Evolution of Human Genius

by admin on August 1, 2011

in Industry

Or how the Internet fosters innovation by Waqar Shah Our world has converged into an increasingly interconnected, heterogeneous community of people belonging to different cultures and ethnicities, speaking different languages, and getting ever greater opportunities to interact and communicate with each other. The greater possibilities for interaction between cultures that were spurred in the twentieth [...]

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Reddit goes down

Reddit goes down for hours

by admin on April 8, 2011

in Social Media

On April Fools day, a Redditor half jokingly stated that Reddit could create the perfect prank by actually being up all day. Reddit’s recent bouts of downtime have given angst to many a social networker in no insignificant measure. Today, Reddit beat its own records by staying down for multiple hours. The social networking website [...]

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Industry

Firefox 4 lacks a status bar

April 5, 2011

Firefox 4 was extraordinarily well received by the Internet community, with people downloading Mozilla’s latest browser over 60 million times when this post was written. The browser brought a range of improvements, from faster software processing speed to an improved tabbed layout. However, some aspects of the famed web browser have suffered rather needlessly. Chief [...]

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Industry

Gmail Motion comes to life at UCL

April 2, 2011

What started as an April Fool’s Day prank by search engine giant and Gmail provider Google has actually been realized by the University of Southern California Los Angeles. “Gmail Motion” was the name given to a fictional motion sensor activated Gmail interface “introduced” by Google on the first of April 2011. An actual Gmail motion controller was [...]

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Industry

FCC giving out free wireless routers for ISP test

March 29, 2011

The Federal Communications Commission has announced that it is handing out free wireless routers to anyone who chooses to participate in an ISP Test. Called Test my ISP, the project is created in collaboration with Sam Knows, and is intended to help shape the future of the American broadband industry. Behind the hype, whether the [...]

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Social Media

After Digg, is it now Mashable’s turn?

March 26, 2011

Losing focus of your readership’s sentiments can spell doom for any social media website: just ask Digg. So why is Mashable now trying to push its luck? In a recent post about a supposedly mind altering video, a Mashable writer claimed that a video of a still lake with a woman jumping up and down in [...]

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Mobile

In-app billing for Android is just around the corner

March 25, 2011

The Android Developer Ecosystem has announced that in-app purchases will soon be enabled for the Android platform. Android has already cemented its position as the the overarching mobile platform in the world, its growth driven by low cost and open source nature. With the in-app sale functionality enabled, Android could likely give rise to a [...]

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Industry

Chrome warns Firefox 4 could harm your computer

March 23, 2011
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While using Google’s Chrome browser to access Mozilla’s website and download Firefox 4, we encountered a smug little message on the lower left hand corner of our screen: This type of file can harm your computer. Are you sure that you want to download Firefox Setup 4.0.exe? Well, what a way to dissuade people from [...]

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Mobile

How to make an Android app – Android Quickstart

March 22, 2011

Android revolutionized the mobile application development industry by providing a free and easy to use development framework. You too can build an Android app on your computer – it is definitely easier(not to mention cheaper) than building an iPhone app! Try it now to see how easy it is. Step 1. Get JDK Installing the [...]

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Industry

Firefox 4 is almost here!

March 21, 2011

Firefox 4 is set to be released tommorrow. The latest version of Mozilla’s highly acclaimed open source web browser, Firefox 4 will be eagerly anticipated by developers and consumers alike. JavaScript will now run up to three times as fast, along with faster core processing bringing Firefox up to par with the likes of Internet [...]

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