Jawbone UP gets officia...

OK, we know for the longest time that the Jawbone UP is already well on its way, but two niggling questions keep on popping up – “How much?” and “When will it arrive?”. I am rather glad that Jawbone decided to clear the air once and for all with their press...
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Microsoft announces win...

Microsoft recently had a contest where groups of students from different colleges were challenged to develop new, innovative ways of using the Microsoft Touch Mouse . For those not in the know, Microsoft’s Touch Mouse is a specially designed that features a touch surface that...
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Maybe BBM Music Isn’t...

With BBM Music , RIM has thrown their hat into the already crowded mobile music ring. The new service’s focus on leveraging your social connections to score some new tunes is a novel twist, but it begs a significant question. Why would RIM release an ostensibly limited music...
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Ex-Google Reader Produc...

Former Google Reader Product Manager Brian Shih has posted a scathing, but fairly accurate, review of the update to Google Reader. The update, which removed Reader’s own social sharing features in favor of Google+, was unpopular among Google Reader’s most active users because...
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Here’s The First GTA:...

Rockstar Games just released the first trailer for the upcoming GTA V game and it’s good to be home. Grand Theft Auto V is living large back in the beautiful state of San Andreas. The big city of Los Santos, the lovely ladies, and the fast cars — it’s all there. The...
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Internet Explorer globa...

Microsoft executives would definitely sit up and take notice that their Internet Explorer global browser share has just dropped below the 50% mark sometime during the month of October – something that had never happened before in over a decade. Apart from that, there is also a...
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Stanford Researchers Cr...

Captchas , those sometimes-illegible code words designed to foil spammers, can be easily decoded by bots, a Stanford University research team has found. The Stanford team has created Decaptcha, software that makes captchas readable by computers by cleaning up the text and rendering them...
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Microsoft software bug ...

I don’t know about you, but when I heard of the name “Duqu virus”, the first thing that came to my mind was that of Count Dooku – could a Star Wars fan be behind the Duqu virus that exploited a previously unknown bug in the Windows operating system? It seems that...
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Calxeda ARM-based HP Se...

HP is currently testing servers based on an ARM architecture, which is basically the same stuff that runs applications on your phones and tablets. The idea is that these little chips use much less power than traditional processors like those of Intel and AMD. Because they use less power,...
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Carbonite Backups Adds ...

Online backup service Carbonite has just released new features this morning which includes backups for external drives, to the cloud and to an external drive – to create a snapshot of your own disk. Finally, there’s a Courier Recovery service that delivers huge quantities of...
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