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Ubuntu shows off new "Light" theme

March 5, 2010

Beginning with the release of Lucid Lynx (10.04 LTS), which is expected to hit PCs at the end of April, Ubuntu's UI will no longer look like it came about as a result of a bad accident in the ladies room. Gone are the days of overly suffocating brown-ness. From here onward, Ubuntu will come in a new theme, called "Light."

90 million copies of Windows 7 have been sold

March 4, 2010

At a Morgan Stanley Tech Conference, Microsoft’s Peter Klien announced that 90 million Windows 7 licenses have been sold to date, making it the fastest selling operating system in history. Microsoft released Windows 7 on October 22, 2009. The operating system has received praise from consumers, businesses and the media. In November 2009, Windows 7 managed to surpass Apple's Snow Leopard market share in just two weeks. In early February it was revealed that Windows 7 had reached 10% market share in just three months.

Google Earth for Android Released

March 2, 2010

Android 2.1 users can now download for free Google Earth from the Android Market. If you are familiar with the app. The Android version is very similar, offering capability to view 3D satellite imageries, zooming, pinching, etc. Fly to your current location with the touch of a button; Search by voice (English, Mandarin, or Japanese.) for cities, places, and businesses around the world with Google local search..

Beware of fake Security Essentials 2010

March 2, 2010

One of the oldest tricks used by rogue antivirus products is to use a similar name as, or have a similar look and feel to, legitimate security software. It’s been commonplace for them to mimic the Windows Security Center. So it was inevitable that the day would arrive when a rogue would masquerade as something similar to Microsoft Security Essentials. If anything, it surprises me a little that it’s taken so long.

Translate Web Pages in Google Chrome

March 1, 2010

Google Chrome 5's dev build has a feature that detects the language of a web page and lets you translate it without opening a new page. The feature is borrowed from Google Toolbar, but Google Chrome is the first browser that translates web pages without requiring an add-on. When you visit a page written in another language, Chrome shows an infobar that asks if you want to translate the web page. You can ignore the message, change the language that was automatically detected or translate the web page.

Skype prepares for HD video calls

February 26, 2010

Video calling on Skype has been hit or miss over the years, but with some back-end changes in Skype for Windows 4.2, the company readies its VoIP client for high definition. Without providing much detail, Skype noted in a blog post that when high-def Webcams pop onto the market, Skype's update "includes almost everything you'll need" to place HD video calls.

Windows 7 piracy check update goes live

February 25, 2010

Earlier this month Neowin reported that Microsoft would be rolling out a new piracy check update for Windows 7. The update is said to check for 70 known activation exploits by checking the local PC. Upon realizing that a copy of Windows is not genuine, the program will change the user's desktop to black, leave a watermark showing that it's not a legal copy, and bug the user with notifications. According to Engadget, the update is finally beginning to make its way to people's computers. The update is vaguely titled "Update for Windows 7 for x64-based Systems (KB971033)." For 32-bit systems, it will probably say "for x86-based Systems." Just check the KB number to be sure.

Kaspersky has patented hardware antivirus

February 19, 2010

Kaspersky Lab reported about the successful patenting in the U.S. hardware anti-virus system to effectively deal with rootkits. As part of the new technology are encouraged to use hardware anti-virus - a device neutralizing the most common type of threats - malicious programs which reside on a hard drive or infect existing files on it. The patented anti-virus checks the data to be stored on the harddisk, identifies malware and blocks their entry. The inventor - chief technology experts from Kaspersky Lab Oleg Zaitsev. A patent for new technology is registered U.S. Patent Office on Feb. 2, 2010 under the number 7 657 941.

85% of Windows 7 PCs are Underperforming

February 18, 2010

Windows XP holdouts take heart: New data from the exo.repository shows that better than 8 in 10 Windows 7 systems monitored by the exo.performance.network are running alarmingly low on physical memory. And nearly the same number are demonstrating significant delays in I/O processing – ostensibly due to heavy virtual memory activity as Windows compensates for insufficient RAM.

