From the monthly archives: January 2010
At today’s highly-anticipated media event, Apple announced the iPad tablet device, featuring a 9.7-inch, 1024 x 768 display and 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB capacities. Carrying a custom 1 GHz “Apple A4″ chip, the iPad weighs in at 1.5 pounds and is .5-inch thin. The iPad will be priced at $499, $599, and $699 for the varying capacity models without 3G, and $629, $729, and $829 with 3G.
After Twitter, Google and Baidu its the turn of TechCrunch. TechCruch was hacked yesterday and the site remained offline for several hours. At first the site just said “hi” but later on a message as shown above appeared on the site. TechCrunch has not commented on this attack but it seems that only the main site TechCrunch was effected.
In the mean time we are gathering as much info as we can. Watch out for this space for latest updates.
Yesterday Google launched a stable release of Chrome Web browser. The browser is now officially out of beta and supports the two much requested features – the bookmarks synchronizing capability and the support for extension (analogous to firefox addons).
Bookmark sync is a cool feature for those who format their systems regularly or use different computers at work and at home. Bookmark Sync synchronizes your bookmarks and make it accessible from any computer anywhere in the world.
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You must be aware that Google’s Nexus One has a speech-to-text function, so that you don’t have to type messages and notes. It seems that Google has done some cool house keeping and added a swear words detector. According to Reuters Nexus One automatically converts the swear words into a string of “#”s.
The new Firefox is out in market and, man its awesome. After seeing a lot of performance glitches and memory leaks Mozilla has finally rolled out an outstanding browser version this time. Firefox 3.6 is packed with some of the major features everyone wished for since long. Here are a few of them
Today we are going to introduce you to a really cool service which lets you create iPhone apps in less than ten minutes. The website named iSites just launched today provide you with this functionality with the Android app creator in beta stage, releasing this February. Powered by GENWI, iSites assure the app delivery to iPhone App Store in less than 24 hours. The best thing we liked about iSites is its real-time analyses of the number of downloads, app views, and content popularity.
Do you ever feel like your wallet or bank account has sprung a leak? Ever found yourself in a severe cash crunch just a few days before your next payday? Do you badly need some Wonga?
Ubuntu is now a full fledged desktop OS and has been performing pretty well in the years gone, but users related to web and design still hesitate to take the step forward.Why? Today, Ubuntu has tools that are much more accessible and effective than the tools available in any other operating systems. Below is a list of the available softwares in Ubuntu for website design and development.
When Google engineers realized that their servers are being hacked, they immediately started a counterattack operation. The servers were being hacked from Taiwan. Upon breaking into the Taiwan computer, Google found out evidence that at least 33 other companies, including Adobe Systems, Northrop Grumman, Juniper Networks
A few days ago Google announced that it was hacked and the attacks originated from China. Google also mentioned that 30 other companies were hacked including some giants in technology, finance, media and chemical sector. Surprisingly these attacks were not aimed at getting financial benefits but, according to Google “primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists”. Strange?
