tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88883342012-01-14T16:46:17.910+05:00Your Daily Computer and Technology News and Reviews Web SiteG3nu1n3http://www.blogger.com/profile/09147005756040529439noreply@blogger.comBlogger20211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-41334557666895369872007-08-26T20:27:00.000+05:002007-08-29T14:57:57.287+05:00

I am looking for you. Please meet me here!Explore Pakistan

Shirazinoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-76591219838189115482007-06-03T13:16:00.000+05:002007-06-03T13:18:17.839+05:00

Nokia smart2go an alternative to tomtom on mobile devices, worth checking out, but why is g3TN dead ?

ernoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1138297532132631242006-01-26T22:42:00.000+05:002006-01-26T22:45:32.576+05:00

"HumanML is a new specification being developed by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).1 Work on HumanML migrated to a Technical Committee of OASIS after initially beginning independently in an ad hoc Yahoo Groups mailing list. Evolved from the informal practice of using emoticons to improve communication in a world of text-based e-mail, news groups

Virtuous Ladyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02695909225305498648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1133591794926257432005-12-03T11:36:00.000+05:002005-12-03T11:36:35.026+05:00

Dear friends, I regret to tell you but my orkut account has closed therefore I am unable to send any invitations.

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Ramzan Mubarak to all of you. May this month bring us happiness, may this month bring us more closer to Allah, may we come out as better muslims and better human beings and may all our prayers get answered (Ameen).

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Coming again this year, is the National Engineering Robotics Contest, organized by the department of mechatronics, NUST. Last year 72 teams participated, and it is likely that this year's competition is going to be larger, tougher, and more celebrated.The goal of the contest this year is to build a small, microcontroller based, intelligent robot that can pot balls into baskets. For details, visit

Absar Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01294224026635922198noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1125221638034304052005-08-28T14:33:00.001+05:002005-08-28T14:33:58.036+05:00

Intel Corp. has outlined its research in "user-aware" chip and platform technologies that could intuitively respond to the environment.Intel Corp. on Thursday (August 25) outlined its research in "user-aware" chip and platform technologies that could intuitively respond to the environment.User-aware platforms, according to Intel, will use a new level of intelligence to manage multiple tasks in an

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1125221597946806532005-08-28T14:33:00.000+05:002005-08-28T14:33:17.946+05:00

The three companies involved in making the Cell microprocessor have released new details about the chip in an attempt to break its reputation as only being able to power the next Sony PlayStation console.Sony Group, Toshiba and IBM--sometimes referred to as STI--on Thursday published some previously undisclosed technical specifications and software standards for the Cell architecture, and more

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Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its fourth satellite DMB phone, the SCH-B250, completing a series initiated by the previous release of the B100, B130 and B200 models.Samsung's new B250 brings a more compact design and improved features while maintaining the basic product concept of previous DMB phones, which supports horizontal viewing. The B250 is also the smallest Samsung DMB

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Only users of Internet Explorer and a version of Netscape will be able to access a copyright preregistration system slated for launch in late October."Other browsers may work well with the version we are using now, but they have not been tested," Julia Huff, the U.S. Copyright Office's chief operating officer, said in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "Because of our tight schedule and resources, we

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1125221479003136072005-08-28T14:31:00.000+05:002005-08-28T14:31:19.013+05:00

Intel announced on Wednesday an expansion into consumer markets with technology that brings it head-to-head with the likes of Sony and Toshiba.The leading computer chipmaker unveiled “Viiv” as the new brand and technology platform that would spearhead its assault on the unfamiliar territory of consumer electronics and the next generation of entertainment devices.The company said Viiv would be

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1125213325462071842005-08-28T12:15:00.000+05:002005-08-28T12:15:25.463+05:00

Atlast the IM client from Google is out. It is still in beta right now but do check it out. Its simple and fast. Google Talk service runs on the open XMPP protocol. So even though many people will log on using Google Talk, you can also use iChat, GAIM, Trillian, Adium, Psi, or another one of the many great XMPP clients out there.Source : Google Talk

