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Volume 01 Issue 04 May 2009
The iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to AppleInsidier sources..
Hewlett-Packard has begun a marketing campaign against the iPad and for its Slate tablet PC, highlighting the fact its tablet runs Adobe and AIR software and the iPad doesn't...
Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux has more than held its own against Unix and other proprietary operating systems, and Mozilla's Firefox browser has given Microsoft's Internet Explorer strong competition over the years....
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant IE is looking less and less relevant every day. MS will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers....
Researchers at the University of Oviedo in Spain have estimated that the cost of replicating the development embodied in the Linux kernel at over 1bn. According to their calculations, it would take almost 1,000 developers approximately 14 years to recreate the open source operating system...
Google continues to feather its growing nest of Web-based tools with today's purchase of a photo utility that lets users edit digital photos in a Web browser. What plans does Google have for Picnik?....
Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox.First is a new JavaScript engine that should run Web-based programs at least 30 percent faster. Second is a new graphics engine for Windows that will take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics and text. And third ...
"Manthan" was awarded to ViduSuwa because the project is based on the concept of a patient centric approach in utilizing ICT and providing a working model developed solely by Sri Lankan professionals in the IT and health sectors to empower the rural population of Sri Lanka....
Facebook's virtual currency, "Facebook Credits," is getting very close to its full launch: a post on the Facebook developer blog explains some of the full terms of the system and what developers can expect as the currency continues to roll out slowly.
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Aba Hatana '....He went another step further and got a mobile game created depicting parts of the film. The job was assigned to GTS, the company that created the first Sinhala mobile game ‘Colomba Wate’...' |
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Good Requirements The quality of a product is heavily dependent on the quality of the input or the raw material. This is applicable to software as well and in general, good requirements are a mandate necessity for good product design or software, which eventually satisfies the end customer. |
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A truly wireless life Physical connectivity was never the most popular within the technological world. Although physical connectivity was much more reliable, secure and better in quality the man always preferred its wireless counterpart. The convenience of not being connected physically was more appealing to the human which suited his active lifestyle... |
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Crystal Reports Generating reports is a compulsory requirement with the modern software world. Management software, accounting software, controlling software etc... All of them need reporting function to represent the data in convenient manner. For .NET developers’ crystal reports is an essential tool. “Crystal Reports is a business intelligence application used to design and generate reports from a wide range of data sources”. |
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Understanding Free & Open Source Software Licenses Free&Open Source Software, or FOSS in short, has become a mainstream form of developing and releasing software that is beginning to be widely adopted in the Enterprise. Proprietary Software giants such as IBM and Oracle have embraced and supported FOSS in the recent past by donating Money .... |
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Current IT news The Digital Open, a new online community and competition for youth, is now accepting free and open technology projects from anyone 17 or younger. Free and open means openly licensed, with software licensed under a GPL license and content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA. |