Archive for December 17th, 2009


Dec 17

Google Transliteration goes global with seventeen supported languages

Google Transliteration lets convert Roman characters to their phonetic equivalent in your language. Note: it's the sound of the words that’re converted from one alphabet to the other. For e.g., typing "hamesha" transliterates into Hindi as: , typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as: and typing "spasibo"
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Dec 17

Flight1 Tech licenses Microsoft ESP v1.0 Object Code for training simulations

Microsoft and Flight1 Aviation Technologies have entered into an intellectual property (IP) license agreement that gives Flight1 Tech access to Microsoft ESP’s powerful visual simulation technology. Flight1 Tech took a license for the Microsoft ESP v1.0 object code, which enables the company to create detailed, customized flight safety, flight training and strategic solutions for its customers.
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Dec 17

Greyhole: Windows Home Server Drive Extender for Linux

Like Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender file technology, but want it on your Linux box? Greyhole is now available to all avid enthusiasts who would like to try it. It’s Windows Home Server Drive Extender concept, but open source, running on Linux. “Greyhole is an application that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all
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Dec 17

Audi A8 features ‘Google Earth, Google Maps, and other Google Services’

Google with Audi inroduced Google Earth into the new Audi A8. “We've worked closely with them to create a compelling in-car experience integrated with Audi navigation system. You'll be able to enjoy 3D satellite imagery, terrain information and a wealth of additional geo information: layers like Wikipedia to learn more about your surroundings or Panoramio images
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Dec 17

Urchin 6.602 Multilingual support release

Urchin 6.602 is a multilingual upgrade release that adds support for all 11 of our supported languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Japanese, Chinese (both simplified and traditional), and Korean. Urchin 6.602 also includes a bunch of significant new features, including: Enhanced LDAP integration (more protocols supported), 1-Click Installer --
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Dec 17

Moonlight 2 open source Linux implementation of Silverlight by Novell

Mono Project, released the Moonlight 2, an open source Linux implementation of Silverlight from Novell. It also announced broader licensing terms for Moonlight, designed to protect from potential lawsuits customers who want to run Moonlight on multiple versions of Linux, not just on Novell’s. Microsoft and Novell also expanded their collaboration on
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Dec 17

QNAP NAS Management Software update released for Turbo NAS Servers

QNAP released an update to NAS management software that powers its business-class Intel-based Turbo NAS servers. Version 3.2, embedded as firmware, provides a segment-leading iSCSI target solution supporting SPC-3 persistent reservation, MPIO and MC/S allowing forward-thinking SMB and corporate customers ability to deploy NAS as a storage server in virtualized and clustered infrastructure. Additionally,
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Dec 17

Plurk to sue Microsoft over source code & design lifting

Plurk published an official response to Microsoft’s public apology “We’re still thinking of pursuing the full extent of our legal options available due the seriousness of the situation. Basically, Microsoft accepts responsibility, but they do not offer accountability.”[…] “This event wasn’t just a simple matter of merely lifting code; Due
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Dec 17

Browser Size Tool to check ‘how a webpage appear in browsers’

“Browser Size,” is a new 20% time tool from Google, that visualizes roughly how much of a web page typical users will actually see without scrolling. Special code collects data on the height and width of browser for a sample of visitors to google.com. If you're a web designer, you can use Browser Size
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Dec 17

Gmail for mobile loads 2-3x faster; On iPhone and Adroid devices loads under 3 seconds

Some questions about Gmail for mobile “We wanted to know: Could the mobile web support Gmail's basic and advanced features? Could we stuff the app with functionality while still keeping it fast and responsive?” Google Mobile team responded: “Since Apr 09, we've pushed the limits of HTML5 to launch a steady string of Gmail
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Dec 17

Meet the man behind “Halo Music” -Marty O’Donnell

Martin "Marty" O'Donnell, an award-winning American composer known for his work on video game developer Bungie's series, such as Myth, Oni, and most predominately Halo. O'Donnell collaborates with his musical colleague Michael Salvatori for many of the scores; he has also directed voice talent and sound design for the Halo trilogy, and is currently Bungie's Audio
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Dec 17

Tips to keep your AdSense Google Account secure

AdSense account is actually part of a Google Account, that may’ve several Google products, such as AdSense, Gmail, AdWords, Blogger, etc, all tied together. Here’re few simple tips to help you protect your Google Account: “Create a strong password and security question. If having trouble signing into Google Account, resetting password will do
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Dec 17

Blogger and Amazon Associates collaborates

Amazon Associates announced “Amazon Associates for Blogger,” that enables Bloggers to monetize their content by adding relevant Amazon products to their blog posts without interrupting the blog editing process. If you’re a Blogger.com user, and not yet an Amazon Associate member, you can register and start implementing Amazon Associate program on your Blogger
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Dec 17

iPhone tops Windows Mobile US share in October, comScore

According to comScore's numbers, around 36 million Americans own a smartphone, while around 196 million own a "non-smartphone" or a device that doesn’t feature an open operating system. “Number of active iPhone users in US has passed that of Windows Mobile for the first time. After just pulling even with Microsoft in July, Apple's
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Dec 17

Maps on Bing Mobile App for iPhone and iPod touch

Here’s a bit deeper on the Maps part of the Bing Mobile App for iPhone and iPod touch:  Location Enabled: Bing Maps for iPhone locates your position based on GPS onboardMultiple Map Styles: Road, Shaded (sort of a terrain
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