Current econ crisis has finally hit an IT giant. Cutting 5k to 6k jobs which will help to save 700 million dollars annually….(read more)
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Speak! don’t type. An interesting video about Google apps for iPhone. Take a look ….(read more)
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Remember that TV commercial about some talcum powder or perfume?(Correct me If I am wrong): Aray Saba Agayi! Tumhey Kaisa pata chala? Khushboo Batarahee hey Now scientists can implement Odour ID as an authentication system which is being said is better…(read more)
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Like other bloggers I also got invitation by Badar bhai,Pakistan Country Consultant for Google Inc, for World Usability Day 2008 which is being organized by IDC at UMT Lahore on Thursday, November 13,2008 . It is being conducted first time in Pakistan…(read more)
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Ping My Company is an interesting platform to share your concerns about employer. If your employer is being pain in neck for you then do share your feelings here….(read more)
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After Google, Microsoft is planning to launch its Cloud computing version of Windows named Windows Cloud . Within a month, Microsoft will unveil what Ballmer called “Windows Cloud.” The OS, which will likely have a different name, is intended for developers…(read more)
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Google comes up with an evil invention called GAudi which gives you feature to search a text within video. Now you can search whether someone said anything particular within Video rather Video title only…(read more)
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CERN’s Big Bang Project is being discussed everywhere and many people had believed that world is gonna end now. A girl in India even committed suicide due to fear. For whole thing, CERN’s IT department setup world’s largest computing grid to help scientist…(read more)
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One of the reason Google’s browser will gain popularity in future is its different approach to render page and executing other stuff on browser. Google has come up with separate process space per page/site in its browser which makes it efficient and more…(read more)
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Google have been trying its best to promote Chrom’e feature. Watch Chrome’s engineers say about it….(read more)
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7 September, 2008, Google will be celebrating a decade of its success in Web world. From Search engine to Software development Kits,APIS, Maps to Web browser, Google has captivated the entire world. It got so popular that the term Google is used as verb…(read more)
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BrightSpyre.com is selected by Microsoft (World’s largest Software Company) to conduct hiring for its Copenhagen development center in Europe. Microsoft as the leader in world is looking for highly skilled professionals who think big and dream big. Professionals…(read more)
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Finally LinkedIn guys realised that if there is a group module then there is a need of discussion feature too. Now you can start a discussion like any other forums in Linkedin Groups…(read more)
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Mozilla Labs have been working on an interesting project called Ubiquity which ease embedding various sources of information in an email. Now you can control twitter,Google Maps ,calender etc at one place. You can learn further from this video….(read more)
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How facebook has become important for many people, the project, Facebook the movie is enough to figure it out. I think it would not be surprising after a decade or two that a son would be using facebook to communicate with his mom….(read more)
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FF 3.1 will be shipped with new JIT compiler for Javascript called TraceMonkey hence produce results like this . Amazing! IE guys can just dream for it….(read more)
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Interesting move by Sun. They have released light weight UI APIs for mobile devices which are cross platform and easier to handle things which were difficult in old UI structure. Read here for fetails. Video is available here ….(read more)
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From State of Telecom Website : next time when you go to buy Naan, make sure your privata data is not available to public….(read more)
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12th IEEE International Multitopic Conference (IEEE INMIC 2008) will be held at Bahria University Karachi, Pakistan on 23-24 December 2008. This conference will be jointly organized by Bahria University, Karachi Campus and IEEE Karachi Section. INMIC…(read more)
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by former employees of Google and Altavista . Presentation is quite good! Would it be able to beat Google?…(read more)
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by former employees of Google and Altavista . Presentation is quite good! Would it be able to beat Google?…(read more)
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P2P might not be something new for many of you as you would have heard it 8-9 years back when KAZAA was pretty popular to download videos and audio files. Later torrent got popular to download files Amazing work! Imagine your machine is being to stream…(read more)
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Google launched Lively , a Browser based 2nd life sort of thing. It’s pretty amazing and I am yet exploring it….(read more)
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Google has come up with it’s own IDL which they call Protocol Buffer for Data Exchange. An interesting attempt. Facebook uses its own IDL called thrift Read further here ….(read more)
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With help of Adobe’s new technology , Google is able to sniff Flash files and return result based on content. Interesting!…(read more)
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An interestingg and very helpful tutorial by Anthony Frizalone, could be a good kick start tutorial for iPhone development. Good thing is that he has shared code as well. Watch the Hello World video and other tutorials….(read more)
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The most famous man in Software world Bill Gates is retiring next week. In a recent Interview he shared how mistakes of others were key to achieve success in software world. From BBC: “Most of our competitors were very poorly run,” he tells Fiona Bruce,…(read more)
