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June 28, 2007
Adobe opens Lightroom to outside developers
Link: Adobe opens Lightroom to outside developers
Filed under: Adobe News, Technology News
Closely following the release of Photoshop Lightroom 1.1, the latest version of its digital photograph management software, Adobe has new announced that it now plans to let outside developers add their own plug-ins.
At the moment Lightroom 1.1 can only be ...
Google launches Desktop for Linux
Link: Google launches Desktop for Linux
Filed under: Linux News, Google News, Internet News
Google has launched a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux.
Google Desktop was launched in 2004 for Windows machines and there is also an enterprise version, but it has never before been available to Linux users.
It is a desktop ...
June 27, 2007
UK businesses slow to reduce carbon footprint
Link: UK businesses slow to reduce carbon footprint
Filed under: Hardware News, Technology News, Business News
According to the Green Technology Initiative, UK businesses are not taking appropriate measures to reduce the carbon footprint of their IT activities and many are pursuing unsustainable IT strategies.
Information Technology accounts for approximately 2% of global carbon dioxide emissions, but in its recent ...
Microsoft boosts Windows Live service
Link: Microsoft boosts Windows Live service
Filed under: Microsoft News, Internet News
Microsoft is enhancing Windows Live with photo sharing and Web-based hosted storage.
The new services will initially only be available to pre-selected testers.
Windows Live Photo Gallery beta is an enhanced version of the Windows Photo Gallery that is built into ...
Google Adsense offers rounded corner ads
Link: Google Adsense offers rounded corner ads
Filed under: AdSense News, Web Development News, Google News, Webmaster News, Internet News
Google has announced that it's Google Adsense contextual advertising program now offers ads in a rounded corner box.
Previously, ads were served up as squares or rectangles with sharp angular corners. However, now ads can be selected to have rounded corners.
The aim is to ...
June 26, 2007
Google to add mail migration to Google Apps
Link: Google to add mail migration to Google Apps
Filed under: Software News, Web Development News, Google News, Business News
Google is rumoured to be ready to release mail migration to Google Apps this week - in order to help encourage companies to integrate more of their data over to Google's servers for storage.
Email clients which support an IMAP interface will be able ...
Jupiter Research predicts two-tiered net
Link: Jupiter Research predicts two-tiered net
Filed under: Telecoms News, Internet News
In a new report, Jupiter Research predicts that Internet Service Providers could start charging some websites for faster access to customers.
Although this would generate increased revenues for ISPs, Jupiter warns that it could also create a "two-tiered internet" which might alienate ...
Paypal to get new website design
Link: Paypal to get new website design
Filed under: Companies News, Paypal News, Web Development News, Ecommerce News, Internet News, Webmaster News, Business News
With Paypal having recently moved to Luxembourg, and with Google Checkout chasing on their heels, Paypal are now applying a new redesign to their website.
Interestingly enough, after their last redesign in September 2004, it seems Paypal are going retro, with their new design reclaiming the silvered login box ...
IBM and Sun develop pentaflop computers
Link: IBM and Sun develop pentaflop computers
Filed under: Hardware News, IBM News, Sun News, Technology News
IBM has developed a new Blue Gene supercomputer which will be able to process up to three quadrillion operations a second, or three petaflops.
In real life situations, the Blue Gene/P, will be able to operate continuously at more than one petaflop.
The Blue Gene/P ...
June 25, 2007
EU to assess search engine’s data retention policies
Link: EU to assess search engine’s data retention policies
Filed under: Legal News, Search Engine News, Internet News
The Article 29 Working Group, a panel of EU data protection official, are extending their investigation into search engines' data retention policies.
The Working Group, led by Supervisor Peter Hustinx, targeted Google in May 2007 and now plans to write to a ...
Google aims to be carbon-neutral by 2008
Link: Google aims to be carbon-neutral by 2008
Filed under: Google News, Internet News
Search engine Google has partnered with international environmental organisation The °Climate Group, in order to take forward its aim to become carbon neutral by 2008.
Google, with help from The °Climate Group, plans to reduce its energy consumption, increase its use of ...
June 22, 2007
Google extends Pay-Per-Action ad engine worldwide
Link: Google extends Pay-Per-Action ad engine worldwide
Filed under: AdSense News, Google News, Internet News
Google has opened its Pay-Per-Action ad beta, an optional extra to AdWords, to non-US advertisers.
Pay-Per-Action, which was launched in the US in March, doesn't charge an advertiser unless an ad generates an action on their website, such as a sale or ...
Dell reduces preinstalled software
Link: Dell reduces preinstalled software
Filed under: Dell News, Companies News, Technology News
Dell Inc. has responded to complaints on its IdeaStorm blog about the amount of software it pre-installs on new computers.
The company now plans to give customers more control over software during the purchase process.
Dell.com customers who buy an XPS system, Inspiron notebook ...
June 21, 2007
Microsoft to enable Vista for Google search
Link: Microsoft to enable Vista for Google search
Filed under: Google News, Microsoft News, Internet News
In a filing with the Justice Department, Microsoft has agreed to allow both computer manufacturers and individual users of its Vista operating system to select the default search application. At the moment it is locked into Vista's instant search function.
Microsoft will ...
June 20, 2007
Safari supports enhanced browser colours
Link: Safari supports enhanced browser colours
Filed under: Apple News, Browsers, Internet News
Apple could lead the way to making the web a more colourful place with its new Safari browser.
Safari, which is now available in beta on Windows, supports different ways of encoding images to those provided by browsers such as Microsoft's Internet ...
June 19, 2007
Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!
Link: Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!
Filed under: Yahoo! News, Google News, Search Engine News, Internet News
Searchboth.com, a new site from IdeaLabz and the Toll Free Yellow Pages, delivers search results from both Google and Yahoo! in split-screen format.
When a query is typed into the site's search box, the site displays results from Yahoo! on the left side ...
Demand spreads for Dell PCs with Linux
Link: Demand spreads for Dell PCs with Linux
Filed under: Dell News, Linux News, Technology News
Over 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US.
Dell PCs pre-loaded with the Ubuntu Linux distribution have been available in the US since May, as a result of pressure from visitors to Dell's IdeaStorm ...
June 18, 2007
YouTube launches Adobe tool for online editing
Link: YouTube launches Adobe tool for online editing
Filed under: Software News, Apple News, Internet News
YouTube, the popular video sharing website, has launched a Web-based editing tool with Adobe branding.
The tool, known as 'remixer', allows users to create more professional-looking videos by splicing together video clips, photos, music, graphics and other media.
Similar tools are already ...
Tradedoubler affiliate sales hit by tracking errors
Link: Tradedoubler affiliate sales hit by tracking errors
Filed under: Webmaster News, Internet News, Business News
A number of popular affiliate programs in the insurance market have been hit by sitewide tracking errors, preventing affiliates from being credited with sales they generated.
The affiliate programs involved include those for major insurance companies, such as Directline, Prudential, Privilege, and Churchill, ...
June 15, 2007
EC promotes technology for the elderly
Link: EC promotes technology for the elderly
Filed under: Technology News, General News
The European Commission has announced plans for a €1bn European research programme - the European Action Plan.
The programme aims to develop technology to improve the lives of older people and create more personalised health and social services.
The money will be invested between 2007 ...
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