NetBeans Release Supports Zend and Ruby on Rails 3, Messenger For iPhone Hits 1 Million Users in 5 Days and Apache Unleashes Tomcat Web Server
Introducing IIS Express – Scott Guthrie announced the launch of IIS Express, combining the ease of use of the ASP.NET Web Server with the full power of IIS, ultimately making it easier to build and run ASP.NET sites and applications. It works with Visual Web Developer 2010 Express and runs on Windows XP and higher [...]
Learn a Language with Voice Recognition, Windows Live on the iPhone and What’s New in WordPress 3.0?
Yahoo Launches PlaceFinder – Says Goodbye to Geocoding API – brand new geocoder supporting building-level address recognition in over 75 countries
Find it hard to learn a foreign language? Online Language Learning Company Babbel Adds Voice Recognition Tool
Following Bing search for the iPhone, Microsoft debuts latest iPhone app: Windows Live Messenger
Madpixel launches its advertiser-friendly interactive video [...]
The death of the floppy disk, Foursquare hits 1 million users and Twitter acquires Cloudhopper
End of an era as floppy disk finally killed off by Sony – most surprising is that they sold over 12 million last year!
Foursquare: One million users and an imminent deal… in the meantime the plan is to target users with relevant ads
YouTube leads 37% surge in UK online video viewing – online video advertising [...]
Adobe Gives up Flash on iPhone, Comuto Profits from Eruption and Silk Brain Implants
Microsoft sponsors new Web font standard – showing we’re serious about web standards by sponsoring an effort to standardise web based fonts with a technology called the Web Open Font Format (WOFF).
Adobe tosses in Flash towel after Apple limits iPhone dev – Apple say it’s too slow to be useful.
A positive side to the volcanic [...]
Palm for Sale, MI5, Win7, iPhone 4.0, and Facebook CEOP
HTC to buy Palm to take on the Apple iPhone? This is sad considering WebOS is so much better than Android.
MI5 staff who lack computer skills made redundant. I’m kind of speechless…aren’t they two decades late?
What Can We Expect From Microsoft’s Windows 7 SP1? Really cool streaming features with RemoteFX. Full AERO experience on thin [...]
What We Found Out Yesterday
Codeplex Foundation, which was started by Microsoft, names Apache Software Foundation co-founder to Board.
Cambridge start-up quadruples productivity by hiring 20 interns in a go!
The latest update in smartphone marketshare gains, Google rising, Apple on-level, Palm declines.
OnLive, a live streaming gaming service, to go live in June.
Finally for a bit of comic relief, here’s a comic [...]
Review: BBC Click
This week’s BBC Click was, not surprisingly, focused on Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As the biggest mobile conference the world has to offer this is where handset manufacturers, network carriers and even software companies set our their stall both present and future.
Of course the Windows Phone made a big splash and, although the [...]
iPhone Sausage Styluses – You couldn’t make it up
Funnily enough my wife mentioned this to me over the weekend knowing it would tickle me, prior to that it had completely passed me by. The essence – when the weather turns cold, commuters in South Korea turn to sausages to control their iPhones, allowing them to keep their own digits wrapped up and toasty. [...]
Daily news roundup
Eurosport streams events live via iPhone apps – subscribe to British Eurosport. download the free player and bob-sleigh’s your uncle!
BBC launches new mobile apps – opening a can of worms for its production teams.
MySpace’s Hail Mary Strategy: “Discovery” – differentiating itself from FaceBook through it’s slogan ‘Discover and Be Discovered’. Catchy.
