Formally dominant Web browser Netscape, now owned by AOL said goodbye to the Internet two days ago. Netscape which has gained countless amount of reputation over the years as an efficient and user-friendly browser is now longer supported to users.
With its initial hype in the mid 90’s it has since fallen with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer [...]
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Qtrax is a free legal music ad-supported music service. A couple of days back I posted on Qtrax and it’s yet to release the first beta of its application used to download the music. A few hours back I received a mail from Qtrax saying their first beta has been launched.
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A new service named Qtrax is to be launched providing totally free ad-supported music for download featuring over 25,000,000 songs. A file sharing service which allows tracks to be downloaded from major labels including Sony BMG, Universal Music ad Warner Music.
The service will be funded through ads displayed while downloaded songs are been played by [...]
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The agency governing education technology in the UK has requested schools and educational institutes in the UK to prevent from upgrading to Vista and Office ’07. The obvious reason being the investment needed to upgrade to the latest versions of Microsoft’s products.
Also with Office ’07 supporting different file formats it may cause software compatibility problems [...]
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A bug was discovered in the popular Google Toolbar which opens the risk of allowing malicious software to be installed or data to be stolen from phishers on the user’s machine.
The bug lies in adding the browser buttons in the application. Phishers could convince users to download an application from a trusted source like Google, [...]
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Recently the popular social network MySpace was ‘malwared’ again. The malware coding was embedded in the music star Alicia Keys’ MySpace profile page. Once the victim visits Keys’ page, the malware requests the user to download to ‘watch the video’. The program then installs malware into the victim’s computer.
The link redirects to a well known [...]
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Taking on a similar look of skype with its installer named ‘65404-SkypeDefenderSetup.exe’, once installed a user would see a similar convincing enough interface of Skype with minor differences like for the ‘sign in’ button. If in case the login credentials are entered it is sent to another server along with stored passwords from Internet Explorer’s [...]
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Based on scientific evidence certain types of game-playing are increasingly being seen as light exercise for the brain that can be useful for seniors at risk of memory loss and other vision problems!
Makers of computer games and online programs aimed at the old have been increasing in recent times. Japan’s game producer giant Nintendo has [...]
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Sony cut the price of its Playstation 3 console in the US and announced an even cheaper model that will arrive before the holiday shopping season.
The top-line Playstation 3 model, with an 80GB HD, now costs around 500USD, reduced by around 100 USD that effectively eliminates the lower end model costing 500USD.
Thus, a new lower [...]
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