Monthly Archives: March 2008
Yahoo joins OpenSocial
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 … Continue reading
Turn your good cameraphone into a scanner
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 … Continue reading
Steve Ballmer pledges PHP love in Microhoo future
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 … Continue reading
