Scratch is a tool aimed at kids to make animations, games and interactive artworks, scratch is developed by MIT media lab.
With scratch anyone can create animations or games with out knowing any programing language. One can import pictures from the computer and start animating it, the program provides buttons that have programmed to do activities [...]

Ireland based Babelgum is a P2P internet TV like Joost. Babelgum also works on the same principle as Joost that is peer to peer sharing, currently in private beta this will launch on may 31st. With babelgum users can create channels and share those with friends.
To create a global, personal, open, free, TV-like new media: [...]

Reliance ADA’s Entertainment divisions Indian social networking venture Bigadda.com is launched as alpha. For quite some time they have placed a logo poll to generate curiosity about the product and they advertised on Google Adwords. Currently memberships are based on invitations, i myself don’t have any invitation to check out the features, so these are [...]

The first OLPC (one laptop per child) Projects XO-1 Laptops were distributed in a school in Villa Cardal, Uruguay. XO-1 laptops are previously known as $100 laptop.
OLPC is a U.S. based, non-profit organization created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute the laptops. Unlike the normal computers these laptops [...]

Folks at Microsoft Research Bangalore, India are developing a software that can split a computer screen in two halves, each half can act as an individual computer with its own operating system, desktop, cursor and keyboard.
This will help small businesses in developing countries like India who have limited resources to deploy several systems.

“At the [...]

Google is preparing to identify sites spreading malicious software which can harm the users PCs. If you remember recent hack a mac day contest winner hacked the mac by exploiting a bug in the quick time through a malicious site. These malicious sites look normal and users doesn’t know how they will spoil the system [...]

The popular open source Linux provider Ubuntu is partnering with Intel to bring Ubuntu to Mobile devices. Few days back it was announced that Dell will offer Ubuntu powerd Linux PCs. The Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded Project will release the first version in October 2007.
Matt Zimmerman’s announcement on Ubuntu lists

Three years on, it is [...]

Tumri is offering publishers to create interactive gadget ads which they call AdPod. Publishers can create ads based on site or blog niche, or select from pre-defined stores. When you paste these ads on your web pages Tumri will rotate the categories you select. Your site users can interact with the AdPod by selecting categories [...]