Posts Tagged ‘Software’

This is the perfect software for people who love reading. I’m sure that many of you must have faced problems such as not being able to find the eBook versions of books which we can’t seem to find in printed versions or which are simply too expensive to buy. In situations as these, we wish that [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

The core of any customer service portal is a knowledge base. A knowledge base theoretically empowers customers to find answers on their own, thereby allowing faster results for them and increased efficiency for your help desk. This layout makes perfect sense to your support staff and in-house personnel who know the content well, but what [...]

Stanford scientists may revolutionize digital photography with the aid of an open-source digital camera, which will give programmers around the world the chance to create software that will teach cameras new tricks.  
Marc Levoy, professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering, says if the technology catches on, camera performance will be no longer be limited [...]

Software outsourcer Tech Mahindra will provide telecom operator Etisalat DB with IT solutions and infrastructure requirements for its proposed services rollout in 15 telecom circles, it was announced here Monday.  
The contract, valued at Rs.2,000 crore or $400 million, is valid for 10 years, Etisalat DB, earlier known as Swan Telecom, said in a statement. “Tech [...]

Another landmark in the book technology area. Leading scanner manufacturer Zeutschel introduces an innovative system which optimally corrects the spine fold during the scanning of books.
“Perfect Book” employs a line scan camera as well as a matrix camera. The image obtained from both image sources is converted into a 3D equivalent. With this, the “Perfect [...]

Love reading books from different genres? How do you organize them? If you hadn’t pondered over this yet, heres some food for your thought. Wouln’t it be nice if all the books you read were organized as per category they belonged to – fiction, autobiography, romantic, comedy etc., or perhaps by author? If you are [...]

Google announced some time back that it would begin offering a mobile version of Google Book Search. 1.5 million of the public domain books Google has already scanned for PC users are now available free to those with Apple iPhones and T-Mobile G1s using the Andriod Operating system.
Amazon is also considering plans to roll out [...]