Windows Live Hotmail it is the successor of MSN Hotmail (it has more than 280 million active accounts and I wonder why they don’t move to Yahoo messenger and still they are stick to MSN ) According to Microsoft it was built from the ground up to be safer, more powerful and productive than previous [...]

Thousands of Light Bulbs Crushed for a Greenpeace Campaign Against Energy-Wasting Products As G8 and EU ministers gather in Berlin, Germany, to discuss energy efficiency measures, Greenpeace activists have used a mechanised road roller to crush ten thousand energy-wasting light bulbs at the Brandenburg Gate. Greenpeace is demanding tough European efficiency standards for energy using [...]

Samsung and Nokia announced they will work to achieve interoperability among their DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast – Handheld) enabled mobile devices and network services system in order to encourage greater adoption of broadcast mobile TV services and accelerate service deployment. The handset manufacturers will work together to support solutions based on the open OMA BCAST [...]

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Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. Read here the whole story Bad cracker! Bad! No tag for this post.

More and more college students are self-centered and narcissistic, according to a study from San Diego State University. Researchers indicate that today’s generation of college-aged adults may be thinking more of themselves. From 1982 to 2006, psychologists examined the results of more than 16,000 college students who participated in the Narcissistic Personal Inventory test. Based [...]

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Philips is a big surprise for us. They just announced the sale of its Philips DVD and Blu-Ray related technology activities to Moser Baer from India. Philips OM&T division (Optical Media & Technology) employs approximately 50 people in Eindhoven and had turnover in 2006 of approximately EUR 10 million. The transfer of ownership to Moser [...]

After five years in the making and undergoing testing by 4 million beta users, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates officially launched Windows Vista. During his announcement, Gates thanked everyone who played a role in helping to create Windows Vista, which goes on sale Tuesday, Jan. 30. As part of the kick-off celebration, a family from Maryland [...]

Futuremark announced today the release of VGMark07, the OpenVG(tm) Benchmark. This new benchmark will provide vector graphics performance data for handset manufacturers, ODMs, semiconductor companies and network operators within the handheld industry. VGMark07 is targeted for devices that are fully compliant with the OpenVG 1.0 API specification and which pass all Open VG conformance tests. [...]

To celebrate the upcoming consumer release of Windows Vista, Microsoft and AMD today revealed the rules and began the “Vanishing Point” sweepstakes, a large-scale online and offline collaborative puzzle game. Vanishing Point takes online games to new heights with tough challenges, big rewards and events scheduled around the globe. Players worldwide have already created forums [...]

Thousands of UK companies risk fine because of failure to obey new European law on website and email descriptions Many companies in the UK have missed a January 1 deadline to update their websites and email signatures to include new information that is necessary because of European law being incorporated into UK law. Directors of [...]

Skype and Nokia announced a collaboration to develop a new mobile Skype experience on the newly launched Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The Nokia N800’s small size and easy wireless connectivity will free Skype users from their desktop thus enabling Skype conversations to take place anywhere there is an available wireless internet connection. Building on the [...]

The Touchless Trashcan uses patented invisible harmless infrared technology. Place hand or debris about 6 inches away from the infrared sensor near the lid. It will open instantly when you approach and will close automatically in 3-second after debris has been released and hand moves away. Lid will remain open if debris or hand is [...]

Samsung announced that it has created the first LCD panel that can produce independent images on each side of a mobile LCD display. Samsung’s new double-sided LCD can show two entirely different pictures or sets of visual data simultaneously on the front and back of the same screen. Other conventional double-sided LCDs can only show [...]

Plastic Logic announced that it will build the first factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products. It will utilize Plastic Logic’s unique process to fabricate active-matrix displays that are thin, light and robust; enabling a reading experience [...]

NVIDIA today announced that it has completed the acquisition of PortalPlayer, Inc., a leading supplier of semiconductors, firmware, and software for personal media players and secondary display-enabled computers. The acquisition of PortalPlayer is expected to accelerate NVIDIA’s ongoing investment in its handheld product strategy. NVIDIA’s handheld technology, which combines high-quality graphics, TV, and video with [...]