Posted by S King on October 7, 2010 ·
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HTML5 is in the limelight since the day Apple opted for it and rejected Flash, everyone from mobile developers to Google to Microsofthave backed the standard as the future. Everyone, that is, except for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the official standards organization of the Web.
“There is already a lot of excitement for HTML5, but it’s a little too early [...]
Posted by S King on September 29, 2010 ·
Disabling conversation view in Gmail
I loved Gmail and everything about it, except the disability to view each individual message in chronological order, reportedly that is going to change. Google is set to announce the functionality to disable Gmail’s conversation view e-mail threading feature, conversation view has been one of its most hotly debated features since Gmail’s launch.
Google [...]
Posted by S King on September 29, 2010 ·
Apple reinvented the Tablet computing landscape with its Tablet iPad, competition soon followed with Dell launching Streak, Samsung joined the fray with Galaxy Tab, Blackberry became the latest entrant with its PlayBook tablet launched earlier this week.
We bring you a feature comparison of these four models
BlackBerry
PlayBook
Apple
iPad
Samsung
Galaxy Tab
Dell
Streak
Screen size
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Posted by S King on September 22, 2010 ·
Research In Motion
If reports from Wall Street Journal are to be believed,Research in Motion (RIM) could showcase the world its tablet as early as next week, at a developers’ conference in San Francisco.
According to earlier rumors the Tablet PC is to be christened BlackPad, the rumors got more credibility when RIM registered blackpad.com. The touch screen tablet will measure 9.7 inches, akin [...]
Posted by S King on September 22, 2010 ·
Gmail app on Android 2.2
Google has updated the Gmail app for Android 2.2 Froyo, it now gets the ability to reveal more quoted text in the email threads and introducing limited support for Priority Inbox. The Gmail app now has a “show quoted text” button,too view older parts of a conversation as needed. Actions like reply, star, and archive now have a permanent place at the top of [...]
Posted by S King on September 19, 2010 ·
Instant Search in Google Chromium
Chromium, the open source browser that Chrome is based on, now offers the Google Instant feature integrated into the browser. This makes real-time searches pop up in your main browser window while typing in queries from the Omnibox.
This may not mean that you will have this option added to your Chrome browser soon, most features that come to Chromium, usually find [...]
Posted by S King on September 19, 2010 ·
GV Mobile
Yes, its happening – Apple obviously has buried its hatchet with Google Voice based apps. After allowing GV Connect, a U.S. $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone yesterday GV Mobile + will now make it reappearance on App Store.
Sean Kovacs, developer of GV Mobile + confirmed this good news on Twitter that the app is coming soon, and has promised to make it free for the night [...]
Posted by S King on September 18, 2010 ·
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Google Voice Apps are back – After getting kicked out from Apple App Store and getting thoroughly banned from the iPhone last July, Google Voice-related apps are back on App Store. Apple has just approved GV Connect, a U.S. $3 native Google Voice app for the iPhone.
This development is a definite surprise, because last month, Google said that nothing had changed [...]
Posted by S King on September 17, 2010 ·
Older version of Yahoo Mail
Yahoo has announced the launch of a cleaner, faster and more social version of Yahoo Mail. Blake Irving, Yahoo’s executive vice president and chief products officer, launched the new design at Yahoo’s headquarters here during an event called “Product Runway.”
Yahoo said that its 281 million Yahoo Mail users will start seeing the new design [...]
Posted by S King on September 15, 2010 ·
Facebook
Facebook’s “Like” button could be integrated with Bing’s search results. Facebook and Microsoft are in talks and the agreement would significantly expand the search relationship both the Internet giants share.
Features expected includes the possibility for Bing’s search service to mine anonymized data from consumer usage of Facebook’s Like buttons, which [...]