It’s been a long road to NoDo, but now that the market has started to shift its eyes to the coming Mango software refresh, it is a good moment to check back in with the first big WP7 patch, one last time, to see where the platform stands. Microsoftrecently updatedits charts that reflect the carrier status for the each of the three updates that it has shipped thus far: 7008, 7390, and 7392....
Google has recently released itsMap Maker toolfor Google Maps in the US and the tool promises to further improve Google’s already impressive location-based services. Mapmaker gives users the ability to edit Google Maps location data, all the way from business phone numbers and other information to adding roads, streets and paths where they do not appear on the map. It even offers users the ability to mark out suggested walking and riding paths to help improve the walking and biking directions given by Google Maps....
Have you ever wondered how company’s settle on a name? We’ve put together a list of over 30 tech companies and how their founders made that important decision. From home towns, to birthdays, to personal nicknames, a lot of the names have a very personal meaning for the founders. You’d also be surprised to know how many of them made minor, or even major, changes to their name because of the domain was already taken....
The story of how web browsers changed us forever Reinventing language First, the web changed language. Browsers were cows grazing in the field. Humans looking through shelves for the next book to read bore a passing similarity, so they in turn also were called browsers. Then came the internet, and it’s hard to imagine browsers as anything other than apps to access the web. We needed something to call the app we’d use to access the web, and the groundwork had been laid years before....
The strangest things gamers have played Doom on A piano A few years ago, a cabal of indie developers mounted a computer inside a piano, and attached keyboard encoders to the ivories, andthus Doom Piano was born. Each of the piano keys is mapped to a specific action: forward, shoot, interact, etc. Granted, the sounds you make with it won’t be particularly melodic, if the above video is anything to go by, but that seems a small price to pay to playDoomon a piano....
