Land Mafia In Virtual World?

AN Athar — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:58:41 +0000

Virtual Island

What is the most you’re willing to pay for a virtual item in a videogame or virtual world? Five, ten dollars? How about $26,500?

That’s the amount David Storey, a 27-year-old graduate student living in Sydney, Australia, paid for a virtual island, the “Most valuable object that is virtual,” according to Guinness World Records.

It’s [...]

Microsoft Taking Clouds Seriously

AN Athar — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:39:33 +0000

Microsoft

Microsoft Corp’s business-software unit expects to get at least $1 billion from web versions of its Office and e-mail programmes in the next three to five years, said Stephen Elop, head of the division.

Over that period, Microsoft predicts about half its customers for e-mail and collaboration software will switch to so-called cloud versions of [...]

Gmail Security Under Threat

AN Athar — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:30:57 +0000

Google has rushed to step up the security of Gmail, its web-based e-mail system, following the admission that hackers based in China had been partially successful in cutting through its security defences.

It also sought to reassure corporate users of its online applications that its ‘cloud computing’ services — applications like word processing that it runs [...]

Skype Breaking VoIP

AN Athar — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:56:20 +0000

skype going peer to [...]

China Makes Google Think!

AN Athar — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:46:30 +0000

Google China

London : The cyber-attacks that Google said had led it to rethink its position in China mark the first known case in which Google has seen its defences penetrated so comprehensively, forcing the world’s biggest internet company on to the back foot in an attempt to limit the damage.

Google confirmed on Wednesday its [...]

Is SLR Disappearing?

AN Athar — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:00:31 +0000

Sony DSLR

With the end of the pixel arms race and film-loaded devices, companies tempt users with better technology for their digital SLRs

Tokyo : It was one of the gadgets of the decade. From sales of a few million basic models in 1999, the digital camera market exploded to a peak of around 130 million [...]

Intel & Google going from Desktops to Dashboards

AN Athar — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:03:47 +0000

AUDI

Technology giants Google and Intel are turning their attention to cars and hoping to bring the power of the pc to the dashboard. Here the system is installed in an Audi; Audi says it tested its system to reduce the amount of time that drivers spend looking at screens.

These systems can be used for [...]

Review: Google Launches Nexus One

AN Athar — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:50:32 +0000

Nexus One

This new year saw the launch of Google’s highly anticipated Nexus One “superphone”. During the demonstration, Google showcased a variety of the phone’s features, including a very impressive new photo app, voice input, widgets and more. Check out the videos in our featured videos section.

The device, a Snapdragon-powered, HTC-built phone looks — on [...]

SaaS Thinking & Acting Differently

yahya shoaib — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:19:59 +0000

SaaS

Software as a Service is playing an imperative role in the modern enterprise and ‘Small Mid-Sized Enterprise’ is progressing in to an extremely important aspect of ERP with respect to a current enterprise market.

The SaaS applications are a formation of technology, business interaction and fulfilling customer needs while running numerous scenarios within an application [...]

Nokia VS Apple: fight gets bigger!

AN Athar — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:13:18 +0000

Nokia fights Apple

New York: Nokia is broadening its legal fight with Apple, saying almost all of the company’s products violate its patents, not just the iPhone.

Nokia Corp. said on Tuesday that it has filed a complaint against Apple Inc. with the US International Trade Commission. The Finnish phone maker says Apple’s iPhone, iPods and [...]