Archive for February, 2008

Google’s New Product “Voice mail for Homeless”

 
The company’s philanthropic efforts right alongside its new technologies, including a plan called Project CARE to provide phone numbers to the homeless. Another piece of that plan came to fruition on Wednesday, when the mayor of San Francisco announced that Google would use GrandCentral to provide phone numbers and voicemail to homeless citizens across the [...]


AOL will no longer support Netscape Navigator

Netscape Navigator, now owned by AOL, will no longer be supported after 1 March 2008, the company has said.
In the mid-1990s, as the commercial web began to take off, the browser was used by more than 90% of people online.
Its market share has since slipped to just 0.6% as other browsers such as Microsoft’s [...]


Vista prices reduces

 
Microsoft has announced that it is going to reduce the price of several standalone versions of Windows Vista.
The release has been published stateside and we don’t yet have confirmation as to whether prices are going to drop in all contres.
In the release, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president for Windows Consumer Product Marketing at Microsoft, explained [...]


FreeBSD 7.0 Now Available

The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. This is the first release from the 7-STABLE branch which introduces many new features along with many improvements to functionality present in the earlier branches Like support for ZFS, journaled filesystems, and SCTP, as well as dramatic improvements in performance and [...]


A New Ultra Portable Projector By BenQ

BenQ has launched a new DLP Projector – the BenQ CP220C, the size of a B5 sheet of paper, designed for portability
The BenQ CP220C projects at native XGA (1024 X 768) resolution and features a brightness of 2000 ANSI lumens with a contrast ratio of 700:1. BenQ’s color matching technology ensures that the color quality [...]


Google with Web site publishing service

Google Inc said on Wednesday it is offering a simple Web site publishing tool for office workers to set up and run their team collaboration sites, taking aim at Microsoft Corp’s rival SharePoint franchise.
Google Sites, as the new site publishing service is known, is a scaled back version of JotSpot, an easy-to-edit service for organizations [...]