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Google’s Semantic Search, a step towards future
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Overview on Cloud based DNS hosting
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.XXX a total failure of policy & strategy yet heavy cash maker
.XXX domain name which recently goes on for public sale…
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Google’s cleanup marathon continues
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Contact lenses with the touch of future
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Windows Phone 7: will be a savior or villain for MSFT?
Microsoft’s upcoming Smartphone OS, Windows phone 7 officially dubbed as Windows Mobile 7 will be unleashed to consumers by October. Lots of hype going on around it, as for Microsoft this is a breakthrough initiative to get a hold onto the mobile market share that it never got, leaving the past failure behind. But truly could it be MSFT’s (Microsoft) Mobile hero just like iPhone for Apple? Or this will be just another villain like Windows Vista? Since Developer demo is out, all speculation around Windows Phone 7 started to shape into reality vs. myth. Windows Phone 7 which is complete overall of its predecessors, built from the scratch, UI (user interface) very similar to Zune HD (no brainer Zune and Mobile team worked closely). Windows Phone 7 aggregates Web content and applications into subject-specific Hubs such as Office or Games. According to MSFT all Windows 7 phones will ship with the same music and video features as the Zune HD. Users will also be able to manage their music with the Zune PC software. In addition to that it will come with a mobile version of Xbox dubbed as Xbox LIVE games, Spotlight feed and the ability to see…
End of Kin, signs of Microsoft’s struggle
Two years in creating, one and a half months in market with a cute little unique name, with stylish design and emphasized on trendy social network tools couldn’t save Kin from crashing. Just for the intro ‘Kin’ is the smart phone device that supposed to prove that Microsoft could build the right product at the right time for the ever changing tech savvy youngsters. But surprisingly less than two months after the Kin’s arrived in stores, Microsoft decided to kill it. Most probably the fastest ever end of a product by a tech giant. It’s not that “Kin” is Microsoft’s first flop, Kin just made the long list of MSFT product failure- from watches to music players, a bit longer. But most of its flop got some chance and time before got killed, even the super flop “Vista” survived over 3 years, but Kin which might be the image savior for MSFT got barely any chance. Kin fiasco is an echo of Microsoft’s skirmish to deliver what the technology-obsessed new generation consumers wants. From hand-held products to business software, Microsoft seems racing with times, and falling far behind. First issue there is very few who want to develop for Microsoft….
Leading ecommerce platform review: dashCommerce
We all aware of that finding an open source software based on Microsoft technology is like searching for needle in a hay stack, let alone a suitable one. dashCommerce is one of those very rare open source .NET ecommerce platforms in the wild, other two available option you have- DotShoppingCart and nopCommerce (we will come to these two in the future). dashCommerce formerly known as the Microsoft Commerce Starter Kit, is a complete CMS (Content Management System) and ecommerce open source solution. Current stable version dashCommerce 3.0 is quite flexible and robust in nature, as it’s incorporates all three major components of an ecommerce application: Product Catalog Shopping Cart Order Fulfillment Key Features Key features of dashCommerce: One page checkout Drop-In skinning / themes Configurable shipping and tax rates Drop-In Provider Model for- Shipping Providers Payment Providers Tax Providers (US and Canada only. Real-time. Tax tables are updated monthly. Requires Yearly Subscription) Coupon Providers Simple model for creating Sku’s Partial Refunds Product cross sales & automatic thumbnail generation for images. Fully Localizable, currently translated into 11 languages. Drawbacks Well until now everything sounds cool right? you found a .NET ecommerce platform, which happens to be open source and…
ICANN approves .XXX domain name
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the sole authority for domain names and categories globally finally after years of discussion approved (on conditions) creation of .XXX TLD (top label domain) alongside already existing .com, .net, .org etc. Well this approval of creation of virtual red-light district wasn’t well received by everyone. Some members of the pornography industry and the Christian conservative lobby voiced concerns for this move by ICANN that will create a dedicated virtual red-light district. The long-awaited decision comes at the end of vigorous lobby by companies who target to rage huge money by monopolize selling of .XXX domain names. ICM Registry, which is set to make $30 million a year from the new domain addresses, said it has 110,000 pre-sales from sites keen to adopt the .XXX domain. But porno industry front runners are divided over whether or not there is actually a need for a dedicated virtual red-light district. This proposal for .XXX was denied by ICANN three years ago. Well ICM registry the proposer seems got good backing this time to make it happen. Well you won’t find the .XXX domain for purchase just right yet. According to ICANN there are still several…
Office 2010 could have been better
