Archive for category Itechlog News
The future of gaming is OpenGL
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News, Linux, Open Source on March 11th, 2010
As a Linux user and Open Source enthusiast I always want to see people moving away from the proprietary stuff and into the Open Source world, but sometimes it’s easier to keep them where they are (stuck to Windows), specially when it comes to gaming. I am not a gamer, and would rather spend my [...]
Request the Audible.com books application for Android
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones on March 11th, 2010
I am deeply shocked at audible.com for not having an app for Android. They claim that “the Android media player does not allow playback of our titles“… right. Anyway they are now attempting to get the ball rolling for an App for Android in 2010. There’s a signup for upcoming beta testing on their website [...]
Campaign for the right to create, forward and follow links
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on January 20th, 2010
There has been a talk for while about news agencies blocking bloggers, aggregators and search engines from indexing their content. This has started to become a reality when the Times Online decided to block the news aggregator site newsnow.co.uk. In response Struan Bartlett the founder of NewsNow started the right2click campaign. Watch his campaign video.
Technorati [...]
Microsoft’s attempt to bribe its way to the top
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on December 11th, 2009
Once again Microsoft is showing it’s dirty claws. According to a report in the Financial Times (also mentioned in the KPMRS Blog), Microsoft is planing to offer to pay publishers to remove their content from Google in an attempt to make its search engine Bing (no link on purpose) the #1 search engine.
According to [...]
Google Chrome Beta for Linux
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News on December 8th, 2009
Google has announced the release of a beta version of its browser Google Chrome for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse).
Here are a few facts from the Google Chrome team:
60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written
23 developer builds
2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed
12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 external code [...]
East Africa Undersea fibre optic network is live
Posted by ITechLog in Connectivity, Itechlog News on July 23rd, 2009
Undersea fibre optic network ready to deliver unprecedented capacity and connectivity to Africa
23 July 2009 – SEACOM today announced that its 1,28 Terabytes per second (Tb/s), 17,000 kilometres, submarine fibre optic cable system linking south and east Africa to global networks via India and Europe has been completed and commissioned. Backhauls linking Johannesburg, Nairobi and [...]
Firefox Add-on Collector
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News, Open Source, Web Design, Web Programming, Web Services on July 21st, 2009
Now you can have a list of your favourite Firefox Add-ons to share. I have always tried to keep a list in my bookmarks of the Add-ons I find most useful and normally recommend to people, now life has become much easier.
Discover more of the best add-ons and organize your favourites in easy-to-manage collections. [...]
New iTunes blocks non-Apple devices
Posted by ITechLog in Apple, Itechlog News on July 19th, 2009
According to the BBC technology website, Apple claims to have fixed a hole in iTunes that allowed it to sync non-Apple devices. Interesting that this comes out as a lot of iPhone competitors are on the market and some of them like the Palm Tre do sync with the iTunes library. Thanks to Apple if [...]
Android to iPhone Apps with XML
Posted by ITechLog in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones, Programming on July 8th, 2009
Why has no one thought of it before….. ? You may ask. But someone now has. The XMLVM project was created by Arno Puder and his team at San Francisco State University. What it does is provide a bridge between disparate compile-time and run-time environments — in a word cross-compiling, as described by Frank Ableson [...]
