May 16th, 2008 by Arash-R
This morning a group of selected developers from different companies took their first steps in creating their first SearchMonkey apps in the London office of Yahoo.
Developers from Skype, the BBC, ebay, MySpace and other interested parties came to the office to enjoy sandwiches, coffee and monkey cookies and get both a quick introduction to the idea of SearchMonkey, how it will apply to their companies and hands-on help in developing their first applications.
Richard Allinson, Ben Cosgrave and Russell Aronson from the UK monkey team helped the others find the easiest way to get their buried content out into search result pages using a few lines of XSLT and PHP.
The initial feedback was very positive and one of the great things about SearchMonkey - making people look more closely at the markup of their sites and the idea of adding Microformats to ease data extraction - took off almost immediately.
What are you waiting for? Start monkeying around, too!
Chris Heilmann
Yahoo Developer Network
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May 16th, 2008 by Arash-R
"Croatian state broadcaster nicks BBC web site design" from The Inquirer.
"We're very new to this... It is still bedding in and we don't know how that will take shape." The BBC's Pete Clifton quoted in The Guardian about BBC.com.
Box UK has been writing a series of blog posts about their work coming out of the BBC's Innovation Labs.
BBC Radio Labs blog needs your help with microformats and accessibility.
If you crave technical and coding details, check out two discussions going on the BBC Backstage Mailing list: one about streaming and one about the BBC's blogs platform.
Nick Reynolds is editor, BBC Internet blog
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May 16th, 2008 by Mark
There is some good news and some bad news, the good news is that there are some new details about AMD’s next-generation graphics card line-up and it is getting very near to the launch date, the new graphic boards will come with physics processing capability and even better prices will be lower than $200 for a 512 MB board, the bad news is that the 4800 series will be launched after the Nvidia GT200.
NVIDIA no doubt have heard to much about the AMD ATI Radeon 4800 series to move up the launch date for its GeForce 9900 series cards, but the latest news from TG Daily are more launch details for the mid to high end cards. The first on the list will be the Radeon 4850 or simply codenamed the “Makedon,” this card will boast 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, CrossFireX support and single-slot cooling, the price for this card will cost $189 to $219.
Next up is a pair of Radeon 4870 cards which will be here in July codenamed “Trojan” one will boast 512MB of GDDR5 memory and the other will have full 1024MB, it will also come with a dual-slot cooler, these two will cost between $249 and $279. They all pack game physics processing capability plus 7.1 channel audio via HDMI support and DirectX 10.1 support.
For much more in depth detail please visit TG Daily
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May 16th, 2008 by Mark
The demand for hybrid cars are increasing worldwide and with the Toyota Prius gasoline/hybrid car hitting sales of over I million worldwide this surely has to ease global warming. The Toyota Prius Hybrid is definitely a winner and we can see sales keep on going, Toyota have said the figure of Prius sales so far is 1,028,000 last month when their sales rocked 67 percent amid record gas prices and that also claims that the cars have eased global warming by producing around about 4.5 million tons less C02 when compared with gasoline-powered vehicles in the same class.
Even though Toyota have impressive sales figures it is said that Hybrids are still pretty low at 2.3 percent of the U.S market, we all know that in time people will dump their high guzzling gas motors for hybrids, hybrid sales have in fact at the moment rose 38 percent last year even as overall vehicle sales fell and we know with gas prices rising to very high costs Toyota are indeed having troubles keeping up with demands for the Prius.
Buyers are in fact paying much more for the Toyota Prius because they are hard to get a hold of and are getting much harder to find in showrooms, John Hanson a spokesman for Toyota said “Right now, U.S. customers can get a Prius. Next month or the month after that, it’s tough to say.”
With supplies falling and high demands from customers Toyota has cut incentives and raised prices (Now we knew that was coming) and the Toyota Prius on an average costs $25,274 which has risen $869 from a year ago. It seems that the Prius is in high demand and that is without a doubt because it is an eco-friendly vehicle and we all know that customers are going down the Hybrid road, Toyota has expanded their line to include the Highlander and Camry. Toyota are going to unveil the next generation model of the Prius at the Detroit auto show in January and it will apparently be cleaner, bigger and much more fuel efficient, they are also developing a plug-in version that could be in showrooms by 2010. Oh just so you know they are going down the convertible line as well, but no word on this yet.
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May 16th, 2008 by Peter
General Motors have been working hard on their lithium-ion battery technology, and the automaker are making great progress as they have now managed to achieve a range of 40 miles on their Chevrolet Volt test vehicle, this is a great achievement and will help the company in their effort to getting the production vehicle made by 2010. Bob Lutz who is the company Vice Chairman has said that this new gas-electric hybrid drivetrain which is being tested on the Chevrolet Volt is reliable and is meeting its objectives, this is key to the development process for improving the range of these batteries.
It seems that the company is very confidant about the new Li-Ion Battery as Lutz has said that the development of the battery is the least of their problems. GM now have a tough challenge ahead, as the automaker needs to be able to integrate the battery drivetrain as well as the gasoline engine smoothly. The new Volt will be different to other Hybrid vehicles like the Toyota Prius as the wheels will be driven entirely by electricity, the gasoline engine will help to power the generator which will help to charge the batteries.
The team behind the development of the Volt still has a lot of questions that they need to address first, like how will the car deal with cold conditions, or when will the engine cut out. GM are hoping to be able to achieve a range of at least 640 miles, the company are very confidant that this can be achieved by 2010.
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May 16th, 2008 by Phones Review
So here it is, an image apparently of a prototype Palm Treo 800w in the wild along with news that this latest mobile handset is to be rolling under the moniker of “Zeppelin.” Few details of the Palm Treo 800w hardware has been confirmed other than it is to be CDMA and incorporate the trusty microUSB rather than the usual miniUSB.
