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On 17th June a special meeting was organized by the Economic Development Board and it was decided that $500,000 forgivable loan would be given to West Des Moines to help them with improvement of the infrastructure if it gets a Microsoft Data center. Initially a $2 million loan was sought from the state by West Des Moines so that they could help with the $10 million for the utility improvements nearby... Read More »

The Australian government has made a parliamentary report for cyber crime and suggested that the ISPs (Internet Service Providers) must force their customers to make use of antivirus as well as firewall software otherwise,  they risk of being disconnected. The chair person of the committee Belinda Neal mentioned in the preface of the report named “Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the... Read More »

AVG, a company which offers antivirus facility to PC users, is introducing a free link checker for Mac. AVG Technologies prepares to reveal AVG Link Scanner’s Mac version, a free to download tool which scans website links for possible threats. According to AVG, this Link Scanner application verifies web pages in quick-time, and sends warning message to users if software detects any website which... Read More »

Windows7 is dominating headlines since October 2009, when it was introduced by Microsoft. With constantly increasing popularity, nearly 100 million licenses of Windows7 have been sold like hot cakes. Windows7 is witnessing an exceptional growth, which involves Canadian businesses and associations like MMM Group, Ricoh Canada, the City of London and Bombardier Aerospace. These organizations are really... Read More »

Following a report by SMobile Systems, a company that specializes in mobile security issues and in the wireless infrastructures, that one-fifth of apps in Android market pose security threats to the users, Google has decided to remove questionable apps from Android market. According to this report, these supposedly malicious apps enable third parties to either access or gather some of the sensitive... Read More »

A Microsoft executive demonstrated how this new Bing capability worked. Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi demonstrated the new “social” page of bing.com. It returns real-time results from Facebook and Tweeter pages, updates and links. These advanced search technology dealt the gap in the industry. Demonstration goes global Some say it’s a stopper to Google. However, it is not. Google and Bing ... Read More »

The controversy over the recent data collection procedures from the software giant Google, is still under investigation in many countries. Privacy regulators in many European countries now want to see what exactly Google has been collecting from home Wi-Fi users while Google was filming the street view map archive, in slowly moving vehicles around the world. European privacy regulators of few countries... Read More »

What a mess! This is exactly what happens when a group of engineers try to outperform rivals via means of mass media, without consulting marketing strategists of the company. Although it is not obvious as to why such a lame statement was produced at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), a back fired marketing approach to tackle the rival is a possibility. Customer mindset Customers... Read More »

Until recently China did not have an internationally standardized way to input web addresses in their native language. ICANN approving three sets of Chinese country-specific domains has virtually increased the number of potential Internet users by 1 billion. Previous local solutions Prior to this Chinese have been using alternative methods to incorporate web addresses in their native languages. Some... Read More »

It’s very easy for Hackers to access any system’s memory and that’s how the Hackers are taking over Windows 7, using its PCMCIA port. Windows 7 is helpless against a memory attack which could permit others to get complete access of your computer system. Damien Aumaitre and Christophe Devine are two researchers, working for European Security Expertise Center. They have written a paper in... Read More »

After the grand success of the widely accepted and well-liked Microsoft’s earlier versions of Office productivity suite among the users, it’s time for Office 2010 package to steal the limelight. Probably because of this we read or hear statements like “There are one billion users for Office 2010”. No doubt, that Microsoft is the market leader in creating customer-friendly applications and... Read More »

Most of us know that Dell PCs and laptops with Windows Operating Systems (OS) , especially Windows 7 are a huge success. However, of late Dell has been Bigging up the new Operating System called” Ubuntu” via its company website as well as in the media. What is so special about Ubuntu? Will it take over Windows OS, which is running on millions of PCs and laptops across the globe?  Let us have... Read More »

Till now the computers have majorly been powered by the variants of three operating systems – Windows, OS X, and Linux. Seeing the dominance of these three OS’s not many companies have tried to come up with a whole new full fledged operating system, but google has been sticking its feet in various industries and has done the same in computer operating system industry too. Google has christened... Read More »

