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Google Wave has just been rolled out to a lot more users, though many are still waiting for their invites even as those who did get in complain about the service's apparent lack of focus and other shortcomings. Still, the project is very early on in its development and things are bound to change as it evolves an... |
16 October 2009
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The Wolfram Alpha search engine was launched to quite a bit of hype several months ago but the buzz has since dropped considerably along with the traffic numbers. The project is far from completion of course – it is labeled an alpha after all – and the launch was meant only to help the team better test an... |
16 October 2009
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Facebook apps can be fun and sometimes useful. But sometimes they can become extremely annoying especially when they go viral and you start getting flooded with the same one from all of your friends. Of course, you can easily choose to hide all instances of an app never to be bothered by it again, but recently quiz a... |
14 October 2009
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Twitter has been touting the upcoming geolocation feature for a while now. Announced more than a month ago, the feature was set to become live, for developers at least, sometime last week but some issues pushed it back several days. It now appears to be live, despite Twitter not making any actual announcement, with t... |
1 October 2009
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Twitter announced almost a month ago that it would allow users to add geolocation data to their tweets. The feature was initially scheduled to become live yesterday but Twitter decided to push it back as it wasn't quite ready for the prime time. Still, the geolocation data feature should be launched within a few... |
24 September 2009
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Twitter has made another big step towards releasing its upcoming retweet API, by giving users a glimpse at how it will look like plus a more detailed explanation on how it will work. The actual launch is now “close at hand” and some people have already seen the new functionality in action coming from the ... |
19 September 2009
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Digg may be working hard on securing new revenue streams, with the recent Digg Ads for example, but this doesn't fix the bigger problem the social link aggregator is facing, namely that its core business is being replaced by other services, meaning Twitter, with which it can't compete directly without radic... |
7 August 2009
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The iPhone OS 3.1 should come towards users with some very attractive and new features, one of which would be the presence/support of augmented reality applications. The functionality has already been rumored, and we're sure that enthusiasts we'll be happy in case it arrives. According to the LA Times, give... |
27 July 2009
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The live video streaming market, though pretty much in its infancy, is a fiercely competitive one. A number of companies are constantly one-upping each other with new features and related products though the competition so far seems to outweigh actual user interest. Still, this hasn't made a dent in their enthus... |
27 July 2009
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Twitter may not have had its easiest week with the recent hackings and the ensuing media coverage of the leaked documents so it could be forgiven for failing to inform developers about changes in its APIs. Still, some didn't agree, like SociaToo founder Jesse Stay who was rather upset with the lack of communicat... |
20 July 2009
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Apple has recently seeded its developer community with a new build of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, revealing in the seed notes that Chinese handwriting recognition has been included for multi-touch trackpads. The people at AppleInsider took a closer look at those notes, signaling that Apple had taken a major step towa... |
12 May 2009
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Security software is among the most problematic when it comes down to compatibility with the latest releases of Windows. Such solutions traditionally need low-level hooks into the operating system in order to deliver protection to end users, and it is this intimate kernel connection that causes incompatibility issues... |
7 May 2009
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Microsoft, together with the Gnomedex conference, is giving developers a chance to win no less than $10,000 for building web applications leveraging the Live Search application programming interface. The contest, dubbed Code for Green, is focused on two types of apps, both equally “green.” The challenge i... |
21 April 2009
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As a part of the April 2009 Virtual Earth API release, Microsoft has updated the Virtual Earth AJAX control. According to the Redmond company, one of the changes involves tailoring the Virtual Earth AJAX control to the latest iteration of IE made available in March 2009, namely Internet Explorer 8. Chris Pendleton, V... |
10 April 2009
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The number of languages officially supported for the Facebook Platform has grown to three with the addition of ActionScript to PHP and JavaScript. Through a collaboration between Adobe and Facebook, web developers will now be able to leverage the Adobe ActionScript 3.0 Client Library for Facebook Platform API introdu... |
31 March 2009
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Microsoft is opening up its machine translation service to third-party developers. The Redmond company is offering a variety of Live Search Translator Tools designed to enable web content developers to seamlessly integrate translation functionality into their Internet-based applications and websites. “Microsoft... |
23 March 2009
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With Windows 7, Microsoft is looking to provide developers with the necessary resources to build as well as integrate what the company referred to as the Web services and applications of the future. In this regard, the next iteration of the Windows client and server operating system offer extensible and manageable pl... |
2 February 2009
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Microsoft is moving forward with the evolution of its application programming interface for Live Search. In this regard, the Redmond company published this week Live Search version 2.0 Beta resources on MSDN providing developers with everything from general information to specific details such as protocols, SourceTyp... |
30 January 2009
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The Windows Error Reporting (WER) infrastructure is one of the components of Windows that has evolved with the introduction of Windows 7. Designed as a set of event-based feedback technologies, WER can record and subsequently relay to Microsoft information about various software and hardware problems detected by Wind... |
29 January 2009
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It didn't take NVIDIA long to also announce its support for the newly released OpenCL 1.0 specification from Khronos Group, following the statement of earlier today from its competitor in Sunnyvale, California, AMD. The graphics chip maker has just announced its full support for OpenCL 1.0, a new compute API th... |
