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- December 18th, 2009
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Firefox 3.6 Beta 5 Available - Mozilla
Mozilla Developer Center in a blog post on Thursday announced the availability of the new Firefox beta 5 download for Mac OS X, and Windows - with automatic update to all Firefox 3.6 beta users in the…
- December 16th, 2009
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johnnyurg03 has posted a new entry on: Questechie - Trends In Internet Technology
MSN Juku/Hompy/Mclub Application Controversy!
Microsoft China officially launched microblogging service, MSN Juku/Hompy/Mclub, for the Chinese market is saddled amidst allegations of pirated code and content from a rival - Plurk. Microsoft said o…
- December 12th, 2009
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johnnyurg03 has posted a new entry on: Questechie - Trends In Internet Technology
Google Quick Scroll On Chrome
Google on Thursday launched Quick Scroll - an extension for its Chrome browser that is essentially Google's take-on on the Command-F basic search function available for OS X Apps.Google's obsession wi…
- December 8th, 2009
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johnnyurg03 has posted a new entry on: Questechie - Trends In Internet Technology
Mobile And Social Search - Google Goggles
A bundle of new search innovations were unveiled on Monday by Google at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, during it's 3rd annual review of Internet search technology, which it…
- December 4th, 2009
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DNS Resolver: Google Internet Accelerator
Google's official blog post on Thursday announced the launch of its own public DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS - as part of Google's effort to accelerate the speed of the internet and…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Streaming TV? YouTube On Primetime
Google's foray into new frontiers may spell trouble for iTune and other internet TV streaming website operators, as YouTube is already trying out movie rentals, and also wants to get into TV streaming…
- November 28th, 2009
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Google Search: New Interfaces, Movies And More...
Google's VP, search products and user experience, Marissa Mayer, in a report on Search Engine Land last week stated that new search option features were introduced and designed to eliminate inconsiste…
- November 24th, 2009
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Security Advisory On Zero-Day Exploit - Microsoft
Security advisory guidance and work-arounds for dealing with the zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer was released by Microsoft on Monday night. The vulnerability in Internet Explorer was poste…
- November 20th, 2009
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Chrome OS: Source Code Released
The media event at Google's Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, has ended Thursday with the unveiling of the source code of its new Chrome OS. Google is open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS - ther…
- November 18th, 2009
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Chrome OS Overview Planned
Announced on July 7, 2009, the Google Chrome OS is finally slated for preview on Thursday. According to a report by TechCrunch, the event is planned at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California…
- November 16th, 2009
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Firefox Claims A Quarter Usage - Mozilla
According to a post on the official Mozilla blog, about a quarter-million people are running Firefox 3.6 preview version. Also, the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, Mitchell Baker, echoed same in h…
- November 14th, 2009
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Windows 7 Ad-themed Desktops
Microsoft unveiled two new exclusive brand Advertising opportunities on Windows 7 (Windows Theme Experience and Windows Personalization Gallery). The Windows 7 desktop space has been made available fo…
- November 12th, 2009
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Beta Version Of Chrome For Mac
Google Chrome product manager, Nick Baum, in a mailing list on Wednesday tipped off plans for release of Mac beta of Chrome in early December. Till date only the 'developer' preview version of Chrome…
- November 10th, 2009
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Malware Threats! Windows 7 Vulnerable
Sophos senior security advisor, Chester Wisniewski, in a blog post revealed that Windows 7 is 'vulnerable' to 8 out of 10 known viruses. The test findings were obtained by Sophos team planting ten ins…
- November 6th, 2009
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Google\'s Open-Source Closure Tools Project
Google's open-source Closure Tools project, commenced Thursday, is an attempt to help developers in creating Web sites and Web applications. Google being a strong proponent of JavaScript based program…
- November 4th, 2009
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Microsoft Revamps MSN Home
Microsoft has setup a new look for its MSN home page. Athough the update is scheduled for a later launch - notably early next year, according to an MSN representative. Microsoft has made available pub…
- October 31st, 2009
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Mozilla Browser: Firefox 3.6 Beta Available For Download
Mozilla's latest browser, Firefox 3.6 beta 1, is now available for download according to an official announcement on Friday by Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director for Firefox. The new browser version is…
- October 27th, 2009
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Finally: Google Social Search Debut
Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President, Search Products & User Experience, demonstrated a new service termed Social Search at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week. The service accordi…
- October 23rd, 2009
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Windows 7 Features Extolled Amidst Launch
Microsoft's newest operating system, Windows 7, was highly extolled in the Thursday Launch party at New York. The OS took center stage as it was formally unveiled to the world.Steve Ballmer, Microsof…
- October 19th, 2009
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Stability Or Security Issue: Mozilla Blockade Of .Net Add-on
Mozilla announced on Friday through its official blog the blockade of Microsoft plug-in for Firefox called the .Net Framework Assistant based on security concerns. According to the post, the add-on ha…
- October 15th, 2009
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Plugin Check For Firefox Launched
New service tagged Plugin Check, was announced by Mozilla on tuesday to help Firefox users to track updates on select popular browsers plugin. Plugin Check takes the platform of Web page that displays…
- October 13th, 2009
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Google Docs Feature Folder Live Sharing
