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Firefox 3.6 Released: With New CSS Gradient Feature
Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6, the newest version of its popular browser after months of testing. New Firefox is 20% faster than Firefox 3.5, according to Mozilla. It uses Gecko 1.9.2 web-rendering, which improves its load times, startup speed and stability. Javascript execution is faster and smoother as well. There’s also autocomplete form functionality and full HTML5 support. New feature called Personas has been added in Firefox 3.6 which lets you customize your Firefox with a single click and without a restart.
The Favourite feature is the addition of new CSS Gradient API. You can define Gradient effect on any element by specifying simple CSS styles. Thus now you can have CSS Gradient Effect without Images!
source: http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2010/01/firefox-3-6-released-css-gradient-feature.html
Google Public DNS Servers Launched
Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service.
Many ISPs and 3rd party provider such as OpenDNS snoops around or send
traffic to ad servers. However, Google promises not to play with end
users and send the exact response his or her computer expects without
performing any blocking, filtering, or redirection that may hamper a
user’s browsing experience. In other words Google will not hijacking
your traffic on non-existent domain name and it will follow strict RFC
standard.
source: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/google-public-dns-servers-launched.html
IBM Launches Cloud Platform For Software Developers
IBM announced a set of cloud services that will allow developers to develop and test cloud applications. In addition, IBM is offering free compute and storage for developers using the IBM platform.
IBM Smart Business Development and Test on IBM Cloud is designed to remove burdens from developers who spend a lot of time setting up their own test environments for applications. By using this kind of a cloud service, developers can test in a fraction of the time, compared to more traditional methods.
This has the potential to translate into a competitive advantage. By speeding up development, companies can move products faster to market.
The service supports third-party and open-source tools. IBM is targeting IT managers who often are managing hundred of projects on an annual basis.
IBM will also offer its service as a private cloud infrastructure. A private cloud infrastructure service is often designed for people who prefer governance and control over their own environment.
The IBM offering is in some respects a collaboration platform for engineers and IT managers. They can share projects and do development and testing. It further permits distributed teams to collaborate on development projects.
IBM is taking the right approach. They are focusing on education as a key component of the offering. They offer their own social network, that serves as a resource for developers and IT managers. Cloud computing is still quite abstract for people. Education only helps customers feel more comfortable about making investments in cloud services. It helps mitigate the risk factor.
source: http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/11/05/05readwriteweb-ibm-launches-cloud-plaform-for-software-dev-61327.html
PayPal Seeks New Ways to Use Its Payment System
PayPal, which transformed the way people pay on the Web, is about to have much bigger reach online.
On Tuesday, PayPal held its first developer conference in San Francisco to officially open its platform to software developers wanting to include payments in their Web or cellphone applications.
With the new platform, any software developer can embed PayPal’s technology in an application. An application could be as simple as ordering and then paying for a pizza with one click on a cellphone. Or it could be as intricate as a way for corporate accounting departments to pay vendors without mailing checks.
Osama Bedier, the vice president for platform at PayPal, predicted that cash would soon be the payment of choice for only “tooth fairies, drug dealers and senators paying their household staff.”
The conference was a big deal for PayPal. EBay’s payments business is driving the company’s growth, and John Donahoe, eBay’s chief executive, reiterated that PayPal would soon be a bigger business than eBay’s marketplaces. To get the crowd as excited as PayPal’s executives were, there were free netbooks for all registered attendees, white-clad violinists to serenade people upon entry and roaming candy carts.
In the past, when someone wanted to use PayPal to check out, they generally had to open a new window and enter their PayPal log-in information. As a result, PayPal has missed out on a lot of the virtual goods business, which has instead gone to start-ups like Zong that let people enter their cellphone number and avoid interrupting a virtual game. Now, a PayPal pop-up box will open within a game or Web site.
PayPal has also been missing out on microtransactions, the small sums paid for a product online, like a single article or a day-long subscription to an online publication. People did not want to log in to their PayPal accounts to pay such small amounts of money. Now, a buyer can agree to give the seller a certain amount and the seller can collect the money at any time, so a reader could buy a $50 subscription and subtract 50 cents for each article.
