Thu, Sep 18th, 2008 | Archive |

Provide a widget to show the hot tags of your recent posts. Download ChangeLog What's Tag? Tag is simply a word you can use to describe something, with WordPress, 'something' will be your posts or pages. It's very easy to use, think this way, ...Read More

Security in Google's Chrome OS

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | SciTech |

Google promises that users of its new Chrome OS won't "have to deal with viruses, malware, and security updates." It's way too soon to evaluate the accuracy of those claims; the final release of the operating system is at least ...Read More

Week in Apple: Developers leaving iPhone, Psystar screwed

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | SciTech |

Week in Apple: Developers leaving iPhone, Psystar screwed Respected developers are ditching the App Store over frustrations with Apple, a court has smacked down Mac cloner Psystar, Apple is working on Mac OS X 10.5.7 (*gasp*), Google Earth 2.0 is out for iPhone, and more. Catch up with ...Read More

Google Chrome OS: Everything You Need to Know

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

Unless you live in a cave, don't care at all about technology or have been distracted by Sarah Palin's publicity tour, you've probably heard that Google showed its Linux-based Chrome operating system to the world yesterday. Google, a company born and ...Read More

Mysterious New 2K Games Shooter Teased By Spike [UPDATE] [Clips]

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | SciTech |

Mysterious New 2K Games Shooter Teased By Spike [UPDATE] [Clips] The Spike TV Video Game Awards will once again double as as an autumnal E3 as new games are revealed, new trailers unveiled. Halo: Reach is coming. As is whatever this game is, teased first on Kotaku in video below. Thoughts? ...Read More

Chrome OS: Move Along, Nothing to See Here (Yet)

Sat, Nov 21st, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

Chrome OS: Move Along, Nothing to See Here (Yet) So I took the plunge and installed Chrome OS on a virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop. I used Sun's free VirtualBox virtualization software and the downloadable version of Chrome OS hosted by Gdgt. Actually, when I used the ...Read More

Google OS: the end of the hard drive?

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech |

Google OS: the end of the hard drive? (WIRED) -- Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their ...Read More

4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

4 Big Gambles Google Is Taking With Chrome OS You've gotta hand it to Google: The company is never shy about throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see if it will stick. Over the years, it's introduced countless projects that have gone through long beta cycles only ...Read More

Gameloft to cut back on Android development

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech |

Gameloft to cut back on Android development Though you may think us to be iPhone fans all the time, we really do want to root for the underdog. Whether it's Google's Android or Palm's webOS, the smartphone industry could really use a David to the iPhone's Goliath ...Read More

Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

Why Google Should Cool It With Chrome OS Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That's what Google should've done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday. Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight ...Read More

Google's YouTube Adds Captions

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech |

In addition to rolling out its Chrome OS code, Google on Thursday also unveiled automatic captions and timing for YouTube. Automatic captions will use the speech-to-text algorithms currently used in Google Voice to produce captions for a selected video. These captions ...Read More

How Google Gets from Chrome OS to youtub ...

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech, Top Stories |

How Google Gets from Chrome OS to youtub ... But it's missing the point to compare the Chrome OS with Microsoft's operating systems. The Chrome OS isn't an operating system at all. It's an advertising medium. View Slideshow See all (8) slides More And although its evolution may take ...Read More

Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech |

Chrome OS: Internet failing at PC > PC failing at Internet In 2009, it's better to be an Internet company that's taking slow, awkward first steps toward the PC, than a PC company that's still trying and failing to truly integrate with the Internet. Ars looks at what Chrome OS means ...Read More

Google aims to release Chrome OS for netbooks by holiday season 2010

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

Google aims to release Chrome OS for netbooks by holiday season 2010 Google gave its first public demonstration today of Chrome OS, the operating system it's developing for PCs (primarily cheaper netbooks). It presented the demo via webcast from its headquarters in Mountain View, and it looked pretty solid. Although there's been some ...Read More

Google creates automatic captions for YouTube videos

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | Top Stories |

Google announced today that YouTube will be able to automatically include captions in videos. Previously, you had to enter the caption manually while the video was uploading, an option that was usually overlooked. That was also a problem for those ...Read More

YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers

Fri, Nov 20th, 2009 | SciTech |

YouTube introduces automatic captions for deaf viewers Six channels run by universities are also involved in the initial launch. YouTube's parent company Google has announced on its blog that automatic captions are to begin to roll out across the site. The machine-generated captions will initially be generated in ...Read More

Google Chrome OS - do we want another monoculture?

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | SciTech |

Google Chrome OS - do we want another monoculture? Yes, Google has open-sourced Chrome OS, its much-discussed browser-based operating system. But as usual, the open sourcing only says so much about its openness. After all, this isn't something you can load on any PC. And it's not much of an ...Read More

Google: Here's What Chrome OS Looks Like

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

Google showed off an update of its forthcoming Chrome OS operating system at its headquarters in Silicon Valley today. The whole point of the operating system -- meant for simple computers and launching in about a year -- is that it's ...Read More

Say Hello To Chromium OS, The Open Source Chrome OS (Source Code)

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | SciTech, Top Stories |

Say Hello To Chromium OS, The Open Source Chrome OS (Source Code) Ahead of its press event to talk about the new Chrome OS Google has just posted the source code for Chrome OS on the Chromium site. As you can see in the file structure, Google is doing the same thing ...Read More

11 Things You Need to Know About Google' ...

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech, Top Stories |

Before today, Google's Chrome Operating System was an exciting idea that offered far more questions than answers. That changed today. We now know much more about what the company is working on and have even seen it in action. For those ...Read More

Google has its own plan for Netbooks

Thu, Nov 19th, 2009 | Most Viewed, SciTech |

Google has its own plan for Netbooks MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--There's still an awful lot about Google's Chrome OS project that remains up in the air, but Thursday's demonstration did reveal a bit about how Google thinks the Netbook should evolve. At an event here Thursday,Google showed off the ...Read More