Google now adds 6 more languages to its automatic caption support .The languages are German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Dutch. youtube automatic caption feature currently suppots a total of 10 languages including English,Japanese, Korean, and Spanish.
Google has agreed to buy Incentive Targeting. Incentive Targeting partners with retail chains to provide a targeted marketing service to manufacturers of grocery and consumer products.
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Mozilla Firefox 19 Aurora is now available for download and testing.
What’s new in this release?
Mac OS X 10.8: Support for Notification Center
Built-in PDF viewer
Firefox will offer to reset the Awesomebar search provider, if it has been changed by third-party software or through about:config
Canvas elements can export their content as an image blob using canvas.toBlob()
Startup performance improvements
Debugger now supports pausing on exceptions and hiding non-enumerable properties
Remote Web Console is available for connecting to Firefox on Android or Firefox OS (experimental, set devtools.debugger.remote-enabled to true)
There is now a Browser Debugger available for add-on and browser developers (experimental, set devtools.chrome.enabled to true)
Web Console CSS links now open in the Style Editor
CSS @page is now supported
CSS text-transform now supports full-width
CSS viewport-percentage length units implemented (vh, vw, vmin and vmax)
Starting Firefox with -private flag incorrectly claims you are not in Private Browsing mode
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Google just released chrome stable update 23.0.1271.91 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. What’s new in this chrome update ?
Fixes:
No audio from Flash content when speaker configuration is set to Quadraphonic.
Aw, Snap renderer crash on Windows Server 2003.
Corrupt rendering in the Apple OSX driver for Intel GPUs.
Out-of-bounds read in Skia.
Browser crash with chunked encoding.
Buffer underflow in libxml.
Use-after-free with printing.
Bad cast in input element handling.
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According to the official Windows blog, Windows business head Tami Reller stated that Microsoft has now sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since the launch and Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades.
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Microsoft announced that more than 25 million people have signed up and started using Outlook.com.Outlook.com users will start to see some new features over the next few weeks.The features are One-click Archive, New keyboard shortcuts,More customization,Outlook.com was recently named one…
Fedora 18 beta code-named “Spherical Cow” is now available for download and testing.what’s new in this beta?
MATE desktop is available for the first time in Fedora.
Gnome desktop 3.6
new installer user interface
Perl 5.16
Python 3.3
Rails 3.2
updated D and Haskell programming environments
Samba 4
Eucalyptus 3.1
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The Register reveals that Google hires thousands of humans to rank search results manually. It has taken a look into Google’s 160-page guidebook which is a reference manual for human raters.
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Piwik web server compromised and hackers inserted malicious code into the open-source Piwik analytics software. According to Piwik, those who installed Piwik 1.9.2 during an eight-hour window on Monday Nov 26th from 15:43 UTC to 23:59 UTC that their Web servers may be running malicious code. Please click the the source link to get the complete details.
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id Software has released Doom 3: BFG Edition’s source code to GitHub under the GNU General Public License. Doom 3 is a first-person science fiction horror video game developed by id Software and published by Activision. An expanded and improved BFG Edition was released in the fourth quarter of 2012.The source release does not contain any game data.
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