Microsoft announced the availability of WebMatrix, a free web development tool designed to help website developers of all skill levels easily create, customize and publish websites to the Internet. It includes a set of tools to create new websites, using code provided through a variety of available templates or using free open source Web applications, like WordPress, Joomla!, DotNetNuke and Umbraco. WebMatrix provides all the features you need in a single unified interface. You can easily edit your files, manage database and modify server settings – all at a single place. It brings together a Web server, a database, and programming frameworks into single, integrated experience. It lets you code, test, and deploy both ASP.NET and PHP applications side by side. ...

Three plus four is five. Here is what the bill are at least in the case of the iPhone 5, the next generation of smartphones from Cupertino. Apple has the critics on the current model (iPhone 4) seriously and working on the successor will be in full swing. The reception problems (Antennagate) are known and will certainly get to a skillful isolation of the antenna in the handle. Many iPhone fans hope that the iPhone will connect 5, the advantages of its two immediate predecessors: the excellent performance of the iPhone 3G and the unusual design of the iPhone 4. ...

Its confirmed now! There will be no iOS updates, unlocks, jailbreaks for iPhone 3G models. This is quite expected because Apple made it clear by not releasing iOS 4.3 Beta to iPhone 3G and iPod touch 2G models. This has been also confirmed by MuscleNerd (iPhone Dev team hacker) that there will be no downgrade solution for users who have updated their iPhone 3G’s baseband to 6.15.00 in order to unlock. ...

For those of you who have been waiting for iPhone 4 unlock on 3.10.01 and 2.10.04 basebands, here is the official iPhone unlock statement from MuscleNerd of iPhone Dev-Team - Official iPhone unlock statement: no unlock will be released until after 4.2.5 or official 4.3 (whichever is last) is out Now that we have CDMA version of iPhone (available from Feb 10), with completely different baseband OS from that of GSM, it will be interesting to see if the iPhone hacker team will take the challenge of unlocking the CDMA devices as well. ...

Apple has dropped a new build of iOS into the Developer Center and developers around the world are already hard at work tearing it apart in search for all the little hidden gems within. I’ve keep a running list of everything I’ve spotted that has made its way into iOS 4.3 (from couple of different Internet sources). Drop a comment and let others know if you find anything new! ...

It might sound like blasphemy for the Apple diehards out there, but in the world of MP3 players, the ability to play a lot of songs isn’t that innovative of a feature anymore. The original iPod, of course, advertised itself as allowing you to put a thousand songs in your pocket - but this original (albeit compelling) sales pitch seems to have lost its luster as the technology has caught up with the times. ...

Google’s been ‘hacked’. Yes, you heard it right! Visitors of the company’s Bangladesh search site (Google.com.bd) see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site a while ago today.

Google has launched a new feature in Google Docs where you can upload video files and play it directly in the browser. Once you’ve uploaded your video to Google Docs, you can watch it with the Google Docs video player. Simply click the file from your Documents List, and the player opens in a new page. Google now supports common video format files such as .MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec), AVI, .WMV, .FLV. ...

Google has released an official video on their YouTube channel, unleashing Android 3.0 – designed exclusively for tablets. It’s been pretty much confirmed that 3.0 is Honeycomb. If the video embedded below is anything to go by, the next-generation of Android tablets could pose the first real challenge to Apple iPad (or iPad 2), unlike the current-gen Android tablets like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab. This “Entirely for Tablet” version of Android, in the quick glimpse, we can see that Android, at least at the face value we can see here, has been given a pretty big advancement in the User Interface (UI). ...

The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011 will kick off tomorrow at around 8:00 PM IST Thursday, January 6, commencing with the keynote address from Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft. So, what you can expect from Microsoft at this four day International event? Reports are coming in that Microsoft may announce a set-top box in a reply to the Apple TV and Google TV. You may also expect Windows Phone 7.1 with copy/paste functionality with the addition of CDMA-based Windows Phone devices ...