The Windows Presentation Foundation uses DirectX to take advantage of your 3D graphics hardware to convert the 2D windows surfaces into textures that can be rendered onto the desktop. Windows Aero is actually just a theme, or skin type, used by the...
Speaking to silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk after his presentation, Jaaksi said Nokia was "only now" able to start thinking about what to do with LiMo. Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these "go against the open-source philosophy", but said...
In the past, companies had to write their own custom applications. When you buy a cluster, the price per node in the cluster is going to be reduced" compared to regular Windows, Theimer said in a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum in San...
The Mambo web content management system needs a new mechanism for handling access controls. If a project can be kept inside a boundary that presents a simple interface to the outside, then the solution will seem simple.
s Flickr, ZenZui is using publicly available feeds to create a custom tile. Seattle-based ZenZui has licensed a "zoomable user interface" aimed at creating prime real estate on the phone that can help connect road warriors with the information they...
A third topic discussed at the meeting, in addition to open sourcing desktop search and creating Ask Jeeves-branded browsing products, was the possibility of merging Mozilla's Extensible User Interface Language, or XUL, with Ask Jeeves' Octopus...