Google has launched a beta version of its new browser called Chrome to rival Firefox 3, Internet Explorer 7, and Opera. To market it, Google has taken an unconventional method of presentation: a comic book. Google Blogoscoped, a site dedicated ...
Aurora – Mozilla’s Future Concept Browser
Mozilla has launched a new concept browser and advanced user-interface, named Aurora. For the project, Mozilla Labs teamed up with Adaptive Path, a creative user-experience and design consultancy, who recently redesigned the MySpace social-networking site. Together, the companies are developing ...
Cool on ‘Knol’?
Google recently has launched a new service called “Knol” which allows users to contribute their knowledge in a wiki-like format. Knol is very different from other e-encyclopedias as it stresses greatly on accountability and regulation over an author’s article. Unlike ...
Adobe Enables Search in Flash Content
Adobe Systems recently announced that the company will team up with the on-line search industry leaders to improve search results of dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications. Adobe is providing Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! In order ...
P4P – Next Generation P2P
A research team at Yale University has developed an advancement to file sharing technology. The system has the ability to make Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers work together in order to deliver data in a more ...
Mahalo – Human Powered Search Engine
Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has initiated a project to create a new type of search engine, in which search results are selected from a set of pre-defined links that were hand-picked by real people. This “human-powered” engine, which was named “Mahalo” ...
Quake Live – a Blasting Advertisement
The Texas-based computer games company “id Software” has announced a partnership with the advertising network “IGA Worldwide”. This partnership is expected to lead to the development of the next version of the legendary first person shooter – “Quake”, which for ...