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Adobe Released Flash Player 11 and AIR 3

Adobe has released Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 today, users can download the latest updates now. The biggest feature of the release is new architecture for hardware accelerated graphics renedering (Stage 3D) which improves the rendering by 1000x times compared to the Flash Player 10 according to ... Read More →

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed

Facebook has just announced that it acquired FriendFeed, the real-time content sharing service. Facebook is moving towards a real-time news stream and adopting some of the FriendFeed’s features like comments and “likes” on stream. FriendFeed is liked by the geek crowd but not so much by the ... Read More →

Oxite: Open Source Content Management System from Microsoft

Microsoft today released an early version of a Content Management System called Oxite aimed at developers who want to build blogs or CMS with ASP.NET MVC. Oxite supports essential features for blogs like pingbacks, trackbacks, anonymous or authenticated commenting (with optional moderation), ... Read More →

Finding Paths through the World’s Photos

Microsoft Research and University of Washington team came up with an impressive PhotoTour technology. They took hundreds of public photos from Flickr and created 3D photo view using image based rendering. See the complete video, its impressive. See the Academic Paper here Source, Via /. ... Read More →

Read Magazines for Free with Mygazines

Mygazines is a free community site for reading, sharing and archiving magazines. The service is free for reading magazines, but if you want to upload magazines you need to register for an account. Users can upload magazine articles to the site and customize the articles they uploaded in a ... Read More →

Watch 380 TV channels on the internet with Livestation

Livestation is a Microsoft backed startup that provides streaming TV channels for free on the internet. Initially they stared their private beta focusing on news channels, at the time of the launch the listed channels are BBC World, BBC World Service, Al Jazeera (English), Bloomberg, Euro News ... Read More →

GoDaddy totally screwed up .ME domain registrations

Today .Me domain registrations are opened for general public at 11am ET and GoDaddy is one of the registrar. GoDaddy totally screwed up the domain registrations, i myself got the confirmation for 2 domains and after 1 hour received a mail saying the domains were not registered. Dear Ram ... Read More →

Quickies: Intelligent Post-it Notes

MIT researchers have invented a Post-it note taking technology called Quickies, where what ever you write on a Post-it note will get transfered to the computer and the system sends alerts to the user based on the information via various means. ... Read More →

Scribd Offers Free Document Scanning and Upload to Web

Document sharing service Scribd that launched a new web document format iPaper in February is now offering free document scanning for users. What it means for you, you send your documents which you want to put online to Scribd by mail, they will scan it and make them available via web. That means ... Read More →