Intel working on augmented reality chipsets

Total Immersion, a pioneer in emerging field of augmented reality (AR), is working with Intel to bring AR features, like gesture recognition, into Intel's chipsets, an executive of the privately held firm said. Speaking at the Reuters Global Media Summit, Total Immersion's marketing chief Antoine Brachet said consumer acceptance will decide when products would reach the market, but he thinks this could happen in 2-3 years. Running on smartphones or computers, AR overlays digital information...

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Your New Facebook Status: 63,206 Characters or Less

Twitter, as everyone and their tweeting dog knows, limits your status updates to 140 characters. But Facebook? Facebook laughs in the face of such limitations. On Facebook, 140 characters is barely clearing your throat. In a blog post Wednesday, Facebook’s Journalist Program Manager (and Mashable alum) Vadim Lavrusik announced that the limit of Facebook status updates has now been upped to “more than 60,000 characters.” When Mashable asked, Lavrusik explained what that meant, exactly: You...

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Twitter, mixi join hands to challenge Facebook

Twitter Inc and Japan's biggest homegrown social networking site mixi Inc joined forces to strengthen their ground against a rapidly expanding Facebook.  For Twitter, the partnership with a local social network could point to a new strategy as the San Francisco-based microblogging service seeks to accelerate global growth. Japan is the company's second-biggest market after the US and has served as a key international testing ground of sorts.  Japanese was Twitter's first foreign...

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Microsoft overhauls SkyDrive cloud storage

Microsoft has announced that its cloud-based storage system SkyDrive has been overhauled to allow 'app-centric' sharing. Microsoft insists that the update, which also offers up better file management, HTML5 uploads and CSS transitions, is based on user feedback. Also included are photo improvements (including geo-tagging support), support for more file types and performance enhancements. Key product SkyDrive is a key Microsoft product, although it has very much been left in the background...

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ARM launches free native Android app toolkit Beats Java speed by up to 4x

For small firms, ARM has release Development Studio 5 Community Edition, a free version of its reference software development toolkit. Known as DS-5 CE. "the new edition is dedicated to the Android application developer community and helps them create native software for compute intensive tasks that can run up to 4 times faster than Java code," claimed the firm. "DS-5 CE includes limited, but essential functionality from the premium DS-5 toolkit to help solve common Android application...

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Capture Button’s Click Event of User Control in the Page

Example 1: Introduction Almost every application nowadays makes use of UserControl. This article helps you to understand how one can capture the button's (placed in User Control) click event inside the page which holds the user control. Using the Code To start with, let's first create a new website and add a user control to it and name it Demo.ascx. This is how youruser control looks like initially. <% @ Control Language="C#"...

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