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RSS designers in newsGoogle: Server efficiency needs different approach
News Google is urging electronics designers to create products that more gracefully reduce power demands as activity diminishes. Chipmakers have been applying lessons learned in mobile computing to servers in an effort to increase efficiency by lowering... [25 Jun 2008]
Sun unveils JavaFX for rich web apps
News The company said Java technology is now ready to be used by designers and content authors demanding rich web content. According to Sun, this will bring a new breed of web-application designers and social-application creators to Java, who will... [08 May 2008]
Microsoft unveils web tool betas
News The investments we're making will enable developers and designers to deliver a range of connected experiences across the continuum of web applications, rich clients and other devices. Microsoft has used its MIX08 event in Las Vegas to announce beta... [09 Mar 2008]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News Although Microsoft's Internet Explorer remains the dominant web browser, the open source rival has achieved a critical mass of users - Firefox has been downloaded more than 400 million times - and it's now common for designers to make sure their... [21 Nov 2007]
Real world terrain coming to the virtual sphere
News The idea is simple: Multiverse's technology - which gives game developers tools to design custom virtual worlds - will let those designers pick and choose from most of the millions of 3D models created using Google's 3D software tool SketchUp, and... [09 Oct 2007]
Microsoft "hell-bent" on building ad business
News Furthering its strategy to court web developers and designers, Microsoft said that by the end of the week it will release Silverlight 1.0 Release Candidate. Hefty investments in online services and consumer electronics will let Microsoft maintain... [27 Jul 2007]
Microsoft plotting to steal Adobe's thunder
News The company intends to release a beta of Silverlight, formerly called Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E), at the Mix07 conference for designers and web developers in Las Vegas later this month. [16 Apr 2007]
Big Blue to unwrap extra-brainy chips
News Problems are cropping up with current leakage, and designers would like to use embedded DRAM, which requires fewer transistors and is less leaky. IBM is set to unveil a new way of putting memory on processors which it thinks will dramatically... [14 Feb 2007]
Dell kicks off trees-for-PCs scheme
News Much of the power savings come from new processors but Dell designers continually shop for energy-efficient components, he said. Dell has announced the launch of a tree-planting scheme for owners of its computers to offset the carbon emissions... [10 Jan 2007]
Microsoft trumpets software 'Olympics'
News Microsoft's competition to find the best student software designers around the world is now open, with $170,000 in prize money up for grabs in the fifth annual Imagine Cup. But be warned: your only chance of stepping off with a top prize is through... [23 Nov 2006]
Microsoft's Virtual Earth goes '3D'
News The Massive technology enables designers to render a graphic on top of any surface in a 3D environment. Microsoft has unveiled a new, downloadable browser application that brings the photorealism and manoeuvrability of gaming into its online... [07 Nov 2006]
IT managers 'cleverer' than non-techies
News Particular technical skills in decline include Citrix and Windows NT but there have been significant increases in demand for senior programmers, web designers, internet staff, operations analysts and webmasters or content administrators. [29 Sep 2006]
BlackBerry gets out of the boardroom with Pearl
News According to Conlee, RIM has been cracking the whip on its industrial designers to thin down the Pearl. RIM has officially confirmed what many in the industry had been expecting: a move into the consumer world with a sleeker, lighter device. [07 Sep 2006]
Biometric passport cracked and cloned
News Because CA's Perry said RFID chips can increasingly be read surreptitiously, often from distances far greater than the six inches which designers originally claimed, he suggested the security conscious might like to consider investing in a metal... [04 Aug 2006]
Skype goes Mac
News Skype has released a beta version of its latest client for Mac OS X users. The new version, 1.5, of the voice over IP client boasts a new, more streamlined look. However, much of the functionality in the new Mac beta involves the sort of features... [27 Jul 2006]
