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Guitar Hero: Aerosmith unveiled

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Activision Inc on Friday unveiled a new “Guitar Hero“,named “Guitar Hero: Aerosmith,” focusing on the rock band Aerosmith. Guitar Hero: Aerosmithi s based on the technology of Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which has sold 6 million copies in its first four months. The $820 million in Guitar Hero sales for 2007 set a […]

Toshiba Corp to give up HD DVD format

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

According to a source from Toshiba Corp,the company is planning to give up on its HD DVD format for high definition DVDs, conceding defeat to the competing Blu-Ray technology backed by Sony Corp.This move by Toshiba Corp will cetainly put an end to a battle that has gone on for several years between consortiums […]

BBC: iPlayer for Mac in 2008

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

According to BBC corporation’s director general Mark Thompson who said on BBC Internet Blog that BBC will launch a download version of its iPlayer online video service for Apple Mac users by the end of 2008.”I am happy to be able to confirm here that we are aiming to launch a download version of BBC […]

Internet failure hits Middle East and North Africa

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Major delays were reported by Internet-service providers in Middle East and North Africa, experts are blaming damage to two undersea cables but it is not known what caused the damage. According to a statement carried by the state news agency, KUNA , Kuwait’s Ministry of Communications said the problem could take two weeks to solve.

MacBook Air Now Shipping

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

CUPERTINO, California—January 30, 2008—Apple® today announced that MacBook Air™, the world’s thinnest notebook, is now shipping. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than

Free Music Battle Starts !

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Is 2008 the year of Free legal Music download ? Last.fm is allowing users to stream music from the four major record labels for free. They recently announced that tracks from EMI, Sony BMG, Universal, Warner, as well as 150,000 independent artists and labels are available online for free in the United States, the United […]

Scientology’s Web site Hits by “DOS”

Friday, January 25th, 2008

A group of hackers calling itself “Anonymous” has knocked the Church of Scientology’s Web site offline with a distributed denial-of-service attack.According to a Web page maintained by the hackers the attack is part of the “Project Chanology also known as Operation Chanology and Operation CoSplay is the large scale plan to bring down the […]

HBO Putting Shows Online

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Time Warner Inc. pay channel HBO will launch a service on Tuesday to let subscribers download movies and TV shows on the Web, joining a crowded market of Internet video.
Tags: HBO, Time+Warner+Inc, TV+shows, Internet+video

Apple announces MacBook Air

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

A laptop that fits inside an envelope, Apple boss Steve Jobs has unveiled the world’s thinnest laptop which is 0.76 inches (1.93cm) at its thickest point,called the MacBook Air.
Tags: MacBook+Air, technology, apple, steve+jobs, small+news

Want faster broadband soon? Move to Kent, says BT

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

BT will dip its toe in the rapid waters of fibre-to-the-home broadband this year, when it’ll run optic cables to 10,000 new homes being built at Ebbsfleet in Kent.
The pilot will offer a maximum 100Mbit/s connection (not 100MB per second as The Guardian has reported) from August, BT’s Openreach division said today.
Wholesale prices will run […]

Apple Released OS X Updates

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Apple has released on Wednesday Mac OS X 10.4.11, a major security update to current and previous versions of its OS X operating system.More on the Mac OS X Updates
Tags: Technology, Apple, Mac+OS+X, Mac+OS+X+Updates, Small+News

Windows Live Writer 2008

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Microsoft Releases “Windows Live Writer 2008″ Blog Authoring & Publishing Tool. Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog. Writer shows you what your blog entry will look like before you post it, using your blog’s templates and formatting.Download Windows Live Writer 2008
Tags: Technology, Windows+Live+Writer, […]

Microsoft fired Chief Information Officer Stuart Scott

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

In a statement, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant Microsoft said that it has fired Chief Information Officer Stuart Scott,as the result of an internal investigation.
Tags: Microsoft, CIO, Stuart+Scott, Technology

Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

A blogger Tom Karpik, has discovered a data loss glitch in Apple’s recently released Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came across it when Samba crashed while I […]

Firefox 2.0.0.9 updates

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Firefox 2.0.0.9 is out, don’t forget to update.This release corrects several problems that were found in the previous release, Firefox 2.0.0.8.

‘fake codec’ Targeted Mac Users

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Intego, a maker of Internet security software for the Mac , identified the first-ever “fake codec” ,OSX/RSPlug.a Trojan ,Trojan malware for the Apple Macintosh.
INTEGO SECURITY ALERT - October 31, 2007 OSX.RSPlug.A Trojan

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