Microsoft confirms Kumo search engine testing

kumo-search-service Microsoft is gearing up to launch Kumo, its new online search service soon and today it has confirmed the testing of its new Internet search engine. Kumo which means cloud or spider in Japanese is said  to be the replacement of Microsoft’s Live search. Microsoft has registered the domain kumo.com and is currently being tested internally within Microsoft.

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March 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment

Start chatting in iGoogle now

igoogleThe ajax based iGoogle is one of the most widely used start-up page for rich personalized user experience in recent times. Sometimes i check Google mail through iGoogle as Gmail is not directly accessible in my company. Gmail is one of the Google Gadgets which is quite popular among the iGoogle users but still users are not able to get the real Gmail experience with Google chat missing out. So Google has now extended the chat feature to iGoogle officially today after testing it out with few iGoogle users internally.

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March 3rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Multiple users can now work together in the same computer

multi-user collaboration software Multi-user collaboration is one of the new buzzing words that has become so common these days with the advent of Web 2.0 and other new technologies in the internet. Whenever I think of a collaborative exercise, generally a white board exercise in the conference room comes into my mind and it doesn’t help much when you have something projected on to the screen instead a white board and people want to share their ideas at the same time. This makes multi-user interaction and collaboration with the one computer or a projected output from a computer tough. WunderWorks solves this problem with a software called TeamPlayer that allows multiple users to work together on the same computer called MUSLTM (multi-user, single location) principle.

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March 2nd, 2009 | 1 Comment