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Google Desktop 2 has been announced. New features include:-- Sidebar, an intelligent desktop panel that gives you continually updated personalized info like your email, photos, stock prices, weather, RSS and Atom feeds, and so on. All of it is automatically customized for you, and ever-more-precisely tailored to your own interests based on how you use your computer. Think of Sidebar as an

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Google is now available in Cambodian, Corsican, Kazakh, Lingala, Pashto, Quechua, Shona, Tajik, Tatar, Tonga, and Yoruba. This launch raises the count of Google languages to 116.Source : Google Languages

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Go to GMail. From there you can get an invitation code sent to your mobile, and with this code you can create a GMail account. Doesn't seem to work at my side. What about yours ?

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Sony has announced a new flash-based MP3 player called the Walkman Bean. The 1.6-ounce player comes in two memory capacities, 512MB and 1GB, and four colors: Licorice Black, Cotton Candy Pink, Coconut White, and Tropical Ice Blue. It includes an FM tuner, but no recording capabilities, and has a one-line display.We're intrigued by the Bean's claimed battery life—Sony says users will get 50 hours

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Japanese videogame maker Nintendo Latest News about Nintendo said it will launch its latest handheld game player, the mobile-phone-sized GameBoy Micro, in Japan on Sept. 13 and the United States on Sept. 19.The company is expanding its portable offerings in part to counter sinking sales of its Nintendo GameCube Latest News about GameCube amid rival offerings such as Sony's Latest News about Sony

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Chinese Internet Web portal NetEase Inc., one of China's three largest U.S.-listed Internet companies, has stopped its music search service because of concerns about copyright piracy, the company said.``This move is out of concern and respect for copy rights,'' the Beijing-based company said in an emailed statement, quoting cofounder William Ding. The company did not offer music downloads itself

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1124375507367702402005-08-18T19:31:00.001+05:002005-08-18T19:31:47.366+05:00

Apple Computer Thursday introduced an array of new computer and computer peripherals, including a next-generation easy-to-use mouse, in South Korea.The U.S. computer giant unveiled Mighty Mouse, an all-white next-generation mouse with several innovative features compatible with both Mac and Windows PC users, at the Westin Chosun Hotel.Apple avoided compromising its single-button simplicity in

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Yahoo ups the ante today by adding new features to its Local Search. Now, in addition to searching listings by city, the company has introduced user recommendations and the ability to search locally for restaurants, movies and events in specific neighborhoods."The future of local search lies not only in offering highly comprehensive and relevant local search results, but in combining those

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1124375433255283082005-08-18T19:30:00.000+05:002005-08-18T19:30:33.256+05:00

Apple has pulled a critical security update put out this week because it breaks 64-bit applications.The update for Mac OS X, issued on Monday, fixed a number of large security holes across the operating system but has also rendered 64-bit optimised applications unusable, causing thousands of companies to field calls from angry customers.Apple has pulled the update while it finds a workaround.One

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The new breed of Windows 2000 worms that emerged Tuesday have spread fast and have now infected an estimated 250,000 systems, security experts claim.Infections are primarily of Windows 2000 systems being run in corporate environments, according to security vendor Computer Associates International. (CA).The worms received widespread media attention after CNN reported that it had been affected by

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1124375344858500822005-08-18T19:29:00.000+05:002005-08-18T19:29:04.933+05:00

Mark Cuban—self-dubbed "blog maverick" and owner of both the Weblog search engine IceRocket and the Dallas Mavericks—has warned that those who use Google's free Blogger service under the Blogspot domain may soon be kicked out of IceRocket's search engine due to the insufferable amounts of blog spam the free service produces."Anything that has ever been spammed about is spammed in monstrous

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1124297238208664122005-08-17T21:47:00.000+05:002005-08-17T21:47:18.210+05:00

