Overview of the August 09 Patch Tuesday Update
As is always the case with Microsoft, on the second Tuesday of the month, an update is released by the Redmond-based software developer. The update is meant to address issues and problems with various Microsoft products. This August, the Patch Tuesday update encompassed a total of 9 security bulletins affecting...

Twitter Knocked Offline Again, While Twitter CEO's Wife Was Giving Birth
Micro-blogging site Twitter hasn’t been fairing very well recently. Last week, on Thursday, the site was taken offline by a massive denial-of-service attack and since then the team at Twitter has been working hard to recover. Yesterday, the...

Facebook Rolls Out New Version of Search to All Users
250 million accounts strong social networking site Facebook, after testing new Search versions on a select group of users last month, has announced that the testing phase is over and it is...

MacBook Pro Hard Drive Woes Acknowledged by Apple, Fix Coming Soon
It seems that some 15” MacBook Pro devices fitted with 7200RPM 500GB hard drives are affected by a rather annoying problem: the hard drive makes clicking sounds and as if that wasn’t enough, sometimes the hard drive stalls right in...

Microsoft Not Ready to Ditch Support for IE6 Yet
Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is an outdated web browser that is more trouble than it’s worth, and YouTube for example has long ago decided to leave it behind. But Microsoft on the other hand is not ready to ditch the 8-years old web browser just yet. Curious, because...

August CTP of SQL Server 2008 Available for Download
The first CTP (Community Technical Preview) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 has been released to MSDN and TechNet subscribers at the start of the week. But MSDN and TechNet subscribers only have a couple of days head start...

Google Caffeine: Come Test Google's Next Gen Search Architecture
As far as online search goes, Google holds the lion’s share with approximately 70% of the market. The way Google managed to gain such a percentage is by providing the user with a properly good search experience. Now the...

Google Addresses the Need to Add a Map to Your Site or Blog
In a move that will only increase the popularity of Google Maps, the Mountain View-based search engine giant has announced the launch of a new Google Maps Get Maps webpage that will come in handy when you need to add a map to your...

Mozilla International Store Back Online, Following Security Breach Shutdown
The Mozilla Foundation, which we all know and love for making the Firefox browser, had to shut down its online store earlier this month due to a security breach that compromised some of its customers. The same...

No Need to Go to the Bank to Cash a Check, the iPhone Does it For You
I am an avid supporter of online banking – I would much rather stay in front of my computer and do all my transactions from the comfort of my own home. But when I am given a check, I can’t just cash it in from my home, I have to go to visit the nearest branch, sit in line, and...

Sophos Updates Its Anti-Rootkit to Support x64 Systems, Including Windows 7
Sophos, company that specializes in providing anti-spam, spyware removal, data protection and other security software solutions, announced that it has updated its anti-rootkit offering. The aptly named Sophos Anti-Rootkit can be...

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed, Microsoft Sells Off Razorfish
The big Facebook-related news today (yesterday the news was that Facebook is bad for your relationship) is that the social networking site has acquired FriendFeed – the acquisition has been officially confirmed by...

Facebook Is Bad for Your Relationship, Study Finds
Popular social networking site Facebook, as its 250 million account holders prove, is used by pretty much everyone these days. Maybe not Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who found that using Facebook eats too much into your time, but everyone else is okay with it and ...

Microsoft Updates Productivity Suite for Macs: Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1
Redmond-based software giant Microsoft has updated its Office 2008 productivity suite, but not the Windows-specific version, the Mac OS X version. The update, which...

Google Voice Will Be Launched as a Web App
Goggle Voice, the service that uses VoIP to link your phone numbers and put them under the umbrella of a single Google Voice number, will be retooled and released as a web app. Google seems to...

Aspiring Eagle Scout Helps School Adopt Windows 7 Early
You might be wondering how are people around getting their hand on Windows 7 RTM. Well, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) got their hands on it a few days after the operating system RTM’d, MSDN and TechNet subscribers got it directly from Microsoft as of last week, and the regular user can...

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