PHP Developers get a New Bridge to .NET
Microsoft’s Interoperability Strategy Team released an open-source toolkit for PHP developers who want to use Microsoft’s ADO.Net Data Services (codename “Astoria”).
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Apple's Respond about Google Voice
A while back the general public received word that the FCC wanted to chat with Apple about their issues with having a Google Voice application on the iPhone. Just this week Apple has published their responses to those questions from the FCC.
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Adobe Boosts Photoshop.com Features
Adobe’s Photoshop.com web app just got some new features such as Video upload and Group Albums. There are limitations on video uploads: if you upload via the web app, videos must be no larger than 200MB. If you upload using the Adobe AIR Uploader, videos can be up to 2GB.
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WebKit Nightly Builds top Chromium in OS X JavaScript tests
Competition in the browser space breeds better performance. And with Google getting into the browser game with Chrome, all of the developers have stepped up their game. With that in mind, ArsTechnica decided to survey the current browser landscape on Mac OS X to see which offers the best JavaScript performance.
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Moonlight 2.0 Moves to Beta Phase
Moonlight 2.0, which is open source software that puts Microsoft's Silverlight rich Internet application technology on Linux, was offered up as a beta release. Moonlight 2.0 is now feature-complete and they consider it ready to test against Silverlight 2.0 sites.
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Jolicloud: The Social Netbook OS
Jolicloud is an Internet operating system that combines the two driving forces of the modern computing industry: the open source and the open web. It transforms your netbook into a sophisticated web device that taps into the cloud to expand your computing possibilities. Jolicloud was built to make the computer and web part of the same experience.
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Get your DMXzone Jewel Box
Today, DMXzone released its Jewel boxes. An exclusive collections of the best extensions available on the site. Each one selected to be a great help when designing or managing your site and most importantly to be done in no time with just few clicks!
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Judge bans Microsoft Word sales
A US federal court has ordered Microsoft to pay over $290m for wilfully infringing on a patent by Canadian firm i4i. The patent relates to the use of XML, a mark-up language that allows formatting of text and makes files readable across different programs.
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DMXzone Gallery Competition
This week, DMXzone starts a "Gallery Demo" competition that will end on August 26th. All you need to do is sending us a Gallery Demo that has been created with one or more of our Rich Media extensions (such as 3D Photo Wall, DMXzone Lightbox, 3D ImageFlow, CSS Image Gallery etc.).
* Make sure that you use images made by you or non-copyrighted ones.
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Google's "Caffeine" vs. Microsoft's Bing
Just a couple of months after Microsoft launched Bing, Google announced it is tweaking its own search infrastructure. Google officials said that the company is seeking help testing a new-and-improved search system, codenamed “Caffeine” — complete with changes to its indexing, ranking and crawling mechanisms.
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