Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Monday, March 31st, 2008

hi5 has officially announced the launch of their Developer Platform which will allow developers to build and deploy their applications on hi5. Like most of other developer platforms, hi5′s developer platform provides a REST API along with the OpenSocial API (Application Programming Interface) which will facilitate rapid development and deployment of applications. With the API, [...]
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Asides
Monday, March 31st, 2008

Following political news and views around the blogosphere is a time consuming affair. The Hill newspaper has seen this opportunity, at the right time, and has launched the The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room. The Briefing Room is basically an aggregation of all major political blogs which provides summaries and links to political news and debates [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Monday, March 31st, 2008

Microsoft has announced the release of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile version 1.1 which is a collection of mobile application development tools, the server and framework components for Microsoft Dynamics products. The current version of Microsoft Dynamics Mobile supports the Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.01 SP1 and 4.0 SP2 and Microsoft Dynamics NAV 4.0-SP3 and 5.0-SP1. The Microsoft [...]
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Business
Monday, March 31st, 2008

Google has partnered with Indian telecom major, Airtel, for providing Google Apps to its customers via the company’s new portal Airtellive.com. The Airtellive.com site itself is built of and hosted on iGoogle platform. All the Airtel customers will receive free access to Google’s communication and collaboration tools like GMail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and an [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Adobe, in a move to advance Rich Internet Applications (RIA) to Linux, released an alpha version of Adobe AIR for Linux operating systems. This will allow Linux developers to build cross-platform, cross-browser Rich Internet Applications without writing a separate code. Adobe also released an update to the Flex Builder 3 for Linux which is a [...]
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Asides
Monday, March 31st, 2008

In the last week, everyone was talking about Google’s brain drain and that startups by ex-Google employees will be the one to give competition to Google. The picture below shows all the big names leaving Google to join companies like Facebook, Meetup, Kiva, Polyvore etc and the others who turned founders of startups like Twitter, [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Microsoft had recently announced the availability of Windows Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1). As normal with any new software, normal people encounter installation and software compatibility issues. To tackle this, Microsoft is providing unlimited free support through chat, email and phone for Vista SP1 installation and compatibility issues until March 18, 2009, reports Keith Combs. [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Few days back we covered the release of WordPress 2.5 preview version which has some great features and a lively user interface. Today, WordPress has announced the public release of WordPress 2.5. You can view a screencast of WordPress 2.5 RC2 or download the WordPress 2.5 stable release. Please read the upgrade instructions before you [...]
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Entrepreneurship
Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Do you want to be your own boss? Have you ever dreamt of being an entrepreneur and starting your own business? If yes, then B.E.T.A. Daily will try to help you in fulfilling that dream. Starting April 1, B.E.T.A. Daily will provide articles on building your own business. So, whether you are interested in [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Saturday, March 29th, 2008

Google has announced that Objective-C, language used for developing Mac OS X applications, can also be used for iPhone application development. This is going to be really helpful for developers who are planning to integrate Google services in their iPhone applications. The source files in the latest version 1.4 of the Objective-C Client library can [...]