Fiat India is planning to launch “Fiat Grande Punto” shortly in india by the end of may-09. Fiat Punto was Designed by the famous Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italian design, Fiat Grande Punto would be a sporty look with host of practical features of design, comfort, safety. Grande punto will compete with Maruthi swift,…
Software giant Microsoft has been charged with abusing the Monopoly in the Operating system segment. The latest verdict from the European Commission charges Microsoft of harming healthy competition by bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with its flagship Operating System – Windows. Microsoft’s IE, continues to be, by far the most used…
Steve Jobs, the charismatic Apple’s CEO, is learnt to be moving on a medical leave in the wake of his deteriorating health. Questions have been raised on the issue of the software giant’s succession with Steve going on such long leave. Only in the last week had Steve assured the…
Microsoft is learnt to have been investing in a multi-touch technology company called N-trig, based in Israel. N-trig’s technology enabled computers are supposed to accept inputs from a touch pen or a finger. It is also expected to support multitouch, simultaneously recognizing contact from multiple fingers, enabling gestures such as…
How secure your website?, asks Netcraft network-monitoring firm. According to the reports from Netcraft, one out of seven SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Digital Certificates are weak. According to the survey by Netcraft, the vast certificates in the internet issued by RapidSSL – now owned by VeriSign are prone to security…
An new phishing email is circulated in the internet, which looks like from CNN website. But it is not so. Its a phishing email that links to a fake CNN website offerring an video content of Israel-Hamas conflict, but instead hosts a trojan that can steal sensitive informations from the user…
SanDisk Corp on Thursday rolled out a family of what it called the world’s fastest multi-level cell, solid-state hard drives. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, SanDisk showed off its new G3 series SSDs, designed as drop-in replacements for hard disk drives in notebook computers.SSDs are viewed by…
Steve Ballmer has announced that the Windows 7 Beta1 will available for download sooner this week, possibly by Jan 9th itself. Delivering the keynote at CES 2009, the Microsoft head declared that “Our TechNet and MSDN customers can get Windows 7 Beta 1 right now.” The rest of the world…
The CES 2009, World’s largest consumer electronics fair, is all set to kick off from today at Las Vegas. The fair is an annual tech showcase event with participation from all the major technology players worldwide. This time it is being arranged from Jan 8 -Jan 11 of 2009. …
Major search engine gaint Google & famous chinese search engine Baidu has apologised on Wednesday after chinese government blamed them of spreading search links that lead to pornographic contents. Chinese government raised their concern over pornography early this week and accused 19 Internet companies, including Google & Baidu. Chinese government…
As a further development in this story, the erstwhile chairman Ramalinga raju has surrendered to the Andhra Pradesh Police on Jan 9th. Raju has been arrested under the Indian Penal Code sections 120B, 409, 420, 468 and 471. These sections correspond to forging, falsifications of the records , criminal breach…
After a big controversy, Apple Inc. planned to drop copy-protection of itune songs. Copy protection software, known for rights management protects users from sharing their songs bought from famous iTunes store. This rule created an inconvenience among the music fans, that prevented them from moving their own songs between devices….
As we all ware that, electronic goods that are not recycled properly will harm the environment. As an initiative to create Greener World, Nokia has launched a program in India called “Take Back”. Do you have a unsed mobiles & its accessories, “We will take it back” says Nokia’s “Take…
CNET News reports that Microsoft might be planning for big lay offs in the month of January. Rumours have started pouring on the expected number of cuts including a private blog entry report which puts up the number as high as 15000, which amounts to roughly 17% of the software…
China has the World’s largest internet users, which ranges from 240 million to 250 million. To purify the internet culture, china has issued a rule to ban all the pornography websites, blogs, forums, video sharing, cummunity websites & search engines. This rule includes the leading search engine gaint Google &…
Matthaus Krzykowski and Daniel Hartmann, the founders of the startup Mobile-facts, have been successful in giving a makeover to the Google’s smartphone operating system, Android, as a desktop operating system. Surprisingly the duo took only about four hours of work to compile Android for the netbook. In an interview to…
The Web’s most comprehensive open encyclopaeida, the Wikipedia has reached its fund raising goal. The Wikimedia foundation, which is the non profit foundation behind Wikipedia has raised 6.2 Million US dollars as funds from contributors. Jimmy Wales, the founder of this foundation had appealed for support in late December. The…
A court in Shenzhen, China has reportedly sentenced 11 members with the defendants getting between one and a half and six and half years in prison, according to Microsoft. The sentences included the longest sentences handed down for software piracy in China’s history, the company said in a press release….
Many of the Microsoft’s music player Zune has reportedly been frozen and seized to operate from yesterday. Reports tell that some users complained the problem happened at exactly midnight PST, at the very beginning of the last day of the year. Apparently the 30 GB models of Zune have been…