November, 2007 Issue

New tests have revealed that XP with the beta Service Pack 3 has twice the performance of Vista, even with its long-awaited Service Pack 1.

Windows Mobile Gmail fans worry about a known glitch in the mobile e-mail offering that hasn't been fixed by Google.

A registry is to be created that could reduce businesses' phone bills by forcing VoIP providers to interconnect their networks.

Some musicians are experimenting with user-editable videos, but a new site brings that option to anyone.

Google extended its lead in U.S. Web searches in October, ComScore says.

The sleek new PlayStation Portable hit the 1 million mark after just two months on the market.

The beta service pack released last week boosts performance as much as 10%, evaluator says.

E-payments may bring convenience to shoppers and retailers alike — but do they also boost the wallet?

Internet users in France who frequently download music or films illegally risk losing web access under a new anti-counterfeiting system unveiled on Friday.

An expedited beta period is planned for the artistic development environment upgrade, which will now enable programmers to build multi-player games for Games for Windows Live.

Buyers of the new 'Live Free or Die Hard' and 'Harry Potter' movie DVDs will be allowed to make digital copies. But are these offers enough to stem illegal activities?

Microsoft highlighted a number of customer migrations it says signify that users are gearing up to switch to the year-old OS.

The game, currently slated for release in Japan on Feb. 21, will support 16:9 widescreen, graphical improvements, and bonus videos and images from the original game reports Jeux-France. It will retail as a budget game for 3990 yen ($36).

Children's Web sites are frequent targets a growing category of online fraud where unsuspecting Web surfers are lured to malicious sites when they misspell the URL.

A study has discovered that while retailers are physically securing their businesses to prevent theft, they are not taking the same precautions with their wireless security.

Google's megamerger proposal with DoubleClick could face greater scrutiny in Europe than the United States if antitrust regulators decide the deal takes the companies into new markets.

The Australian Federal Court has set a hearing date for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's allegations against Google of misleading and deceptive conduct.

Google is considering bidding alone on coveted airwaves to launch a US wireless network, as a deadline nears to declare bidding plans, sources familiar with the situation said.

The UK's second military communications satellite has gone into orbit.

With the help of Leaf software one can easily use main local network facilities within Internet connection. Media resources exchanging, head-to-head gaming, printer sharing etc. are now available due to patent pending technology realized in Leaf. Let’s make a close inspection of the above-mentioned product.

YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone, and that requires a fairly low-bitrate stream, the service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if they want it.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will speed development of country-coded top level domains and local-language scripting, the group announced Wednesday at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro.

Some Seagate hard drives infected with a virus have been sent to users.

Yahoo has settled a lawsuit alleging it aided China's prosecution of several dissidents, in a case that prompted criticism of the company for co-operating with an authoritarian government.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Xbox Live, Microsoft is preparing a system update that will be delivered to users starting December 4 and bring support for downloading full versions of older Xbox titles such as "Halo," "Psychonauts" and "Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge."

A Malicious exploit has been discovered in Firefox that would allow a Hacker to use a Malicious JAR file to get access to your Google Account and all your confidential information.

The browser's creators had to block access when eager users sought an update too early.

Microsoft has launched a program to help ensure sellers of refurbished PCs will run legal copies of Windows.

Microsoft's next update to its browser won't bug users to 'click to activate' multimedia.

The networking site's 'social ads' that draft endorsements on the fly may violate privacy laws.

ACM SIGGRAPH, the world’s largest society on computer graphics and interactive techniques, will mark its entry into Asia with SIGGRAPH Asia 2008, to be held in Singapore from 10 – 13 December 2008. At the event, experts from Asia and beyond will offer top-notch contents from the forefront of computer graphics theory and practice.

According to a weekend report on Ars Technica, leading game maker Electronic Arts has decided to give their pioneering game SimCity to the One Laptop per Child project for installation on every machine distributed to children in developing nations).

Nokia and Vodafone have announced a deal that will see the handset maker's mobile internet services platform cropping up on Vodafone handsets in Europe.

Vendor says the Grand Theft Auto update will ship when 'ready' and won't hint when that will be.

A Google scientist will join a controversial demonstration of a claimed quantum computer on Monday — but scientists doubt the validity of the system being shown.

An alleged Russian malware hosting gang has abruptly disappeared, according to Trend Micro.

Microsoft's security team invited Roberto Preatoni to give a talk at its Redmond campus and the hacker has since been arrested on charges related to a national spying case in Italy.

Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft and one of Google's biggest competitors.

Microsoft is trying to fight piracy in China by ensuring that more new computers in the region come with genuine copies of Windows pre-installed at the factory.

With a leap into software for mobile devices, Google has a chance to control the way people look at the internet.

Without much explanation late yesterday, Microsoft notified the press that it had terminated the employment of its Chief Information Officer, Stuart Scott, for violation of its corporate policies. This after having appeared on stage just seven weeks ago to hold up Microsoft's IT department as a role model for, as he described it, stamping out "shadow IT" agents within corporations, so that they can do more with less.

A New Jersey man was sentenced to more than two years in prison on Friday for helping send spam emails to more than 1.2 million AOL subscribers.

Aruba Networks has released its first products that utilise the latest generation of Wi-Fi technology, 802.11n.

Google has criticised how the EU Data Protection Directive is being implemented.

Google has announced its long-anticipated cellular play: a mobile-phone software stack called Android.

The first application launched under Google's OpenSocial API program has been taken down, shortly after it was discovered a hacker could use it to change user profiles.

A hoax site masquerades as an official government consumer awareness resource site.

For a brief time Friday, it looked as if developers were going to be able to get their hands on a test version of the first Vista service pack, which is due for final release next year.

Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source technology, backed by some of the largest wireless industry companies in the world.

Google says money doesn't affect its search rankings, incriminating screen shot is from an internal AdWords tool.

Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers announced on Thursday US$16 billion in new investments in China, including manufacturing, investment and educational programs.

The PlayStation 3 gaming console officially gets its second price cut in less than a year.

It doesn't include planned Leopard enhancements, but Firefox developers have released an update to their open-source software.

When Google announced that its new social-networking initiative would extend to any site that wanted to participate, the land grab for the social web's attention became a whole lot more intense.

Only half an hour after the start of second-round ticket sales for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the online booking system broke down.

The chief executive officer of Mandriva, François Bancilhon, has taken Microsoft to task over the Nigerian government's alleged decision to wipe Mandriva Linux software from 17,000 school computers and install Windows instead.

Networking giant Cisco has launched a global competition to find new technology business ideas.

Apartment dwellers will soon have more choice when it comes to TV service providers, thanks to a new rule adopted Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission that bans cable operators from striking exclusive contracts with apartment buildings.