Yahoo! yesterday announced its decision to combine forces with rival online giants (significantly, Google) to make the open online platform — OpenSocial, a success.
The project aims to develop a set of standards that can be used across all social networking Web sites, and will make it easier for software developers to write applications for Web […]
Ever Wanted a justification for owning a cameraphone with a specification of two megapixels or above? Well, Scanr provides just that. Photograph a business card and Scanr will employ OCR technology to digitise it.
The Scanr service actually handles three different types of photo. In addition to business cards, it can cope with whiteboards (presentation slides) […]
Microsoft has committed to becoming a mixed ASP.NET and PHP shop for the “foreseeable” future should its proposed Yahoo! acquisition succeed, rather than convert popular services like Yahoo! mail to Microsoft’s .NET architecture.Chief executive Steve Ballmer confirmed, though, that overlapping online properties would be axed. Ballmer did not say what Microsoft ASP.NET or Yahoo! services […]
Australian wireless carrier Buzz Broadband has shuttered its WiMAX network, describing the technology as a “disaster” that has “failed miserably”.
Speaking at an international WiMAX conference in Bangkok, Garth Freeman, CEO of Buzz, claimed the technology didn’t work indoors more than 2Km from the base station and had latency as high as a second. High latency […]
The camera you own has one main lens and produces a flat, two-dimensional photograph, whether you hold it in your hand or view it on your computer screen. On the other hand, a camera with two lenses (or two cameras placed apart from each other) can take more interesting 3-D photos.
But what if your digital […]
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) that is India’s representative body at the International Standards Organization (ISO), has once again rejected Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) file format as standard.
In a meeting of the BIS technical committee on Thursday last week, 13 members voted against the OOXML standard, while only five members, including some outsourcing […]
If you’re tired of boring old data sets that lack the pizazz of Web 2.0ocity, then Google has the API for you.
Meet the Google Visualization API, which gives developers a chance to add a graphical edge to their applications and data. The company this week dished the API out to the public hoping to “make […]
Apple has released the latest version of its Safari web browser.
A full release version of Safari, which has until now only been available for Mac, is now also shipping a Windows-friendly version.
This reflects the fact that Microsoft’s operating system runs on Intel Macs.
A beta version of Safari 3 for Windows was released in June last […]
It’s no longer just a .NET or Java world when it comes to production-quality development frameworks — PHP is edging its way into developers’ affections. Now, the technology’s backers are planning further efforts to expand on its successes.
Zend, PHP’s lead commercial sponsor, plans Monday to release its eponymous Framework 1.5, the first major release since […]
One of the pair, known as GRA 06128, whose origin is unknown
A pair of meteorites discovered in Antarctica are in a class all of their own, a major space conference has been told. Studies of the extra-terrestrial rocks have revealed qualities that set them apart from any meteorites previously known to science.
Researchers are pondering where […]
