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Microsoft is expected to rebrand and relaunch its search engine “Live Search” to “Kumo” which means ‘cloud’ or ‘spider.’ The new brand could also reflect the company’s current strategy to embrace cloud computing.
Despite all these efforts Live Search, managed to grab just 11% of the search market, whereas Google holds more than 60%.

ASUS, a company that is as committed to environmental conservation as it is to innovation and quality, saw its sustainable computing efforts rewarded with the conferring of the world’s first EU Flower Eco Award for computers on its N50, N80, N20, and N10 notebooks.
The achievement validates the eco-friendliness of ASUS’ N Series notebooks, which had [...]

Adobe Systems Incorporated announced the call for entries for the ninth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The premiere competition honors the best student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from accredited higher education institutions worldwide.
Now in partnership with the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda), the awards ceremony [...]

Dolby has developed new system for speech transmission during online games, and is calling it Dolby Axon.
Dolby Axon enables developers to deliver a realistic voice experience that matches the game environment. Voices get louder as gamers approach one another, and fainter with distance. Like in life, voices are obstructed by objects in the game or [...]

Sun Microsystems announced the availability of NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 6.5, its development platform for building Java and JavaScript-based applications.
PHP support is complete and fully productized with 6.5. It offers features such as code completion, semantic color coding and database integration. NetBeans 6.5 also supports JavaFX development, even though JavaFX is not out [...]