Toshiba Corp. announced Tuesday (Aug. 16) it has started shipping production quantities of a 1.8-inch hard disk drive using perpendicular recording to pack 40-Gbytes of memory storage on a single platter, about 10-Gbytes per platter more than on its existing drives.The higher capacity gives Toshiba an edge as it seeks design wins against lower-capacity but smaller one-inch sized drives in MP3

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Scientists in Singapore have invented a battery powered by urine."We are striving to develop cheap, disposable, credit card-sized biochips for disease detection. Our battery can easily be integrated into such devices, supplying electricity upon contact with biofluids such as urine," says Ki Bang Lee, PhD, MS, in a news release.Lee is a principal research scientist at the Institute of

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Now you can use Blogger right within Microsoft® Word. Just download and install the Blogger for Word add-in and a Blogger toolbar will be added to Word allowing you to:* Publish to your blog* Save drafts* Edit postsDownload : Link

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Are you a mobile phone "jerk" or a "smooth talker"? Your performance can now be monitored during calls and reviews flashed up on screenOminously, the Jerk-O-Meter also has the ability to brief the person you are talking to - spouse, lover or boss - on your phone etiquette.The software, developed by Anmol Madan at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, tests how much attention users are paying

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Typing on a Das Keyboard is a lot like typing on any other computer keyboard - except the keys are blank.Most people, especially those who rely on the slow but steady hunt-and-peck technique, might consider that a problem.Not Daniel Guermeur, chief executive of Austin-based Metadot Corp. The self-proclaimed ``uber geek'' says he first came up with the idea for a blank keyboard while attending

SHAnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1124124296927574732005-08-15T21:44:00.000+05:002005-08-15T21:44:56.926+05:00

Web analytics company NetApplications says the open source Firefox browser from the Mozilla Foundation had 8.07% of the browser market in July, compared to 8.71% in June.NetApplications said Firefox’s decrease was mirrored by the same increase in use of Internet Explorer, which saw its share increase from 86.56% in June to 87.2% in July.NetApplications gathers its data from users visiting 40,000

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A new Internet virus has been detected that can infect Microsoft's Windows platforms faster than previous computer worms, said an anti-virus computer software maker.The ZOTOB virus appeared shortly after the world's largest software maker warned of three newly found "critical" security flaws in its software, including one that could allow attackers to take complete control of a computer.The

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The first episode of Barbershop: The Series, a new show that premieres on 14 August on ShowTime in the US, will be available for streaming in its entirety on MSN Video simultaneously with the series debut.The first episode of the half-hour comedy series, which focuses on the interplay between an eclectic staff of haircutters and their customers at a Chicago barbershop, also can be viewed free at

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Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser has been showing signs of aging.That's about to change as Microsoft prepares IE 7, a major update that, in its early incarnation, plays catch-up with newer browsers for the Windows operating system, including Opera Software ASA's Opera and the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox.The early version of IE 7, called Beta 1, was released largely for software

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If you think Apple Computer's Steve Jobs invented the technology behind the Apple iPod, don't bet your 60GB, 15,000-song model on it.According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, patent applications that cover much of the technology associated with the iPod were submitted by Microsoft, which has been on a patents tear recently filing thousands of patents.If the patents hold up on appeal,

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The industry standard in high end realtime 3d graphics, the OpenGL technology is under great danger because of Microsoft's plans to layer OpenGL above Direct3D. This will decrease the performance of OpenGL by 50% on Windows platform. More details on this link:http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/cgi_directory/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=000001

Kamranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05146276476581466802noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1123953378067803432005-08-13T22:16:00.000+05:002005-08-13T22:16:18.066+05:00

The Yammys recognizes those fearless souls who give us funny videos to search on Yahoo! Video Search and keep us laughing and emailing our friends.Contestants can submit a video in 1 of 5 categories: Bloopers, Pets, Road Trips, Office Humor, and a Catch-All "I Can't Believe It!" There's also a voting phase that starts August 30 so even if you don't enter the contest, you can still cast your vote

