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Volume 01 Issue 01 February 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....
Facebook's virtual currency, "Facebook Credits," is getting very close to its full launch: a post on the Facebook developer blog explains some of the full terms of the system and what developers can expect as the currency continues to roll out slowly.
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Colomba Wate 2.0 (Colombo Ride 2.0) As many of our readers are aware by now, history was made on a special day in 2008. The first Sinhala mobile game was launched on the 8th August 2008 (8-8-8). Colomba wate (Colombo Ride) has become a household name by now with many Sri Lankans getting the opportunity to play the unique entertaining game. |
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Linux: The Revolution OS On 25 August 1991, a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds posted a message in an Internet newsgroup about a hobby software project he was doing. He had no idea how wrong he was regarding the content of that message.... |
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Beyond 3rd Generation (B3G) B3G is a system that is able to provide a variety of multimedia services, such as movies, moving pictures and television broadcasting. These includes mobile mobility based services such as information services based on the location of the user and an emergency call service that can send pictures and / or the location of the user. |
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Artificial Intelligence The first research which can be considered as to be in-line with AI was done by Warren McCullouch and Walter Pitts in 1943 They proposed a model of neurons (as the ones which are in a human brain) in an artificial manner to represent neural properties. |
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The new kid on the block There is a new guy in town. Netbook is indeed the new kid on the block and it has separated itself from the traditional laptop (notebooks), palmtops and the ultra portable PCs to create a massive market which has been growing exponentially. So what is exactly a “Netbook”? If I say that it is a stripped down version of a laptop I might be able do justice to the word. ... |
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PHP : Hypertext Preprocessor PHP is a Server-side scripting language which can be embedded into HTML. It is widely-used for the development of dynamic web pages and it powers over 21 million domains in the Internet. It generally runs on the Web Server and can be used to collect form data, connect to a database, generate dynamic content, send and receive cookies etc.. |
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