Tuesday, 6th January 2009.

British police allowed to hack into private PCs

Posted on Monday, 5th January 2009 by Indus

The power of anti piracy organizations is constantly growing and latest news from Great Britain sounds somehow scary: The Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers [...]

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Lenovo A600: the perfect desktop

Posted on Monday, 5th January 2009 by Indus

Desktop computers were finally outpace by laptops recently showing that most users want a small, portable machine rather than a bulky desktop. Still some users want desktop computers, yet many don’t want a bulky multi-piece traditional PC. For this type of user, Lenovo has announced its new IdeaCenter A600 all-in-one desktop computer. Lenovo claims that [...]

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PlayStation 2: most played console

Posted on Sunday, 4th January 2009 by Indus

Research groups tell us a lot of interesting things, and Nielsen has begun the new year with some unexpected news from 2008.  With other reports fussing over the three “next-gen” consoles, who would have thought that Sony’s PlayStation 2 would win the popularity contest? Based on data gathered between January and October 2008, Nielsen has [...]

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Internet Explorer market share down to 68%

Posted on Saturday, 3rd January 2009 by Indus

Web sites saw visitors deserting Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in favor of Apple’s Safari, Mozilla’s Firefox and Google’s Chrome in December, according to Web analytics company Net Applications. Internet Explorer was used by 68.15% of Web surfers monitored in December, down from 69.77% in November and 71.27% in October, according to preliminary [...]

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Application Yellowsn0w: unlock your iPhone

Posted on Saturday, 3rd January 2009 by Indus

The cat and mouse game between iPhone hackers and Apple has taken a new interesting turn, as the hackers have unlocked the device from the shackles of AT&T. Presenting an incredible New Year gift to the iPhone owners who simply don’t want to be restricted to AT&T network, iPhone hackers have unleashed a software, tagged [...]

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How to fix Zune 2009 freeze bug

Posted on Saturday, 3rd January 2009 by Indus

Zune owners now have a fix for their failing devices thanks to Microsoft that has posted instructions on how to start the new year off with a working digital music player. Yesterday 30-gigabyte Zunes suffered a crippling glitch causing the digital music players to lock up, reboot themselves, and freeze. Zune users are calling Micorosoft [...]

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MSI unveils U115, first hybrid notebook

Posted on Wednesday, 31st December 2008 by Indus

MSI announced its U115 “hybrid” netbook on Tuesday. What’s a hybrid netbook? One with the ability to use both a solid-state disc drive as well as a spinning hard drive, apparently.MSI didn’t release a price or a ship date for the U115 netbook, which includes a 10-inch display and is designed around Intel’s 1.6-GHz Z530 [...]

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“News”: Windows 7 Beta leaked to internet

Posted on Wednesday, 31st December 2008 by Indus

Downloads of a new build of Microsoft Corp.’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system have soared in the last two days, with thousands of systems now pulling pirated copies from BitTorrent sites. Searches today on the Pirate Bay BitTorrent site, for example, returned multiple listings of Windows 7 Build 7000, which Microsoft identifies as a beta [...]

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