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Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser has been showing signs of aging. Over the past few years, the company has made security improvements and added a pop-up blocker but not much else.That's about to change as Microsoft prepares IE 7, a major update that, in its early incarnation, plays catch-up with newer browsers for the Windows operating system, including Opera Software ASA's Opera and

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Intel will unveil its next-generation processor architecture in just under two weeks' time, the chip giant said today.Due to ship in H2 2006, the architecture will result in "processors that are high-performance, energy-efficient and multi-core", the company said. "New form-factors" for PCs will be enabled, it promised.Source : Link

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An unauthorized version of Mac OS X for Intel or AMD-powered PCs is floating around the Net.Instructions on how to install Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system on any PC with a chip from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices were posted to the Internet this week, and they could be found on several Web sites today.Apple announced in June that Mac OS X will run on Intel's x86 architecture chips

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Add TiVo Inc. to the list of companies trying to wed the Internet to television. The digital recording company will soon allow customers to download TV shows to their set-top boxes via the Internet _ even before the shows air on TV.TiVo has struck a deal with the Independent Film Channel to transmit several of the cable channel's shows through a broadband connection as part of a trial program.

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Google's ambitious project launched last year to scan all sorts of books to make their contents available on the Internet set publishers snarling. Google's solution to the controversy has publishers snarling even more.The Mountain View company has suspended the scanning but has given publishers until November to say which copyright material it can't use. That angered publishers, who say the

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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday released a dual-core version of its existing AMD Athlon 64 3800+ processor, cutting prices in the process.The addition to the low end of the AMD dual-core desktop microprocessor line is AMD's first dual-core chip rated at the same performance level as one of its single-core offerings. The 3800+ X2 is priced at $354, about $25 higher than the single-core

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This is an initiative that seeks to take the concept of video on the web a step forward. Yahoo has announced that it will start offering news feeds from Disney's ABC News and Time Warner's CNN as part of the features on its Yahoo! News site from next month.CNN.com will offer video clips daily and ABC News will offer a package of on demand video content. All of the video will be available for free

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IT SEEMS JUST ABOUT everyone is slating Microsoft for its new OS name choice, but the latest to have a go at The Mighty Vole are two charity groups that help health care organisations set up US Veterans Administration software, reports Infoworld.WorldVista and The VistA Software Alliance are upset with Microsoft's choice, believing there's going to be a fair bit of confusion between the veteran

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A beta version of the MSN Screen Saver is out. some of its features includeSearch Integration: use MSN Search right from your screensaver.Personalized news (via RSS): choose MSN feeds or add your own RSS feeds. Mouse over headlines to see more info, or click to read the full story.MSN Spaces Integration: display blogs and photos from your friend's Space.Personal Photos: choose a local directory

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On July 20, 1969, man first landed on the Moon. A few decades later, we're pleased to cut you in on the action. Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery (thanks, guys!), enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings.Source : Google Moon

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Microsoft has demonstrated a more powerful version of its Hotmail Web-based e-mail program that is in the testing stages.The software maker on Thursday showed a version of Hotmail that works a lot more like desktop e-mail programs such as Outlook or Outlook Express, offering options such as a preview of incoming e-mails, antiphishing features and the ability to block or unblock specific senders.

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The Yahoo! toolbar for Firefox is now out of beta. You can get it here

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The first shots of Windows Vista have clawed their way on to the internet. I must say my feelings remail luke-warm, in spite of the high hopes I had for Vista. This was going to be a product where Microsoft was really going to innovate for the first time in history. This beta lacks several features (like the sidebar) that will (hopefully) make it to the release version in the second half of 2006,

Absar Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01294224026635922198noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1122414706596551082005-07-27T02:41:00.000+05:002005-07-27T02:53:42.683+05:00

Vista will be here (hopefully) by early 2006. Okay, Vista doesn't sound as too sure a name, but apparently names such as 'Windows Seven' and 'Windows Ruby' were on the table as well! Vista doesn't sound too bad now, does it? :)Humor: Joy of Tech Comic - Coming up with Windows Vista