Last month on the date, Microsoft’s TechEd conference was held in New Orleans. It was attended by over 11000 tech reporters and experts who were eager to hear the new technological developments by Microsoft. In that conference, Microsoft announced that the beta version of Windows7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 service pack 1 will be available in the mid of July. From the earlier experience it can be... Read More »

Rich snippet is a technique of showing a brief content of the page which has been listed by a search engine as a result of any search run by the user. You would have noticed that when we search for something over the internet using a search engine, almost all the results have a brief description of the information which you will view on opening the link. Rich snippets are very useful while searching... Read More »

Days have past when mobile phones were just used for dialling and receiving calls. Now mobile phones come packed with many applications and intelligent features. Mobile phones these days are alternative for mobile computing and a device for helping you work when you move. Many mobile phones have features quite similar to those on a laptop or a notebook for keeping people in touch with their office... Read More »

The flash player software comes for free and powers most of the webs into screens, video clips, Inserted advertisements, animated typography, and rich graphics. Flash these days is installed on 98% of personal computers across the globe. It is coming of use to around 85% of top 100 websites. Flash delvers 70% of online games and 75% of web video. Whatever animated content you view on the web is likely... Read More »

Apple the manufacturer of iPhone has sued HTC in a case of Patent Infringement. According to Apple the Taiwan based company HTC has used the patented technology in their mobile phones and has violated the Patent. iPhone has always been known for its smart and touch screen features. The gesturing features of iPhone are like “Slide to Unlock”, and other motion sensing features. The suit filed by... Read More »

6,250 students, 500 administrative staff and 128 teachers of Skema Business School have given up google apps and are adopting Microsoft’s live@edu. Live@edu is a hosted email service which includes calendar and contact management, instant messaging, video conferencing and a 10GB of storage space. Being a Microsoft’s tool it nicely integrates with other Microsoft applications for better integration... Read More »

Peter Norton himself wrote the code for his antivirus which later ruled the world of protection software’s market. Norton has been in this business for long and has always been a good player. Recently people have a notion that Norton products are messy and hard to install and harder to remove. People think of Norton as bulky software which consumes lots of system resources and makes the system sluggish.... Read More »

Mozilla is quick on its feet to meet its projected deadlines, as it has released the final version of Thunderbird 3.1. Thunderbird has been one of the most popular e-mail and messaging platforms from Mozilla. No wonder, actually, since Thunderbird offers versatile features for those who have more than one e-mail account to monitor throughout the day. And who has only one e-mail account nowadays? For... Read More »

Windows 7 redefined the grounds of Operating Systems by the time that it was made available on the market last October 22, 2009. An Operating System intelligently designed by Microsoft, Windows 7 is an operating system made of style, comfort, and stability. What’s different about Windows 7 Windows 7 comes to inherit the wonderful interface of Windows Vista giving full, easy, interactive, and a highly... Read More »

Connectivity is the most important deal in the current world. The world becomes a village when any computer signal  reaches to millions within a fraction of second. This fast connective world is a result of the connectivity through Internet. Thus Internet is evolved as the most powerful media in the present scenario. But as we all know “more power comes with more responsibility”, this may be... Read More »

Hacking is the largest threat to the tech world nowadays. Hackers work behind the screen to deteriorate the condition of decorated and well balanced site, engine or account. In the present world, it becomes an issue of prestige between the big tags whether they have the ability to hack or protest it! In this tom & jerry run the main victims are the users who need to face severe altering situation... Read More »

The largest search engine provider Google is entrapped with a new controversy. They are accused of stealing the passwords and e-mails of personal accounts of Internet users on open Wi-Fi hot spots in France which they claim as accident. But a normal human being can detect it as intentional as they first log into the Wi-Fi network and stolen the information according to their plan. The French National... Read More »