Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts

Monday, September 24, 2012

Yahoo! gets Revamp plans

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It has been a while with the internet giant lost its luster over the web.With the New Boss Marissa Mayer taking over,we can expect some actions in this old school.The new Boss has a lot of plans in hand to work on,as she reveals.Mayer's going to use her very own slides she used in closed-door board meetings in an act of "radical transparency." 

Yahoo's fortunes have been crashing continuously for a while following many fateful events, after Scott Thompson's scandal-ridden departure, patent clashes, security breaches and the sale of its Alibaba stake in order to spend $3.65 billion on quelling a shareholder revolution.

A report from AllThingsD says that Mayer's likely to introduce progress and goal tracking system as a measure of performance. The new system will run right from the top of company as a whole down to every individual employees.This shows that the lady has really got something in her mind, probably she picked up these things from her tenure at Mountain View. The same report has revealed that Mayer's pushing to improve the consumer experience in its Homepage, Mail and Flickr offerings (amongst others) at the expense of advertising -- a move that'll win her plenty of fans used to the minimalist Google homepage.Now that can be a bad news for Google.What say? 

Opera Mini 7.5 Smart Page update for Android devices

Opera Mini 7.5 Smart page update for Android techtxr

Opera Mini for Android has been upgraded to version 7.5, bringing with it a new "Smart Page'" feature that aggregates social media updates and news from your most frequently visited websites. Smart Page works by creating feeds for your favorite web destinations and suggesting other sources based on your surfing habits. 

So far, Opera Mini 7.5 with the Smart Page is only available on Android -- you can download it via the browser's site or through Google Play. Check out a demo of the new feature in action below.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Sony Vaio Duo 11 Windows 8 dockable tablet on Internet now


Windows 8 is scheduled to hit markets on October 26, but that does not mean that we won’t get a peek at the hardware that will power the OS. Microsoft has already done that with its Surface, Acer and Asus showed some devices at Computex and Samsung is set to showcase something at IFA. Where does that leave Sony? Well, photographs of a Windows 8 based Sony tablet, dubbed the Vaio Duo 11, have emerged on the Internet.PocketNow has the official-looking press photos of the device, which happens to be an 11-inch Windows 8 convertible.
The slate seems to borrow some ideas from Microsoft’s own Surface, but unlike the Surface its keyboard is fixed on to the main chassis and it can slide back when one wants to use it solely like a traditional tablet. The images also suggest that the tablet has a backlit keyboard, but interestingly, there is no sign of a touchpad or a mouse. It is also likely to run on Windows Pro than Windows RT, considering one of the photographs shows a full-fledged MS Office screenshot.