Absar Shahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01294224026635922198noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8888334.post-1122049818011200882005-07-22T21:30:00.000+05:002005-07-22T21:30:18.013+05:00

Police in Brazil arrested a gang of drug dealers who were using Google's popular Orkut social networking site to sell ecstasy and marijuana, reports by the Reuters wire service said late Thursday."We discovered the drug ring first via authorized phone tapping, and later the investigation included monitoring of their activities on the Internet," said a Drugs Enforcement Service officer who

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Electronics and entertainment conglomerate Sony Corp. on Thursday unveiled a range of development tools so software companies can develop games for its next-generation PlayStation 3 video game console.The company said it acquired Britain's SN Systems Ltd. and formed strategic alliances with U.S.-based Ageia Technologies Inc., Havok and Epic Games to provide more tools.Having led the worldwide

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Cisco Systems is dipping its toes in the consumer electronics business with the acquisition of a start-up in Europe.On Friday, Cisco announced that its Linksys division will acquire privately held Kiss Technology of Hoersholm, Denmark, for $61 million in cash. This is the second acquisition Cisco has made for Linksys since it purchased the division in 2003. Cisco bought Sipura Technology, a maker

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Microsoft added to its recent string of acquisitions yesterday with an agreement to buy a 160-person California company that filters, archives and secures e-mail for thousands of businesses in centralized data centers.The proposed acquisition of FrontBridge Technologies Inc. would extend Microsoft's corporate e-mail business into the field commonly known as managed services. Microsoft says the

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The Mozilla Foundation has delayed the release of the next major version of Firefox until September, a move that followed recent troubles in the release of bug fixes for the popular open-source browser.Firefox 1.1, code-named Deer Park, had been scheduled for release this month, but changes in the product's roadmap was announced in a posting by developer Ben Goodger on the Mozilla website.The

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Finally playing off its Windows brand name, Microsoft is naming the next version of its flagship operating system "Vista."The name is intended to emphasize selling points of the software, including improvements in the way users can view information stored on a PC. The software that will replace Windows XP in late 2006 had previously been referred to by its code-name "Longhorn.""It's really about

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IQRA University Karachi is organizing a very exciting new media event on 25th of July 2005 at IQRA University Main Campus with guest speakers like Muqeem Khan (Flubber, Final Fantasy, etc), Tahir Moosa (CEO Sharp Image), Waleed Thanvi (Creative Dept. Head of PTV/GEO), Ali Iqbal (Director of Evolution Man video), Ali Ahsan and more!! Be a part of this event and register now by making a call

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A newly discovered and as-of-yet unpatched security vulnerability in Windows XP could let an attacker remotely crash computers.The flaw affects the Windows Remote Desktop Service, which lets users access their Windows PC from a remote location. An attacker could remotely exploit the problem to crash a victim's PC in what's known as a denial-of-service attack, according to a posting on the

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SpreadFirefox.com, the community marketing Web site for the open-source Firefox Web browser, was hacked earlier this week, potentially exposing user data.Attackers broke into the Web site by exploiting an unpatched security vulnerability in the software that runs SpreadFirefox.com, the Mozilla Foundation said in an e-mail alert to registered users of the site late Thursday. Mozilla coordinates

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A new TV monitor from Sharp could soon end a common source of household strife--choosing a channel. But it may mean sitting at the opposite end of the couch from your honey.The new liquid crystal display, which should hit stores this month, will be the first mass-produced monitor capable of displaying different images at the same time depending on the angle at which viewers are watching, Sharp

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Yahoo! mail's front page now has a new look. The front page where you sign in is now a mixture of light greenish blue( i think thats a color) & white.

