Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL Database !

Sun Microsystems announces to acquire MySQL, Developer of the World's Most Popular Open Source Database, for approximately $1 billion. With millions of global deployments including Facebook, Google, Nokia, Baidu and China Mobile, MySQL will bring synergies to Sun that will change the landscape of the software industry by driving new adoption of MySQL's open source database in more traditional applications and enterprises.

More than 100 million copies of MySQL's high-performance open source database software have been downloaded and distributed and an additional 50,000 copies are downloaded daily. This broad penetration coupled with MySQL's strength in Web 2.0, Software as a Service (SaaS), enterprise, telecom and the OEM embedded market make it an important fit for Sun. >>

3:11 PM : Capture Chennai in 60 seconds!

3:11 PM, is an event only for Chennaiite on 3rd of November 2007 for just one second at exactly 03:11 PM. The idea is to stop whatever it is that we are doing, and click, shoot, snap, capture or photograph that moment, just hold that one instant frozen in a picture and send it to there Flickr stream. >>

Yahoo seeks to make its Web search more predictive

Yahoo is making web search faster by introducing new ways of predicting what users are looking for, while seeking to keep pace with rivals by including video, audio and picture results as answers to text searches. The new features it announced on Monday were aimed at better understanding the intention of users conducting particular types of searches and to get them to the information they desire within a single search. Research conducted by Harris Interactive for Yahoo found that roughly 15 per cent of online adults find what want on their first search while most need three to four searches. As part of its makeover, the revamped Yahoo! search engine will suggest ways to phrase a search as a user types into the query box and will produce more links to photos, videos and music on the main results page. The new "Search Assist" tool will also pull information from Yahoo!’s calendar service, Upcoming.org, to highlight local events when they are relevant to a search request. >>

Top16 Greatest Moments in Web History !

The Web has been around for between 15 and 17 years which makes it old enough to ask for the car keys, but still an awkward teenager growing toward maturity. Yet it already has a long and storied history. Checkout this 15 greatest moments in the web history, pinpointed with the specific day, hour, and even minute the "aha" moment when the people involved got the original idea, launched the site, sold the first product, or posted the first entry. >>

Xobni : A New Look for our Inbox

For more than a decade, the look and feel of e-mail inboxes has remained agonizingly static. Many of today's mail applications can predict the address a user is typing and show threads of conversations, and some are searchable by keyword, but none provide a truly innovative way to view e-mails. Now, Xobni ["inbox" spelled backward] has released a test version of software that gives Outlook, a completely different feel. Xobni's goals is to pull out relevant but sometimes buried information from a person's inbox and other folders, and make it easy to find. When a Xobni user highlights an e-mail in her inbox, a panel pops up showing useful information about the sender. If a picture is available, it appears, as does a bar graph showing the times of day when the sender has e-mailed the user. This is useful for gauging when that person may be online and working in the future. Xobni keeps track of the number of e-mails the user and sender have exchanged and even ranks the sender in terms of the frequency of e-mail contact. >>

RSSCalendar : Simple way to Share Calendars

RSSCalendar is an exciting new way for individuals and organizations to share their calendars with family, friends, and co-workers utilizing the latest in "Really Simple Syndication" [RSS] technology, including RSS channel creation and aggregation. Not only is RSSCalendar easy to use but it is also easy to administer, and setup is a snap. RSSCalendar is well-suited for a variety of uses, including individual calendars, family calendars, company calendars, school calendars, organization calendars and much more. >>

BluePad : Control your PC from Mobile

BluePad is free software, which turns our cell phone into a remote bluetooth controller with which we can control our computer. It is composed by two programs, one to install in our computer, and another for our mobile device. With BluePad, we can control presentations as if we had a remote controller, play our music or movies remotely and play games using our cellphone as a game pad. >>

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