9 December 2008
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As surprising as it may sound, Google itself has broken one of the iPhone Software Development Kit rules with its newly-launched Mobile application for the iPhone. According to research done by two tech-based sites, Google used undocumented APIs in order to have its app accessing the iPhone's proximity sensor. ... |
27 November 2008
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An ars technica report reveals that Apple has included an API in the latest iPhone SDK build that allows video output for connection with TV sets. The feature can be used to divert the video feed to displays / screens other than that of the iPhone. Although the iPhone can already play iTunes content through a TV, "M... |
27 November 2008
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Microsoft has made available for download the new generation of its search engine application programing interface, at PubCon, Las Vegas. This was the stage where the software giant announced Live Search API version 2.0, released in a broad Beta. Aimed at website publishers and web developers, the new Live Search API... |
14 November 2008
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A new application programming interface from Multimap (a wholly owned Microsoft subsidiary) is designed to streamline the process of embedding Virtual Earth content into third-party websites. The Redmond company acquired Multimap in December 2007, and the immediate integration of the online mapping service focused o... |
17 October 2008
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According to Microsoft, Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, will be designed to support context-aware applications. The Redmond giant is even cooking an application programming interface to enable the development of context-aware programs for the next iteration of Windows. At the same time, the company is... |
26 September 2008
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With the availability of Windows 7 pre-Beta confirmed for late October 2008, Microsoft has also delivered additional details related to the agenda of the Professional Developer Conference 2008 in Las Vegas. Between October 27-30, the Los Angeles Convention Center will host no less than 22 sessions focused on th... |
25 September 2008
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Windows 7 will feature not only a redesigned GUI, but also new user interface guidelines, a fresh API along with an interface component, but also a native code runtime and the ability to use markup in order to develop UIs. Even as early as the first public demonstration of Windows 7, at the end of May 2008, and earli... |
12 September 2008
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Microsoft is bridging the gap between Websites delivering location information and GPS navigation devices via MSN Direct. In this regard, the Redmond giant announced the introduction of a new application programming interface designed to permit website visitors the transition of a variety of data onto their GPS produ... |
29 July 2008
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As some of you already know by now, Microsoft will introduce DirectX 11 as its next-generation graphics API. This means that the DirectX 10.1 API will probably end up as a footnote in Microsoft's history and AMD's HD 3xxx and HD 4xxx will be the only series of cards to support it.As we informed you yesterda... |
10 July 2008
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By the end of this month, Microsoft will give not just a taste of the evolution of its graphics technology by an entire DirectX 11 feast. While so far the Redmond giant has served nothing but crumbs of the successor of DirectX 10.1, the situation will change on July 22-23, and the GameFest 2008 Microsoft Game Techno... |
9 July 2008
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Trying to get ahead of its own website (with the WWDC and all, it's understandable), for the last few hours, Apple has been trying to decide which Beta build of the iPhone SDK to offer up for grabs. Luckily, eagle-eyed work mates of mine have grabbed the seventh beta of the iPhone SDK just in the neck of time, w... |
10 June 2008
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In the past, we have seen Google open its resources to developers for a number of its products. It appears that another, recently released, product has been given the green light in offering API support to developers. Google Health, which was officially released during a press event held at the company's Mountai... |
21 May 2008
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The Mountain View-based company has it good, judging from the requests it has pouring in. People have long asked Google to synchronize its Calendar service with mobile devices and Outlook, and after a pretty long period of time it did just that. First came syncing with Blackberry phones, but today the proverbial oliv... |
6 March 2008
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Jerry Yang came to the helm of Yahoo with a clear idea of what he should accomplish and the time he has for the job. He never kept it a secret, he wanted to turn Yahoo! into the starting point for web surfers everywhere, the portal of choice for everyone, no matter if young or old. His plan slowly began unfolding, fi... |
8 January 2008
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In case you're not all that familiar with Twitter, it's a service that allows the communication between friends, family, co-workers etc., through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to just one simple question: "What are you doing?"It might sound a bit weird to constantly update your status every time y... |
22 November 2007
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There is a veritable fiesta of Windows Live Messenger release under the next generation of Windows Live brand umbrella. First off Microsoft just introduced the final version of Windows Live Messenger 8.5, its variant of the instant messenger client tailor fitted on the Windows Aero graphical user interface of Window... |
8 November 2007
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Forget about Windows Vista! In fact, Microsoft had better not even make Windows Seven, Vista's 32-bit and 64-bit successor planned for 2010. Microsoft's latest operating system will not survive to a new platform being built out of Rich Interactive Applications. And no, this is not about Linux or Mac OS X. T... |
6 August 2007
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The Mountain View company introduced Safe Browsing API that might represent the first step for a powerful security solution powered by Google than can improve the online security of the users. Basically, it is only a testing API that is based on a database provided by Google and containing valuable information about ... |
19 June 2007
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Today, Google revealed one more interactive bar meant to be added on the users' pages, displaying useful information about other related websites. The Blog Bar represents a simple add-on for your site able to show the latest posts published on a certain type of blogs selected by your need. Although it might look... |
16 March 2007
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