Indian Railway Enabled Virtual Reservation Message (VRM) System to travel without the printout of e-ticket Now you can travel in trains in India, without having a hardcopy(printout) of the e-ticket. Previously we have to take a prinout of the e-ticket booked from IRCTC. Now you just need to show the screenshoot of the e-ticket through laptops/palmtops/ Mobile phone and this is called Virtual Reservation Message (VRM). VRM along with any one of the eight prescribed [...]

Amazon launches 7" Android-powered tablet called Kindle Fire. This is a WiFi only model, priced $199. The operating system of this tablet is a customized version of Google’s Android, so it will not be like a normal android tablet. You might not be able to install apps from android market place etc. Kindle Fire will be released on November 15, 2011. Main features 7" vibrant color touchscreen that delivers 16 million colors in high resolution. [...]

The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. It may not be stable, operate correctly or work the way the final version of the software will. The features and functionality in the prerelease software may not appear in the final version. Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit (x64) DOWNLOAD (4.8 GB) Sha 1 hash – 6FE9352FB59F6D0789AF35D1001BD4E4E81E42AF All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso), you [...]

Apple’s Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, and the Board has named Tim Cook, previously Apple’s Chief Operating Officer, as the company’s new CEO. Jobs has been elected Chairman of the Board and Cook will join the Board, effective immediately. Steve Jobs Resignation Letter To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could [...]

The official release date of Mozilla Firefox 5 is on June 21, but the Mozilla has posted final builds for Firefox 5. Firefox 5 has no major changes in the user interface. Main changes are Added support for CSS animations The Do-Not-Track header preference has been moved to increase discoverability Improved canvas, JavaScript, memory, and networking performance Improved standards support for HTML5, XHR, MathML, SMIL, and canvas Improved spell checking for some locales Improved desktop [...]

Mozilla will release the final version Firefox 4 tomorrow, but you can download the the final version from one of the official mirror sites. Firefox 4 is available for all supported operating systems and languages. I have downloaded it from http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/ Download Paths Download Windows – US English or for other languages - http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/win32/ Download Mac Version – US English or for other languages http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/mac/ Download Linux Version – US English or for other languages http://napoleon.acc.umu.se/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-x86_64 Main Features of Firefox [...]

Google Docs allows us to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. You can also upload and share these files in Google Docs, so that anyone can view the content using their browser. Now the Google Docs Viewer launch support for 12 new file types. Microsoft Excel (.XLS and .XLSX) Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX) Apple Pages (.PAGES) Adobe Illustrator (.AI) Adobe Photoshop (.PSD) Autodesk AutoCad (.DXF) Scalable Vector Graphics (.SVG) PostScript (.EPS, .PS) [...]

The Document Foundation has launched the free office productivity suite LibreOffice 3.3, now available for download. LibreOffice 3.3 is it’s first stable release for Windows, Macintosh and Linux. Document foundation is an independent self-governing meritocratic Foundation, created by leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community. You can download, install and distribute LibreOffice freely, with no fear of copyright infringement. What’s outstanding about LibreOffice? LibreOffice is a feature-packed and mature desktop productivity package with some really great [...]

This SDK enables PHP applications to simply utilize SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft’s Reporting and Business Intelligence solution. These scenarios can be done using the free SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced Services edition. This edition includes the SQL Server 2008 Express database engine as well as graphical administration tools and the Reporting Services server components for creating, managing, and deploying tabular, matrix, graphical, and free-form reports(SQL Server 2008 Express Advanced can be downloaded here). [...]

NetBeans IDE 7.0 Beta introduces language support for development to the Java SE 7 specification with the JDK 7 platform. The release also provides enhanced integration with the Oracle WebLogic server, as well as support for Oracle Database and GlassFish 3.1. Additional highlights include Maven 3 and HTML5 editing support; a new GridBagLayout designer for improved Swing GUI development; enhanced support for executing and debugging standalone Java EE applications; and enhancements to the Java editor. [...]