Archive for October, 2009

Take A Look At Google Maps Navigation In Its Beta Mode

Google Maps Navigation is in beta mode, but I’m so exciting about it, already!  It has all the features that I want, and some of the features that even today navigation systems do not have.  Let see what this baby has!
The usual navigation systems require you to enter an exact address of a place you [...]

Google, Mobile

ICANN Rolls Out Video On Non-Latin Web Addresses

ICANN has just rolled out a video about its going forward in making non-Latin web addresses possible in 2010.  People around the world who are using keyboard that has non-Latin words, speak non-Latin languages, and so on can be better connected online through non-Latin web addresses.  Local businesses can display non-Latin web addresses so their [...]

Internet

Say Hello To Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Ubuntu 9.10, the final version and is known as Karmic Koala, is now ready for you to download people!  Ubuntu 9.10 has nicer icons for everything.  What’s interesting is that ext4 file system will be the default file system for Ubuntu 9.10, but if you upgrade Ubuntu 9.04 to the latest version, your file system [...]

Linux, Open Source

Obama’s Administration Is Using Drupal

An open source content management system Drupal has just got a big boost since the White House announces that the website for White House is now using Drupal.  Everyone knows that Drupal is hugely popular as it has a large pool of developers, and the community that is building around this open source content management [...]

Open Source, Publishing Tech

Intel’s New Memory Prototype Using Phase-Change Memory

Flash memory is dominating the non-volatile computer storage market for now, but phase-change memory may change all that when it be ready for the market.  Intel and Numonyx are the two companies that focus on flash memory announce that they are creating a new prototype of phase-change memory.  Maybe in the future, flash memory will [...]

Hardware

TwitterPeek

Twitter is so popular now that there is a device on sale that allows a device user to check for tweets.  The device is called TwitterPeek made by Peek.  Peek is a company that is making single purpose devices such as email checking device.  TwitterPeek can be bought on Amazon.  Amazon lists TwitterPeek with 6 [...]

Internet, Mobile

Motorola Droid Is Out On November 6th

Have you wait long enough for Motorola Droid?  Wait no more!  Droid will be available for buyers on November 6th for $200, and you can buy it at Verizon’s website.  Even though the price is kinda expensive, but if you look at the specification of the hardware and the software (Android 2.0) and the applications [...]

Mobile

Google Voice Works With Existing Phone Numbers

Google Voice from Google allows you to bind the free voice mail service to your existing mobile phone number, or you can get a new phone number from Google.  Google Voice has many cool features!  To name a few — listen to your voice messages on computer and on your mobile phone, voice messages are [...]

Google

ICANN May Allow Non-Latin Web Addresses Next Year

Apparently, in mid 2010, ICANN (Internet Corporation that has the authority to assign the domain names and numbers) perhaps roll out an entirely new Internet system that allows domain names to be in languages other than the languages that are using Latin alphabet.  Apparently there is more than half of the worldwide Internet users are [...]

Internet

Geocities Is No More!

Yahoo terminates Geocities to favor its pay web hosting service.  Geocities was one of those first free web hosting services, and for some people, Geocities was their first taste of HTML.  As the trend goes, will one day free blog hosting service will be outdated in favor for paid blog hosting service?  Geocities was one [...]

Internet