Google demonstrates phone that translates text

February 17, 2010

Google Inc. is working on software that translates text captured by a phone camera. At a demonstration Tuesday at Mobile World Congress, a cell phone trade show in Barcelona, an engineer shot a picture of a German dinner menu with a phone running Google Inc.'s Android software. An application on the phone sent the shot to Google's servers, which sent a translation back to the phone.

ICQ for Java

February 17, 2010

No longer will you search in vain for friends and associates on the Net. ICQ does the searching for you, continually alerting you in real time when friends or colleagues sign on. With ICQ, you can chat, send messages and files, play games, or just hang out with your fellow Netizens as you surf the Net. This is the Java-based preview release of ICQ that works on Windows 95/NT.

Skype for Symbian now available

February 16, 2010

Skype for Symbian is a free application for mobile handsets running the Symbian operating system, the world's most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian allows users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G).

Intel and Nokia are merging Moblin and Maemo

February 15, 2010

In a significant development in the convergence of communications and computing, Intel Corporation and Nokia are merging their popular Moblin and Maemo software platforms. This will create a unified Linux-based platform that will run on multiple hardware platforms across a wide range of computing devices, including pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems. Called MeeGo, the open software platform will accelerate industry innovation and time-to-market for a wealth of new Internet-based applications and services and exciting user experiences. MeeGo-based devices from Nokia and other manufacturers are expected to be launched later this year.

Windows 8 to be completely different

February 10, 2010

In one of the posts on the MSDN Blogs ,the product manager working along with the Windows Update team discussed about what’s coming in the next version of Windows.The post was quickly removed by Microsoft, though we were able to get the catched file of the page. He stated that the next version of Windows,would be completely different from the previous operating system released by Microsoft.

Adobe to improve Flash support for OS X

February 10, 2010

Adobe has recently come in for criticism regarding its implementation of Flash support for OS X. Steve Jobs himself has been vocally critical of Adobe's browser plugins for Safari, blaming Flash as the number one cause of crashes on the Mac platform. Speaking last week at a "Town Hall" meeting, Jobs reportedly called Adobe 'lazy' and reiterated his belief that HTML5 will eventually negate the need for Flash.

KDE SC 4.4.0 Caikaku Release

February 10, 2010

KDE announces the immediate availability of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku", bringing an innovative collection of applications to Free Software users. Major new technologies have been introduced, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework. According to KDE's bug-tracking system, 7293 bugs have been fixed and 1433 new feature requests were implemented.

Openoffice.org 3.2 RC5 is released

February 9, 2010

Openoffice3.2 RC5 is the 5TH release candidate of openoffice.org3.2 and the first release condidate under Oracle logo. The final release of Openoffice 3.2 was planned for XX January 2010, but we see that oracle ( The new owner of SUN products) is reporting the date by releasing another release condidate.

Office 2010 hits the release candidate stage

February 4, 2010

Microsoft has provided some early testers with a near-final "release candidate" version of Office 2010 as the software maker works to make the suite broadly available in June. "Microsoft made a release candidate available to members in the technology adoption program (TAP)," a Microsoft representative told CNET. "This is one of Microsoft's planned milestones in the engineering process; however (we) do not have plans to make this new code set available broadly." A beta version of Office 2010 was released in November and had been downloaded 2 million times, as of last month.

Windows 7 Reaches 10% Market Share

February 4, 2010

It’s official: Microsoft got it right this time. After the mistake that was Vista, Windows 7 was greeted like the second coming, and it many ways it really was better than its predecessor: less annoying, faster, smoother, more compatible with various pieces of hardware and software. Initial sales numbers and market share reports have shown that Windows (Windows) 7 is on the right track, but today it’s obvious that it will be one of the most successful products in Windows history, as it already caught 10 percent market share, approximately three months after it arrived on the market.

Download Google Chrome 5.0

February 1, 2010

The Google Chrome dev channel has been updated to version 5.0.307.1 for Mac OS X and Windows. Still in beta stage, Chrome is a lightweight yet powerful web browser developed by the people behind the world’t biggest and most popular search engine, Google. On the Windows side, Chrome developers have enabled users to properly set a default downloads directory on Vista and Windows 7 (except where it is the desktop). Another issue, where users would work on the Content Settings window and sub-dialogs, has also been addressed.

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