Microsoft’s Bing Gains on Google, But Its Weaknesses Unveiled with MJ’s Death
Microsoft’s ‘Bing’ search engine has been continuously gaining market share against Google which is the worldwide industry leader. Despite of all the facts, the recent death of pop superstar Michael Jackson has made some Bing users realize that they have made a mistake of leaving Google.
Officially Bing was launched on June 3. Initially it had taken over the previous market share of the Microsoft ‘Live Search’. However, just after a month on the Web, we have seen a little increase in bing’s market share which raised from 7.81% of all US-based searches to 8.23%.
Top 10 KDE4 Applications
Here in this article I am sharing with you top 10 KDE4 applications that will be really useful for the developers who are in search of KDE4 applications.
Yakuake – Great Terminal Application
One of the very popular Quake-style terminal application is Yakuake. It remains in the background unless we invoke it with the (default) F12 global shortcut. It is able to inherit Konsole’s settings and probably it is the best alternative to Konsole. Yakuake is identical to Konsole, as it supports full transparency effects, various colour schemes and backgrounds, middle-click paste and tabs. I must say that it is definitely an essential tool.
Amarok 2 – The Most Popular Linux Audio Player
In the last few months Amarok’s port to KDE4 was probably one of the most controversial releases and it give rise to many discussions that whether Amarok 2 took the right way? My answer to this question is: yes.
Dell To Offer Location Features On Mini 10 Netbooks
Dell while indication that the GPS and location features that have gained popularity on smartphones and navigation devices are now migrating to netbooks, said that it has made plans to start offering a location service-enabled application for its Dell Mini 10 netbook family.
In a blog, it was said by Dell that it will offer its Dell Wireless 700 location solution that will begin from next week. A combination of technology is being used by the system, from Broadcom A-GPS and Skyhook Wireless’ Wi-Fi position applications.
The Future of Firefox: No Tabs, Built-In Ubiquity
For most power users Firefox has quickly become the favorite browser and that is just because of its extensibility. But to make Firefox more functional extensions are a great way. The designers of Mozilla are right now preparing for a complete redesign of the way the browser looks and feels, that is only being done in order to keep up with changing usage patterns. And so far the most radical proposal that we have seen would, to avoid the standard browser tabs, and replace them with an interface that looks more like iTunes than Firefox.
Look Daddy: No Tabs
The head of user experience at Mozilla, Oliver Reichenstein and Aza Raskin, have been thinking about the future of tabs in Firefox, and some of the resulting mockups are quite unusually interesting.
First Android Netbook
The first netbook computer running the Google inc. backed Android mobile operating system on a low cost ARM chip will be available to customers within two months that was said by the maker’s co-founder.
Nixon Wu, Skytone’s co-founder told that Guanzou Skytone Tranmission Technologies Co. designs The Alpha 680 and that is on final testing now.
The Skytone Transmission Technologies Co. is located in Guangzhou a city in southern China. The company is aiming to make final samples, which will be ready in this month of June that was said by Wu.
The Alpha 680 had raise excitement in the computer world when it was spotted online few weeks back. A month ago in electronics trade show in Hong Kong The Alpha 680’s prototypes were shown 1st time for public.
It was told by the company’s representative Mr. Nixon Wu that they got 300 inquiries from different countries.
The excitement is surrounding all over in the world of computers and technology; computer made by a Chinese manufacturer is in response to the potential of the technology underlying it.