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Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Marvel Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: MVL) announced a licensing agreement that will team the entertainment powerhouse Marvel with Microsoft’s proven creative and technology success in the interactive gaming space. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft has obtained the exclusive rights to develop and publish massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) featuring

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.mobi domain to be used for sites designed to work with a mobile device, company says.A joint venture of mobile technology companies next year will start issuing Internet domain names under a new .mobi top-level domain name, the company said Monday.mTLD Top Level Domain, which was formed by Microsoft, Nokia, the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) Association, Vodafone Group, and other

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The open source consortium Mozilla has released a new version of its popular Firefox browser this week. Version 1.0.5 addresses a number of security issues that have come to light since the last update in May.There are 12 vulnerabilities identified and fixed in the current update. Two of which are said to be critical. The first allowed applications to run arbitrary code through the browser; the

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SanDisk has announced a 512 MB microSD card and expects to have a 1 GB microSD card by the end of the year and a 2 GB card in 2006.SanDisk also announced that the microSD specification, which is based on SanDisk's TransFlash card, has been officially adopted by the SD Card Association (SDA). The new microSD card is fully compatible with the TransFlash card and is designed as a small, flash memory

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Those of you who watch Google closely might be interested to learn that sometime yesterday (about 24 hours or so after Yahoo released (beta) their SMS search tool) Google SMS for both the US and UK graduated from Google Labs. The services themselves remain in beta.I've also noticed that Google now allows you to demo both their US and UK SMS services on the web using a mobile web emulator. You'll

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Motorola is to unveil the first fruits of its partnership with Apple next month with the launch of its iTunes mobile phone at the V Festival of music.The festival is one of the UK's biggest summer music events and will include performances by dozens of artists including Joss Stone.The phone will allow users to download music held on their personal computers using iTunes software onto the Motorola

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One time Silicon Valley high-flyer and contender for the Unix crown, SGI stock price dropped 20% on Friday after releasing fiscal fourth quarter results. The Mountain View, California maker of high end computers is ' exploring financing alternatives with its lender and other sources.' With mounting losses and investors giving ol' Silicon Graphics the thumbs down, things aren't looking good./. link

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Norwegian Web browser company Opera released a new test version of its software Thursday that supports the BitTorrent peer-to-peer technology, one of the most popular tools in the file-swapping world.Not far behind is an independent project aimed at providing BitTorrent support for the widely used Mozilla Firefox Web browser, although that has yet to release software publicly.Taken together, the

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Yahoo has launched a new search feature which enables people to send text message queries to its search engine and receive results back on their mobile phones.Yahoo SMS Search, which is similar to the Google SMS service launched late last year, is currently only available for use by users in the US. The free service allows users to get information on a wide range of subjects including local

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IBM has released details about two new PowerPC chips designed for entry-level servers and PCs.The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX, which is commonly found in Macintosh computers running G5 processors. IBM also said it will release a low-power version of the PowerPC 970FX.Prices were not disclosed, and it wasn't immediately clear when the two new chips would be available

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Google has launched its beta version of the Google toolbar for Firefox.Download : Google Toolbar for Firefox

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what the ???? seems like this is the new trend these days, if your lame stupid software cant compete with microsoft, sue em on the "account" that MS used it's monopoly to destroy our such nice and much "better" software, yeah right!! if it was so better then why did it not survive microsoft's buggy product ?link: /.

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Apple last week released iTunes 4.9, adding extensive support for finding, subscribing to, and managing podcasts, which are audio files that are made available for anyone on the Internet download and listen to (see "Podcasting: The People's Radio" in TidBITS-766). The new podcast support adds to iTunes functionality that previously required the use of separate programs such as iPodder, iPodderX,

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Microsoft has announced further details of the new version of its customer relationship management system. To make it easier to use, CRM 3.0 will provide a complete suite of marketing, sales and service capabilities with the look and feel of a Microsoft Office and Microsoft Outlook user interface. With CRM 3.0, Microsoft is also introducing a new subscription-based licensing model for customers