Sharing docs between users maynot be new in Google Docs, but sharing folders - a feature Google discreetly added to Docs back in july, 2007, had largely been left off the big picture. However, Google…
- October 11th, 2009
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johnnyurg03 has posted a new entry on: Questechie - Trends In Internet Technology
Latest Enhancements to Yahoo Search
Yahoo in a blog post on Tuesday highlighted enhancements to Yahoo Search, which calls to question the earlier deal to sell its search assets to Microsoft. A deal which if passes regulatory review, wil…
- October 9th, 2009
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\'Starter\' Version Of Office In View
Microsoft, in a blog post on thursday stated the starter version of Office will be part of the Office 2010 family, slated for release next year, and will be made available only on new PCs. The starter…
- October 3rd, 2009
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Xoopit Integration With Gmail Ends
Xoopit, an online aggregator of media files, whose services were once available for Gmail users is to be discontinued. Yahoo acquired the company late July, and on Friday noted to users of Xoopit tha…
- September 29th, 2009
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- September 25th, 2009
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New API To Access Google Sites
Google enterprise on Thursday announced plans to introduce a new application programming interface (API) that will provide access to Google Sites, the company's service for creating and hosting collab…
- September 21st, 2009
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Google docs To Feature In Search
Google blog post on thursday reported that it will be launching a change for published docs in about two weeks time, whereby published docs that are linked to from a public Web site will be allowed to…
- September 17th, 2009
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Twitter Voice Call Beta Launched
Twitter users will be able to initiate a two-way voice chat with other users according to a new third-party offering from Jajah, a VOIP company, known as 'Jajah@call' which goes into beta Today. It is…
- September 9th, 2009
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Latest Flaw: Final Version Of Windows 7 Free
Security advisory issued late Tuesday by Microsoft on a reported zero-day flaw in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has it that Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a possible vulnerab…
- September 5th, 2009
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Android Version 1.6 In View
Android Developers blog post on thursday reported that the Android app store will soon launch the next version of the App, Android 1.6. Eric Chu, Android Mobile Platform developer in the post commente…
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- September 2nd, 2009
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Windows Mobile 6.5 Debut Slated For October
According to informations released by Microsoft, Windows Mobile 6.5 will be launched October 6. The revamped platform, according to the report is to feature IE Mobile, and is capable of playing Flash…
- September 1st, 2009
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- August 29th, 2009
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- August 27th, 2009
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Google Doc Features Translation
An official Google post today reports the addition of language translation to Google Doc. The new feature enabled in the settings menu, automatically detect the original language the document is writt…
- August 23rd, 2009
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'Linux Crowd' Prefer Google Search To Bing - Survey
According to a report released on friday last week by Chitika, an online advertising network - Linux users overwhelmingly choose Google as their preferred search engine ahead of the enhanced Microsoft…
- August 21st, 2009
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Chrome Hits 64-Bit On Linux
Linux adherents now have something to cheer about as the Chromium team announced in a mailing list on thursday of the commencement of work on a 64-bit version of Chrome for Linux. Chromium is the open…
- August 18th, 2009
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Google Apps Linked With Group Services
Google Groups associate product manager, Jeffrey Chang, in a blog post on Monday announced that Google applications suite is now linked with its Groups service, making it possible to share documents,…
- August 15th, 2009
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Internet Security Alert! Botnet On Twitter
The internet security firm Symantec in a blog post on friday reported that Twitter accounts were uncovered that serves as the command center for harnessing a 'botnet' of virus-infected computers. The…
- August 13th, 2009
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Beta 3 Released - Opera 10
The third beta of Opera 10 has been released according to an Official Opera Blog report. Notable enhancements in the third beta according to the report includes availability for tweaks tabs: Customiza…
- August 11th, 2009
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Browser Jump-list Access Available For Chrome
One of the best features in Windows 7. Browser jump-list access previously limited only to Internet Explorer, has now been made available to the new developes build - Chrome version 3.0.197.11. accord…
- August 8th, 2009
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Microsoft Set To Join HTML 5 Draft
In a mailing list posting on Friday, Microsoft IE team offered a host of questions and concerns with the present proposal on efforts to renovate HyperText Markup Language, the updated standard used to…
- August 6th, 2009
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New Beta Version Faster On HTML 5 - Chrome
In a blog post on wednesday, Google Chrome announced the released of a new beta version of Chrome, numbered 3.0.195.4. According to the report the new updated beta is 30% faster than the Google's curr…
- August 4th, 2009
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Chrome To Feature Bookmark Sync
Google engineer, Tim Steele, in a post to the Chromium mailing list on Friday, stated that synchronization code would start appearing in the new developer build of its Chrome browser in about a week t…
- August 1st, 2009
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Auto Upgrade Button For Windows 7 OS
An official Microsoft report - Friday, has it that Windows 7 OS will include a tool that allows users to upgrade from a basic version of the OS to one of its more enhanced Version at the touch of a bu…
- July 31st, 2009
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NewsGator Set To Merge With Google Reader
Newsgator - publisher of popular RSS readers FeedDemon and NetNewsWire, has concluded plans to merge with Google Reader. Its RSSFeeds online service will cease on August 31, according to an official a…
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