications through cloud providers. Among cloud users 28 % of them... More

  • All is not lost!

    According to world’s leading information technology research and advisory firms like Gartner, the sale of personal computers will fall by double digits during 2009. This huge fall would be for the first time in history.According to the reports from G... More

  • Google Unveils Tool bar 6 for IE

    02 Mar 2009

    Internet search giant, Google, has recently launched its latest version of toolbar, Toolbar 6 for Internet Explorer. The toolbar is aimed at making search & navigation faster & easier. Google has announced that the tool bar will be available... More

  • Microsoft,The Dethroned King!

    02 Mar 2009

    In yet another controversial ruling, European courts have up held European Union’s (EU) decision that Microsoft has violated anti trust law by bundling Windows Media Player with Windows Operating System. Google has recently joined the bandwagon again... More

  • The Future Of Gaming Has Arrived!

    02 Mar 2009

    3D Gaming giants, Id Software, has launched Quake Live, an updated version of 10 year old critically acclaimed Quack 3. This version is free and can be played directly within a browser anywhere, anytime. Within a few days of its launch, the game has ... More

  • Ning heading towards a notable change

    Ning, one of the famous social networking sites is planning to introduce a new chat functionality, thereby giving the Ning network administrators the ability to integrate a rich chat environment similar to the one one on Facebook. This Flash based n... More