Kojax is a mobile development platform, that will allow Microsoft- and third-party-developed — applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a combination of Visual Studio tools and JavaScript, on Java-based mobile phones.
Lunascape includes Trident (Internet Explorer), Gecko (Firefox) and WebKit (Safari & Chrome) rendering engines allowing the user to switch on-the-fly between them.
Read MoreSun has released version 5.1 of the open-source MySQL database software, but the software's founder simultaneously warned of a number of bugs present in the new features that are still to be fixed.
Read MoreFrom the other side of the world comes a report that Windows Vista Service Pack 2 will be released to manufacturing in April 2009, roughly a year after SP1. The Malaysian website TechARP has a pretty good track record with this sort of prediction, and my sources tell me that schedule sounds about right.
If Vista SP2 does make its official appearance in April, it will mark a return to normal development and release cycles for Microsoft, which lost its way badly with Windows XP.
The best way to find out which browser suits you the most is simply to run only one test for a browser: whether it runs fast enough. A slow-loading, incompatible browser is one thing, but the real issue is whether a browser loads fast for the sites you frequently visit.
Read MoreGoogle launched SearchWiki, a way to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong.
Read MoreLast week at Large Installation System Administration Conference(Lisa'08) Apple's director of Engineering of Unix Technologies Jordan Hubbard announced the date for Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 - 1st Quarter 2009.
This week YouTube has started testing HD quality videos on a smattering of its content. The new format could be a big move for YouTube, as the video size is over 80mb, which means that they are probably the same H.264 encoded mp4 files available in the iTunes store.
In July Google launched Lively in Google Labs because they wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because they believe it's the best way to create groundbraking products that make a difference to people's lives. But they've also always accepted that when you take these kinds ot risks not every bet is going to pay off.
Since the release of Beta 2,the data from real people about the product has been absorbed. The IE team has combed through instrumentation of over 20 million IE sessions and hundreds of hours of usability lab sessions. Together with IE MVPs, they have scrutinized thousands of threads from user forums and examined the issues that people are raising.