Sandboxie is cool technology – a sandbox-type isolation software for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It creates a “container” in which programs can be safely launched without modifying the host’s OS. Useful for browsing the web and throwing away the session completely.
Car giant Ford is to sell its luxury UK-based car marques Jaguar and Land Rover to Indian company Tata. Tata, India’s biggest vehicle maker, is likely to pay about $2bn (£1bn) in the deal, although analysts will be keen to see the exact price and terms.
Microtransactions in Games – good or bad? Clearly, both. Here is a viewpoint against it!
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PicLens — wow!
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Supports Flickr, Picasa Web Albums, Facebook, MySpace, Google Images, Yahoo Images and more. Available as a Firefox add-on and IE Plug-in. Awesome tool for all photo enthusiasts.
Often, even great new technology needs a partner to really change the world. Here are 10 marriages of technologies that have shaken the digital world over the last 25 years.
“Tracksticks are small GPS location recorders capable of continuously logging their own location histories for extended periods of time. These detailed recordings include time, date, location, speed, heading and altitude. Built-in flash memory and long battery life allows for the storage of months of travel information.”
Plug it in the USB drive and overlay your moves on Google maps or other supported mapping services. Perfect backpacking companion.
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In their own words: “Generate database and reporting applications for .NET in minutes. Quickly create visually stunning, feature-rich Web 2.0 applications that are easy to customize and ready to deploy. If you need an app built today, use Iron Speed Designer”
“Visa Inc., the largest payment-card network, set a record for U.S. initial public offerings today by raising $17.9 billion, more than expected… It values the entire company at $42.5 billion.”
“The IPO eclipses AT&T Wireless Group’s $10.6 billion stock offering in 2000 and ranks second in the world after the $22 billion debut in 2006 of Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd.” – Bloomberg
Visa Raises $17.9 Billion in Record-Setting U.S. IPO
Update: Visa sold additional $1.8 billion worth of IPO shares bringing the total tally to $19.7 billion. (Source)
“Google rolled out enhancements to parts of its Google Docs suite this morning that allow users to make use of third-party “gadgets.” The gadgets, which can be written by anyone with the help of a Google API, make use of data stored in Google Spreadsheets and display it in a variety of different ways (however the developer wants, really). But the gadgets aren’t just limited to making your spreadsheets prettier—they can be embedded onto a personalized iGoogle page, or published anywhere that lets you use HTML and iframes.” (via Ars Technica)
PS. This has great potential. Effectively, it could act as hosted scalable database (resting on google servers) to be used as a backend for strong data-driven apps/websites.