New Google Voice for iPhone
Google rolled out a new version of Google Voice for iPhone, but one that bypasses Apple's iTunes app store and functions direction from the iPhone's browser.
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Windows Mobile 7
Microsoft's long and winding road toward regaining lost ground in the cell phone business will reach an important milestone in Barcelona next month. At the annual Mobile World Congress event, Microsoft will at long last show off Windows Mobile 7--its oft-delayed major revamp of the decade-old Windows CE code base that has been at the core of its mobile operating system since the days of challenging the Palm Pilot.
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Chrome 4 Brings Extensions to Windows
Google has released its "stable" version of Chrome 4.0, an incarnation under development for months that brings extensions to customize Chrome features and a host of technologies for more powerful Web programming.
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Mozilla Takes on YouTube Video Choice
Last week, Google's YouTube announced early support for HTML5 video,
which can be built directly into Web pages and viewed with browsers
without relying on a plug-in such as Adobe Systems' Flash, Microsoft's
Silverlight, or Apple's QuickTime. Another Web video site, Vimeo,
followed suit.
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jQuery UI 1.7 E-book Winners!
A week ago we started a competition to give 5 copies of Dan Wellman's new book away! Today, after pointing out names in the dark, we have our lucky winners: Russell Haskell, Paul Klein, Dave Ackroyd, Kristen Alderson and Frank Penn. Everyone will be notified via email, so you can get your books as quick as possible.
Congratulations and stay tuned for more Mini-reviews and free books in the next weeks!
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Microsoft Confirms SQL Server 2008 R2's May due date
On January 19, Microsoft made it officially official. Microsoft is
confirming that the latest version of its database will be out “by May”
and will be on the May price list. A new posting on the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog confirmed the May date. According to that blog, there have been 150,000 downloads by testers of the R2 release.
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It's time to stop using IE6
The marketplace is filled with credible alternatives to IE6, including Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you need to use Internet Explorer because it’s required for compatibility with specific websites or apps, you have alternatives from Microsoft itself.
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jQuery 1.4 Released!
In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team released the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and they're really quite proud of it.
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AppOmator - A New Way to build iPhone Apps
Creating an app that suits one's business goals or personal tastes, however, isn't necessarily easy. While some Web services provide templates to build an app, NonLinear's Mac desktop application lets users fully customize their app.
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Ajax Event Calendar Demos
In the first demo of the series we will show you an Ajax Event Calendar that consolidates a few Google Calendars having several country Holidays in them. You can choose to add any Google Calendar or own database to the calendar view.