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  New years here, and I pray to GOD for all humanity that may we be blessed and get the best loving, maternal paternal blessings by HIM. AMEEN I also pray that we be united as Humanity, resolve our differences and become one against any evil that draws upon us. AMEEN I pray that 2009 and coming years be the best for all of us getting better religiously, economically and socially. AMEEN I pray that GOD ALMIGHTY give us the strength, courage and the mind to face any troubles and cope up Continue Reading

IBM is about to commit itself heavily to browser-based applications. The giant IT company is quietly working on a project called Blue Spruce, which aims to create a fully browser-based application development platform. What's more, it's fully open standards based - so it is squarely aimed at challenging the proprietary-rich Internet platforms of Microsoft's Silverlight and Adobe's Flash.   Blue Spruce is a project within IBM that is only about 5 months old. Up till now it hasn't been shown Continue Reading

  We all know Facebook runs enormous amount of data everyday on its servers. And just to know what people do, Facebook uses Lexicon. But Facebook was always looking for graphic driven way to look at the connections being made on the site and monitor activity. Facebook’s own Jack Lindamood has now come with a solution named Palantir which will enable Facebook to see people's interactions speeding across a computer model of the earth, as if friend requests, messages or photo-sharing Continue Reading

  Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world's computer users Users of Microsoft's Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed. The flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people's computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say. Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Internet Explorer Continue Reading

  Fancy a cuppa? Call the kettle A system that could eventually control heating, home security cameras and draw curtains has been demonstrated by phone maker Nokia. The Nokia Home Control Center is a wireless router which can interface with equipment around the home. The Finnish firm has partnered with European energy company RWE to manage heating systems and is hoping other firms will sign up soon. It has been showing off the gadget at Nokia World in Barcelona. The system is expected Continue Reading

  Microsoft and Dell have signed a deal via which Dell will be shipping new PCs with the Live Search toolbar preinstalled, according to sources familiar with the arrangement between the two companies. Microsoft officials declined to comment on the alleged deal, as did Dell officials. Officials with both companies said they would not comment on “rumors and speculation.” I wouldn’t put this in the speculation category, myself. My sources say that Microsoft has offered Dell sweet enough Continue Reading

  According to Mac OS X Hints, if you're trying to send an email to someone with a spamcop.net email address with your MobileMe account, chances are the message will never arrive, and you won't be notified. What's worse, apparently if you're sending the message to a distribution list, and only one of those recipients has an address at spamcop.net, nobody will receive the message. Apparently the problem has been happening for months, since Apple moved everyone from .Mac to MobileMe. A participant Continue Reading

  Update HP is shortly to launch a 300GB 2.5-inch hard drive claiming it will have "more storage capacity than any other SFF drive in the market." Both Fujitsu and Seagate's have 300GB 2.5-inch drives already. What's going on? El Reg was pointed to HP's Reality Check: Server Insights blog and found this: "Have you been waiting for higher capacities on your 2.5-inch small form factor (SFF) drives? HP will launch the 300GB 3G SAS 10K SFF Enterprise Drive shortly. With this drive, Continue Reading

  Not only has the economy in the United States shed 533,000 jobs in November, but the US Department of Labor, whose Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly jobs report just before Wall Street opened this morning, now says many more jobs were cut in September and October than originally thought. The good news is that thus far the IT sector seems relatively immune - and the key word is relatively - to the pressures to cut lots of employees, at least compared to other industry sectors Continue Reading

    Adobe researchers have constructed a time machine that lets you view any web page over time, scrolling to see changes in data. But the Zoetrope software that lets you watch pricing or news-story changes over time has even headier magic powers, too. Not to be confused with Sony's giant actual zoetrope, Adobe's Zoetrope, which was co-developed by people at the University of Washington, is more of a metaphorical movie maker, says Technology Review: You load a web page then drag a slider Continue Reading

  Plugins like Remember The Milk were extremely useful for people looking to add tasks to their Gmail and Google Calendar. Unfortunately, the problem with creating plugins for products like this is that it’s inevitable they become obsolete when the feature becomes natively supported. Thankfully, for RTM, Google Calendar still doesn’t support task lists of any kind. Gmail, however, just launched a new feature in “labs” which adds Task functionality. It’s quite a bit different from Continue Reading

  Sony (NYSE: SNE) on Wednesday said it would launch its online 3-D social networking service, Home, Dec. 11, ending months of delay in the long-awaited service for users of the company's PlayStation 3 video-game console. Home is similar to Linden Lab's Second Life in that it lets people create virtual characters, or avatars, to interact in cyberspace. PlayStation 3 users will be able to join the virtual world through a free software download. Home is the latest online service for the PS3. Continue Reading

  Yes, the rumor is back again. And it will keep coming back until Microsoft eventually releases its own phone (which I think it will and should). The rumor today is that Microsoft could use chief executive Steve Ballmer’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) keynote to unveil a device based on both its Zune portable music device and the Danger-made Sidekick device, Tech Trader Daily reports. This rumor comes compliments of Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry. While analysts typically Continue Reading

  Silverlight and PlayReady enable BSkyB to deliver an expanded range of live content to Windows-based PC and Mac users. LONDON and REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 4, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. and BSkyB announce that Microsoft Silverlight and PlayReady technologies are enabling Sky Player TV, Sky’s online TV service. Launched today, the service offers access to a range of leading pay TV entertainment as part of an online-only subscription. The new version of Sky Player TV, which in addition continues Continue Reading