Summary of the Lasa ICT eBulletin - July 2010

Facebook has made its first steps into the search market with the launch a servcie that allows users to quiz the site's 500m members.

Some of the biggest names in Japan's technology industry report earnings later today and the likes of Panasonic and Sony are betting on 3D to drive sales of new TVs, DVD players and camcorders.

Online retailer Amazon launches its popular Kindle e-reader into the UK market for the first time, with a new look and more books.

Details of more than 100 million Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security researcher.

Lawsuit filed in San Francisco district court after firms resurrected deleted browser cookies.

The second beta release of the next version of Firefox is now available. It has a number of new features, but the one sure to draw the most attention is a new look for Mac OS X users.

Programmer Dale Harvey has recreated the classic arcade game, Pac-Man, using only HTML5 and other emerging web standards.

People who like to use pre-release versions of browsers to get the latest features have a new choice: Google Chrome Canary. It allows you to run a regular version of Chrome and a pre-release, auto-updating version of Chrome on the same computer at the same time.

A group of design experts called Not Pixel Perfect Yet is offering free web-design advice. They’ll post a screen shot of your website on Facebook and critique it publicly. Others can learn from the remarks and join in the conversation.

Firefox 4 Beta 2 is expected as soon as next week. There are several enhancements on the way, but the one sure to raise the most interest (or the biggest stink) is the new tabs-on-top interface for Mac OS X users.

Summary of the Lasa ICT eBulletin - June 2010

Overview of options available for backing up your data

How new solutions can streamline communications and spare the environment

How communications technology is creating new, results-based model of work

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Google have announced that they will be producing an operating system to compete with Microsoft's Windows package. Google Chrome OS will be released in 2010 and will be mostly used on lightweight notebooks. A large proportion of the pc manufacturing industry has already agreed to build it in to their systems. For more information follow the linkhttp://news.bbc.co.uk

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