However, prior rumour has it that the Palm Treo 800w will have a touch-screen with 320 x 320 resolution, and also while in prototype form anyway, EV-DO Rev.0. While as far as I am aware this is probably the first time the Palm Treo has been seen “in the plastic.”
Getting the Palm Treo 800w this far has been a long journey, and is known to be a Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile handset, and has WiFi along with Rev.A EV-DO. There are whispers that maybe the Palm Treo 800w will see the light of release on or around the 22nd of June.
As for the all important appearance of the Palm Treo 800w, it looks to be somewhat of a blend of the Palm Treo 750’s thumb keyboard and Palm Centro type main controls. The Palm Treo 800w was expected by many to hit the shelves back in April, but unfortunately near the end of March Palm confirmed there would be a delay of their windows Mobile range until the summer.
Well if Palm actually hit that June release target then it’s not too long to wait for those who are looking forward to grabbing hold of the latest from Palm. Let’s just hope that Palm doesn’t sneak in yet another “delayed” announcement at the back end of this month.
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May 16th, 2008 by Peter
Adobe has now released their next generation of Flash Player; version 10 is a beta version and is now available as a free download. Adobe Flash Player 10 is said to improve stability with text handling as well as having better performance, the new Flash Player also helps native 3D animations custom photo effects filters perform better. The new player works with a range of operating software’s, but it is Linux where the best performances are achieved.
Adobe Flash has to be one of the most widely used presentation technology for use with video and audio files as well as animated user interfaces on the internet. Over 95% of the worlds PC’s have a flash player installed who are connected to the internet, as well as being installed on a number of mobile phones and this technology will only get better and faster on handsets as Adobe have recently lifted many of the licensing requirements which was necessary for the development on the platform.
Most of the performance enhancements have been made thanks to feedback that the Adobe development received from their community, so most of the improvements are due to the response that the team got from the community. The new Flash Player 10 will hopefully allow users to push the envelope as well as extending their online applications than previous versions managed. Normally when Adobe releases a new version of their Flash Player it is only on certain platforms, but not Flash Player 10 beta, this version is available on all major platforms from Linux, Mac and Windows.
Download the new Adobe Flash Player 10 beta from Adobe
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May 16th, 2008 by Daniel
The Nintendo Wii Fit is so popular that you will be lucky to get your hands on one, with online stores like Play.com and Amazon selling well over price at around £100, I bought mine from a local store in the UK and got it for just under £70. So it’s a mystery why other stores are selling them at £30 more, other than the demand is massive. The Balance Board has changed my life and made me cancel the gym, but how do you keep consistent with using it everyday, what are your tips?
The main way for anyone to keep up something is will power; this goes for stopping smoking, not over eating and keeping consistent on the Nintendo Wii Fit. I am sure I am not the only one who has missed days, for me my work life has ended up coming before my keeping fit life. That stopped yesterday when I restarted my daily plan of using the Wii Fit for fun and fitness, but keeping it up and not letting work life come first is the real challenge. Getting back on the Wii Fit yesterday really reminded me of how good the Balance Board is, how much fun it can be and how much it hurts those muscles that never get worked out.
So lets get started with your tips on how to keep consistent, leave a comment in the box below on any tips you may have and also tell us your Wii Fit Story.
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May 16th, 2008 by Peter
Remember the good old days when you could purchase as many Apple iPhone handsets as you liked, well you are no longer able to do this as AT&T are now restricting sales to one handset per customer, and customers who wish to purchase one are only allowed to do so by using a credit card. This news has come to light after rumors are spreading that there are worldwide shortages of the iPhone, staff who work at Apple retails stores in the U.S. have said that they do not have any idea when they will be receiving new shipments of the Apple iPhone.
This shortage of the handset is not just restricted to the U.S. there are reports that O2 and Carphone Warehouse in the UK are also out of stock. Many people have started to speculate that there is not in fact a shortage of the Apple iPhone, instead they are just trying to get rid of the last of their old stock so that they can re-stock with the newer version of their handset, which many believe to be the 3G version. Apple has commented that the reason for the shortfall in handsets is because the demand of the iPhone is greater than they expected.
It is expected that we will learn more at Apple’s sold out Worldwide Developers Conference, which will be held on June 6, but come on we all know what Apple are going to say, we have to wonder if we will have to pay more for the 3G version of the Apple iPhone and how much the new handset will be.
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May 16th, 2008 by Peter
It seems that Verizon are ready to dump their laptop PC’s that their engineers use in favor of a Blackberry Smartphone. The company is to use their Network Application to use on the smaller device so that their engineers do not have to carry a bigger device that weighs about 8 pound, this will in time save money and make it easier for them to work. Verizon Partner Solutions has a force of 2,250 field technicians and they have seen some encouraging results from their technicians and customers since moving from the laptop to the Blackberry Smartphone. The engineers must love the fact that no longer will they have the big and bulky 8 pound devices, now they have the nice compact 5-ounce product.
The Blackberry that Verizon are using is a first-of-its-kind from the company and has been specially configured so that they can handle the same kind of computing processes that the company used to achieve with their laptops. They are a fraction of the size as well as weight and also in cost, which is something that can only be great for the company. The company’s field technicians need to use automated electronic systems as well as software applications which help to have a daily service workflow; this daily work consists of repairing services for their customers as well as helping to maintain things as well.
In the good old days the Verizon technicians used to go to remote location in the field, and had to use a laptop pc to work on fixing the problem, this must have been cumbersome and limiting, so now using a more portable device it make the whole work process much easier.
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