Developers rushing to reap advantage of social networking

The growing trend of social networking has lured large number of developers to develop applications on these platforms. Malaysian programmer and founder of, SharedCopy, Chew Choon Keat, in an interview said that there is good scope of earning in development of web app riding on Facebooks and other giants. He added that web apps that involved building of a community and integration with OpenSocial and Facebook Connect are in big demand.

The single sign-on service, Facebook Connect, enables sharing of content between affiliated sites. OpenSocial is a set of Google’s “Application Programming Interfaces” (APIs) joined by other networks, that enables running of developers’ app on supporting member sites. Both the tools were released by different website owners to attract developers’ interest.

According to Yahoo’s head of developer network, Chris Yeh, many website owners are embracing ‘open’ platforms to lure developers from competitors’ camps. He added that every major web company, with objective to integrate third-party developer applications, has opened its own website properties.
The developer community has grown in number in last 2 years, particularly outside the US, and most projections are putting this growth two to four times the US developer market growth, primarily due to current trend towards ‘open’ technologies, informs Yeh.

BT introduces VPN service for global 21st Century Network

BT has launched Intelligent Virtual Private Network (iVPN) service for its 21st Century Network, enabling businesses to access their corporate networks across 172 countries covered by it.

iPVN service will strengthen all IT services on next generation network, such as videoconferencing, call centres, data centres, application optimisation, unified communication and security. Read more

Yahoo spent $79 million (£56m) to fight off Microsoft

According to Yahoo’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it spent $79 to fight off Microsoft last year. Read more

Google to start charging for heavy use of App Engine

Google is planning to charge people for heavy use of cloud-computing foundation. The App Engine was available as free service, with some caps on network resource and computing usage, when Google launched it in April 2008. It is still free for lower traffic sites, but users will now be charged for higher access. This was one of the major requests from their developer, disclosed Google App Engine Product Manager, Pete Koomen. Read more

Google to release Chrome for Mac soon

Google is edging closer to release its working version of Chrome browser for Mac.

Google’s programmers were building an engine, within a test shell, which could render web pages. They have now started hooking up the engine to a full-fledged browser. This browser, apart from doing other things will also be able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously. That is the key feature for real application especially for Chrome which enables isolation of each browser tab into its computing process. Read more

Apple promises faster browser with release of public beta of Safari4

Public beta of Safari 4 was released by Apple on 24 February. It will improve searching and navigation at much faster browser speed.

The newest edition will run JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari3, claimed Apple. Safari 4 will vastly improve JavaScript and HTML page-loading compared to Mozilla’s Firefox 3 or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7. Read more

LG to build Mobile Internet Devices

LG Electronics will be using Intel’s latest generation technology to build new MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices). This was announced by Intel at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

LG and Intel will jointly build these devices using Intel processor ‘Moorestown’. Devices will also be using Moblin, a Linux open-source operating system. Devices will hit the market in 2010. Read more

Google offers greater password control to administrators

Administrators of Google’s Premier version Google Apps are given greater control on passwords which users select for accessing data in Docs, Gmail and other hosted applications. Read more

Vodafone succeeds in achieving 16Mbps data-download speed

Vodafone has announced that trials of HSPA, which provides higher speeds than HSDPA, have been successfully completed.

HSPA is new version of super-3G without being named as 4G. Read more

Google to release beta version of Picasa for Mac

Google is set to release Picasa beta for Mac OS X, enabling Apple customers to catch up to users of Linux and Windows which have been using the free tool for cataloguing, editing and downloading pictures. Read more

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