Dec 21, 2011 by Oana Pelineagra
Released on October 19, together with Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Ice Cream Sandwich proves to be worthy of its dual name: enhanced user interface, better speed and performance, plus a set of new functionalities that aim the multi-touch use. ... read more
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Jul 19, 2011 by Oana Pelineagra
Also known as Honeycomb, Android 3.0 is a tablet oriented platform which supports devices with larger screen size. Honeycomb is the next version in line after the 2.3 version, aka Gingerbread, and the predecessor of the soon to come Android 4.0, aka Ice Cream Sandwich, which will be a dual platform compatible with both smartphones and tablets. ... read more
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May 10, 2011 by Oana Pelineagra
At the end of April, AI (Always Innovating) has launched a hybrid OS which incorporates four different operating systems. I'm talking about Super Jumbo which integrates AI's own OS (Angrstrom Linux remaster), Ubuntu, Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Chrome OS ... read more
Apr 19, 2011 by Mihai Cernea
"What goes up must come down, eventually" - this old saying couldn't be more right in the case of social networking sites. Sites such as Digg, Delicious, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, which are fighting fearless for our free time, offer (in exchange for our personal information) amusement and a couple of followers. ... read more
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Mar 03, 2011 by Oana Pelineagra
Last month, on February 10, Microsoft has launched the release candidate (RC) for IE 9 browser. Theoretically this is the last phase of development before the RTM (ready to manufacturing) version, the company focusing on fixing the remaining bugs. ... read more
Feb 14, 2011 by Oana Pelineagra
On Feb. 11, the Finnish multinational Nokia and the American giant Microsoft have announced their partnership and a new smartphone strategy: building Nokia smartphones which will run on the Windows Phone 7 platform. But that's not all, the two companies will mingle other services as well. ... read more
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Jan 11, 2011 by Oana Pelineagra
With a steadily increasing number of households that have Internet access around the world (according to statistics, in 2010, in UK , 73% of the households - almost 19.2 million households - had an Internet connection), in the last couple of years web applications have taken a huge bite from the desktop apps market share. ... read more
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Dec 17, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
By now everybody knows that Bill Gates and his friend Warren Buffett have convinced many billionaires to donate most of their wealth to charity back in August. "The Giving Pledge" gathered more then 30 American billionaires such as: Michael Bloomberg (New York Mayor), Larry Ellison (Oracle co-founder), T. Boone Pickens, Ted Turner, David Rockefeller and Ronald Perelman to join their cause. ... read more
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Oct 23, 2010 by Dan Moldoveanu
The rumor that Google is launching an operating system is no longer breaking news and almost everybody is waiting for the final release. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco (Nov. 2010), Google boss, Eric Schmidt, announced that the Google OS will be available “in the next few months". ... read more
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Sep 17, 2010 by Dan Moldoveanu
Photosynth is a piece of software created by Microsoft which allows users to recreate a 3D or a panoramic scene by using a series of flat photos of the same object or location. If you wonder how can this be possible, the answer is presented in this article.
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Aug 10, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
If for some people the first word from the title may seem new, for the most of you I'm positive that it's almost familiar. Thanks to the technological advancements and to our need to shrink distances, we've developed a form of learning which is capable of offering all the information we need in the comfort of our own house. ... read more
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Jul 23, 2010 by Andreea Costache
With the release of the newest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari forcing the boundaries of the web, Internet Explorer has lost plenty of market share. ... read more
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Jul 09, 2010 by Dan Moldoveanu
When two important products of the same brand enter in competition with one another, the outcome, no matter the result, for sure will be satisfactory for the "mother company". ... read more
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Jun 25, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
By now you've probably heard that Apple is the newest company to challenge the so called title "World's Biggest Tech Company", in the detriment of Microsoft. ... read more
Jun 09, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
The World Wide Web is an environment which will never cease to evolve and to create newer and newer possibilities and solutions for every imaginable need. Such an example is HTML5: the next generation of HyperText Markup Language. ... read more
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May 12, 2010 by Dan Moldoveanu
Google Chrome is growing, and it's growing fast! Launched on September 2, 2008 as a beta version (the [last] stable version was released on April 27, 2010), Google Chrome didn't start as an eye catcher. ... read more
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Apr 29, 2010 by Andreea Costache
On Wednesday, April 28, Mozilla has officially released the Firefox mobile browser, codenamed Fennec, for Android smartphones. If you wonder why anyone would want to release a pre-alpha version on the market, well the answer is simple: for free testing and lots and lots of feedback. This is also the case of Firefox, according to some developers who clearly affirmed that the purpose of this “pre-alpha” version is to be tested and receive feedback from users. ... read more
Mar 01, 2010 by Doina Stefanescu
Current national or multinational corporations use a a wide-spread organization model, involving several layers of employees. Generally, this extension is governed by the top-to-bottom rule, which works by disseminating information on a need-to-know basis from higher levels of management to lower ones. In this way, normal average workers function according to a set of basic information, without ever grasping where the overall company is headed, or even why. Consequently, people in higher positions of management spend their time planning and processing info, mostly oblivious to trends and actual customer preferences, that could have been easily understood by engaging workers and customers into actual conversations ... read more
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Feb 14, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
It took Microsoft more than three years of development, two software leaks (they sure don't have Apple's security) and many rumors to launch, on November 2009, the Beta version of their newest suite: Microsoft Office 2010. Meant to be more focused on the employee's needs, the successor of Office 2007 brings in more tools, a friendlier user experience and extended compatibility. ... read more
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Jan 22, 2010 by Doina Stefanescu
Cloud computing has been with us for a while now, but it started just recently to draw attention to it, particularly because of the large scale Internet applications that client-oriented companies have built as services. Or what we now call SaaS, or software as a service. [...]
From social networks to virtual servers for data storage, anything goes in the cloud. Unfortunately, it still goes in the cloud literally for government policies regarding this matter, in about every industrialized country there is ... read more