Archive | July 2008

CrunchBase publishes API

This is good news to all followers of global IT trends, especially tech bloggers who watch movements among technology companies:  CrunchBase, the tech company database owned by TechCrunch.com, is now publishing their very own freely-accessible API! To put it simply, CrunchBase is an impressive repository of IT companies and their technologies. It is an excellent [...]

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Nokia N82: an impressive camphone

The Nokia N82 is one impressive mobile camera phone. While its predecessor, the N81, was a rather klunky music phone, the N82 definitely lives up to expectations. Case in point:  the N82 5-megapixel camera is equipped with Carl Zeiss optics, Xenon flash, autofocus, plus a secondary CIF camera in front for video calls. The photo [...]

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Google now indexes Flash content

Good news to Flash-crazy Webmasters:  Google now indexes Web content found inside Adobe Flash® files! Until recently, search engines’ crawlers were not able to "see" Flash content — text inside Flash movies, Flash menu links, etc. Ergo, Web sites built with Flash did very poorly in search engine rankings. Well, that’s about to change now. [...]

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