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The latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution Ubuntu 9.10 has been released and available from the official project web site. New features since Ubuntu 9.04 includes – Firefox 3.5, GNOME 2.28, an enforcing AppArmor profile, Linux kernel 2.6.31, ext4 file system (default), Empathy instant messenger instead of Pidgin, the Ubuntu One client, which [...]

Sizzling news for Apple products’ fans!! The Apple iPod Nano’s 5th generation series is now available. Here’s a sneak peek into its exciting features.
Decked in nine colours with two of them exclusive only to the Apple Online store, you’ll get either 8GB or 16GB of storage on the iPod nano now which was hitherto available [...]

LG Recently launched its Latest LG GD900 mobile for the indian markets, the main feature of the mobile is that its transparent. Sounds amazing huh??
It has the same  user interface as LG Viewty or LG Viewty 2 but the transparent sliding touchpad sets it apart. LG GD  900 is not just all about ‘coolness’ and style [...]

“The Knowledge Grid is an intelligent and sustainable interconnection environment that enables people and machines to effectively capture, publish, share and manage knowledge resources. It also provides appropriate on-demand services to support scientific research, technological innovation, cooperative teamwork, problem solving, and decision making.”
The above definition of Knowledge Grid is given by Professor Hai Zhuge, China’s [...]

As the focus of USB devices slowly starts turning towards USB 3.0 it hasn’t stopped some companies continuing to push on with new, smaller, rugged USB 2.0 storage solutions. Active Media Products is one of those companies and has just announced what it believes to be the smallest 16GB USB flash drive available.
The Wink USB Drive [...]

Google has open-sourced an experimental programming language that attempts to crossbreed a dynamic web-happy language like Python with a compiled language like C++. There has been a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those of Java and C++, pushing people towards dynamically typed languages such as Python and JavaScript, [but] some fundamental concepts such [...]

Almost all of us have watched and appreciated 720p HD videos on YouTube, and we thought it couldn’t get better. Well, here’s some good news. YouTube just announced support for 1080p Full HD videos.
Starting next week, YouTube will feature an added 1080p viewing mode for videos uploaded in the said resolution. Moreover, if you have previously uploaded 1080p videos [...]

Adobe Labs on Monday released test versions of two closely related foundations for Net-based applications, Flash Player 10.1 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 2.
Notable Flash Player 10.1 supports not just Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux computers, but also a variety of smartphones, though that support isn’t yet built in. What is available is hardware-based [...]

Print on demand (POD), sometimes called publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book (or other document) are not printed until an order has been received. “Print on Demand” developed only after digital printing began, because it was not economical to print single copies using traditional [...]

The iPhone has many applications that let you view Web cams from around the world, but what about turning your phone into a remote camera of its own? A new app called IP Camera does just that. This $1.99 tool takes a photo from your iPhone’s camera every 12 to 15 seconds, then posts it [...]