Category: General

Adobe is preparing to open source development tools that will enable existing desktop and server software to run in Web browsers, according to reports.

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Alex, CEO and founder of WebIS, Inc has written an interesting rant.

A few years ago Palm was at the top of its game and had thousands of applications. But quickly developers started leaving and going to the more stable Windows Mobile. It had little to do with the operating system or zen of Palm or whatever. It had to do with the fact that the OS was becoming fragmented and becoming difficult to deal with as each device that came out broke this or that. You no longer were writing software for the Palm, but instead for the Palm Zire, or the III or whatnot. Each device had a custom PalmOS that required some custom coding for.

He says that HTC is making too many changes in the core OS and is making some libraries missing or has changed their behavior. I fully agree. I know how much the developers have to test their applications these days on different devices because every device is different now. This was not the scene a couple of years back.

Click here to read to full ‘rant’

We wanted to make sure that the code for it was available for the developer community to use and improve. While we’re no longer doing active development, we’ve released the code in the hopes that those folks who asked for it will use it to develop something cool. For example, it would be great to see the server ported to Google App Engine, or support for Firefox 3 implemented.

This is a really nice news as this will allow the us to hack the code to make it behave the way we always wanted/want.

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/open-sourcing-browser-sync.html

HOUSTON, TX–Microsoft has released a collection of virtualization products that the company says demonstrates its interest in capturing the server virtualization market.

During his keynote Wednesday at Microsoft’s 2008 Worldwide Partner Conference here, Bob Kelly, corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, said the company intends to capture the vast majority of servers that are not running virtualization technology.

To that end, Kelly announced a set of new virtualization products, starting with the company’s hypervisor virtualization system, Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008, that is available via Windows Update.

He added that Hyper-V would cost a third of that offered by competitor, VMware.

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Google has said it is using face blurring technology to preserve the privacy of individuals photographed.

“In our view they need a person’s consent if they make use of a person’s face for commercial ends,” Simon Davies, of Privacy International.

Street View has already been launched in the US and includes photos of streets in major American cities. Photographing of areas in the UK, including London, is believed to have started last week.

Via BBC

Spb Software, the leading Windows Mobile applications vendor will host its fifth annual Spb Day conference on August 9th in St. Petersburg, Russia. Spb Day is a user-friendly, local Windows Mobile community get-together, where users, developers, media, device manufacturers, and mobile operators gather to exchange mobility views and ideas in an informal setting. This year’s Spb Day participants will enjoy each other’s company, discuss the newest mobile devices and technologies, and be among the first to play with Spb’s latest mobile entertainment products.

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Google has released lively a browser plugin to express yourself in a more fun way, with 3D graphics and real-time avatar.(Applies to windows only)

The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the web.the product is to express yourself with and without words, and to do this in the places you already visit on the web.

To visit lively Click here

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Advantages for using google docs for live blogging:-

1. you are live-blogging on your own website and not on some third-party platform – that means you retain all the web traffic
2. Google Docs offers a very rich blog editor so you get to include photos, hyperlinks, tables, etc in your blog post as per the need
3. Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut is your best friend – you can save content without reloading the page.

This tutorial will show you how to use Google Docs word processor for blogging a live event – it could be a keynote address or a conference call with media or someone speaking at a local BarCamp in your city.

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If you use eWallet, then there is some exciting news for you. Illium software house has just released eWallet 6.1 for Windows Mobile, Palm OS, Windows PCs, UMPCs and U3 Smart Drives.

The new features include:

• Personalize your card fields to work best for you: assign a type to any field in a card. Set multiple hidden fields, phone numbers, live email or web links, choose which fields to use with AutoPass – any type of data you want!
• Get quick access to your most-used cards: create card shortcuts and build a Favorites folder for the info you want to open fast.
• Design the background you want for every card: choose a gradient or solid color, add one of our free background images or create your own!
• Search smarter: the Find feature now gives you a list of all possible cards that match what you’re looking for. Continue reading “Illium eWallet 6.1 released”