Microsoft and Nokia Adopt jQuery for Development Platforms

Microsoft is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform. Nokia is looking to use jQuery to develop applications for their WebKit-based Web Run-Time. Microsoft and Nokia aren’t looking to make any modifications to jQuery (both in the form of code or licensing) - they simply wish to promote its use as-is.

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Flash Video Glitch Allows Free Movie Downloads

A security hole in Adobe's ubiquitous online technology could open the door to swiping movies from Amazon's streaming video service.

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Access your Windows shared folders from your S60 Nokia phone

access windows shares and Samba folders from your nokia phone with this new free application

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‘Heroes’ Causes BitTorrent Boom

Two fresh episodes of the US hit series ‘Heroes’ were released Monday night. In the day that followed each episode was downloaded well over a million times by BitTorrent users all over the world, making it the busiest day ever on many torrent sites.

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Popular Open Source Version Control systems

Designers and developers can both benefit from using revision control systems to keep copies of their files and designs. You can instantly browse previous “commits” to your repository and revert to earlier versions if something happens. This article reviews some of the top open source version control systems and tools that make setting up a version

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Enterprise 2.0 Vendors need to get more serious about mobile

The truth is that the most successful Enterprise 2.0 applications will focus heavily on mobile and will take in to consideration the considerably different use cases related to how different functions use mobile devices

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Where Attention Flows, Money Follows

Almost anything else except attention can be manufactured as a commodity. Luxury goods are only luxuries temporarily. They quickly are counterfeited and commodified. Premium brands are only premium because they garner a surplus of attention.

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The Future of Computing Over The Next Few Decades

Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie offered a long term view of where Microsoft and the world of computing is heading over the next few decades. Speaking at the MIT Emerging Technology Conference, Mundie envisioned a 3D virtual world populated by virtual presences, using a combination of client and cloud services.

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How Android Hurts Microsoft

The Android-based G1 is Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's worst fears bundled together in a tidy package: Google, Web applications, open source and a platform alternative to Windows. Worse: easy access to Google's plethora of online services—including Calendar, Contacts, Gmail, Google Talk, Maps Street View and YouTube—via single sign-on.

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45 Drupal Sites You May Not Have Known Were Drupal Based

Drupal is an open source CMS system (Content Management System) that allows anyone to build fairly complicated dynamic website applications. A question we get asked here at Social CMS Buzz is what popular, well known websites use Drupal as their system, the answer is lots with Nike, Universal Music, Warner Bros, Yahoo and Adobe being just a few.

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Analysts: Android mobiles to sell faster than iPhone?

Analysts are predicting such an interest in the amount of Android-powered mobile phones that 400,000 could be sold by 2009.That would equate to over 130,000 per month,given the fact we only have a quarter of the year left & given the teeny amount of marketing on these phones compared to the iPhone pre-launch,it would certainly be a feat to achieve.

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Gphone Cute Pics revealed

Check out the new cute pics of Google Phone - Gphone

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Interview with the BBC’s Future Media Director

Interesting interview with the BBC's Future Media Creative Director about mobile usability.

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Use Hulu, Pandora, or the BBC iPlayer from any country

Awesome.

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3 Products That Will Change 2008

There are 3 products that will change 2008 for the web. Two are mobile products and the other is a online graphic tool for artists. The three are: Flixwagon, Aviary and GoMobo. You will use these apps in 2008.

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What makes Web shoppers click

Perhaps, the customer became frustrated with the typing in their shipping information. Maybe the person got cold feet just as it came time to type in a credit card number. Maybe the customer was never able to find the right product in a vast catalog of products.

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DECE - Lipstick on the DRM pig

Over the past few hours there’s been a lot of chatter about the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) consortium that everyone is a member of, except Apple. Is DECE a genuine move to make digital content easier to handle for the end user or is it just a feeble attempt to claw back some market share from Apple?

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15 Ways They Could Get People to Actually Watch TV Again

Our generation spends more time on the internet and gaming then they do just about everything else. Hell, you're probably on the internet right now. As a result, ratings are down all over, so the question is, what would the networks have to do to get us to watch again? Some ideas, courtesy of the generation they're losing.

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Why cable operators want to become wireless ISPs

Comcast talks up its investment in Clearwire, a WiMAX-based ISP. Cable operators like Comcast and Time Warner have been battling wireline telcos for years, but wireless offerings will allow them to turn their attention to an emerging threat to their entire business: wireless phone companies.

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Google - The future of search

The Internet has had an enormous impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of

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Live: Twenty Questions For The Venture Capitalists At TechCr

Erick Schonfeld and Mark Pincus just took the stage at TechCrunch50 to ask twenty (or so) questions to top venture capitalists, most of which were submitted by readers.

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Leadership and Management of Distributed Collaboration

This isn't just about motivating distributed teams. Distributed teams have higher coordination costs without a clear direction. This is similar to Eugene Kim's point that "there is no such thing as collaboration without a goal."

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How Search Will Revolutionize Social Networking

Social networking is on fire. eMarketer predicts that in the US the category will reach 44.3% of Internet users by year's end.

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40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box [PICS]

Over the last months we have seen a strong trend towards more individual web designs. These designs use realistic motifs from our regular life. In the showcase below we present 40 creative out-of-the-box layouts which break the boring structure of typical 2- and 3-columned, boxed layouts.

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