Download Day 2008 is just around the corner, are you ready for it? After a series of beta and 2 (3 for Mac) release candidates, finally Mozilla decided to announce the Firefox 3 release date, which will be this Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Well many of you maybe already Firefox users and have seen all the Firefox release closely, but expect this one to be something totally rocking. It took nearly 34 months in development time, which expected to mark a major milestone not only for Firefox but as …

Microsoft Monday launched the public beta of Office Live Workspace and added a number of features to the service that users can team with the desktop version of Office. Microsoft, back in October 2007, revealed their first step in bringing Microsoft Office online, with the free web-based Office Live Workspace. They have now announced a public beta test for the services, to anyone who wants to give it a shot as an online extension of their desktop office. Please note that Office Live Workspace …

Groupware or collaboration software aims to help organize teamwork. Microsoft Project is one of the best-known project management apps, but not every business requires its power. A new generation of simpler, Web-based services can do the job. In our last two sets of collaboration tools review we featured four of the most outstanding free/partially free online collaboration app. Off course those aren’t the only tools that can make your collaboration up to the mark, there are a bunch of app/software out there which are free (Partial or full) and this list is growing every day. So here are my today’s …

The web standard body World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a new type of query standard designed to gather data from multiple sources. This new query standard SPARQL, pronounced ’sparkle’, will allow users focus on what they want to know over distributed data sources rather than relying on data format. It’s is no brainer that, this will certainly boost the development speed of Web 2.0 applications (which is actually not so different than semantic web).So why is it so hot! Our known traditional query languages such as SQL/XQuery /DMX are engineered for accessing to a single source …

After the first beta release of the much-anticipated Firefox 3 Web browser which offers some nice enhancements over the previous version, Firefox 3 beta two is now available for testing. Though it doesn’t differ much from its predecessor’s functionality or looks but there are some major performance upgrade has brought. Since it’s a beta release there are still some known bugs, which obviously will be taken care off before Firefox 3’s anticipated debut. Firefox 3 is based on the new Gecko 1.9 Web rendering …

There is no doubt now, Facebook is the hottest technology now. Why did I said-“Technology”, well Facebook is just more than a social network where people share media’s and get to know each other. It’s working more as tool to build network, presenting an environment/resources to manage, create better communication among networkers. So it’s not surprising a lot of power business users using Facebook now days, and here are three kickass applications that make their life a lot easier- FBlook …

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 …

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 …

You better be ready! Since “Dexter”, as in WordPress 2.3 is already launched just a few hours ago (At the time of this posting). I was expecting the release sometime this morning, didn’t expected it almost half day earlier :). So why is this WP 2.3 so special? Cause WordPress 2.3 comes with tons of features that we the users were craving for a long time. Apart from feature richness “Dexter” also took care of over 351 bugs/trouble tickets that were due in Trac. The kick ass features that will rock your blogging- …

There was such a time when business community used to gather in country clubs or aristocratic restaurants/bars to exchange views and information for mutual benefits. Those sorts of clubs still do exist, which are strictly limited to members and memberships are hard to come by. But business world did changed a lot, especially when more and more industry started to have their cyber journey. In this new age we have new kinds of portals, the online portals where business community gathers for mutual benefits, by breaking down the aristocratic, national, international, and cultural barriers. Sounds world-shattering isn’t it :). …