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Google Calander: from your cell phones web browser

This is some good news about Google Calendar and your cell phone, Google have not long released information saying you can now view your calendar from any cell phones web browser.

All you got to do is open up your web browser on your phone and Read more

What is a Virtual Assistant

The virtual assistant (VA) is becoming more popular not only as a form of working from home, but also for companies and businesses.

What a virtual assistant does is provide specialised services and administrative support to managers, executives, entrepreneurs, businesses and other busy people who need that extra hand Read more

Breaking News: Dell Launching Three Computers with Linux

Dell Inc is a very popular and big computer brand, one in fact that I have brought 4 different computers from including a laptop.

Well now for some breaking news on something Dell has not done before, they are launching three computers with the Ubuntu 7.04 Linux operating system already installed Read more

Second Life Investigated by The FBI: Police in Britain, Germany and Other Countries

When Second Life was first started I am sure many thought it would be good but I also find it hard to believe anyone could have seen what Second Life Is today.

With a lot of people Second Life has become their First Life and with 6,638,500 total residents and last time we looked $1,094,116 US$ were spent in the last 24 hours on Second Life…it’s simply amazing Read more

Feedburner Sells to Google for $100 Million

Last week we heard a few Rumors about Google acquiring Feedburner (The RSS Management Company) and now it has come to light that this was very true.

According to a TechCrunch source close to the deal Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google Read more

WiFi freeloader faces jail for checking email

I have heard of many people being WiFi freeloaders before (using other peoples WiFi makes you a WiFi freeloader), but it’s a first to hear someone getting arrested for it.

Sam Patterson II of Sparta, MI could be in real deep trouble for checking email everyday at a Cafe’s WiFi access point without buying a coffee Read more

Sony PSP Gets: handheld video calls, voice calls and messaging

Many of the game consoles today are branching out into more areas than just games. The Xbox 360 has become a complete entertainment centre including Windows messenger in the latest update, The Sony PS3 is at the forefront of HD Films with Blue-ray as standard and now it’s the Sony PSP’s turn Read more

Firefox 3.0 Alpha: complaints regarding the software increasing

One thing that is very true about Firefox is how it has gained Browser market share month on month after it released Firefox 1.0 in November 2004

This was because it went for the simple approach which made Firefox a quick browser; it also had fewer errors in loading web pages than other browsers like Microsoft IE Read more

Google PowerPoint Confirmed for Their Office Suite

Google has been in development for quite some time now on a so called PowerPoint clone and last month Eric Schmidt (Google CEO) confirmed they will soon launch this last part of Google’s basic office suite, which will then make it complete Read more

500 Million Webmail Users: Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Live Hotmail

There are well over 500 million webmail users around the world and just like search engines most of the users use services from just a couple of brand names which include Yahoo Mail, Gmail and Hotmail.

With Windows Live not long re-branding their new email beta service to Windows Live Hotmail, we wonder how their webmail service stacks up to the others like AOL mail, Yahoo mail and Gmail Read more

Tiny Implantable Biocomputers: scientists develop for first time

As I love watching Sci-Fi films and documentaries I have heard many things about Nano technology, but up to now most of this has been in the minds of film directors and more fiction than fact…this is all about to change.

Researchers at Princeton and Harvard University have made a crucial step towards building biological computers Read more

Sling Media Deal with GetConnected Inc: faster net speeds

The good news for many Sling Media fans out there is that they have just announced a deal with GetConnected Inc, which has many relationships with internet providers and the deal hopes to bring much faster broadband connections to Sling Media users.

GetConnected has big internet service provider friends that include Time Warner and Comcast, so this is good news to both Sling Media as well as its users Read more

Internet Access for Military Limited by The Pentagon

I have a friend out in Afghanistan and he was told they have or will be getting Wi-Fi networks in rooms, which is simple technology so no frills here but they have not done so and will not for some time.

Now for the wellbeing of soldiers you think that this would have been a high priority to keep their sprits high, but it cannot be the case.

Also Recently the U.S. military has announced that they will block certain popular websites such as Photobucket, MySpace and YouTube to troops Read more

Searchology Press Event: Google Universal Search

Marissa Mayer has announced at Google’s Searchology press event a feature that will affect millions and it’s called “Universal Search”.

With Google having so many products that help most of us on a daily basis and many of these products being search related, it was then only a mater of time before Google started blending these services together more to help us users.

The result will be Google’s Universal Search which will display results from various sources of search on one page; this will include information from the Web, pictures, videos and books Read more

Televisions Much Brighter: thanks to next generation LEDs

Many of us know that LCDs tend to be brighter than Plasma TVs, but at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science two researchers are pushing technology to its best by developing new technology that will make the LEDs in all flat panel TVs much cheaper and brighter Read more

Microsoft Hates Open-Source: threats 235 patent violations

We all know that open-source software will have its problems and may not be squeaky clean like a lot of companies have to be but then hay it’s free so we consumers love it.

Now as the next version of the upcoming GNU General Public License is on it’s way Microsoft seem to be using a threat of 235 patent violations by the open-source software community in an aim to muddy the waters around the GNU General Public License Read more

Sony lets slip plans of updates to its firmware

While you’re enjoying some of the best graphic games you’ve ever played on your Sony PS3 you soon will also be able to get access to XMB and RSS on the much loved games system.

This news has come from a slip up by Sony staff (slap on the hand, someone is in trouble); plans have been revealed of updates to the firmware of the PS3 console Read more

Researchers in India Say: We can make a laptop for $10

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) is an amazing project that aims to give every child in the world a laptop with a cost of just $100 a laptop and they also are windup so in countries where there is no or little electricity you can wind the OLPC up to get it working.

As we said this is an amazing project, but researchers in India are saying that they can make a laptop for $10 Read more

New Centrino Duo and Pro: Santa Rosa platform into stores

The previously codenamed Santa Rosa platform from Intel has now been formally announced and you will now see the new business-orientated Centrino Pro platform set sail into stores.

The biggest change is the Core 2 Duo chips for a much faster 800MHz front-side bus speed, but we also see better connectivity options and battery life, quicker booting of often used applications thanks to the new Flash-memory technology called TurboMemory Read more

Ticketmaster and iTunes have teamed: Summer of Free Music

It’s great to hear of two companies coming together and giving us music fans a better deal and this is just what Ticketmaster and Apple have done with the “Summer of Free Music”.

You can download free music from iTunes in just 4 easy steps Read more