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Online Store : Google to Open App Store for Business Software
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Google may open as early as March an online store to sell third-party software that complements its Google Apps collaboration and communication hosted suite, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. Google would let customers purchase the software from its store and charge the third-party developers a commission, according to the Journal, whose article was based on anonymous sources. A Google spokeswoman... Read more »
Govt. forms EGoM to supervise 3G telephony
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 9:04 pm
New Delhi, India : The government has constituted an ‘Empowered Group of Ministers’ (EGoM) to supervise the spectrum for 3G telephony that will revolutionise the technology through which data is received and transferred from mobile phones. According to reports, there would be nine ministers in the EGoM, which would be lead by Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. Other ministers in the panel... Read more »
Microsoft opens testing on Office 2010
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 8:26 pm
SEATTLE, USA: Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at Office 2010, but it is still keeping Web-based versions of Word, Excel and its other go-to programs under wraps. Office 2010 is due out in the early part of next year. Microsoft is adding more ways for people to work simultaneously on documents, organize their e-mail and edit videos and photos, among... Read more »
Google’s New Chrome Os
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Nine months after having launched the Chrome web browser, Google just now announced the Google Chrome Operating System, “an attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” Google plans to offer the OS for use on a wide array of devices in about a year. Snip from the official Google Blog: Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted... Read more »
Sony Ericsson’s Upcoming Android Phone Leaked
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 11:50 am
We’ve known for some time now that Sony Ericsson (SE) is working on a Google Android-based mobile phone, but the company has been keeping mum on details. However, pictures leaked by a Danish site appear to reveal Sony Ericsson’s upcoming Android phone, and it looks like a good one. Code-named Rachael, Sony Ericsson’s Android phone will be announced later this year, according to information... Read more »
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Captures Never-Before-Seen Images Of Saturn
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Washington: The imaging science team on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has released never-before-seen images and movies from the planet Saturn, which have captured scenes possible only once every 15 years. This bounty of sights, that includes time-lapse sequences in which Saturnian moons eclipse each other and cast long shadows onto the planet’s famous rings, represents only some of the fruits expected... Read more »
Computers Boost, Not Suppress, Literacy (Re-issue)
Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Washington: Computers are helping to create one of the most literate and engaged generations the world has seen, an expert has claimed. Carl Whithaus, associate professor of writing at UC Davis, has revealed that computers along with traditional print-based literacy methods have proved to be a boon to academic achievement. The study involving fourth-grade classrooms at elementary schools in the Elk... Read more »
Blackberry Tour 9360
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Research In Motion (RIM) has launched their new Blackberry phone – the BlackBerry Tour 9360 . The detailed features of the new BlackBerry Tour 9360 are : Camera:3.2 MP camera Auto focus, image stabilization, and video capture 2X digital zoom Geo-tagging functionality Video recording capabilities GPS & BlackBerry Maps Assisted, Autonomous and Simultaneous GPS enabled with preloaded BlackBerry... Read more »
Iphone 3.0 Release Time
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 11:42 am
It can be said that the iPhone OS 3.0 will have a wide release on Wednesday. What exactly is the release time? It is not known yet. As Apple rolls out iPhone 3.0 tomorrow, iPhone users can download the software from iTunes for free. However, iPod Touch users have to pay a fee of $9.95. iPhone OS 3.0 wide release coming Wednesday The update includes many functions other phones have had for a while,... Read more »
Invalid Update Control CTF File
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 at 6:42 pm
When you are trying to update AVG antivirus version 8.0.x you might see similar to the following error Invalid Update Control CTF File You need to rename/remove the CTF temp files in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Avg8\update\download…. Dont delete all the .bin files in there unless you want to re-run all updates since your original installation (reinstallation seems to cause... Read more »