News: FCC Reveals Nokia 6750 for AT&T

Documents became public today on the FCC web site that detail an unannounced Nokia phone for AT&T. The Nokia 6750 "Mural" is a clamshell phone with dedicated music keys and an outer display hidden behind a mirrored shell. Documents confirm 3G in the 850/1900 bands that AT&T uses. Also confirmed are a memory card slot, Bluetooth, and a camera. The early draft user manual refers to Video Share and Media Net - both AT&T service brands - and the keypad has a dedicated "CV" button for AT&T's Cellular Video service. It is not clear if the 6750 will have the S60 smartphone OS like the 6650 fold.

News: Microsoft Gives Controversial Antipiracy Tools New Name

Microsoft has rebranded its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation system in Windows 7, likely an attempt to shed the controversial image of the antipiracy program.
The company said Thursday it is renaming WGA "Windows Activation Technology" because the name more accurately reflects the way the technology works, according to comments on the company's Web site.
WGA, which Microsoft introduced as an add-on to Windows XP in 2006 but built directly into Vista, checks to see, through a variety of ways including product activation, if someone is running a genuine copy of Windows.
Microsoft launched WGA as part of a widespread crackdown effort against software counterfeiting and piracy that it has undertaken in earnest for several years. Many users griped about WGA when it was first introduced, especially because of early bugs that would deem genuine software counterfeit, forcing one user to write a work-around for the glitch and irking many others.
They also complained about a feature of the tool that shut down many functions of a version of Windows if it is discovered to be counterfeit or pirated. To its credit, Microsoft responded to the outcry, fixing bugs and tweaking features. Now, the software uses a series of pop-up alerts to remind people their software is found to be counterfeit.
Microsoft unveiled the name change for WGA on its press Web site Thursday in comments made interview-style by Joe Williams, Microsoft's general manager of Worldwide Genuine Windows. In his comments, he said the reason for the name change is that WGA as developed in Vista and now Windows 7 is "fundamentally different" from the original program that was an add-on to XP, although the goals of the programs are the same.
"The guiding principle is to enable the customer to know when the software they are using is genuine and licensed and help them to do something about it if it's not," he said. "However the technology used in Windows Vista and Windows 7 ... consists of new code and the latest methods for protecting Windows in ways that can only really be achieved with the components that are built in to both Windows Vista and now Windows 7."
Williams added that Microsoft has improved the activation tool in Windows 7 with support for virtualized images and volume-activation for multiple OSes to take into consideration new business scenarios that it did not think of or were not prevalent when Microsoft first introduced the technology.
Microsoft released one of the last milestones for Windows 7, Release Candidate 1, last week, and many expect a final release of the software in October.

News: Facebook's Censorship of E-Mail Puts it in Free Speech Hot Seat

Facebook is actively filtering out Pirate Bay content from its Web site banning a Pirate Bay link-posting application that allows you to easily share torrent files from the Pirate Bay's site with Facebook members. Facebook is also censoring e-mail that contain Pirate Bay URLs from its e-mail system preventing users from cutting and pasting a Pirate Bay Web address in a Facebook e-mail message and sending it. While Facebook's evasive action may seem to be an effort to maintain its "family friendly" visage, there are now questions as to whether the social networking site is violating free speech.
In order to determine what constitutes "blocked content," Facebook must first read the e-mail message being sent. This may be an abuse of the federal wiretapping law. It's apparent from our tests that any URL originating from Pirate Bay's Web site is automatically filtered out of the system; if no other text is added to the outgoing message, the message arrives blank. Identifying what the contents of an e-mail is or "Sniffing" e-mails, as Wired calls it, is not an unknown practice -- Google does it to deliver ads -- but censoring e-mails based on content inches closer to an abuse of administrative power.

News: Nokia Announces the E52

Today Nokia announced the E52, a bar-style phone that carries forward Nokia's newer E Series design language. It looks similar to the E55, but rather than a SureType keypad, it has a standard numeric keypad. It has quad-band GSM/EDGE radios and two 3G variants, including HSDPA 850/2100 and 900/2100. It has Bluetooth 2.0+EDR with A2DP support, FM radio with RDS, and Wi-Fi. Other features include GPS, 3.2 megapixel camera with flash, noise cancellation and deep integration with Nokia's Ovi messaging services. It supports microSD cards up to 16GB. The E52 will become available in the second half of 2009 for $326.

News: Microsoft's Windows 7 Release Candidate Goes Public

The near-final version of Microsoft's next operating system, Windows 7, became available late Monday to the general public.

