Yahoo to lay off 675 after profit slides 78%
April 22, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Search Engines, Top Stories
Yahoo Inc. confirmed Tuesday that it will cut 675 jobs, 5 percent of its workforce, as its online advertising business continued to erode in the first quarter amid economic gloom.
The Sunnyvale Web portal said it would carry out the layoffs, the third round in just over a year, in the next two weeks in hopes of saving money and freeing resources to hire elsewhere in the company. Executives said the cuts will be focused on Yahoo’s product managers and engineers.
Simple Machines Forum
Simple Machines Forum (abbreviated as SMF) is a freeware Internet forum application. The software is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database backend, although multi-database support is being developed for version 2.0. SMF is developed by the Simple Machines development team.
SMF was created to replace the forum software YaBB SE, which at the time was gaining a bad reputation because of problems with its Perl-based ancestor software YaBB[citation needed]. At the time, YaBB was attributed to causing resource allocation problems on many systems. YaBB SE was written as a rough PHP port of YaBB, and had many of the same resource and security problems of the older YaBB versions. Joseph Fung and Jeff Lewis of Lewis Media Inc., the owners of YaBB SE and the original owners of SMF, made the decision to convert to a new brand and name.
phpBB
phpBB is a popular Internet forum package written in the PHP scripting language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board. Available under the GNU General Public License, phpBB is a free software.
phpBB was started by James Atkinson as a simple UBB-like forum for his own website on June 17, 2000. Nathan Codding and John Abela joined the development team after phpBB’s CVS repository was moved to SourceForge.net, and work on 1.0.0 began. A fully functional, pre-release version of phpBB was made available in July.
Could the Internet run out of space?
March 31, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Top Stories
When a small group of university scientists began linking computers on different campus sites at the very end of the 1960s, they had no idea that their work would one day spiral into a globally-accessible network in which the total number of pages is measured in the tens of billions.
Such has been the Internet’s phenomenal and dizzying growth that much of the technology which supports it has grown organically and without much forward planning.
Skype for iPhone — it’s official
March 31, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Partnership
Months after teasing us at CES with an announcement of Skype’s native VoIP client for the iPhone, the free Skype for iPhone will finally be available to download from the iTunes App Store sometime on Tuesday.
We got a chance to sit down with the application’s principal engineer before the announcement was made at CTIA 2009, to see Skype for iPhone do its thing.
While most of the features aren’t too surprising–Skype does want to maintain some consistency across its mobile applications, after all–there are a few capabilities that are notably missing, and a few iPhone-only perks that are refreshing to see.
The many ways to earn online
March 31, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under In Focus, Netrepreneur
They say “If they can do it, So can you” specially so if you started out early, back then it’s more complicated to make websites and more expensive, but now things are different, Search engines are getting wiser, getting online and internet access is cheaper and faster. Nowadays you can even get a website for free, But hey.. there’s always a catch so watch out for them… nothing is free or as it seems to be…Scams are everywhere…
Avira AntiVir Personal – FREE Antivirus
Avira AntiVir Personal – FREE Antivirus is a reliable free antivirus solution, that constantly and rapidly scans your computer for malicious programs such as viruses, Trojans, backdoor programs, hoaxes, worms, dialers etc. Monitors every action executed by the user or the operating system and reacts promptly when a malicious program is detected.
Avira AntiVir Personal is a comprehensive, easy to use antivirus program, designed to offer reliable free of charge virus protection to home-users, for personal use only, and is not for business or commercial use. Available for Windows or UNIX.
Any Video Converter Freeware
March 14, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Video Utilities
Any Video Converter (free version) is the most renowned free video converter for converting video files between various formats, with fast converting speed and excellent video quality.
Input formats:
- avi, asf, mov, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg, 3gp, m4v, vob, YouTube videos and more
Output formats:
- avi, mp4, wmv, flv, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, mpg (PAL or NTSC), mp3, wma, ogg, aac
MediaCoder
March 14, 2009 by NetCrunch
Filed under Video Utilities
MediaCoder is a general-purpose batch media transcoder (converter) software. It supports decoding from and encoding to a wide range of existing audio/video compression formats and container formats with audio/video filtering and post-processing features. A rich set of adjustable parameters are provided. MediaCoder is covering most transcoding applications, including transcoding for mobile devices and home digital video player devices for personal use, as well as massive/batch transcoding and video archiving for professional use.
Having done a great amount of development on MediaCoder in past years, we are looking forward to providing better products and services for commercial and enterprise customers, in addition to personal users. Right now we have following products and services on the shelf.
