Eventually, Google jumped into on-line media market. They also  in CES. DRM is a must for this kind of service. Google claimed that they have many media partners. Anyway, this is not a free service! You have to pay for what you want.

Till now, Google Video has been about watching videos and clips online, which is really convenient for videos . But wouldn’t it be awesome to watch that episode of that you missed when even your trusty DVR failed you? This is one reason we’ve launched the Google Video store, where you can rent or buy from such well-known media partners as , the , The , and .

Grid is widely adopted by major integration company as a promising glue for legacy softwares.

DataSynapse, Inc., the global provider of virtual application infrastructure software, today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA), a leading provider of enterprise data integration software, under which the two companies will collaborate to interface DataSynapse’s award-winning GridServer(R) technology with Informatica’s PowerCenter data integration platform for the seamless deployment of a shared computing infrastructure.

Oracle surveyed state of grid technology in business sector.

"The report reveals that India leads the world’s perceptions of moving towards a grid IT environment with 60 per cent of the organisations polled stating that grid-based IT infrastructure is inevitable or very probable. Moreover, nearly half (48 per cent) of organisations polled have already made or are in the process of embracing grid technology," Sundar Ram, Senior Director, Database Technologies, Oracle Asia-Pacific, said at a conference on the eve of Oracle OpenWorld event here.

The results of the latest Oracle Grid Index research indicates an increased awareness of enabling technologies such Services Oriented Architecture and Blade Servers, he added. |Read more Finance news.|

Ana Kronschnabl and Tomas Rawlings pick the best open source websites where users can change the content

1. Wikipedia
2. Firefox
3. Open Office
4. Bittorrent
5. MediaWiki
6. Xvid
7. pHpBB Bulletin Boards
8. Outfoxed
9. dyne:bolic
10. GIMP
11. Apache
12. SourceForge

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ThinkCAP is an internet application framework with AJAX for J2EE platform. It utilizes prototype.js and script.aculo.us like Ruby on Rails do.

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or AJAX, a technique for creating interactive Web applications, has exploded onto the Web development scene, gaining popularity so quickly that some developers are lagging behind in their skills. To address the need for faster AJAX development, lots of companies and developer communities are coming up with Rapid Application Development (RAD) platforms for AJAX. One of those platforms, ThinkCAP JX Framework, combines more than two dozen open source libraries, and the "framework" portion of the application has just been released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
NewsForge | ThinkCAP goes open source

Google is entering into automobile and home appliance products. What is the next?

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