French website MacGeneration has published images of support documents by Apple that show a list of new features that will be available in Safari 5. These features include a new Reader for article reading and improvements in HTML5 support with new features such as geolocation, full screen HTML4 video support and much more. As expected improvements to JavaScript performance are also in the changelog which show it to be 25% than Safari 4. These improvements will be accompanied with better page caching and DNS prefetching for faster browsing. And did I mention Bing will be available as a search option in Safari 5?  Read more...

Permalink: Apple to announce Safari 5 with Reader and Bing, OS X 10.6.4 and Xcode 4 at WWDC10

Preparations are well underway at Moscone Center, San Fransisco, for WWDC 2010, Apple‘s annual developer conference. The focus this time seems to be entirely on iPhone apps as evident from the banners that have been put up. Apple is expected to unveil iPhone 4G, a cloud based iTunes and much more ( really, the rumors go on and on! ). As usual, Steve Jobs will be there to deliver the keynote.  Read more...

Permalink: Preparations under way at Moscone Center for Apple WWDC 2010

Google’s Super Bowl ad is mild and uncontroversial. In other words it’s boring. But just like everything Google does, this is simple and effective. It actually shows the reality of our lives – we’re all so dependant on Google in our daily lives, whether it’s on our desktops, notebooks, netbooks, smartphones, dumb phones or even portable personal computers like the iPod Touch. This ad portrays the effect Google has on our life, from searches to Maps, translations and learning new things. If this doesn’t make you smile, nothing will. Or maybe the Motorola Devour Super Bowl commercial with Megan Fox will.

Check out the video after the break.  Read more...

Permalink: Google’s Parision Love 2010 Super Bowl commercial is simple but effective

You wouldn’t expect to hear such Microsoft rumors from a source such as 9to5mac which is an Apple blog, but they sound pretty confident that Microsoft plans to announce two slider smartphones from Project Pink at CES in January of 2010. One of them will be squircle in shape like last generation Zunes and has the code name ‘Turtle’, while the other one, code named ‘Pure’ has a candy bar shape. Both will have slide out keyboards just like Danger’s Sidekick (Microsoft acquired Danger around a year ago).  Read more...

Permalink: Microsoft to launch 2 iPhone killers at CES in January 2010

Over at the Office 2010 Engineering Blog, they’ve given a sneak peak at what to expect from Office 2010 Beta Backstage view. A few tweaks and improvements are planned based on user feedback of the Technical Preview builds. They’ve also disclosed the fact that Office 2010 Beta will be available this fall.

Here’s a summary of the upcoming changes:  Read more...

Permalink: Upcoming changes to Backstage in Office 2010 Beta this fall

Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference will be starting today in New Orleans and a lot of new announcements are expected, along with several already known product announcements such as Windows 7 RTM, Office 2010 and Office Web Applications.  Read more...

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