Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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It certainly took them long enough, but Olympus has finally (finally!) introduced a Micro Four Thirds camera with a price tag that's a little closer to earth. If you'll recall, both of the previous PENs cost upwards of $750, but the E-PL1 touts a much more reasonable MSRP of $599.99. And that doesn't mean Olympus has been stingy on features. Nope,
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In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway 's gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year -- nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let's go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 ...
February 2, 2010 - NokiaPressServices, Tags: location-based, mobile game, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia N97 mini, Ovi Maps With Ovi Maps Racing, the first location-based mobile game by Nokia, players can navigate and access their location, create a track and race around the block.
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This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...
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Earlier this month I was invited to conduct an on stage interview with Jason Kilar, chief executive officer of Huluthe DLD conference in Munich. It gave me a chance to visit the city, walk around in bitter cold and look around what is arguably one of the cleanest and quietest cities in the world.
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The Sony Ericsson Aspen is the latest in the GreenHeart line, which promotes recycled materials, energy-efficient chargers and waterborne paints. It pairs the Microsofts Windows Mobile 6.5.3 OS with enterprise e-mail support, Wi-Fi and a qwerty keypad.
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GigaOM
Adchemy has figured out a way to tweak web ads to make them dramatically more effective. The company performs a crazy real-time technical dance to optimize the ads and landing pages shown to searchers. We visited its new office this week to learn more.
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I have a couple of new polls up at slipstick.com. With the first, I’m interested in knowing how many email accounts you have in your main Outlook profile. Early responses include people with more than 15 accounts. Wow. If I have that many, I wouldn’t get anything done but check mail. How many email accounts are in your main Outlook profile? ...
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When it comes to Apple’s iPad , the question for many is not if they will buy the device, but when. However, as detailed in our new report at GigaOM Pro (sub. req’d), which presents the results of a survey of technology enthusiasts we ran in [...]
If you’re creating a local database but have an amount of data that might be a little too big for XML serialization, take a look at db4o if you aren’t already familiar with it. Here’s a little intro and demo of this open source object-oriented database, which makes it unnecessary for Java and .NET developers [...]
If you’re a Mac user and looking for better Actionscript Editors, here’s one developer’s opinion as to why IntelliJIDEA 9 is the way to go rather than Actionscript programming environments like TextMate or Flex/Flash Builder.
I need to define a custom namespace in AS3 a couple times a year at most, and nearly every time, I forget how to do it. The docs tell you to use the "namespace" keyword (which I remember), but not where or how to use it (which is what I forget), and google isn't much help. I always wind up opening mx_internal.as in the Flex SDK as a reference.
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So Bill Gates has a new blog, called The Gates Notes. Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand.com has some free SEO advice for Bill. This is pretty hard to believe. (At the moment, every page on his site has the same title tag…seriously) It does read as superb intro advice for a beginner though.
User controls are easier to create than custom controls, because you can reuse existing controls. Web User control or the .ascx file in asp .net is a replacement for the include file feature in ASP. Web user controls are derived from System.Web.UI.UserControl namespace. They can be added to the aspx page either at design time or programmatically ...
This is intended to be a short article to introduce a working example of five different ways to make AJAX calls using jQuery. I have been developing applications running on web browsers for many years, and I realize that AJAX and jQuery are getting close to the ultimate dreams of any programmer who has been working on this subject for some time. ...
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5 Ways to Make Ajax Calls with jQuery
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There are at least five ways to make AJAX calls with the jQuery library. For beginners, however, the differences between each can be a bit confusing. In this tutorial, we'll line them up and make a comparison. Additionally. we'll review how to inspect these AJAX calls with Firebug as well.
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A car park in Birmingham switches from English to German in times of stress . That reminded me that over a decade ago, a colleague of mine noticed an error message on the screen at the exit to the parking garage at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The way the airport works, you pick up a ticket as you enter, and you pay your parking fee ...
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