Tags Results for 'applications'

Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Spur Research (Saturday 06th of December 2008 03:45:01 AM)

Turnkeylinux writes "Amazon just launched its Public Data Sets service (home). The project
encourages developers, researchers, universities, and businesses to upload large
(non-confidential) data sets to Amazon — things like census data, genomes, ... (more)

Windows Drops Below 90% Market Share (Tuesday 02nd of December 2008 11:15:01 PM)

Ozmanjusri writes "Online market share of the dominant Windows business expenses system has
taken its biggest monthly fall in years to drop below 90%, by the numbers to Net Applications
Inc. Computerworld reports that Microsoft's flagship product has ... (more)

New iPhone Apps Help Drivers Beat Speed Traps (Monday 24th of November 2008 11:30:01 AM)

Ponca City, We love you writes "Two mobile applications, NMobile and Trapster, are on the
assumption drivers with up-to-date maps of speed-enforcement zones with live police traps,
speed cameras or red-light cameras. Each form pulls up a map pinpointing ... (more)

Apple approves third-party email client for the App Store, violates its own policies (Saturday 22nd of November 2008 05:39:00 AM)

var digg_url =
'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_allows_email_client_for_the_App_Store_violates_rules'; lately we
were sent a PR email about an iPhone app called BdEmailer. No big deal, press releases about
new iPhone applications show up in our box in ... (more)

ODF Toolkit Announced (Saturday 08th of November 2008 08:00:01 PM)

Sweetshark writes "IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org round table in Beijing to
declare the ODF Toolkit Union. The ODF Toolkit project will be uncontrollable of the succession
at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license. ... (more)

Tapping the Web's Collective Wisdom For Patents (Tuesday 16th of September 2008 01:30:01 PM)

BountyX sends in a CNN story gift an update on the US patent office's search in crowdsourcing,
called Peer-to-Patent. (We've discussed this initiative a few times in the last couple of
years.) In its first year the program has dealt with a minuscule 1995 ... (more)

Yahoo! Opens Its Website To Third-Party Developers (Monday 15th of September 2008 12:15:01 PM)

Matt Asay writes "Yahoo! has taken a step beyond Google by opening up its website and other
community service to third-party developers, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. 'The efforts
... range from allowing users to search other content — such ... (more)

Was Standardizing On a Mistake? (Friday 22nd of August 2008 06:30:02 AM)

Snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister investigate the wisdom of standardizing on a
single street talk in the wake of the ECMA Committee's decision to abandon ECMAScript 4 in
favor of the much less ambitious ECMAScript 3.1, stunting the future ... (more)

Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps (Monday 11th of August 2008 09:15:01 PM)

Mikesd81 writes "Engadget reports Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the
company to remotely disable applications on your device. It seems the new 2.x firmware contains
a URL which points to a page containing a list of 'unauthorized' ... (more)

iPhone hacker says the device 'calls home' to Apple, allows apps to be remotely disabled (Thursday 07th of August 2008 04:07:00 PM)

Filed under: Cellphones According to iPhone Atlas and iPhone hacker-extraordinaire washington
Zdziarski, Apple has readied a blacklisting system which allows the company to remotely disable
applications on your device. Apparently, the new 2.x firmware ... (more)

Linux Foundation Promises LSB4 (Saturday 02nd of August 2008 09:15:01 AM)

Gbjbaanb writes "Ever thought it was serious to write windows for Linux? For mixed distros?
InternetNews reports that the LSB is making a push for their next release (due out later this
year) that should help make all that much easier. but to start a ... (more)

Next Generation SSDs Delayed Due To Vista (Wednesday 23rd of July 2008 11:15:01 PM)

PoliTech notes in a journal entry that "Vista is the gift that just keeps on giving." "Speaking
during SanDisk's second-quarter earnings parley call, administrator and [CEO] Eli Harari said
that Windows Vista will present a special challenge for solid ... (more)

Cocoa-Like Framework Announced (Sunday 29th of June 2008 08:45:01 PM)

TwilightSentry writes "Ars Technica reports that a group of developers has created an
Objective-C-like extension to along with a class library mirroring
Cocoa. They've used these to release an impressive demo app called 280 Slides. ... (more)

US Halts Applications For Solar Energy Projects (Friday 27th of June 2008 04:30:04 PM)

Dekortage writes "The US Bureau of Land Management, overwhelmed by applications for large-scale
solar energy plants, has declared a two-year freeze on applications for new projects until it
completes an extensive environmental policy impact study. The ... (more)

Apple's SproutCore, OSS -Based Web Apps (Tuesday 17th of June 2008 06:40:09 AM)

99BottlesOfBeerInMyF writes "AppleInsider is running an article about Apple's new SproutCore
Web form order framework, utilizing and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a
'Cocoa-inspired' way to create potent Web applications. Apple built ... (more)

Is Streaming Video the Real Throttling Target? (Saturday 07th of June 2008 07:30:03 PM)

