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Volume 01 Issue 03 April 2009
The iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to AppleInsidier sources..
Hewlett-Packard has begun a marketing campaign against the iPad and for its Slate tablet PC, highlighting the fact its tablet runs Adobe and AIR software and the iPad doesn't...
Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux has more than held its own against Unix and other proprietary operating systems, and Mozilla's Firefox browser has given Microsoft's Internet Explorer strong competition over the years....
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant IE is looking less and less relevant every day. MS will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers....
Researchers at the University of Oviedo in Spain have estimated that the cost of replicating the development embodied in the Linux kernel at over 1bn. According to their calculations, it would take almost 1,000 developers approximately 14 years to recreate the open source operating system...
Google continues to feather its growing nest of Web-based tools with today's purchase of a photo utility that lets users edit digital photos in a Web browser. What plans does Google have for Picnik?....
Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox.First is a new JavaScript engine that should run Web-based programs at least 30 percent faster. Second is a new graphics engine for Windows that will take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics and text. And third ...
"Manthan" was awarded to ViduSuwa because the project is based on the concept of a patient centric approach in utilizing ICT and providing a working model developed solely by Sri Lankan professionals in the IT and health sectors to empower the rural population of Sri Lanka....
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The begining of the evillage replication project 'Having heard about the Mahavilachchiya eVillage project, Mr Lalith Weeratunga, the Secretary to the President was communicating with me since 2005. But it was in October 2006 he could visit Mahavilachchiya in person to see the ICT related developments in Mahavilachchiya. We invited him to be the Chief Guest of the launch of the mesh internet project in Mahavilachchiya in his capacity as the Chairman of the Telecommunication Regulatory Committee. ’...' |
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Artificial Intelligence Last time, you were able to get an idea about the philosophical and scientific aspects which are at the heart of AI based solutions. The definitions and thoughts about intelligence and how we try to mimic intelligence in the machines are some of the areas that we had a look in to. Now let’s move forward to discuss about the basics of Knowledge representation and Reasoning in AI. |
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How did Wii do it? When we got the Nintendo Wii two weeks back, I couldn’t help but notice the size of the Nintendo Wii console. I wondered whether this could simple be the smallest of them all…. and I was right, measuring just 44 mm wide, 215.4 mm deep and 157 mm tall, it is the smallest home console (to date). The Wii took a step away from other consoles and moved to the unknown, which is what got me excited.... |
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Gadgets In this edition of “diGIT” I thought of taking a different perspective in the area of gadgets. It is always nice to see what kind of new phones, laptops, mp3 players etc. are coming out in next month, next quarter or next year but it is much more interesting to speculate how our life will be in another half a decade or a decade to come... |
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Creating a website using Joomla Joomla is a complex series of PHP scripts that run on a web server. When you browse a Joomla site, these scripting are being generated on the fly and creating what you see on the pages of the site. The key words here are web server. |
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Ruby for Fun and Profit! Today I will introduce you the poster child of Ruby - Rails web framework. Rails was one of the major reasons which made Ruby popular. Most of the developers, like myself first came for Rails and then stayed for Ruby. |
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