Microsoft – Adobe partnering plans rumored

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was reported to have visited the offices of Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, ostensibly to discuss strategies to counter Apple's dominance of the smart phone market. However, rumor mills have been speculating that the hour-long meeting discussed more than just that, including possibility of Adobe being acquired...

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Oracle and IBM collaborate for open source Java

IBM has said that it will collaborate with Oracle to contribute to the Open JDK community in the development of the open source Java environment. The two companies will collaborate to help developers and customers build and innovate, based on existing Java investments and the OpenJDK reference implementation. Java is a general-purpose...

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Nokia switches platforms in a bid to change track; Users revolt

Nokia has announced that it is ditching open source Meego, the platform it was developing for its smart phone line up, in favor of Microsoft's Windows Phone 7. Reports pegged the number of smart phones sold by Nokia at around 30 million per quarter. The volume marks a definite win for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, which had...

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Firefox 4 beats IE9 in first 24-hour download count

Mozilla's Firefox, the community developed open source browser from the Mozilla Foundation, debut its latest version, numbering 4, on Tuesday. According to Mozilla's download statistics tally, the browser was downloaded over seven million times with the first 24 hours of its launch, almost three times the 2.4 million downloads boasted...

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Google speeds up Chrome 10

Google has rolled out the benefits from its speedy Chrome beta from three weeks ago, bring speed improvements to all Chrome users. Chrome 10, Google says, runs even the most complex web apps quicker and more responsively within the browser, corresponding to a 66% improvement in JavaScript performance on the V8 benchmark suite.The ...

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Google adds e-books to Android Market

Google has opened up its e-bookstore to the Android Market. Android users will now be able to buy e-books from Google's Android Market, a logical tie in to Google's own eBookstore that was launched in December last year. Android users can choose between viewing the book on the Web or downloading a copy to their Android device for reading...

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Global Software Top 100 Edition 2010: The Highlights

The largest software companies in the world together generated software revenues of over $220 billion in 2009. The top 10 companies accounted for over 60% of that huge amount. Microsoft is by far the largest software company in the world, as it has been since the inception of the Global Software Top 100 list in 2003. In one of the most difficult years for the software industry to date, 46 of the 100 largest companies...

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Microsoft rolls out IE9

Microsoft has rolled out the latest version of its IE9 web browser at an event at the SXSW Interactive conference. Straddling no less than 39 languages, Internet Explorer 9 downloads hit the 40 million mark within a day of its download, notching up more than two percent usage on Windows 7, Microsoft said. Internet Explorer 9 features...

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Google invests in the world's largest solar power tower plant

Google has invested $168 million in a new solar energy power plant that is being developed by BrightSource Energy in the Mojave Desert in California.  Brightsource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (ISEGS) will generate 392 MW of clean, solar energy, which Google said was like taking over 90,000 cars off the road over...

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Adobe releases Creative Suite 5.5

Adobe Systems has made available its AdobeCreative Suite 5.5 product family, which includes important advances in HTML5 and Flash authoring that enable designers and developers to create compelling content and applications. The Creative Suite 5.5 products also have significant innovations in the areas of video production and editing....

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Ericsson to manage Clearwire's 4G network

Clearwire, the US-based 4G broadband services provider has decided to outsource the management of its 4G network to Ericsson.The move helps the telecommunications company save a lot of money in costs while leveraging Ericsson's best practices, tools and processes to maximize efficiencies and provide continued network quality at reduced operating costs.While Clearwire will retain ownership of network assets, Ericsson will...

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Apple is the world's most valuable brand – WPP

Skyrocketing a penomenonal 84 percent in value over the past year, Apple is now the most valuable brand in the world, bringing down the curtains on the four-year reign of Google at the top of the table, advertising and marketing giant WPP found in its sixth annual BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands study. The Apple brand,...

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Strong growth for Security Software Top 12

Large security software companies have shown remarkable growth during the economic crisis. While corporations worldwide were cutting their IT budgets, security software spending was spared. In 2008, the weighted average revenue growth was 16% for the major security software firms. The security software market is worth 16 billion USD, according to the Top 100 Research Foundation. The Top 12 security software companies...

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Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion cash

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Skype, the Internet communications company, for $8.5 billion in cash. Skype is owned by an investor group led by Silver Lake, which includes eBay Inc, Joltid Limited and founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz, according to its website....

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Learn Hacking

click here http://mycodelogic.blogspot.com/search/label/Hacking if not working then copy link in paste it in your browser address ba...

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Mobile Secret Codes

Nokia Secret Codes On the main screen type *#06# for checking the IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity). *#7780# reset to factory settings. *#67705646# This will clear the LCD display(operator logo). *#0000# To view software version. *#2820# Bluetooth device address. *#746025625# Sim clock allowed status. *#62209526# - Display the MAC address of the WLAN adapter. This is available only in the newer devices...

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Wireless Hacking

Wireless networks broadcast their packets using radio frequency or optical wavelengths. A modern laptop computer can listen in. Worse, an attacker can manufacture new packets on the fly and persuade wireless stations to accept his packets as legitimate. The step by step procerdure in wireless hacking can be explained...

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Java interview Questions

1.  What is java run time environment? 2.  How java is platform independent language? 3.  What is difference between compiler and interpreter? 4.  Java is secure language. Why? 5.  Why main function in java is static? 6.  What is abstract class and what is use of abstract class? 7.  Why a class cannot be static? 8.  Why abstract class cannot be final? 9.  What...

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