This Tuesday Microsoft officially released Microsoft Office 2010, which includes all version of the productivity suite. With around 755 million of user worldwide Microsoft office definitely dominate Office productivity market share, closest match are way behind down the line. The last office suite, Office 2007 was released by MSFT way back in January 2007, so definitely it has been long awaited version. User can now upgrade to their choice of new Office versions: the $149.99 Home and Student bundle of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote; the $279.99 Home and Business edition, which adds Outlook; or the $499.99 Professional release, including all of the above plus Access and Publisher. With a new version available, consumers are deciding whether to upgrade now, later, or at all. Office 2010 is the first release of Office that comes in 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Office 2010 is the slickest, most feature-rich version of the suite Microsoft ever released. For those who might expecting to see some remarkable UI changes in this new Office suite, will be disappointed as Office 2010 looks remarkably like its predecessor. Though the UI remains almost same there were some significant feature addition and upgrades in Office 2010. Have to say…
Back your blog, mobile, Windows and Mac with IDrive
IDrive might sounds like another Apple product spinoff, but it’s no way anything like that. IDrive is an online backup solution by Pro Softnet Corp. a company specialized in the fields of Online Backup, Storage, and Remote Access. Online backup system and services are in demand and gaining significant momentum recently yet remains expensive when it comes to reliable backup. IDrive might be the change we all have been longing for. There are couples of high profile online baking systems out there like MSFT’s SkyDrive, Carbonite Online PCBackup, HP Upline, SOS Online backup etc. Some of them offer huge amount of free space for free or some even offer unlimited backup in exchange of a fixed price tag. IDrive certainly have the features and speed to tag along with these high flying bunches. IDrive offers 2 GB of full featured Online Backup for free. Features include Automatic Backup, True Archiving, Versioning, Continuous Backup, Mapped Drive Backup and more. Well off course for those business and individuals who need more than 2GB IDrive got 3 flavors of paid solutions. Their pricing is comparably minimalistic, yet got one little issue. IDrive Pro for business which costs almost triple than family pack has…
Google Caffeine, Search revolution
Most anticipated “Caffeine”, Google’s new Web indexing system has been switched on, which promises to deliver results 50 percent faster. This new architecture was introduced a month after Microsoft gained in the search war by extending its new Bing search engine to all of Yahoo’s Web properties. The Yahoo Web portal is the number two player in search. Under the old system, Google would crawl the entire Web to update large batches of Web pages in its index. Updates of individual pages in a batch could not be made available until the entire batch was updated, which meant there was a significant delay between when Google found or updated a page and made it available to the user. On the contrary with Caffeine, Google now crawls the Web in smaller portions and updates its index on a continuous basis. This is very good news for true user experience, as end users will be able to access more relevant and fresher search result, merrier for content publishers as this will allow their users to know fresher contents soon after publishing. All good except for one group of people, the SEO positioning guys just got kicked in their balls by this new…
Mac Desktop blogging clients
Desktop blogging client, if you are wondering what the F is that- it’s not replacement of your blog but a tool that helps you to blog from your desktop without logging into your blog/ blog admin. Desktop blogging clients allows you to manage multiple blogs regardless of platforms, write posts on the fly, as well as perform some limited administrative tasks. Why Desktop Client Desktop blogging clients keeps the published posts on the local hard drive and thus one has got the backup of each and every post which is posted through, blogging client and thus in worse situations like data loss, you’ll not be worried about losing all the posts. Blogging clients easily integrate images and easily uploads the images to the on the fly, while publishing the posts and thus one saves time and effort. Well, there are many more features which one can find useful or make someone prefer blogging client software over the default editor. Since blogging clients are simplified to use by non-techy users, it always contain full WYSIWYG editor, image manipulation feature (which most blog’s default editor lacks). Mac Clients Blogging has come a long way in last few years so is desktop blogging…
Asus launched tablet pc, Eee Pad
Whether you are Apple fanboy or Windows fanboy, if you are honest techy you have to admit Apple got a history of motivating/pushing other tech companies towards new technologies. For example – before iPod there was nothing comparable to iPod (First of its kind), yeah I know there was Sony Discman, Walkman but truly nothing even close to iPod. But once Apple unwrap iPod, thousands of devices popped up in the market either mimicking iPod or inspired by iPod. More or less same scenario we have observed after the launch of iPhone. Now iPad, the tablet computing device released by Apple, seems to be gaining same momentum in tech arena just like iPod and iPhone did. All these three are three different kind of device, but common are all of them come from Apple and all motivational devices for tech scene. This is good for the tech environment, since no matter who motivated the bottom-line is creative, competitive technological evolution continues. Apple iPad is an excellent device which is unique and first of its kind, but does have its fair share of limitations. Well those who are didn’t relented to iPad fever, here is another provocation to get onboard table…
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