Microsoft Bakes Xbox music

Microsoft plans to use the full force of its dominant Windows operating system to challenge iTunes and Spotify...

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Learn & Teach Codes - Open for all

They need support for this website by all as a teacher or learner.Show the Code.org film in your schoolThe film has been tested in many classrooms. It received rave reviews from students and has measurable impact.For your convenience, we've made different versions. Please choose one, and play it for as many students as possible!Start Learning NowAny student of any age now can learn codes. So be prepair for became a coder now, try, earn and apply...

HP Revives Its Tablet Strategy With a New Slate

PC makers keep churning out tablet devices in the hopes of imitating Apple and Amazon's success, with HP being the latest thanks to Monday's announcement of the new Slate 7. HP, however, has a checkered past with tablet devices. What's different this time? An audio feature targeting music lovers, and a low price point that may be music to the ears of cost-conscious consumers. The device will be available in April for US$169. The company's...

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Now Tweet In limitation to 117 Characters

If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter. If you’re tweeting out a URL, your tweets just got a bit shorter. Starting Wednesday, any tweet sent with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links. First announced in December, the reduction is due to a change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper. It extends the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22 characters for non-https URLs and from 21...

Friday, February 22, 2013

Apple Attacked By Facebook (FB) Hacker

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL : 446.52, -2.02) has been reportedly been attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computer of certain employees with malicious software, similar to the one that hit Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB : 27.34, -1.18) last week. The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers by exploiting a flaw in a version of Oracle Corp.'s (NASDAQ: ORCL : 34.26, -0.76) Java software used as a plug-in on Web browsers, the company...

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

You’ve seen them everywhere, even on some state license plates.  But what does all those http’s and .com’s mean.  Here’s the website that I referenced for the following information:  http://www.googleguide.com/web_address.html Here is simplified explanation of what makes up a web address: We take sample URL 1st :  http://www.crsd.org/buildings/nj/index.html http:// stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and that basically...

Know Anatomy of a Web Address:

You’ve seen them everywhere, even on some state license plates.  But what does all those http’s and .com’s mean.  Here’s the website that I referenced for the following information:  http://www.googleguide.com/web_address.html   Here is simplified explanation of what makes up a web address: We take sample URL 1st :  http://www.crsd.org/buildings/nj/index.html http:// stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol and that...

The iOS keyboard is overdue for an upgrade

Apple broke ground with the iPhone's virtual keyboard in 2007, but it appears to be stuck in time. It turns out iOS has lots of keyboard options but Apple and third-party developers have been slow to implement them.When the iPhone was announced in 2007, people loathed the on-screen keyboard. Blackberry users panned it and even I hated it at first. Then a week went by and I loved it. Many people can type faster on a virtual keyboard then they can...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Facebook facing problems with its "like" button and other features

Today in international tech news: Facebook is sued by a company that says it owns the patents for Likes; broadband fans in the UK fret about what EU budget cuts will mean for rural Internet access; VLC might someday be able to stream BitTorrents; and a British tech company is under investigation for its financial reporting before it was acquired by HP.Rembrandt Social Media is suing Facebook for its use of the Like button, according to the BBC.Rembrandt...

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Google wins High Court appeal over sponsored links

The High Court of Australia has dismissed a misleading and deceptive conducts case brought against search engine giant Google, ruling that Google does not create sponsored links.The case centred around sponsored links in Google search results through its AdWords program by online trading company Trading Post and STA Travel between 2005 and 2008. In April last year, the full bench of the Federal Court ruled, on appeal from the Australian Competition...