Aug 10, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
If for some people the first word from the title may seem new, for the most of you I'm positive that it's almost familiar. Thanks to the technological advancements and to our need to shrink distances, we've developed a form of learning which is capable of offering all the information we need in the comfort of our own house. ... read more
Jul 23, 2010 by Andreea Costache
With the release of the newest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari forcing the boundaries of the web, Internet Explorer has lost plenty of market share. ... read more
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Jul 09, 2010 by Dan Moldoveanu
When two important products of the same brand enter in competition with one another, the outcome, no matter the result, for sure will be satisfactory for the "mother company". ... read more
Jun 25, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
By now you've probably heard that Apple is the newest company to challenge the so called title "World's Biggest Tech Company", in the detriment of Microsoft. ... read more
Jun 09, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
The World Wide Web is an environment which will never cease to evolve and to create newer and newer possibilities and solutions for every imaginable need. Such an example is HTML5: the next generation of HyperText Markup Language. ... read more
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May 12, 2010 by Dan Moldoveanu
Google Chrome is growing, and it's growing fast! Launched on September 2, 2008 as a beta version (the [last] stable version was released on April 27, 2010), Google Chrome didn't start as an eye catcher. ... read more
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Apr 29, 2010 by Andreea Costache
On Wednesday, April 28, Mozilla has officially released the Firefox mobile browser, codenamed Fennec, for Android smartphones. If you wonder why anyone would want to release a pre-alpha version on the market, well the answer is simple: for free testing and lots and lots of feedback. This is also the case of Firefox, according to some developers who clearly affirmed that the purpose of this “pre-alpha” version is to be tested and receive feedback from users. ... read more
Mar 01, 2010 by Doina Stefanescu
Current national or multinational corporations use a a wide-spread organization model, involving several layers of employees. Generally, this extension is governed by the top-to-bottom rule, which works by disseminating information on a need-to-know basis from higher levels of management to lower ones. In this way, normal average workers function according to a set of basic information, without ever grasping where the overall company is headed, or even why. Consequently, people in higher positions of management spend their time planning and processing info, mostly oblivious to trends and actual customer preferences, that could have been easily understood by engaging workers and customers into actual conversations ... read more
Feb 14, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
It took Microsoft more than three years of development, two software leaks (they sure don't have Apple's security) and many rumors to launch, on November 2009, the Beta version of their newest suite: Microsoft Office 2010. Meant to be more focused on the employee's needs, the successor of Office 2007 brings in more tools, a friendlier user experience and extended compatibility. ... read more
Jan 22, 2010 by Doina Stefanescu
Cloud computing has been with us for a while now, but it started just recently to draw attention to it, particularly because of the large scale Internet applications that client-oriented companies have built as services. Or what we now call SaaS, or software as a service. [...]
From social networks to virtual servers for data storage, anything goes in the cloud. Unfortunately, it still goes in the cloud literally for government policies regarding this matter, in about every industrialized country there is ... read more
Dec 11, 2009 by Oana Pelineagra
It's been a busy season for the major players on the web browser market, with Mozilla Corp. launching Firefox 3.5 on 30 June, and Microsoft releasing its 8th edition of IE in March. While the former included native integration of audio and video, more privacy features and an overall performance improvement, the latter added accelerators, improved privacy protection, and a compatibility mode for pages designed for earlier version of IE. Along came Google ... read more
Nov 26, 2009 by Oana Pelineagra
After entering a partnership with Verizon last month, and after launching the newest Android 2.0 smartphone (I am talking about Motorola Droid, of course) on November 6, only four days later (on November 10) Google has released Go: its first programming language. ... read more
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Nov 12, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
It's been only a couple of weeks since Google's last attempt at publicly admonishing (let's not use the harsher word "humiliate") Microsoft's baby, Internet Explorer. Well, as they say, all is fair in love and web. :) Since there is no "mommy" to go to when peers start hitting each other, the problem is left in the hands of players. And Microsoft is certainly an old player at this game. ... read more
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Oct 22, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
Between November 9 and 12, 2009, Bucharest will host one of the most relevant events in the international online community, by bringing together famous bloggers from around the world ... read more
Oct 01, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
When something web-related hits a fair amount of success, we can be sure that, sooner or later, it will be acquired by the larger players in the game. And now, the game quite literally belongs to Google Inc., Mountain View, CA. ... read more
Sep 17, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
Previous days have found the web filled with rumors, either reliable or not so truthful, about Microsoft finally having closed a partnership deal with Yahoo. Although everything has been confirmed by officials from both parties, the mystery still remains as everybody is now wondering ... read more
Sep 03, 2009 by Oana Pelineagra
Following the release of the Chrome browser in 2008, Google will launch a brand new open source operating system, called Chrome OS, by the second half of the year 2010. This OS will mainly address notebooks, being a lightweight version of a custom desktop operating system ... read more
Aug 14, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
Following the announcement of the first Beta version for the Microsoft development platform and tools, the new enhanced .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 is available for download from MSDN.
One of the exciting new features, though not sure to remain in the final release, is ... read more
Aug 03, 2009 by Oana Pelineagra
For the uninitiated, the word above is an onomatopoeia - for the connoisseurs Bing is the new search engine from Microsoft. The word itself wants to stand out for a discovery or for a great idea. So, if Archimedes left us with the famous "Evrika", Microsoft is giving us "Bing". But, no matter the story (manufactured or not) for this name, Bing is Microsoft's attempt to conquer the search engine market. ... read more
Jul 21, 2009 by Constantin Ionescu
If you’re wandering what is the best way to include CSS and JS file references in ASP.NET pages, here is a quick guide that outlines the available options and shows which approach suits each situation.
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