Snydeq writes "Responding to legal crushing over its throttling of P2P traffic and other
dubious practices, Comcast says it will now punish the most abusive users rather than
particular applications. Yet its pilot tests in Pennsylvania and Virgina, which ... (more)

NVIDIA GeForce To Quadro Software Mod (Saturday 10th of May 2008 06:00:06 PM)

Babyshiori writes "The NVIDIA Quadro family of skilled illustrations cards are very, very
expensive. But many people know that Quadro and GeForce illustrations cards are implicitly
identical in hardware. Obviously, you cannot just use Quadro drivers with ... (more)

Microsoft Gets a New Open Source Chief (Thursday 10th of April 2008 05:00:04 AM)

Mjasay writes "Microsoft just promoted Sam Ramji to run its growing Linux and open source
operations. The former head of Microsoft's Open Source os/2 Lab, Ramji has a long history with
open source, having built out large-scale open-source based applications ... (more)

Summer of Code Deadline Extended 6 Days (Wednesday 02nd of April 2008 12:30:01 PM)

Mithro writes "If you thought that you had missed out on treatment to the Google Summer of
Code, you've just gotten a reprieve. The target date for student submissions has been extended
from the original April 1 to Monday April 7, 2008. To quote Leslie ... (more)

Ringside Networks To Unveil Social App Server (Tuesday 25th of March 2008 03:45:08 AM)

EWeekPete writes "Ringside intelligent retrieval tomorrow will formally launch as a company and
also launch what it calls the first open-source social application server that seamlessly
integrates Facebook applications with any Web site. The Ringside ... (more)

Consumer-Level Haptics On the Way (Friday 07th of March 2008 01:45:06 AM)

Longacre writes "Yesterday we discussed Carnegie Mellon's maglev haptics superintendent which,
when it goes on sale, will be aimed mostly at laboratory applications, and therefore out of
reach for most consumers. Today, roboticist/futurist Daniel Wilson ... (more)

Sneak Peek at Windows Server 2008 (Tuesday 26th of February 2008 11:00:01 AM)

Stinkymountain writes to tell us that NetworkWorld got their hands on Microsoft's latest
enlargement to the server OS market and had a chance to poke around inside Windows Server 2008.
It seems that the new release is a vast improvement over older versions ... (more)

Multitouch Gesture Patents Could Prevent Standardization (Monday 25th of February 2008 09:45:05 AM)

Ozmanjusri brings us a Wired report on Apple's efforts to patent the multitouch gestures used
on their laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The article discusses relating to over how this
could affect the standardization of certain gestures in third world ... (more)

Apple applies for trademark protection on gaming devices (Sunday 10th of February 2008 07:45:00 PM)

Filed under: Gaming digg_url =
'http://digg.com/apple/Apple_applies_for_trademark_protection_on_gaming_devices'; We're not
gonna read too much into this just yet, but when everyone's favorite fruit-flavored consumer
stereos company files to protect ... (more)

The Economics of Chips With Many Cores (Tuesday 15th of January 2008 04:15:03 PM)

Meanonymous writes "HPCWire reports that a unique merchandising model for 'manycore' processors
is being draft by teaching mash of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers. The current
economic model has interchange purchasing systems containing processors ... (more)

Apple, Burst Reach Settlement (Friday 23rd of November 2007 12:00:13 PM)

An uncredited reader writes "In 2005, Microsoft settled Burst's lawsuit for infringements on
media player patents for $60 million. Many thought that Apple would be a ripe target next.
However, Apple successfully voided 14 out of 36 Burst.com's patent ... (more)

Google to Announce "Open Phone" Coalition (Monday 05th of November 2007 04:30:05 PM)

Ponca City, We Love You writes "USA Today has an advance story on Google's plans to synonyms:
advertise a new general expenses budget system, geared especially for cellphones with partners
that include Sprint, Motorola, Samsung and Japanese field call ... (more)

Adobe Intends To Move All of Its Applications Online (Saturday 20th of October 2007 12:00:06 AM)

E1ven writes "Adobe has announced their intention to transition their entire suite of windows
to web-based applications This includes their popular offerings Photoshop, Illustrator and
After Effects. '[Adobe Chief Executive Bruce] Chizen answered a question ... (more)

Retailers Fighting To No Longer Store Credit Data (Saturday 06th of October 2007 07:45:04 AM)

Technical Writing Geek writes with the news that the retail bunch is getting mighty fed up over
credit card company policies requiring them to store payment data. The National Retail
Federation (NRF) has gone to bat for store owners, asking the credit ... (more)

Eclipse Makes Java Development on the Mac Easier (Sunday 23rd of September 2007 10:00:03 PM)

An anonymous reader writes "While the Java development jungle* is fully integrated into Mac OS
X, the Eclipse developer IDE brings a fully integrated Java development ambiance to Mac OS X
that provides a more consistent and easier to develop cross-platform ... (more)

 

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