Aug 21 2008

Silverlight – Is This Going To Be Web 3.0?

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Software Features

It’s not that often when a technology comes along that leaves me amazed. You know, the sort of thing when you look at it you think “wow, this is good. Not just good, but perhaps is going to make a difference to websites in a very real way in the near future”. I got this impression when I sat in on a Silverlight demonstration today. Whilst Microsoft sometimes does things in an odd way, this is clearly a technology that they’ve taken time and effort to think out. Here’s what they have to say: Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering ...

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May 05 2008

Microsoft Doesn’t Want Yahoo

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Software Features

The software giant Microsoft has finally dropped the three month bid it held to buy the search giant and internet company Yahoo - in what has essentially comes down to the cost of the sale. The current chief executive of Microsoft (a certain Mr Steve Ballmer) rejected the offer with a formal letter to Yahoo CE Jerry Yang. Apparently, Microsoft had raised the original share price offer from $44.6 billion US to $47.5 billion, about $33 per share and certainly enough to give the company the controlling stake required. However, this was not enough for Yahoo who were looking for more - perhaps it was a case of Microsoft trying to play given that the US is almost in ...

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Mar 27 2008

Yahoo Going 3.0?

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Software Features

Yahoo has recently announced that it is adopting some of the key standards of 'semantic web' search functionality. This technology is seen as the next step for the world wide web as it involved a much greater understanding of the data placed online by the search engines and thus providing end-users more of what they want - relevant content. Yahoo has stated that it will start now to include some semantic web identifiers when indexing the web for their search engine users. This could well mean that there's a big boost (and an uptake) for the technology that has previously been slow on the uptake. Of course, if Yahoo were to suddenly ...

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Mar 08 2008

BBC iPlayer Available On iPhone!

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Software Features

If you live in the UK and you have an iPhone, you're about to have a nice little treat added to the usual software functionality of your (probably) latest little gadget. The BBC is launching a version of their iPlayer software on the handheld as well as the iPod touch. Both the iPhone and the iPod touch are able to stream shows from the normal iPlayer website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/) over wi-fi (or from a computer sending the signal). At the moment, the iPhone can't stream BBC video over the cell network however. Apparently, the reasoning behind choosing the iPhone was that it is a device that most readily supports high quality video programming - ...

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Feb 13 2008

Downloaders Face ISP Ban

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Software Features

A new proposal put forward by the government here in the UK could see people who log on then illegally download music and film may have their internet access cut. This would mean that ISP's (Internet Service Providers) would be required to monitor actions by users and of course take action when a P2P style software operation is detected. Currently, around six million of the UK population are estimated to be downloading software illegally, via a number of different means (which I won't name here for obvious reasons). One of the reasons put forward by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport is that it is aimed to reduce piracy to bolster the UK's creative industries. Various Internet service providers ...

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Jan 09 2008

Australia Censors The Net

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Software Features, Tech Companies, The Web, Wireless

From January the 20th new laws will come into effect after the South Australian government voted to put new censorship laws on the net. This will mainly affect entertainment companies who sell content but may affect content already on the world wide web. Essentially, content providers will have to check the age of a user where necessary, i.e. whether a person is above 15 or 18, depending on the material being viewed. The Australian Communications and Media Authority will be able to force providers to remove content as well as links being deleted. The restrictions apply to chatrooms, websites and mobile phone content. It has been stated that there will be an ‘opt out’ option for the restrictions, ...

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Jan 05 2008

AOL News

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as News, PC, Software Features, The Web

AOL has a massively long history on the Internet, being one of the firs tcompanies to really get people online (even if you don’t like the service they provide). Back in 1999 there was an acquisition of Netscape Communications Corporation, i.e. Netscape Navigator – one of the leaders in web browsing. AOL played a massive role in assisting the launch of Netscape 6 – which happened to be Mozilla based (the company behind the Firefox browser) but still Netscape branded. AOL was a major source of support for the Mozilla Foundation and the company continued to develop versions of the Netscape browser based on the work of said Foundation. Whilst Netscape Navigator was used reasonably widely prior ...

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Jan 01 2008

A Bright Future for Apple.. And Jonathan Ive

Posted by DummyGeekGurl as Apple, Editorial, Software Features

I was just lurking around on PhilMug.ph today and I saw a thread on the speculations of who will succeed Steve Jobs. I came across the name Jonathan Ive one time here on Gadzooki, I think, or was that on ZDNet, and when they said that he was the one who was behind all these sexy breakthroughs in computer and gadget designs, I did realize that the speculations of his succeeding the Apple Inc. throne are not too far off the mark.

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Dec 20 2007

More Personal Details Lost In The UK

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Security, Software Features

Ruth Kelly (current UK Secretary of State for Transport) has had to apologise recently – for yet another data loss fiasco. This time, details of three million candidates for the driving theory test have gone missing. Names, addresses and phone numbers (but not financial data) were kept on the computer hard drive that went missing in the US in May. The question should be asked of course why it took so long for this to come out and arguably why the data was in the US anyway. Did the Driving Standards Agency really need to use a US based contractor? Of course, what makes this more shocking is that it is the second time in a month that ministers ...

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Oct 08 2007

The Gap Between Generations

Posted by Mr Butterscotch as Computers, Consoles, Cool Stuff, NextGen, Online Gaming, Software, Software Features

One of the things that came up recently in conversations with my older relatives was exactly what I did for a living. This has changed from something extremely technical (working for an Affiliate Network) to something slightly less technical though nonetheless highly skilled – working as a marketing and PR exec for a nutritional supplements company. I have a variety of tasks that I perform day to day, including looking after the website we run as well as creating ads and press releases. Said relatives understand some of this, however other parts of it just completely are beyond their understanding. Which is what brings me to the eponymous title. I’ve ran a few blogs and been ...

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