Today, the new version of OpenOffice has been released with tons of new features and improvements. On top of the improvements is the faster startup time. It is reported that Write and Calc now starts up 46% faster on a “cold start” compared to OpenOffice 3.2.

Today KDE announces the release of the KDE Software Compilation 4.4, “Caikaku”. The new release brings major new technologies, including social networking and online collaboration features, a new netbook-oriented interface and infrastructural innovations such as the KAuth authentication framework.

A few hours back, the Apple store was down. When it came up again, they have added a new product – Aperture 3.

Aperture 3 is Apple’s solution for professional photo editing and management. It is like a advanced (or should I say, Professional) version of Apple’s iPhoto software.

EA is going out a long way to promote its upcominggame Dante’s Inferno. They have even been reported to have hired “Christians” to carry out protest against the game at the recent E3. This publicity stunts, though successful, is quite controversial. Their latest promotion of the gamehowever is just brilliant – they ASCII arts and passwords in the source codes of various websites.

In time for the release of KDE SC 4.4 later today, the KDE Promo Team have finished the KDE SC 4.4 Visual Guide. Although the guide is done, it has not been released officially. You can however have a sneak peak of the guide here. When it is officially, it will be available here.

Earlier the KDE Web Team has also rolled out the new KDE.ORG website.

Just in time for the new KDE SC 4.4, which is due to be released in a few hours, the KDE web team has finally brought out the all new KDE.ORG and BUZZ.KDE.ORG websites.

The KDE web team has been working on the new design since November last year at Stuttgart, where the KDE branding was also changed.

Mozilla has decided to drop the support of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) in future Firefox releases. This change will be introduced later this year when Firefox changes its rendering engine from Gecko 1.9.2 to Gecko 1.9.3.

Mozilla had already stop supporting Tiger in mozilla-central in September 2009. However, most of the code was left intact at the time in case they reversed their decision to drop Tiger support.

We recently covered the hack of the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) website. After the hack we at Digitizor decided to investigate the identity of the hacker. In this article, we are publishing some of our findings.

The first thing we tried to do was track the hacker. Here is what we uncovered regarding the hacker:

A system-wide PulseAudio equalizer was developed by Ubuntu Forums memeber, psyke83. The equalizer is now available in his PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu. In this article we will tell you who you can install it from the PPA in Ubuntu 9.10 and Ubuntu 10.04.

This week was a week of security issues. First of all there was the hack of Tata Consultancy Services’ website and there was also the revelation from Mozilla that malwares were found in Firefox add-ons. Another big news was that OpenOffice may be dropped from Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Read on to find out more.

Update: TCS.com is now up and running

The official website of  Tata Consultancy Services – www.tcs.com has been hacked by possibly a french hacker and a “domain for sale” notice has been put up! This attack does not seem to be a website hack as none of the webpages that were earlier indexed on search engines are opening. It could be a DNS Hijack as suggested by a look at the source code of the defaced web page where the nameservers of TCS.com might have been changed to something else.

Update: Probable details of the DNS hijacker.

Although Windows 7 is out and it’s been a long time since Windows distributed the Windows 7 RC for free, many people still have problem in doing a clean install of Windows 7 on their computers. In this article we will tell you how to do a fresh install of Windows 7 perfectly on your computer. You can also have a look at our other Windows 7 guides.

Are you a cricket fan and you love the Google Chrome Browser too? Won’t it be good if you could get all the live cricket scores and latest cricket news right in your Chrome Browser Dashboard? Yes, it is possible, Thanks to the Google Chrome – Cricinfo Extension using which you can get all like cricket scores and news right in your Google Chrome Dashboard. We have already told you about getting Live Cricket Scores for free on your Mobile Phone.

A UK based firm X2 Computing has announced that they will be releasing a tablet device. While releasing a tablet device is nothing newsworthy as almost everyone is releasing their own tablet devices nowadays, what is most noticeable is the name they choosed for the tablet – iTablet.

Going back a few days, iTablet was one of the most widely believed name for Apple’s tablet which was finally released released as iPad. Given the background over the name it is a really bold move by X2 Computing to go ahead and name their device iTablet.