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17 September 2009
News: Cybercriminals use live chat in phishing attacks

With many who bank online now wary of phishing attacks, criminals are adding fake live-chat support windows to their websites to make them seem more real.
News: 95% of online user comments are spam

According to a new Websense report on security threat trends, a staggering 95 percent of all "user-generated comments" for blogs, chatrooms and message boards online are spam or malicious.
News: Skype founders sue... Skype

A company owned by Skype's founders has filed suit against Skype in the UK and the US.
News: Study: Google Docs used in 20 percent of companies

Microsoft Office may be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, according to a survey.
News: Microsoft: Windows Vista a 'less good product'

A Microsoft executive yesterday stoked up excitement for Windows 7 by describing its predecessor, Windows Vista, a "less good product."
16 September 2009
News: Google launches SDK for latest Android build

Developers can now start working with the software development kit (SDK) for version 1.6 of Google's mobile operating system Android, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.
Acronis True Image Home 2010

Acronis has launched True Image Home 2010. The backup and recovery software now offers a Nonstop Backup feature.
News: Motorola: Nokia-Microsoft won't end Windows Mobile

Motorola has denied that Nokia's joint venture with Microsoft will not spell the end for handsets running Windows Mobile.
News: MySpace opens Qizmt tech to recommend friends

MySpace yesterday released as open source a technology called Qizmt that it developed in-house to mine and crunch massive amounts of data and generate friend recommendations in its social-networking site.
News: Adobe buys web analyst Omniture for $1.8bn

Adobe is set to inject web analytics technology into Adobe's content creation tools after it agreed to buy web analytics company Omniture for $1.8bn in cash, the companies said Tuesday.
News: Google Chrome 3.0 launches: faster, more features

Google yesterday launched version 3 of its Chrome web browser. Google Chrome 3.0 keeps the pressure on competing tools by boosting JavaScript performance by 25 percent versus the latest stable release.
News: Facebook passes 300 million users, makes money

Facebook has more tham 300 million membes. The company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, also announced yesterday that Facebook has turned free cash-flow positive ahead of schedule.
News: AOL to launch AIM 7 for Twitter, Facebook

AOL is set to launch AIM 7 early next week. The 'most significant' update of its instant-messaging client will allow AIM users to post to Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Delicious and Digg.
News: Opera Mini 5 mobile web browser released

Opera has made its latest mobile web browser, Opera Mini 5, publicly available.
15 September 2009
News: Hackers capitalise on Patrick Swayze death

Hackers are already capitalising on the death of Dirty Dancing legend Patrick Swayze with fake web pages claiming to offer information about the actor's death, says Sophos.
LapLink PCmover for Windows 7

LapLink has produced a new version of its PCmover file transfer software to make it easier for users to upgrade from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7. The new version of PCmover is expected to cost $19.99.
Opinion: Why are Windows 7 upgrades so slow?

Microsoft apologists are coming out of the woodwork to defend the insanely slow Vista-to-Windows 7 upgrade process, and the sheer amount of ignorance is breathtaking. Never have so many generated so much blather while contributing so little to the discussion at hand.
News: Batman 'glide' disabled in anti-piracy measure

Gamers that have illegally downloaded copies of the new Batman game will find they are unable to make the character 'glide' as part of a new anti-piracy measure.
News: The Google Data Liberation Front explained

Google has unveiled the 'Data Liberation Front' - a project that aims to let web users import and export personal information from Google's online services without a hassle.
News: Microsoft gives Bing visual search

Microsoft has improved its Bing search engine with Visual Search. which it hopes will rival Google when it comes to searching the web for images.

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