Mark Glasberg is using PayPal for his start-up, iCents.net, which will offer online publishers a way to charge viewers. “Before today, there wasn’t a way to do this because it would disrupt the user experience if we were always asking you to go to PayPal and type in all your information,” he said.
PayPal’s new technology also lets Web sites take cuts from PayPal payments as they happen, which was not possible before. Clayton Bain, founder of a company called MedPayOnline.com that lets patients pay medical bills on the Web, used to have a complicated system to collect his transaction fee from hospitals. Now, PayPal will automatically deduct it.
Using the new technology, developers can now also let buyers send money to multiple people with one payment. This could be useful on sites like eBay and Etsy, where a shopper might make purchases from several people at once, or for a company using PayPal for payroll. A start-up called Payvment is using PayPal to let shoppers move from one virtual store to the next, add items to their carts at each stop and check out once.
“In order to break into new businesses that have been dominated by paper money, technology is not enough, we heard loud and clear,” Mr. Bedier said. Fees also had to be lower than 3 percent for people to use PayPal for things like rent or payroll. PayPal reduced the fee for paying for services out of a bank or PayPal account to either 50 cents or 0.75 percent.
Stu Andrews, a developer from Sydney, Australia, is taking advantage of this feature to build an application for a real estate company that would let tenants log on to the landlord’s Web site to pay rent, something that would have been prohibitively expensive before.
Source: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/paypal-seeks-new-ways-to-use-its-payment-system/?ref=technology
Now Domain name spells in Nepali
The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – or ICANN – voted to allow such scripts in so-called domain names at the conclusion of a weeklong meeting in Seoul, South Korea’s capital.
The unopposed decision was welcomed by the board’s 15 voting members after following years of debate and testing.
The result clears the way for governments or their designees to submit requests for specific names, likely beginning Nov. 16. Internet users could start seeing them in use early next year, particularly in Arabic, Chinese and other scripts in which demand has been among the highest, ICANN officials say.
Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s CEO, said ahead of the vote that it represented one small step for ICANN but one big step for half of mankind who use non-Latin scripts
Domain names – the Internet addresses that end in “.com” and other suffixes – are the key monikers behind every Web site, e-mail address and Twitter post.
Since their creation in the 1980s, domain names have been limited to the 26 characters in the Latin alphabet used in English – A-Z – as well as 10 numerals and the hyphen. Technical tricks have been used to allow portions of the Internet address to use other scripts, but until now, the suffix had to use those 37 characters.
Now, ICANN is allowing those same technical tricks to apply to the suffix as well, allowing the Internet to be truly multilingual.
Many of the estimated 1.5 billion people online use languages such as Chinese, Thai, Arabic and Japanese, which have writing systems entirely different from English, French, German, Indonesian, Swahili and others that use Latin characters.
The Internet would become more accessible to users with lower incomes and education, said Yu, CEO of Analysys International, an Internet research and consulting firm in Beijing who was speaking before the widely expected decision.
Countries can only request one suffix for each of their official languages, and the suffix must somehow reflect the name of the country or its abbreviation.
Non-Latin versions of “.com” and “.org” won’t be permitted for at least a few more years as ICANN considers broader policy questions such as whether the incumbent operator of “.com” should automatically get a Chinese version, or whether that more properly goes to China, as its government insists.
ICANN also is initially prohibiting Latin suffixes that go beyond the 37 already-permitted characters. That means suffixes won’t be able to include tildes, accent marks and other special characters.
And software developers still have to make sure their applications work with the non-Latin scripts. Major Web browsers already support them, but not all e-mail programs do.
Although the move will reflect linguistic and cultural diversity, Guo, researcher who studies Internet use for the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said, “for some users it might even be easier to type domains in Latin alphabets than Chinese characters.”
China is among a handful of countries that has pushed hardest for official non-Latin suffixes and could be one of the first to make one available, said Tina Dam, the ICANN senior director for internationalized domain names. The other countries, she said, are Russia, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
About 50 such names are likely to be approved in the first few years.
Beckstrom said Friday’s approval is not simply aimed at enhancing convenience for Internet users using different scripts. He further added that it was also an issue of pride of people and their own culture and their own language, and a recognition that the Internet belonged to everyone.
Source: http://physorg.com/news176099055.html
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