It’s no secret that we don’t like Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the outdated 10+ year old browser still used by 15-25% of people on the web. Last year, we called for IE6 to die so that the web could move on with new innovations such as HTML 5. Read the rest of this entry »

The Tweetdeck dev team has been busy over the holidays, bringing us version 1.3 of the iPhone application. It consists mostly of minor improvements, but there’s one cool feature: geotagging and inline maps in the tweet detail screen.

Of course, to have your tweets tagged with your current location, you must enable geo-tagging in the settings; iPhone’s GPS will do the rest. The coolest new feature is definitely “View on mapâ€�, which lets you see all the geotagged tweets from a certain column on a Google Map, and zoom in on them to get more info. Read the rest of this entry »

ComnetSolutions was consulted by Cool A.P.E. to help create an online store for their beverage business. Working with Cool A.P.E. was made a lot easier as they had a very concrete plan on how they wanted the online store to look like and right down to the corresponding features within.

Provisions were also made to enable customers to be able to place orders for their products via an online order without transaction. Essentially, the online store has all features required for their business which focuses on being a premier avenue for international beverage brands to the local market.

U.Me@Indus wanted ComnetSolutions to design and develop an online store to serve as a platform for them to be able to sell unique gifts and collectibles as well as an avenue to enquire further on their event management services.

The design of their website was conceived with their core business of personalized gifts and unique gifts in mind. Provisions were also made to enable customers to be able to place orders for their products via an online order without transaction.

Pat’s Pastry engaged ComnetSolutions to design and develop a new website for their customers to be able to browse through their catalogue of cakes and pastries on offer coupled with sections within their home page where updates and special promotions are displayed for customer’s attention.

Due the nature of their business and the natural need to allow customized orders, they wanted an in-built order enquiry form for their products.

Panasonic’s 152-inch TV just hit and it’s got 4k by 2k resolution, 3D support and several technologies that speed up display and optimize it for displaying 3D by reducing cross talk. Not that you’ll be able to afford one.

It’ll be about the size of the 150-incher above, plus two inches.

The quad luminous tech brings plasma pictures to full brightness in 1/4th the time, so fast refreshes don’t compromise picture intensity and they’ve managed to refresh pictures frame at a time instead of line at a time, so that alternating right/left images presented for 3D don’t suffer from the double effect that some displays show. All in theory. Read the rest of this entry »

Google is apparently in the early stages of a research project that appears to aim as high as perhaps replacing the HTTP protocol, the fundamental technology that essentially makes the World Wide Web possible.

In a somewhat obscure post on the Chromium blog, the development branch of their ChromeChromeChrome browser, GoogleGoogleGoogle reveals they’ve been working on a new protocol dubbed SPDY for “SPeeDY� for its goal of making the web faster.
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Location is quickly becoming all the rage. Twitter has started to attach location to tweets (and a host of applications are expected to soon support the functionality), Foursquare has quickly expanded to new cities, and Loopt continues to expand to new platforms and carriers.

Now, WordPress (WordPress) is getting into the game, by letting bloggers automatically attach their location to individual blog posts. Doing so will also make your post searchable by location, so other users of WordPress.com can find blog posts from specific places.

Source: Mashable

Want to advertise to the friends of the people who are already fans of your company on Facebook? Now you can, thanks to the “friends of connections� targeting feature that was just rolled out by the social networking site.

According to a note posted to the Facebook Ads Page, the functionality allows you to “expand your audience reach by delivering your ads to the friends of people already connected with your Page, Application, Group or Event.� When those people see the ad, they’ll see that their friends are fans.

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Technology powerhouse Hewlett Packard (HP) has just announced that it has struck a deal to acquire 3Com, one of the world’s leading networking hardware and software companies, for a giant $2.7 billion price tag.

The deal, if it goes through, will bring HP into direct competition with Cisco and its networking business. 3com builds WiFi access points, networking switches, routers, and IP voice systems that countless businesses rely on every day. It also comes two years after a failed acquisition by Bain Capital.

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