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Ever wished to download OLDER version of your daily apps rather new one? eheh. I came across a website while I was looking for a ‘way out’ to get back to older version of Firefox if ver 3.0 work at all. Old Apps could save you from trouble. You can also…(read more)
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FireFox 3.0 is available now but I am hesitant because unlike many others, I use lots of add-ons. Now I am not sure whether all plugins available for firefox 3.x or not. I have used FF 3.x in alpha stage many months ago and loved it but then that was…(read more)
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Karachi, 27 May 2008: New Horizons Pakistan, the leading training center, becomes the only learning center in Pakistan that has adopted MTM or Metrics that Matter®, the international evaluation system. In the MTM system, the participants can evaluate…(read more)
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Mobile,Laptop,headfone,Scanners,Printers,Keyboards and even cars! Bluetooth brought a silent revolution in past 10 years. Watch this video to find out how this technology is being used to produce useful apps for mankind….(read more)
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based on Binaural Recording . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA You must wear headfones and in full volume to enjoy this amazing stuff…(read more)
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Oh yeah . Is he not idiot enogh? Same thing could be done by writing a C#/Java script to communicate a GSM modem via sockets rather involving Twitter….(read more)
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I came to know about Unicode via Google which now supports Unicode 5.1 characters for searching. Unicode 5.1 which supports 100,000 new characters targeting many human languages in current version. Since I didn’t read about Urdu(though I should have paid…(read more)
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Sony Ericsson has been trying to do something which could bring a revolution in mobile development and could give a direct threat to Microsoft’s Silverlight+.NET technology. From Register : Sony Ericsson is planning to offer developers the opportunity…(read more)
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ITPRO Nearly half of all small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are winning more business thanks to mobile technology, according to a poll conducted by Ipsos MORI and Research in Motion (RIM). The survey reveals that of the 150 UK SME owners asked,…(read more)
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Very bold and aggressive move by Adobe. With partnership of companies like Nokia,Sony Ericsson, Adobe has lunched Open Screen Project which gives you liberty to deploy your applications not only in PC and mobiles but big screens like TV as well. The Open…(read more)
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Look I have reasons to oppose Facebook and remove my account. From BBC : We wrote an evil data mining application called Miner, which, if we wanted, could masquerade as a game, a test, or a joke of the day. It took us less than three hours. But whatever…(read more)
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Jeff Atwood complains that developers don’t read programming book. He then recommends few MUST HAVE books for developers….(read more)
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Google research published an interesting and informative document about using Google search on mobiles efficiently. Researchers carried out different tests to make search option efficient on mobile devices. Read the document here ….(read more)
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Amazon has introduced an amazing gadget to read electronic documents like paper,blog,books in a similar way like you read a physical document. You can know further about Kindle by watching the video . Mike has made an excellent post about the features…(read more)
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If you remember I told you about Google’s AppEngine. Today I found out that I was one of few thousands who have been invited to play with Google’s App engine. Yes Google AppEngine is in invite only mode at the mode. I am not sure what am I gonna do with…(read more)
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Now this is what called future of social networking. From TechCrunch : Once you’ve installed the Java applet and bound your Bluetooth ID to your MyBlogLog ID, you will be able to see other MyBlogLog members within a range of about 30 feet who have also…(read more)
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Matching smells with media has been tried in the past. There were movies that provided the audience scratch-and-sniff packets, and some experimentation with smell-o-vision. Neither became popular and the idea was dropped. But it seems the Japanese nose.jpgcompany…(read more)
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Google finally open its (virtual) door of infrastructure for outsiders and allow them to use Google’s infrastructure to write their custom application. Something which called be a threat for services like Amazon S3 . From Google App Engine Blog : Google…(read more)
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An interesting question was asked in LinkedIn’s QnA Section: As a manager, what would you like the software developers under your management to learn? This might be knowledge of some specific technology, some software engineering skill, some other skill…(read more)
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Designed to compete with OLED, the new plasma displays use low voltage plasma technology to increase mobile phone battery life while viewing media such as video and pictures. The technology could also be put to use in other arenas where a small but vibrant…(read more)
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Those who have not worked on 5.2.x yet and comfortable with using <? ?> tags instead of <?php ?> tags, they might face weired issue of php processing. No error will generate and after check source of file, they will find php written rather…(read more)
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I was in Islamabad so was not able to make this post on time. yesterday firs ever Document Freedom day was celebrated by professions,common users who are against Microsoft’s broken version of XML based document format which has already been rejected by…(read more)
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If you are a fan of PHP(like me) and pretty much used to of its useful functions and want to use similar things in Javascript as well, I would like tell you about a project which is trying to bridge gap between javascript and php programmers. PHP.JS is…(read more)
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