Microsoft began to rollout the new Windows Live Hotmail yesterday to customers worldwide. The Hotmail mail accounts are stored on cluster servers that will get updated one at a time which means that some users will already be able to experience the new Windows Live Hotmail while others have to wait until their cluster gets [...]
What Bing Search Does And Could Do Better
I switched to Bing recently and had my fair share of experience with Microsoft’s search engine. The main reason for switching was a deterioration of quality results in Google Search. It began in May and has not changed since then. That, and the noise that has been added to search result pages over the past [...]
Google Will Move Https Search To New Domain
The introduction of encrypted search at https://www.google.com/ a month ago has increased the privacy of search engine visitors by preventing people from intercepting search terms and results. Encrypting all communication between the client’s computer and Google Search had a few side effects though. It was for one not possible to use all Google services. Google [...]
600,000 iPhone 4′s pre-ordered on AT&T
AT&T has already sold out of pre-order iPhone 4′s, having had some 600,000 people in the US sign up for one of the spangly handsets (though I doubt anyone who finds one in a bar now will get $5,000 for it). Apple say it’s the largest number of pre-orders they’ve ever taken in a single [...]
Download Google Books
Google Books offers a vast library of books and magazines. Some books and magazines are provided as full digital copies that can be read online while others are only available as previews or summaries. Download options are not provided on Google Books which leaves users with no other choice than to read the books and [...]
Opera 10.60 Beta Released, Fastest Browser Gets Even Faster
Someone must have flipped a switch over at the Opera headquarters in Norway. The developers of the popular Opera browser have accelerated development of the browser over the last months. The release of the highly acclaimed Opera 10.50 did not seem to have slowed down the developers who have now made available the first beta [...]
Zarafa: Fedora’s Exchange “killer”
For any open source advocate, one of the biggest needs is an Exchange-like server. There are plenty of them available, some of them offer less-than enough features to really be viable. Some of them offer plenty of features but are insanely difficult to install. And then there’s Zarafa. Zarafa is an open source collaborative software [...]
Windows XP And Windows Server 2003 Zero-Day Vulnerability
A vulnerability in Windows Help and Support Center was discovered recently that could allow remote code execution on affected systems. Only Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are affected by it. Microsoft is aware of limited targeted attacks that exploit the vulnerability. These attacks use specially crafted links on web pages or email messages with [...]
Windows Tweaker 7Plus Update Adds Explorer Tabs, Hotkeys
We were impressed by the functionality of 7Plus back in April when the first public version of the tool was released to the public by its author. Back then we came to the conclusion that it was a great program to speed up the Windows workflow. The lightweight portable program adds a multitude of new [...]