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The Chinese government has joined an international anti-spam effort started by the UK and US.As the world's second-biggest source of unsolicited e-mail, the decision is hugely significant and comes ater months of discussion between UK and Chinese government officials. "We have long been keen to engage with China on the issue of spam," said Alun Michael, the UK's e-commerce minister.According to

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A newly discovered flaw in Internet Explorer could allow hackers to take " complete control" of compromised systems, according to a Microsoft security advisory issued today. The flaw, uncovered by security service vendor SEC Consult, is in an interface to a debugger in the Microsoft Java Virtual Machine.The vulnerability could be exploited either by getting an unwitting user to visit a specially

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Flip4Mac WMV products now fully qualified with Tiger 10.4 and QuickTime 7Telestream, the provider of Flip4Mac(TM) digital media tools for the Macintosh, today announced official Flip4Mac WMV compatibility with Apple Tiger OS X 10.4 and QuickTime 7. Flip4Mac WMV provides the industry's first components for importing, exporting and playing Windows Media files from within QuickTime-based

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MSN Messenger is an instant messaging client for Windows and Mac OS computers aimed mainly at home users. MSN Messenger is sometimes used to refer to the .NET Messenger Service (the protocols and server that allow the system to operate) rather than any particular client. The business-oriented client, which also uses Microsoft’s .NET Messenger Service, is called Windows Messenger. It is possible

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Google is poised to release a version of its toolbar for the Firefox browser, according to information sent to developers of an open source toolbar alternative.Although Google's toolbar -- which provides users with easy access to advanced functionality such as spellchecking and translation -- has been available for Internet Explorer for more than four years, this is the first version to appear

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Yahoo! released an early beta version of My Web 2.0 for a limited number of users. It is a new kind of search engine - a social search engine - that complements web search by enabling users to search the knowledge and expertise of their friends and community in addition to the web.How Is Social Search Different?Social search complements web search, which is driven by publishers and web sites, by

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The Update Rollup contains all security updates produced for Windows 2000 between the time SP4 was released and April 30, 2005, the time when the contents of the Update Rollup were locked down for final testing by Microsoft and by external beta & customer sites. The Update Rollup also contains a number of updates that increase system security, reliability, reduce support costs, and support the

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Expert guidance for taking advantage of Group Policy in Windows to simplify the management of hundreds—or thousands—of users. Get the in-depth information you need to use Group Policy to administer your enterprise system—direct from industry experts and the Microsoft Group Policy team. With Group Policy and Active Directory® directory service, administrators can take advantage of policy-based

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This update installs a permanent copy of Package Installer for Windows to enable software updates to have a significantly smaller download size. The Package Installer facilitates the install of software updates for Microsoft Windows operating systems and other Microsoft products. After you install this update, you may have to restart your system.More information for this update can be found at

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Microsoft said late Monday it's developing a tool code-named Atlas that programmers will use to quickly write fast-loading Web sites.A do-it-yourself approach to Web software called Ajax has led to a new breed of fast, highly interactive sites and includes Google and Yahoo developers among its adherents. Now large technology vendors that rely on keeping software developers in their fold are

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Norwegian hacker Jon Lech Johansen has cracked the lock on Google's new in-browser video player. Johansen, also known as 'DVD Jon' for his work on decrypting DVD security codes, has created a patch for the Google Video Viewer—less than 24 hours after the search giant shipped the video playback plug-in, a tool based on the open-source VideoLAN media player.The patch, released on Johansen's 'So Sue

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Net is too darn slow :-(An undersea cable carrying data between Pakistan and the outside world has developed a serious fault, virtually crippling data feeds, including the Internet, telecommunications officials said on Tuesday.The system crashed late on Monday and was still down on Tuesday afternoon. Work in many offices across the country ground to a halt as people realized it was not one of

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Today the KDE project previewed a new technology that allows arbitrary KPart-based KDE applications to be embedded into Mozilla's FireFox. Thus, KDE applications can soon be used to show rich content such as PDF files using KPDF or display multimedia files with KMPlayer or Kaffeine. "Once again, KParts has proven to be a flexible component technology that makes development easy even when dealing

