http://www.takeaplunge.com Ventures, Start Ups, Businesses Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:27:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.takeaplunge.com/chrome-web-store-coming-in-october/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/chrome-web-store-coming-in-october/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:25:53 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4049 Google’s Chrome Web Store may launch in October. Google working towards getting the Web store ready for the web application developers, according to the presentation at the Game Developer Conference in Europe. 1UP.com has uploaded a report that has videos and pictures of Google’s Mark DeLoura and Michael Mahemoff explaining how to submit apps to the store. The presentation [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/chrome-web-store-coming-in-october/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/an-now-usesafetyweb%e2%80%99s-free-online-tracking-to-find-missing-kids/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/an-now-usesafetyweb%e2%80%99s-free-online-tracking-to-find-missing-kids/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:48:52 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=4043 Child safety monitoring service SafetyWeb will soon release a free version of its online tracking tool. This is specially meant for the law enforcement agencies. The SWOT tool will help police to access the status updates of the social networking accounts of a missing child and secure them. The tool is capable of tracking recent activity across [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/an-now-usesafetyweb%e2%80%99s-free-online-tracking-to-find-missing-kids/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/farmville-is-it-a-new-game-about-mindless-social-games/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/farmville-is-it-a-new-game-about-mindless-social-games/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:21:25 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3911 Fad up of the nonstop Farmville updates of your friends in your Facebook page? It’s really difficult to understand why the whole world is after one game. A new Facebook-based game tries to talk about the supposed inanity of other Facebook games–like the now-antiquated “sheep throwing” of Slide’s SuperPoke and the highly popular Zynga’s FarmVille (which takes [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/farmville-is-it-a-new-game-about-mindless-social-games/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/clickjacking-researcher-shows-new-clickjacking-methods/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/clickjacking-researcher-shows-new-clickjacking-methods/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:35:05 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3358 A computer security researcher has released a new browser-based tool which will allow experimentation with next-generation “clickjacking” attacks. He also released detailed information about four new techniques. What is Clickjacking? It is a style of attack where you will be tricked into clicking on specific buttons hidden certain parts of a Web page that perform malicious actions. The [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/clickjacking-researcher-shows-new-clickjacking-methods/feed/ 10 http://www.takeaplunge.com/new-application-could-make-all-software-open-source/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/new-application-could-make-all-software-open-source/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 03:15:20 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=3262 Image via Wikipedia Time may come when you will be able to control different programs as you wish. For example, you may also be able to control Apple iTunes from inside Microsoft Word without switching applications. Researchers at the University of Washington think so. They are working on a project that could essentially make any proprietary software open source. “Microsoft and Apple [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/new-application-could-make-all-software-open-source/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/adobe-to-buy-omniture-for-18b/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/adobe-to-buy-omniture-for-18b/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:48:49 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2150 Adobe Systems Inc. will buy Web analytic software company Omniture Inc. paying $1.8 billion. This will provide the maker of content-creation software an opportunity to hook marketers by offering them a chance to measure the effectiveness of such content. Adobe will pay a price $21.50 per share in cash, for Omniture, which is a premium of [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/adobe-to-buy-omniture-for-18b/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-hopes-readers-will-flip-over-new-format/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-hopes-readers-will-flip-over-new-format/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:09:30 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2141 Now, reading online stories can be as easy as flipping through a magazine – courtesy Google. The Internet giant is testing a new format which will make reading easier along with generating more advertising sales to revenue-starved publishers. The experiment is called “Fast Flip,” which was unveiled Monday at a conference hosted by TechCrunch. The new service [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/google-hopes-readers-will-flip-over-new-format/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/red-hat-eyes-rest-standardization/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/red-hat-eyes-rest-standardization/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:44:18 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=2045 Red Hat is seeking REST standardization through an effort it is calling REST-*. This could be a counterpoint to the alternative WS-* specifications for Web services. With REST-* (pronounced rest star), Red Hat plans to work with main vendors that includes IBM and Microsoft, to define standards or recommendations for REST-based system integration. “I think this actually [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/red-hat-eyes-rest-standardization/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/oracle-offers-virtualization-template-tool/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/oracle-offers-virtualization-template-tool/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:14:04 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1824 Oracle will offer a template-building tool which will speed up deployments based on the open source Oracle VM software product. With this move Oracle will go deeper into the server virtualization Space. It will use the OpenSourceWorld conference in San Francisco as a launching platform for Oracle VM Template Builder. This is an open source graphical [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/oracle-offers-virtualization-template-tool/feed/ 0 http://www.takeaplunge.com/ms-exec-apple-complained-about-laptop-hunters-ads/ http://www.takeaplunge.com/ms-exec-apple-complained-about-laptop-hunters-ads/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:00:17 +0000 admin http://www.takeaplunge.com/?p=1569 Microsoft’s 2009 Worldwide Partner Conference on Wednesday saw few interesting things. Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, in his presentation,  claimed that Apple actually Microsoft to complain about the Laptop Hunters ad campaign. , Find the pertinent excerpt (via Gizmodo) “And you know why I know they’re working? Because two weeks ago we got a call [...]]]> http://www.takeaplunge.com/ms-exec-apple-complained-about-laptop-hunters-ads/feed/ 0