Ubuntu 12.10 will have a shopping lens

When Ubuntu 12.10 is shipped in October this year, the Unity interface will include a shopping lens.

A 'lens' is a piece of code that allows you to search for specific information both locally and remotely. Many useful lenses have been created for Unity by various third parties. For instance, you can create a Wikipedia lens that will display search results exclusively from Wikipedia right on your Ubuntu desktop.

PC Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary - Does It Have A Future ?

Way back in 1981, when IBM first introduced IBM PC's 640KB usable RAM limit, a certain luminary supposedly uttered this (now famous) statement - "640K ought to be enough for anybody". Bill Gates can however take solace in the fact that in the late 1950s, the then head of IBM, Thomas J Watson, predicted a potential world market for "maybe five computers".

Both these prophecies have been proved wrong. There are hundreds of millions of computers being used the world over. And technology permeates every aspect of our social, family, and business lives.

KDE 4.4.0 Ushers In New Innovations To The Desktop

KDE 4.4.0 Software Compilation codenamed Caikaku has been released. KDE 4.4.0 brings an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users which enhances their experience while using KDE Desktop.

KDE 4.3 released with incremental innovations

KDE 4.3 has officially been released. Code named Caizen, this release builds up on the previous release of KDE (4.2) bringing with it new innovations mainly on the desktop, applications and development platform.

Watch the following video to learn more about the fabulous new features in KDE 4.3.