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Sun Microsystems announced today the next version of Java will be Longhorn-ready.While outlining the future of Java, executives at the annual JavaOne software developers conference in San Francisco told delegates the next release, code-named "Mustang", will have native support for Longhorn in its graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, dubbed Swing. "We know many Java developers need to target

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ZoneAlarm is a software firewall solution and provides solid PC protection for the home user. It's free for personal and non-profit use (excluding government and educational entities). ZoneAlarm is compatible with Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000 and XP.Millions of users have selected ZoneAlarm as their basic Internet security solution. The award-winning personal firewall blocks dangerous Internet

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Not long after a much discussed price increase in its own line of dual and single core CPU's, some now more expensive than Intels own comparable line of CPU's, AMD -maker of x86 microprocessors, said Tuesday it had filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of chips, in U.S. federal district court for the district of Delaware accusing Intel of unfair competition,

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Intel Corp. on Monday said its latest Celeron D processors feature 64-bit capability, which enables value computers with technologies originally found in workstation and server processors. Intel’s Extended Memory 64 Technology may eventually boost performance of computers running appropriate chips provided that the software is able to take advantage of it.A family of Intel’s value processors with

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This package contains the source code for the XHTML adapter, one of several adapters available for use with the Microsoft ASP.NET mobile controls. Mobile application developers may modify this source code in order to modify the way the ASP.NET mobile controls are rendered to XHTML devices.For more information on the ASP.NET mobile controls please see www.asp.net/mobile.Download: ASP.NET Mobile

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The Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Resource Kit provides a set of tools and documentation to help simplify the deployment and operation of Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1. The Resource Kit can be used as a complement to the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005 with SP1 Deployment and Reference Guides available on Live Communications Server Deployment Resources site.

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Powerful new software tools for shared computers in classrooms, school computer labs, libraries, and public places. The Microsoft Shared Computer Toolkit for Windows XP helps make it easy for anyone to set up, safeguard and manage reliable shared computers.Shared computers are commonly found in schools, libraries, Internet and gaming cafés, community centers, and other locations. Often,

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Google today announced the launch of Google Earth, Google’s new satellite imagery-based mapping product that combines 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capability and Google search. Based on Keyhole technology, Google Earth enables users to fly from space to street level views to find geographic information and explore places around the world.Key features of Google Earth include:- Free

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In an expansion of their alliance, Microsoft and Toshiba said Monday they plan to develop high-definition DVD players together, cross-license technologies and cooperate in designing new models of mobile personal computers.The deal, announced by Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates and Toshiba Corp. President Atsutoshi Nishida, is a big win for the HD-DVD format in its competition against another

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Google officially launched video.google.com. Web search engine Google Inc. on Monday rolled out Google Video Viewer, a free software download that lets users watch some of the video clips on its new video search service.Alongside the new site comes a new browser plug-in based on VLC, the open source video player. With the plug-in installed, users can search and view videos marked with a play

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Oracle on Monday will announce a deeper commitment to free development and involvement in open-source projects, while other open-source efforts also spring forth.Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle Corp. will announce that it will be making its core Java development tool, Oracle JDeveloper 10g, available for free. The Java and Web services development tool has up to now cost $995 per user, the

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MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop SearchSearch and Browse Smarter with MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search. MSN Search Toolbar helps you search the Web from any site and easily find documents, emails, photos and more on your PC with Windows Desktop Search. Smart browsing tools such as Tabbed Browsing, Pop-up Blocker and Form Fill.Quick Info Download Size:5569 KB - 22478 KBDate

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A VPN is a logical, secure connection across an insecure network, such as the Internet. Remote users can use their existing Internet connections to securely connect to your network, just as if they were in the office. Better still, VPN technology is Exchange-independent. This means your remote users can use your VPN connection to access Exchange Server regardless of the version, and can also

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