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August 30 2009

Dual-screen laptop to be released this year

gScreen claims their G400 Spacebook is the first dual screen laptop with two 15.4 inch LED display screens and a full-size keyboard, built into one unit. Though no pricing has been announced yet, reports state that it could be close to the $3,000 mark.

The notebook, which will be powered by Intel Core 2 Duo and run Microsoft Windows Vista/XP Professional is geared towards designers, animators and photographers who are used to double-screen desktop environments. It will be available for shipment from the USA to both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates through Amazon.

August 21 2009

Wikimedia receives $500,000 from Hewlett Foundation


The nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia has received a $500,000 grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to expand its effort to make educational information freely accessible.

"The enormous popularity of Wikipedia and its collaborative premise make the Wikimedia Foundation an ideal vehicle for spreading the open educational resources movement," Barbara Chow, director of the education program at Hewlett, said in a statement.

The San Francisco-based Wikimedia said it plans to use the grant to improve the user-friendliness of Wikimedia's software, develop training materials to engage new potential volunteer editors, and establish metrics to track the foundation's impact.

August 20 2009

Windows Live Movie Maker


Windows Live can help you synchronize all of the ways you communicate and share. Imagine one convenient place online to share photos, files, e-mail, and see what’s new with your social network. With Windows Live, it's easier than ever to stay connected to the people and things that matter to you.

More Info http://windowslive.com/Desktop/MovieMaker
More Info http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/
Download http://download.live.com/

August 19 2009

Microsoft releases SQL Azure Database preview


The community technology preview (CTP) of SQL Azure Database was made available Tuesday, along with a preview of an SQL Server driver for building PHP applications for the Azure platform.

"With SQL Azure, developers building Web 2.0, ASP.Net and PHP applications can use familiar tools and data models to develop on a pay-as-you-grow, secure, scalable and highly available database service at minimal infrastructure cost," Microsoft senior program manager David Robinson wrote in a blog post Tuesday, adding that "there are really no comparable solutions available today."

The free trial of SQL Azure Database will last until November, when the service is fully launched. There will be two editions, a Web Edition that stores up to 1GB of data for $9.99 per month, and a Business Edition that stores up to 10GB at $99.99 per month.

August 19 2009

Google Project 10^100 update 'within a month'


Google is finally promising to shed light on its "Project 10 to the 100th" competition--announced last year as part of its 10th anniversary celebration--within a month: or just in time for its 11th anniversary.

Project 10 to the 100th is an attempt to solicit ideas that will change the world, focusing on the notion that "new studies are reinforcing the simple wisdom that beyond a certain very basic level of material wealth, the only thing that increases individual happiness over time is helping other people," Google said when announcing the project last year.

August 18 2009

Mint.com starts keeping an eye on your budget


Mint.com is the premiere web-based money management solution available Tuesday. The site pulls transaction information from your various financial accounts and presents the data in a beautiful, easily digestible format. CEO Aaron Patzer boasts that 50 percent of Mint's users have used the service to stick to a budget for the first time in their lives. Hoping to raise that number even more, its latest update, available now, focuses on making it easier for users to control their spending with advanced budgeting tools.

More in CNET.

August 18 2009

Chrome gets bookmark sync with version 4.x

Google has issued the first developer preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, a phase that should bring some advanced features in the forthcoming HTML 5 specification for Web pages but that for now just sports a cloud-based bookmark synchronization tool.

"Once you set up sync from the Tools menu, Chrome will then upload and store your bookmarks in your Google Account. Anytime you add or change a bookmark, your changes will be sent to the cloud and immediately broadcast to all other computers for which you've activated bookmark sync," programmer Tim Steele said in a blog post Monday.

Among the HTML 5 features set for Chrome 4.x are Web Workers, which let the browser perform background processing tasks without interrupting a Web application's user interface and local storage, which helps a Web application work even when a computer is disconnected from the network. Another HTML 5 technology, built-in video and audio that doesn't require a plug-in such as Flash, began arriving in Chrome version 3.

More in CNET.

August 17 2009

Moonlight 2.0 beta


The developer of the Moonlight software that enables Silverlight applications to run on Linux computers said on Monday that he is ready to start publicly beta testing an update to the software. Moonlight 2.0 is aimed at achieving compatibility with sites written for Silverlight 2.0, but incorporates the media pipeline and a few other features of Silverlight 3.0. The beta is available both as source code and as a plug in for the Mozilla browser.

Download from here.
Blog details here.

More in CNET.

August 17 2009



OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office. It is a complete solution for every organization to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents. See more details here
You and your team can create and collaborate on:

  • Text documents
  • Spreadsheets (coming soon)
  • Presentations
  • Task Lists
  • E-mails
  • Calendars
  • Web Links
  • Contacts

See the Demo site here

August 14 2009

Toshiba Announces World’s Largest SD Card



Good news for all you memory hogs out there: Toshiba has announced the world’s largest SD memory card, a 64-gigabyte card that employs the new SDXC (XC for extended capacity) memory standard. The bad news? Your existing digital camera or camcorder won’t read the card format out of the box. The high-capacity memory card won’t hit the store shelves until next spring.

August 14 2009

Software Transactional Memory (STM.NET)



Software Transactional Memory (STM.NET) is a mechanism for efficient isolation of shared state. The programmer demarcates a region of code as operating within a transaction that is "atomic" and "isolated" from other transacted code running concurrently.

This is an experimental release of the .NET Framework that allows C# programmers to try out this technology, specifically a particular implementation of STM.

More details in DevLabs
STM.NET Blog
Programming Guide

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