I remember several years ago when Unicode started taking over in comparison of ASCII text, it was quite a bit of resistance from the developer community in the beginning. This latest graph by Google shows that UNICODE has clearly taken over the web overtaking all other standards in 2008 and reaching 50% of the web […]
Month: February 2010
Take a photo and buy the item from Amazon. Just amazing!
Amazon shopping app fro BlackBerry Amazon.com has long been optimized for mobile experience but today I came across this interesting app by Amazon.com for BlackBerry devices. You simply go to http://www.amazon.com and it offers you to download the app. The app is simple to install and use. It has normal options of searching products, reading […]
Go-Green – What is it all about?
Go -Green, you must have heard the slogan and might be practically working on the idea as well. Go-Green is a movement, a frame of mind or a philosophy that is very much concerned about the environment. Environmentalism is another name for going green. The philosophy has been promoted throughout the ages but has gone […]
BA’s Brain Waves goes Mobile enabled
At the beginning of 2010, it was announced that BA’s Brain Waves, (i.e this blog) goes green, though we have done nothing green so far. One of the most strong argument we will advocate and will continue to discuss during this year is the use of mobile devices and hand held devices for surfing and […]
Google to phase out Internet Explorer 6 for Google docs
Google docs will no longer support Internet Explorer 6 and other older browsers. On march 1, 2010 these older browsers will start working either very slow or will not work at all with google docs. This step has been taken in favor of new high speed docs site with newer standards like HTML 5. The […]