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Malicious JavaScript pushes Trojan It is just sad to see that after the brutal assassination of our nation’s Leader and the Muslims World’s first ever Lady Prime Minister, Muhtarma Benazir Bhutto, Virus writers are exploiting, the event’s hype to spread dangerous Malware. Surfers searching for video footage of the suicide attack that killed Bhutto and at least 21 others on Thursday are liable to find Malware posing as video clips READ MORE...

Something else for webmaster to-do lists Google will make use of an extension to the Sitemaps protocol to do a better job of indexing the videos people publish. Indexing text data became old hat to Google and every other search engine over the past few years. Multimedia, especially video, has everyone’s attention these days (including Hollywood screenwriters.) To enable better video indexing, Google has taken the lead in introducing and READ MORE...

Well the SAGA continues, as many of my dedicated readers must have viewed the much hyped video “HERE COMES ANOTHER BUBBLE” about the web 2.0 and the funny side to it; here comes another funny video about the web 2.0 but this time by the “People Connector” Well here is the video Courtesy of Daily Motion Get your comments hopping on about the new definition described by NOKIA… ENJOY READ MORE...

Mozilla has released the Firefox 3 Beta 2. As expected, this release is more about polishing the long list of features and improvements introduced during the previous nine milestones (eight alphas and a beta). But, as usual, there’s room for some noticeable changes. Theme of Firefox 3 As you may know, every Firefox release has a code name from major parks around the world. Gran Paradiso, (Great Paradise), “evokes images of travel from an READ MORE...

Mozilla is expanding its browser platform into new realms, creating API’s and a portable storehouse for bookmarks, customizations, passwords, histories, preferences and other metadata. Just like Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and others, Mozilla wants its platform, called Weave, to serve as a kind of a Web operating system, managing basic services for users . Under the auspices of Mozilla Labs, the non-profit also plans to build tools and API’s READ MORE...

Round about the 20th of this month, world news leader BBC has launched its beta site, bringing upon the web 20 culture within itself. Although now still the final version BBC believes that as the Internet evolution goes on and the web progress, its Website has also moved along to support and focus on the the NEW web 2.0. Embracing the new style, the new Website helps users customize page sitting accordingly and features are much more dynamic There is READ MORE...

Microsoft today has officially posted their advertisement on their website about their soon to be released, in bet a program Office live Workspace. although a late competitor but Office live workspace is a big tough one to be launched as an interface for online web and office publishing. Arch rival Google has already made its mark in the online office world and currently offers Google Docs and Spreadsheets to its users of Gmail and other services READ MORE...

Well we all know how much good the MAC is, and these advertisements are very well famous on the internet. Well here is the latest of the lot from the Employees of Steve Jobs…. well isnt the PC Cute in this…. Enojoy… and let your comments hop on… READ MORE...

Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a United Kingdom online mapping company to enhance its existing Windows Live Web-based services. The software maker did not say what it paid for Multimap, which provides street-level maps, travel directions and local information. Multimap also offers hotel and restaurant-booking services and builds private-label mapping tools for companies, including Hilton Hotels and Ford Motor Co. Microsoft said READ MORE...

  ‘   Print Share Sphere Embrace, improve and extinguish. That’s what Google has done to search, Web advertising, digital mapping and the like; now it plans to do it to online encyclopedias as well. Yesterday the company announced Knol (defined as a “unit of knowledge”) , its improvement on the social encyclopedia. With it, the company hopes to encourage experts on a particular subject to write authoritative articles about them, READ MORE...

   What if you could share not just selected files and folders, but your entire network with a group of trusted friends? Leaf Networks software lets you do just that. The Leaf Networks software establishes a connection between your network and those of your friends, allowing the sharing of network-attached devices, PCs, even game consoles and Tivos, and all the content that resides upon them. It’s not “all-or-nothing” READ MORE...

  Microsoft recently told many of the tech savvies on the web that Microsoft is interested in building a head-to-head competitor with Flickr. But read the first couple of lines of that Microsoft job posting again: “Come make Windows Live the best place to share your digital memories! Heard of Flickr? YouTube? How about. Mac? This role will work across the new Windows Live division with teams like Spaces, SkyDrive, Messenger and Hotmail to READ MORE...

  Well I just got an email from Microsoft TechNet that they have shipped out the Final Office 2007 Suite Service pack in the market which is quite to the surprise “EARLY” as expected. The 218 MB download is said to be a major upgrade in features and services of the revamped office. “Crashes are one of the most frustrating experiences customers have, and the team worked hard with SP1 to make our products more stable. We’ve READ MORE...

  Just as he was the first to talk about IE7, Bill Gates kept the tradition alive and discussed IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event here on campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some blogger’s about IE.Next and called it IE8, the same way we do here in the IE team hallway. So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8. We looked at a lot of options for the product name. Among the names we considered and ruled out: IE 7+1IE VIIIIE 1000 (think binary)IE READ MORE...

Well since the inception of Google in 1998, many companies have grown tremendously and well many have suffered due to immense tough competition. Google the web giant is creating troubles for major arch companies like Yahoo!, Microsoft and etc. So now what do they do As they Say   Cant beat Em , Join Em   It seems like the rumors of Microsoft buying yahoo are still on the go. Much is being made of Microsoft President of Platforms & READ MORE...

By now almost all of us might have seen that beautiful and funny video of “Here comes another Bubble”, if not you can see it in my blog posted on the 9th of December 2007. Well its is true that Facebook is really a  $15bn company seeing as it was too much getting attention from Google, Microsoft and others. But eventually Microsoft only got 1.6% of the company’s share for   ONLY $240 million   WOW that’s big READ MORE...

    Microsoft has begun making a near-final Release Candidate (RC) test build of Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 available to anyone interested in trying out the new build — the same way that it is doing with Vista SP1. Microsoft has begun posting XP SP3 RC documentation to its Microsoft Download site, which is open to the general public. And the XP SP3 RC bits are available from various file-download sites on the Web. Microsoft made a build READ MORE...

If you like YouTube, but you don’t get too excited about the quality of the videos, reports of a high quality player have started to circulate. According to Steve Chen, the feature is already being tested, and the public should expect to see the new functionality within three months. The Video giant after being acquired this year by Google for 1.6bn dollars is now progressing towards changing the way videos are displayed on the web. Today as no more READ MORE...

As the time nears for the three Biggies from Microsoft The Visual Studio 2008 The SQL server 2008 And Off course the five year delayed – Windows Server 2008 Microsoft has just launched a campaign to sell these products and what is it focusing upon Wait for it…. YOU Microsoft claims that you are heroes as developers as the new face of the web and desktop applications is made by the techies and these product of the future from READ MORE...

With the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Google has disclosed how it plans to open the gap on rivals with the next release of its popular AJAX toolkit. GWT 1.5, due in the first quarter of 2008, will produce “better” JavaScript code than manual programming by the industry’s best and brightest – in terms of speed, size and manageability of code. GWT 1.5 is also expected to improve compilation of Java code. GWT co-creator Bruce READ MORE...

Well we are all going crazy on the web 2.0 The web is now all about Personalization, but here is a funny side to it… Enjoy… READ MORE...

Another of the brilliant releases by Microsoft live Labs  (www.labs.live.com) volta is the state of the art web development technology focusing on web 2.0 Microsoft fro teh past year is primarily focusing on hwo to make web experiences better for its users and also helping developers and designers do tasks effortlessly. Using Microsoft Silverlight, Visual Studio and the newly released and popular Expression tools (www.microsoft.com/expression) So READ MORE...