Microsoft will collect feedback on the Windows 7 release candidate over the next few months, fixing small issues. The company allowed developers and other testers to begin downloading the release candidate last week.
Windows 7 comes nearly three years after Windows Vista, which took five years for Microsoft to engineer but was regarded by some as underwhelming. Microsoft hasn't said when the final Windows 7 version will be released, although it's rumored to be out before year's end.
Microsoft warned it is not offering technical support for the Windows 7 release candidate, so those who install it are on their own. Users should be familiar with installing an operating system from scratch, formatting a hard drive and backing up data, among other skills, Microsoft advised.
In the Windows 7 release notes, Microsoft warns of several problems that haven't been resolved, including issues with its latest Web browser, Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).
Debugging JavaScript with the developer tools in IE8 could throw up a warning that a Web site is not responding, but that warning can be ignored. Also, some Web pages may have misaligned text or missing images. Microsoft recommends clicking on the "compatibility view" button on the address bar as a fix.
Microsoft released the Windows 7 beta in Arabic and Hindi, but those languages have been replaced with French and Spanish in the release candidate. English is available for both versions.
"We needed to ensure certain features were tested for worldwide functionality, and Hindi and Arabic help us test a number of language-related features," Microsoft said.
The Windows 7 release candidate will only work for so long. It is due to expire on June 1, 2010. Three months prior, the release candidate will automatically shut down a person's computer after two hours.
The Window 7 beta expires on Aug. 1, and computers with that version will begin shutting themselves down after two hours beginning July 1.
Microsoft said that Windows Vista users will not need to reinstall their applications after upgrading to the Windows 7 release candidate. The company does, however, recommend backing up data as a precaution. Vista users will have to do a clean install, however, to go from the Windows 7 release candidate to the final version.

Windows XP users should back up their data and do a clean install of the Windows 7 release candidate.
To run the 32-bit version of the release candidate, a computer should have a 1 GHz or faster processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of hard disk space and a DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model) 1.0 or higher driver.
For the 64-bit version, Microsoft recommends a 1 GHz or faster processor, 2GB of RAM, 20GB of hard disk space and a DirectX 9 graphics processor with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver.

News: Amazon launches larger-screen Kindle

Priced at $489, the larger device is designed for easier reading of newspapers, magazines

Amazon Inc. today announced a new version of its Kindle e-reader that features a bigger screen in order to present newspaper and magazine content better than the current, smaller Kindle 2.

The New York Times Co. and The Washington Post Co. will launch pilots of the new device, the Kindle DX, this summer, according to an Amazon.com press statement. The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post will offer the Kindle DX at a reduced price to readers who live in areas where home-delivery is unavailable and who sign up for a long-term subscription to the Kindle edition of the newspapers, the company said.

At a press conference in New York, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos said traditional computer displays are a "worse device than paper" for reading print, and that Kindle's "paper-like display" solves that problem.
"The Kindle DX is an important milestone in the convergence between digital and print," said Arthur Sulzberger, chairman of The New York Times, at the launch event. "It significantly enhances our ability to reach millions of readers."

News: Nokia E71x On Sale at AT&T

Today AT&T made the Nokia E71x available for sale at retail stores and online for $100 after rebate with new agreement.
White Plains, NY, USA - Nokia announced that the slimmest smartphone on the market, the Nokia E71x, will be available in AT&T retail stores and online beginning today. Priced at just USD 100, this much-anticipated full QWERTY smartphone arrives at a time when one in two people surveyed** say they would prefer to communicate via text message or email over phone calls.

News: Microsoft Lays off More Workers

Microsoft on Tuesday announced new job cuts that are part of the 5,000 the company said in January that it expected to eliminate.
The company did not say exactly how many people would be affected or describe which groups will lose the positions.
However, in a memo that CEO Steve Ballmer sent to employees and that has been seen by IDG News Service, he said that this round of layoffs nearly completes the planned 5,000 total cuts. In January, the company laid off 1,400 people, so Tuesday's cuts could be close to 3,000.
Washington state, where Microsoft is based, requires companies to disclose layoffs of this size, so within a few days the exact number should become public.
People in the U.S. and several countries around the world were affected, Ballmer said.
He also said that more cuts could happen. "We will continue to closely monitor the impact of the economic downturn on the company and if necessary, take further actions on our cost structure including additional job eliminations," he wrote in the memo.

When Microsoft first announced plans to lay off workers by June 2010, under pressure of a weakening economy, it also said that it planned to hire 2,000 to 3,000 people during the same time frame. Even after laying off 1,400 people earlier this year, Microsoft said that during the first three months of this year it lost a total of 800 jobs, indicating the level of hiring that continued even amid the layoffs.

Worldwide, Microsoft employs over 95,000 people, according to its Web site.
Microsoft clearly continues to struggle in the difficult economy. For the first quarter of this year, it reported a decrease in earnings per share of 30 percent compared to last year. Revenue was down 6 percent over last year too.

News: Windows 7 Could Ship as Soon as Summer

Although Microsoft Corp. refuses to name a delivery date for Windows 7, it could launch the new operating system as early as August, according to timeline comparisons of significant dates for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Those calculations bolster speculation that Microsoft has already set a ship date. Earlier this week, for example, a senior Microsoft executive said that a release in time to make 2009's crucial holiday selling season was "accomplishable," a departure from policy that has only promised to deliver Windows 7 within three years of Vista's appearance.

