CodeWeaver has released a new version of its popular application CrossOver. CrossOver is an application for Linux, Mac OS X using which you can run Windows applications. It is an improved version of Wine, the free software that allows Windows applications to run in Linux. The new version Crossover 9, codenamed “Snow Mallard” brings with [...]

Microsoft has releases a preview of Internet Explorer 9 at its MIX conference. They did not say it explicitly, but by now it is pretty clear that its new browser will not be supported in Windows Xp.
This is what Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch said:
Building a modern browser requires a modern operating system.
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At its Mix Conference at Las Vegas, Microsoft gave a preview of what is to come with its next web-browser Internet Explorer 9. Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview, which is a prototype to show how IE9 will handle the current web technologies and the new ones to come.
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Canonical introduced a new design for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, which is due for release this April. The new theme introduced a radical change by putting the windows control buttons on the left instead of the right. This has caused quite a controversy with a lot of users demanding that it be put back on [...]

The Amarok team has announced the release of Amarok 2.3 codenamed “Clear Light”. The new release has a much requested feature – an Equalizer. The equalizer however uses kdelibs 4.4 , so you will have to be running KDE 4.4 for it to work.
As Amarok 2 is largely stable by now, for Amarok 2.3, the [...]

Recently, many phishing scams have been spreading around in Twitter causing a trouble to a lot of users. These scams relies on one of the basic things behind Twitter – the use of URL shortening services as tweets are limited to 140 characters. By hiding behind these seemingly innocent shortened links, scammers have been passing [...]

Ubuntu has come a long way since it’s start in 2004. Through these years Ubuntu has changed the face of the linux operating system and has made linux more user-friendly than ever before. Come Ubuntu 10.04 (codenamed Lucid Lynx), a lot is set to change in the Ubuntu Community. Based on a review of brand [...]

The final build of Opera 10.50 is finally out for Windows. Opera claims that this is the “fastest browser on earth”. Opera 10.5 features a new JavaScript engine, Carakan and a new graphics library called Vega. Opera claims that this has resulted in a browsing speed increase of 700% from the Futhark JavaScript engine used [...]

A few days ago, PayPal announced that they will be resuming their operations in India. They pointed out that publishers will need to provide the Importer Exporter Code (IEC) withdraw money from their PayPal account. In an update in the PayPal blog, Farhad Irani, who is in charge of PayPal India, clarified that it is [...]

Microsoft told Windows XP users today not to press the F1 key when prompted by a Web site. This was a reaction to an bug in VBScript that Polish researcher Maurycy Prodeus had revealed Friday. The vulnerability could enable hackers  to hijack PCs running Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft noted that hackers exploiting the VBScript flaw [...]

According to Ryan King, a software engineer at Twitter, the MySQL database used in Twitter is going to be replaced by the open source Cassandra data management system. Cassandra is a new types of data handling systems that are powering large Web applications, particularly social networking sites which deal with hundreds of thousands or millions [...]

A bug affecting the PlayStation’s trophy information synchronization with Sony’s server has brought down millions of PlayStations worldwide. It has been reported that the bug does not affect the “slim” model PS3s.
Sony’s PlayStation Network experienced a problem that garbled its trophy sync process. However players are required to synchronize trophy information with Sony’s online servers [...]

Earlier we informed you about Reserve Bank of India banning PayPal from carrying out its operations in India. Heres the update of that. RBI has now allowed PayPal to resume bank withdrawals for settlements for export of goods and services. PayPal is expecting to resume this service by 3rd of March. Please note that this [...]

Twitter has started adopting ways that will help users to discover their friends and colleagues who are already on Twitter but may not be connected with each other.

Google seems to be having a very tough time in Europe this month. There was the case where their executives were convicted in Italy and their search engine algorithm was called into questioned. Now another trouble seems to be brewing with its Street View feature in Google Maps.
Reuters reported about a letter from EU regulators [...]

The first alpha release of Fedora 13 Goddard was going to be due out next week, but that release is now pushed back by a week. Fedora lives on the bleeding edge of Linux development with many new features going into each release. It gives Linux enthusiasts a taste of what is to come in [...]

As you may already be aware by now, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is coming with a music store called the Ubuntu One Music Store. This is a very new and exciting thing from Canoncal and understandably people have a lot of questions about this new service. So, the Ubuntu One Music Store team have come [...]

According to the IIPA, an umbrella group for organizations like MPAA and RIAA, using open source softwares make you a pirate. Andreas Guadamuz, a lecturer in law at the University of Edinburgh, has discovered that an influential lobby group is asking the US government to basically consider open source as the equivalent of piracy.
The International Intellectual Property Alliance [...]

A Swedish firm, The Astonishing Tribe, is taking augmented reality to the next level with its new Android app, which they call Recognizr. The app allows you to gather information on a person and their online life simply by pointing your camera phone at their face.
Here is how the app works: the user points the [...]

If you are Linux geek and you Eat, Drink & Sleep Linux then you need not worry about getting hired. According to one Dawn M. Foster at Intel, Linux jobs are still one of the highest paid and glamorous jobs compared to other job avenues in the IT sector. Since Linux is something that not [...]

Google continues its crusade against Internet Explorer 6. They have already stopped supporting Internet Explorer 6 in Google Apps and are also said to be planning to stop supporting it by this year’s end in GMail and Google calendar as well. We all knew that they will be giving up the support of IE6 in [...]

Guess what ? His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet has joined the world’s favorite micro-blogging website – Twitter. He, Tenzin Gyatso, (born: Lhamo Thondup) is the head of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharamshala, India.  Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors.

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In a latest move to put a curb on obscene and inappropriate apps in the Apple App-Store, Apple has removed almost over 5,000 apps from its App Store, including some that according to Apple feature “overtly sexual” content. Telegraph UK reports that many app developers have received a message [...]

Microsoft is planning to introduce 59 new Language Interface Packs (LIPs) for both Windows 7 and Office 2010. The LIPs will be also available for Visual Studio 2010.In addition to this, Microsoft will also be provide customers with new Caption Language Interface Packs (CLIP) which will make it possible for the software’s [...]