Google is celebrating Akira Yoshizawa’s 101st with a new origami doodle on the Google homepage,created by Robert J Lang, one of the world’s leading origami artists.
Akira Yoshizawa (14 March 1911 – 14 March 2005) was an origamist, considered to be the grandmaster of origami. According to his own estimation made in 1989, he created more than 50,000 models, of which only a few hundred designs were diagrammed in his 18 books.
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VirtualBox 4.1.10 is now available for download.This is a maintenance release.
VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during SYSEXIT right after STI
VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page fusion
VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages
Main: host interfaces no longer have “defaults” for IP address and network mask attributes
Main: don’t depend on a password for certain guest control operations
3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support
3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics
Twitter announced that it acquired Posterous.Posterous is a lightweight blogging platform company.
Twitter says Posterous Spaces will remain up and running without disruption and give notice if make any changes to the service.
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AppMobi released the first public version of its jqMobi framework.jqMobi is a javascript library for mobile application development.
Features:
Build for smartphones
60 API functions
jQuery style syntax
Plugin extensible
5k minified gzipped
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Google is celebrating 101th International Women’s Day with a new google doodle on its homepage with symbols of women replacing its familiar logo.International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year.In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women’s economic, political and social achievements.
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Apple announced the new iPad on stage at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.The new iPad featuring a 9.7-inch retina display and it will be available in 10 countries on March 16 beginning at $499.
(U.S., UK, Japan, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia).
Features:
Name:”The new iPad”
9.7-inch, 2048 x 1536-pixel “retina” display powered by an A5X quad-core graphics chip.
camera – 5 megapixels
record HD (1080p) video
9.4mm wide and weighs 1.44 lbs.
battery:9 hours on 4G LTE and 10 hours on Wi-Fi.
color:black and white
Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n)
Bluetooth 4.0 technology
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According to Twitter blog,Twitter is now Available in four new languages:Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. Twitter is now available in right-to-left languages.
Twitter added these four languages to the Twitter Translation Center on January 25 and more than 13,000 volunteers are contributed in this work worldwide. Now twitter is available in 28 different languages.
Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is now available for download. what’s new in this beta?
Beta-1 includes the 3.2.0-17.27 Ubuntu kernel which is based on the v3.2.6 upstream stable kernel.
default music player Rhythmbox.
LibreOffice 3.5
Added Nautilus quicklist support to Unity launcher
New HUD.
ClickPad support.
resolvconf is now used to manage /etc/resolv.conf on all Ubuntu systems.
default Automatic Apport crash reporting.
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PHP 5.4.0 is now available for download.what’s new in this version?
New language syntax including Traits, shortened array syntax
Improved performance and reduced memory consumption
Support for multibyte languages now available in all builds of PHP at the flip of a runtime switch
Built-in webserver in CLI mode to simplify development workflows and testing
Cleaner code base thanks to the removal of multiple deprecated language features
Many more improvements and fixes
Desktop Browser Market Share:
According to Net Applications,in February Total market share of
microsoft internet explore is 52.84%,
firefox 20.92%,
chrome 18.90%
Safari 5.24% and
opera 1.71%.
Mobile/Tablet Browser Market Share:
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