One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), the Delaware, USA based, non-profit organization, created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab, set up to oversee The Children’s Machine project and the construction of the XO-1 "$100 laptop". Both the project and the organization were announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2005. It has attracted news whirl, since its birth, once again it’s in limelight reason-Microsoft. Microsoft Corp. this week said that it is working on a version of Windows …

Few days ago Google began giving its Gmail user’s access to IMAP; have to say it’s about God dam time. Google’s free Gmail service has been admired for its massive storage capabilities, streamlined interface, and functionality, but many email power users have never considered using Gmail just for the lack of interpretability. Things are about to be change a lot. IMAP is not a new technology—it’s been around for over a decade, and its …

ASP.NET powered a significant portion of web, especially high-end corporate and industrial sites. Just to jiggle your memory-ASP.NET is a web application framework developed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft’s .NET platform and is the heir to Microsoft’s Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime, meaning programmers can write ASP.NET code using any Microsoft .NET language (C#, Visual Basic .NET, J#, F#, IronPhython, IronRuby, windows power shell and C++/CLI). To understand ASP.NET first and most of all …

Up until now ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names was busy with different TLDs to make domain name more custom, but always limited within roman characters. It’s been a long time coming. A little over seven years ago, ICANN, committed to the idea of providing support for internationalization of those names. ICANN has now announced that the first sites using fully internationalized domain names will be accessible to Internet users starting Monday (15th Aug 2007). On Monday ICANN will begin testing of whether allowing the character sets of 11 languages to be included …

Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface.

Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a …

Just couple of years ago SaaS (Software as a service) was just merely an idea/lab concept of software giants. But hey that scenario has completely changed and turned into a head to toe race that transforming the basic computing completely virtual. T Though Adobe is one of the most admirable software giant, but was completely absent from this race, by virtue of its purchase of a start-up firm (Virtual Ubiquity Inc) that’s been developing an online word processor that’s coincidentally built on Adobe technology now adobe joins the race in full gear. Adobe will announce today …