Search giant to release platform that will allow services to go mobile
Google will come out in mid-2008 with a mobile phone platform that incorporates a variety of Google online services and lets outside developers create applications, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.
Source: It Business
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Company will increase features in Messenger in order to enter hot market
Yahoo, disconcertingly unable to develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenger when it releases on Tuesday a beta upgrade of this widely used instant messaging service.
Source: It Business
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I’ve been using the XChat IRC client for many years. The only thing I find lacking in it is a list of favorite channels. The Uberscript plugin, written in Perl, adds a favorites list to XChat, and also allows you to do things like auto greet users when they join a channel and hide nick [...]
Nrbelex writes to mention The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. The investment will cost Microsoft $240 million valuing the total site at somewhere around $15 billion. “The astronomical valuation for Facebook is primarily evidence that Microsoft executives believed they could not [...]
With several models to choose from, it’s great to see Dell still offering XP machines, while everywhere else you look, Vista is all there is!
I’ve never been a huge fan of Dell, but I’m starting to come around. They’ve been doing a pretty good job lately, in their effort to give customers what they want. [...]
ROUND ROCK, Texas — Dell Inc. plans to sell computers and other electronics gear at 1,400 Staples Inc. stores, the latest departure from the direct-to-customer business model pioneered by the No. 2 computer maker.
Dell and the world’s biggest office products supplier announced Monday that Staples would offer Dell desktop and notebook computers, monitors, printers, [...]
As more organizations adopt server virtualization software, they’re also looking to hire people who have worked with the technology in live applications. But such workers can be hard to find, as Joel Sweatte, IT manager at East Carolina University’s College of Technology and Computer Science, recently discovered when he placed a help-wanted ad for [...]
A script called winefix. In short, it allows Wine applications to be run just as easily as those native to Linux, meaning that they can be linked to or run from any directory, whether from a terminal or even a file manager like nautilus. It also handles some of the more awkward Wine extensions like [...]
Watch it or download it
Check out the new features and get a closer look at Leopard.
Source: apple.com
~LC
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A webisode for gamers, about gamers by a gamer.
Cyd Sherman’s online gaming addiction brings more than she bargains for…
Episode 1: Wake-Up Call
I saw this awhile back, now I’m anxiously awaiting Episode 4. They’re very well done and too funny!
Source: The Guild
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