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Google Releases Chrome OS Code
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Google on Thursday released the code for its upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season.Chrome OS has now been open-sourced as part of the Chromium OS project and is open and free to the development community. It includes the current [...]
Google Launches New Programming Language: Go
Google introduces a new programming language, known as Go, that is aimed at being fast, productive and fun for developers to use.Google has introduced a new programming language, known as Go, that is aimed at being fast, productive and fun for developers to use.Google officials described Go as an “experimental language” that attempts to combine [...]
Internet Turns 40 Today: First Message Crashed System
Everyone surfing for last-minute Halloween costumes and pictures of black Lolcats today—what you might call the 40th anniversary of the Internet—can give thanks to the simple network message that started it all: “lo.”
On October 29, 1969, that message became the first ever to travel between two computers connected via the ARPANET, the computer network that [...]
Nikon announces world’s first projector camera | topgadgetreviews.com
Nikon has announced a world’s first for the camera world – a compact coupled with a built-in projector.The Coolpix S1000pj has a 12.1-megapixel sensor, 5x wide-angle optical zoom and EXPEED digital processing as in the company’s DSLR range, but most interesting is the 10 lumen LED integrated projector that can create up to 40-inch VGA-quality [...]
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for solving ribosome riddle
Trio wins chemistry Nobel for solving ribosome riddle | Reuters
Three scientists who produced an atom-by-atom map of the mysterious, life-giving ribosome won the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday, a breakthrough that has been vital for the development of new antibiotics.
While DNA molecules contain the blueprint for life inside each cell of every organism, it [...]
3 Reasons Why iPhone Won’t Get Adobe Flash
Adobe delighted on Monday the smartphone world, when it announced that Flash Player 10.1 will be available by the end of the year on BlackBerry, WinMo, Palm WebOS, Google Android, and Symbian phones.
But the millions of iPhone users out there are left fuming over the announcement because their beloved gadget isn’t showing any signs of [...]
Google AdSense leaks Apple’s refreshed iMac, Mac mini, Macbook?
Google AdSense leaks Apple’s refreshed iMac, Mac mini, Macbook?
This one is for all you online tea leaf readers and Apple SKU / crystal ball aficionados: Further confirming our suspicion that something more affordable may be on the horizon, Google AdSense this weekend started serving users in the Netherlands with ads for new iMacs, MacBooks, and [...]
Augmented reality browser Layar wins 75K euro prize
Augmented reality browser Layar wins 75K euro prize – Springwise
Innovative startups managed to scoop up some hefty cash prizes in Amsterdam on Friday. In addition to RidgeBlade winning EUR 500,000 in the Green Challenge, augmented reality browser Layar bagged EUR 75,000 in Vodafone’s Mobile Clicks contest.
Layar is a free mobile browser that displays digital information [...]
AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware
AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.
Reports of the Facebook spyware [...]
AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware
AVG Technologies: Hackers using automated Facebook profiles to spread malware | TopNews United States
According to a last week blog post by antivirus and Internet security firm AVG Technologies, hackers have worked out a way to create computer-generated fraudulent Facebook profiles, which they are using to dupe credulous users into installing spyware.
Reports of the Facebook spyware [...]
