At times, some people, when are brutally drunk tend to send e-mails to their friends, office mates, and lovers without even being conscious about what they are writing, which they later regret.
To solve this problem, Gmail engineer Jon Perlow has come out with a solution and has introduced Mail Goggles, a feature which once activated will question the sender a series of problematic questions before the mail is sent.
In a unique move, lectures by well known academics would be made available through Apple’s iTunes by the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Nearly 150 hours of free video and audio podcasts of lectures and ideas from the leading thinkers of the world, will be published by Oxford.
One can now access the education downloads, which include a film about the University of Oxford's fundraising campaign "Oxford Thinking" that features ex-Python and seasoned traveller Michael Palin.
Since designing and manufacturing the products is constantly becoming tougher for AMD, Advanced Micro Devices Company; it confirmed on Tuesday that it would be splitting in two companies to deal with the issue. These two news companies are created with the aim to deal with designing and manufacturing separately.
Nintendo had recently announced the launch of the DSi with lot of hype. The handheld gaming console, which features two cameras and enhanced audio feature created a craze among the users.
But now, the company has officially announced something, which will definitely disappoint some of the readers. Reportedly, it has been learnt that Nintendo DSi will be region specific or region locked. That means people who are having European DSi won't be able to play any games from other regions and vice versa.
A version 2.0 of the development framework has been released by Mono, the project that brought Microsoft's C# and .Net to Linux. A runtime system for C# is offered by this framework and Visual Basic code, instead of the Windows, could be run on the Linux operating system through this development framework. However, the complete .Net environment cannot be imitated by it.
The Mono project site, on Monday started providing the code for downloading. Now Novell would sponsor Mono, with Miguel de Icaza becoming a VP of development at Novell from project leader initially.
The Canadian maker of the BlackBerry family of smartphones, Research in Motion has unveiled its first ever touch screen device ‘The Storm’ on Wednesday.
Targeted at business and consumer markets, the newly launched device is BlackBerry’s official answer to rival touch-based smartphones launched recently including Apple's 3G iPhone, Sony Ericsson's Xperia X1, T-Mobile's Google Android-powered G1 and Nokia's 5800 music phone launched last week.
‘The 3G Storm’ will be available through Verizon Wireless in the US, and Vodafone in the European market by November 2008.