Google wants U.S. help fighting censorship June 24, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) — Once relatively indifferent to government affairs, Google Inc. is seeking help inside the Beltway to fight the rise of Web censorship worldwide.
The online search giant is taking a novel approach to the problem by asking U.S. trade officials to treat Internet restrictions as international trade barriers, similar to other hurdles to global [...]

Mandriva: We Won’t Sign Microsoft Pact June 23, 2007

Mandriva has become the latest Linux vendor to publicly refute speculation that it will join Novell, Xandros and Linspire in signing a patent covenant with Microsoft, in which the Redmond company agrees not to sue for potential intellectual property infringement.
The statement from Mandriva CEO Francois Bancilhon follows a similar refusal from Canonical chief executive Mark [...]

YouTube Live on Apple TV, iPhone June 21, 2007

Apple said Wednesday that its update to Apple TV to allow viewing of YouTube videos was available, along with announcing similar functionality for iPhone. But the lack of 3G connectivity will limit the feature’s usefulness.
iPhone users will likely not be able to stream their videos across the mobile network as EDGE is often too slow [...]

14 Google Products Won Webware 100 June 20, 2007

Rafe Needleman announced the Webware 100 winners.The list was compiled on votes cast by nearly 500,000 users, and Google is the biggest winner with 14 products on the list:
Browsing: Google Reader
Communication: Gmail
Data: Google
Media: YouTube
Mobile: Gmail Mobile, Google Maps Mobile, Google 411
Productivity and Commerce: Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, Google AdWords
Publishing: Blogger, Google Analytics, FeedBurner
Preference: [...]

No Microsoft-Ubuntu Deal in the Works June 19, 2007

Don’t expect a patent deal between Microsoft and Ubuntu Linux distributor Canonical anytime soon.
The company’s CEO said in a post on his personal Web log over the weekend that despite the rumors, there are no negotiations with the Redmond company. Furthermore, he took issue with Microsoft’s threats of patent lawsuits for unspecified patents.
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iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time June 19, 2007

Apple® today announced that iPhone™ will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In [...]

Safari for Windows Tops 1 Million Downloads June 15, 2007

Despite security concerns and Microsoft pundits like Paul Thurrott wondering “who would ever use” it, Safari 3 Beta for Windows was downloaded over 1 million times in the first 48 hours, Apple announced. The company continues to tout the speed and standards support of its browser, which was previously Mac-only.
Even with 1 million downloads, however, [...]

SanDisk inks agreement to support DivX June 15, 2007

DivX and SanDisk have announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk to include DivX technology in SanDisk’s Sansa line of video-enabled products.
As a result of the partnership, future SanDisk video products can include interoperability with the DivX Stage6 video website. This partnership is designed to provide SanDisk consumers with seamless access to the growing library of [...]

Sun offers an olive branch to Linux June 15, 2007

Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz is looking to make peace with the development community behind the Linux operating system.
A day after Linux creator Linus Torvalds lashed out against the server vendor over its open source track record, the Schwartz posted an open letter on his blog and invited Torvalds to dinner at his home.
Torvalds [...]

After hacker dissection, Safari beta is patched June 15, 2007

Three days after releasing Safari 3.0, Apple has issued its first patch of the beta software.
The 3.0.1 update, released early Thursday morning, fixes three flaws in the browser including bugs that were discovered earlier this week by researchers Thor Larholm and Aviv Raff.
Apple released the 3.0 beta on Monday, and hackers started digging up bugs within hours. [...]

Developers Eye Microsoft’s Silverlight As Potential Flash Alternative June 8, 2007

Adobe’s ubiquitous Flash has never had serious competition, which allowed it to become the dominant technology for Web multimedia, even though its complexity causes some headaches for developers. Yet Microsoft’s Silverlight stands to give Flash a run for its market share.Now available in beta, Silverlight is slated for a 1.0 release this summer and is [...]

TechEd 2007: Vista’s Priorities Now Favor Media Player, Russinovich Demos June 8, 2007

ORLANDO – Perhaps the closest thing to a rock star you find at a technology conference is a guy whose talks are so good, that the same attendees will attend their encore performances. If anyone makes a list of three “rock stars” at TechEd, one of them would have to be Mark Russinovich, the former [...]

EMI and YouTube shake hands and hips June 2, 2007

EMI has signed an agreement with Google’s video-sharing website YouTube to allow its users to view “authorised” videos and recordings from the music firm’s roster of artists.
It’s the last of the Big Four to do so, with Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner having already jumped on the bandwagon in an attempt to claw back control [...]

Google Maps hits the streets June 2, 2007

Google yesterday announced the immediate availability of “Street View” – ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami and New York which allow Google Maps surfers to “navigate around a city, ‘virtually’ walking the streets, checking out restaurants and landmarks and even zoom in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans”:

As well [...]

The perfect PC May 26, 2007

Here in KSA stealing software is nothing… and even I don’t like that, I can’t stop it. And because of that I start a year ago the search for good alternatives, to be honest I always knew about the free and open source programs but I didn’t try it. I didn’t know how good those [...]

No end in sight for Vista’s Long Goodbye May 24, 2007

Looking for yet another reason to hold off buying Vista? Read on
Seven weeks ago, when we first reported Vista was causing many machines to stall indefinitely while deleting, copying and moving files, we were sure the problem was caused by a bug that would be fixed relatively quickly. After all, Vista is Microsoft’s flagship product. [...]

Microsoft to beat Symantec to corporate release punch May 17, 2007

With Forefront due out soon, Symantec’s latest release suffers further delay.
Microsoft has announced the release to manufacture of Forefront Client, the corporate implementation of its anti-virus technology, with full sales release expected within weeks. Current market leader in the corporate AV market Symantec, meanwhile, has announced further delays to the release [...]