A new look for the popular business networking site Xing has made a brief appearance on German blogInternetworld.debefore being taken down. We were able to obtain a screenshot of the new look, which was provided to us by a tipster who managed to catch the information briefly before the blog removed it. It seems likely that the new look is going to be debuted at Berlin’sNEXT11 conference, which begins tomorrow....
Have you wanted to code XNA applications, but not wanted to take the time to learn C#? If that is you, and you know Visual Basic, Microsoft has just made your day by announcing that XNA support for Visual Basic is coming in the near future. The company promised to release ‘details’ over the next several months. According to Microsoft, this has been a top “Visual Basic customer request for the past several years,” so it is a safe bet that when this is released, it will indeed boost the popularity of XNA development....
If you’ve been looking for a smarter way to manage your Gmail and Android contacts, the folks atXobnihave good news for you today. It’s called Smartr (no, notthat Smartr) and it really is a smarter way to go about overcoming contact overload. For Gmail,Smartr Inboxis a sidebar that pulls up all of the people you’ve emailed, called or SMS’d and it gives a full view for them, akin to what we’ve seen from Rapportive....
If content is king then context is queen and the castle in which she lives is implementation.Xobni, a contextual plugin for Outlook and Gmail has been hard at work to give its users some much-requested features and the company has been kind enough to give us the heads up on them. If you’ve been following our coverage lately, you’ll know that we’re big fans ofplugins that give more context and function to your email....
Sony Ericsson has stated that the Xperia Arc models that were found to be running Android 2.4 were doing so because some sample devices were misconfigured, meaning we should not expect an unannounced version of the operating system just yet. We reported last week that Sony Ericssonwould not be launchingits Xperia Arc with Android 2.4 after having it clarified by company executives in a Q&A session. Addressing rumours that had surfaced on numerous websites, Rikard Skogberg, author on the Sony Ericsson Product Blog,wrote:...
