Posts Tagged with ‘client’

Everyone’s talking about APIs these days.
The developer world loves ‘em. They eat them up like luscious treats of godly goodness. After they finish their celebratory cheers and siphon those lasts few sips from them party kegs, they plant themselves before their screens and pore over the releases’ particulars to determine how good the kits are (whether they’re offer up enough info to enable some really nifty and powerful third-party stuff, whether they’re “open” enough, etc., etc). And then they [...]

News reports from throughout the tech world are out about Yahoo!’s release of its new Mail application from beta. Problem is, it’s not out of beta. Not yet, at least.
Log in to the service (first debuted in September ’06) and you find the ‘Beta’ tag still fit snug right below the logo. Why’s it still there? Well, the company’s going to perform a sort of worldwide “rollout”. According to Elinor Mills of CNET’s Webware blog, it’s going to happen over [...]

Today we received news that the folks behind Meebo, the very popular Web-based IM client, released an updated website for iPhone users to enjoy. While the company did in fact announce an iPhone-friendly version of its instant messaging client shortly after the official debut of Apple’s handheld, the update is being regarded by numerous bloggers as the development that should’ve been made available from the start.
Apple has no doubt caused a sort of ruckus among a niche of customers frustrated [...]

“Can you help fix my computer?” Now how many times have you heard THAT ONE? Helping out Uncle Charlie or your best friend isn’t too much of a hassle - if you sit there at the computer. But what about those long distance “help desk” calls? The conversation is usually filled with “Click where? What? I don’t see what you’re talking about!” and the whole exercise ends in frustration.
CrossLoop is a new free Web 2.0 product which aims to end [...]