Last week, the gadget site Pocket-lint went even further as it said Acer Inc.'s Bobby Watkins had pegged Oct. 23 as Windows 7's launch date.
Watkins confirmed that Acer customers who buy a Vista-powered computer in the 30 days leading up to Oct. 23 will receive a free upgrade to Windows 7. "October 23 is the date that Windows 7 will be available," said Watkins, managing director of Acer's U.K. operations in an interview with the site. "There is a 30-day upgrade time so that customers don't wait to buy a new computer, so if you buy during that 30-day period, you'll get a free upgrade to Windows 7."
Comparisons with XP's and Vista's development pace show that Watkins' Oct. 23 date is feasible. In fact, if Microsoft adheres to a schedule similar to XP, it could roll out Windows 7 as soon as late August.
In 2001, Microsoft issued its first Windows XP release candidate (RC1) 115 days before it shipped the operating system on Oct. 25. Five years later, Microsoft publicly unveiled Windows Vista 138 days after it delivered that OSs' first release candidate.
Applying the 115- and 138-day spans to the May 5 public availability of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) puts the new operating system's launch date somewhere between Aug. 28 and Sept. 20, 2009, assuming Microsoft follows a trajectory like it did with XP or Vista.
Microsoft today declined to comment on a Windows 7 ship date. A company spokeswoman stuck to the official, and well-practiced line. "We are currently in the development stages for Windows 7 and expect it will take approximately three 3 years from Windows Vista Consumer [general availability] to develop," she said in an e-mail response to questions. "The specific release date will be determined once the company meets its quality bar for release."

Windows 7 RC was made available yesterday to subscribers of the for-pay Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) and TechNet services. After several hours of problems early Thursday that blocked subscribers from downloading the RC, Microsoft had fixed the trouble and put both sites' download pages back online.

News: Samsung announces first Android phone

Samsung has announced its first Android mobile phone – a touchscreen device set for release in June

The i7500 handset features a 5-megapixel digital camera and will connect to Wi-Fi networks as well as 3G and HSDPA mobile networks.

It has 8GB of memory built in and will be initially available exclusively on O2's network in Germany.
It is not yet clear if this will be the case in the UK. An O2 spokeswoman said: ‘Telefónica was a founder member of the Open Handset Alliance established by Google last year and is therefore supportive of this initiative.

'As always we want to offer our customers the best range of devices and services, and those that provide the best customer experience. We will therefore take a view on all handsets incorporating the Google Android system based on these criteria.’

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Software: Mozilla Firefox 3.0.10 Portable

Mozilla Firefox - faster, more secure, easier to use and sporting a new look, this latest Firefox release sets a new standard for web browser innovation. Mozilla Firefox project (formerly Firebird, which was formerly Phoenix) is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform. It is small, fast and easy to use, and offers many advantages over other web browsers, such as the tabbed browsing and the ability to block pop-up windows.

Mozilla Firefox 3 is focused on improved memory handling, performance, and stability, improved XUL, and new core components such as application data stored in SQLite. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, which has been under development for the past 34 months. This new platform includes more than 15,000 changes to improve performance, stability, rendering correctness, and code simplification and sustainability. Firefox 3 is been built on top of this new platform resulting in a more secure, easier to use, more personal product with a lot more under the hood to offer website and Firefox add-on developers.

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Software: Seven Transformation Pack 1.0

Windows 7 transformation pack allow Windows XP user to change Windows XP desktop like like Windows 7 desktop. After Microsoft announced the Windows 7 development, there are a lot of Windows 7 Transformation Pack available on the internet. Windows 7, which formerly known with codename of Blackcomb and Vienna. After a few minutes of googling I found four Windows 7 Transformation packs for windows XP.

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Software: WinX DVD Player 3.1

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WinX DVD Player is a full-featured and easy to use DVD, Video CD, Audio-CD and media file player. The player features volume, play speed and brightness control for movies. You can play more than commercial DVDs: Winx DVD player supports most popular video and audio formatsincluding IFO, DAT,AVI, VOB, WAV, MPEG,WMA;WMV,ASF,RMVB and DivX, and it also provides you more options to specify,such as image ratio, snapshots, audio channel etc. through these setting, you can get fairly different video and audio effect. In new version, we use more powerful technology to ensure that you enjoy the natural and vivid video effect

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Software: MP3 Remix for Winamp 3.621

MP3 Remix lets you take any song in your MP3 or CD collection and remix it into your own custom creation.

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Software: Portable Super JetAudio 2009 7.1.1.3101

Jetaudio is an integrated multimedia software. Not only does it play various music files but also has other major features such as music CD burning, recording of music files, conversion to other file mode, etc.

In addition to these specialized features, you can create your own exclusive broadcasting system by connecting JetAudio to JetCast, which is provided to you along with JetAudio.
This version not only cleared some limitations of jetAudio but also added new features.

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Software: Top 10 Vista Themes 2009

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