Intel's new App-store-like like venture for Atom netbooks has now begun accepting application submissions.The Intel Atom Developer Program is Intel's attempt to have a application store for its Atom based netbooks. Developers need to use the light SDK provided by Intel for developing their Application for it to be eligible.A while back they released their first Alpha SDK to get early developers started off developing with the new SDK. Now with the beta release they enabling app submissions as well. The model of this service is much like that of the iPhone App Store, where the company gets a 30% cut of any earnings. Due to the increased complexity in developing desktop applications (compared to mobile applications), with support for developers to sell libraries for inclusion in other...

In Google's continuing effort to speed up each and every part of your internet experience, Google has now launched it's own DNS service. The new service allows you to use Google specified DNS servers to speed up you internet access by resolving names faster.DNS, or Domain Name System servers have the important job of mapping names to actual internet addresses. For example, when you enter http://microsoft.com the microsoft.com bit is the domain name of the website. Your browser does not directly know which server on the internet is supposed to provide content for this website. This is where DNS resolution comes in, DNS servers act like telephone directories, where instead of finding a telephone number from a given person's name, you fine an IP address from a given domain name. All this...

Yes, Google has decided to officially dump its own Google Gears framework for the offline functionality coming with HTML5.Google Gears is a browser plugin which allows for web developers to create online applications which can work even when the user is offline. For the rest of us, it means that we can be sure that the application will continue to operate even when you go offline. This allows for the creation of hybrid online / offline web applications, where the website serves the local content in the absence of an internet connection. It has been the technology responsible for the offline functionalities of quite a few of Google's products, such as Google Docs, Google Calender, Google Reader, and even GMail through a GMail lab option. With these technologies you could use GMail to...