Mozilla wants to make Firefox a speedster

Mozilla, with its planned Firefox 4 browser, intends to make the browser "Super-Duper fast" and enable use of standard web technologies, including HTML 5.0 and beyond.A third primary goal of firefox 4 is empowering users to be in full control of their browser.

Apple promises fix for iPad Wi-Fi problems

Apple will issue a fix to answer complaints from iPad owners of weak wireless signals, dropped connections, and slow surfing speeds, the company said in a recently published support document.

Fujitsu launching all-in-one Computer


Fujitsu will soon launch an all-in-one computer that can capture and display video images with the illusion of 3D. The PC was on show on tuesday at the company's Fujitsu Forum event in Tokyo, but few technical details of the machine were available. The ompany demonstrated the 3D capabilities of the computer, most of which was covered by a case to prevent too much being seen before its official launch.

Handset sales down, smartphones rise, says Gartner

Worldwide Mobile phone sales totalled 269.1 million units in the first quarter of 2009, a 9.4 percent decrease from the first quarter f 2008, according to gartner, Inc. Smartphone salessurpassed 36.4 million units, a 12.7 percent increase from the same period of time. There were some signs of a recovery in markets such as North America and China, but overall sales in the first quarter of 2009 registers the biggest quarter-on-quarter contraction since Gartner began monitoring the market in quarterly basis.

Scribd social publishing site dumps Flash in favor of HTML5

HTML is an upgrade to HTML specification featuring multimedia capabilities.It has been gaining rapid momentum lately, with support from companies such as Apple, Google and Microsoft. Scribd will get rid of Flash entirely and convert all documents to native HTML 5 Web pages, allowing any document to become a web page.

Clearwire and Intel have revised a technology deal

Clearwire and Intel have revised a technology deal that forbade the WiMax service provider from using any other technology, and Clearwire is already talking with equipment vendors about how it might adopt LTE (Long-Term-Evolution) for its Network.

Microsoft gets some heat over HTML 5 plans

Microsoft said at its MIX developer conference in March that Internet Explorer won't be offered for XP. The reason is that IE 9 is a "Modern browser", and getting the benefits of the hardware acceleration and other performance gains that it will offer requires a "modren OS".
Issue is the adoption of HTML 5, an upcoming repair of the Web's markup language that will add significant new capabilities, including standard ways to implement video, animation, audio and offline storage that are not included in the current HTML standard.
But If IE 9, which will be Microsoft's first browser to fully support HTML 5, isn't available for XP, then those users will be outside of that HTML 5 compatibility sphere.

Hackers develop multi-platform rootkit for ATMs

One year after the black Hat talk Automated Teller Machine security vulnerabilities was snatched by his employer, Security researcher Barnaby Jack plans to deliver the talk and disclose a new ATM rootkit at the computer security conference.
He plans to give the idea, titled "Jackpotting Automated Teller Machine",at the Black Hat Las Vegas Conference, held in July 28 and 29.
Jack will express several ways of attacking ATM Machines, including remote and network based attacks. He will also tell a "multi-platform ATM rootkit", and will describe about how Atm industry can protect itself from such attacks. Although ATM does not have enough security, So, Jack's talk will break new ground.

VMware and salesforce building java platform

VMware and Salesforce are developing a cloud computing service called "VMforce designed for hosting Java applications", executives from the two companies.VMware applications will utilize the salesforce global security infrastructure, all of the standard java technologies, such as plain old java objects, java server pages and java servlets.. all supported by Spring

Dutch researchers "family friend' Robot


A new Dutch research project coordinated by Eindhoven University has been launched and developed to integrate a socially assistive robot with smart houses to aid COPD patients at home. COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease) is a general term which include the conditions chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

it app info

IT stands information technology. It is the world of computers.. and using information technology world become a global village because people around the world can communicate with each other using Computer Networks.
Actually Information technology is different from Computer science. It is used in computing and networking.Basically it is a branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunication to retrieve and transmit information.
Globalization, communication, cost effectiveness are some main advantages of Information Technology. Globalization is as discussed earlier that world became a global village. people can communicate in any where in the world as they are near to each other.
Communication is a term that defines communication through computers.people can send files and information to each other. We can send files and information at very low cost.So it is very cost effective.

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