Category: News

Paypal Electronic Withdrawals in India Resumes

It almost seems like a psychological game that is being conducted by Paypal on India users. A couple of days back, they sent out an email communication stating that all electronic bank transfers to India will stop starting from August. And today, it’s a different ball game. A new communication states that the electronic transfers [...]

Thuat Nguyen is a Fraud Apple App Developer

Thuat Nguyen is a Fraud Apple App Developer

If you frequent Apple’s app store, you are bound to have seen the name Thuat Nguyen. Beware, he is a fraud and he steals confidential information and rips you to the bones.
80% of the apps in the Apple app store are developed this Nguyen who hails from Vietnam. Itunes accounts were hacked and purchases were [...]

YouTube Hacked, Target Justin Bieber

YouTube Hacked, Target Justin Bieber

Video sharing website YouTube has been hacked yet again, but, this time around the website was not the target, young Canadian pop star Justin Bieber instead.
Bieber’s music videos were the target. Comments, abusive in nature were posted on the video clips and some comments even claimed that the singer was dead. Yikes!
The site was down [...]

Flash 10.1 for Mobile: The Long Wait Continues

Flash 10.1 for Mobile: The Long Wait Continues

Adobe announced Tuesday it released Adobe Flash 10.1 to its mobile platform partners, with support coming to Android, Blackberry, WebOS, Windows Phones, Symbian, MeeGo and LiMo. What does that mean for you? Nothing, unless you have a Nexus One with Android 2.2 (serendipitously received over the air or installed manually).
Some day, Flash 10.1 will be [...]

MS Office 2010 Hits the Stores

MS Office 2010 Hits the Stores

Microsoft has officially launched its latest offering, the Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010. Over 35,000 stores across the globe have put Microsoft’s new products on the shelf today. This is a record of sorts for the software major. Some of the stores to carry this product in the US are [...]

Pacman Celebrates 30 Years, Happy Birthday Pacman!

Pacman Celebrates 30 Years, Happy Birthday Pacman!

One of the most popular games of my generation, Pacman, has indeed made the cut above everything else that came after it. Today is the day when the game Pacman celebrates its 30th birthday, and this is perhaps the only game that has survived all odds.
Google commemorated this event in history by replacing their logo [...]

HP drops Windows 7 from ‘Slate’ tablet, will use WebOS variant

HP drops Windows 7 from ‘Slate’ tablet, will use WebOS variant

Less than a week after computer maker HP agreed to purchase the struggling smartphone maker Palm $1.2 billion in cash, sources are noting that it will be removing Windows 7 from the Slate tablet, instead choosing to use a WebOS variant, arguably the best smartphone operating system available.
Sources say HP was not happy [...]

Google acquires 3D desktop BumpTop

Google acquires 3D desktop BumpTop

Google has acquired Bump Technologies, the maker of a 3D desktop called BumpTop, Bump announced Sunday.
“Today, we have a big announcement to make: we’re excited to announce that we’ve been acquired by Google!,” a note posted to the company’s Web site said. “This means that BumpTop (for both Windows and Mac) will no longer be [...]

Apple’s iPad 3G model gets off to a good start

Opening weekend sales of Apple’s 3G version of the iPad were good, according to published reports.
The company began selling the iPad 3G in the U.S. late Friday afternoon. The starting prices for the 3G mode were $629 (with 16 gigabytes of memory), compared to $499 starting price for the Wi-Fi only version that started selling [...]

Apple rolls out iPad 3G today

Apple rolls out iPad 3G today

Apple later today will start selling iPads that are able to connect to the Internet over AT&T’s data network. Customers who pre-ordered the more expensive models of the tablet will also receive them today.
Priced from $629 to $829, the 3G-enabled iPad goes on sale at Apple’s retail stores and most Best Buy stores at 5 [...]

Call of Duty: Black Ops deploying November 9

Call of Duty: Black Ops deploying November 9

Though it wasn’t supposed to be officially revealed until later tonight, the next Call of Duty game has been unmasked early. The official Web site of the game, subtitled Black Ops, went live this morning, revealing its launch date of November 9, 2010. The bare-bones site revealed no other details about the game, which is [...]

AMD Pushes Affordability With Six-Core Phenom II X6

AMD Pushes Affordability With Six-Core Phenom II X6

It’s not really a surprise, but AMD today announced its entry into the six-core desktop chip market, with its Phenom II X6 chip, which had been code-named Thuban.
This chip, manufactured on Global Foundries’ 45nm process (which is used in the current quad-core Phenom IIs as well) is similar to AMD’s six-core Operton server chips, [...]

Google password system was target of Chinese hackers

Google password system was target of Chinese hackers

Google’s internal system which lets people access its services via a single password was the target of the Chinese hacking attack last December that led the company to withdraw from the mainland, according to the New York Times.
The system, known internally as “Gaia” – after the overarching planetary consciousness posited by James Lovelock – is [...]

Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC Patches Out Today

Battlefield Bad Company 2 PC Patches Out Today

EA and DICE are in the process of releasing new patches for the PC version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2.
As promised earlier in the week, the R7 client and R10 server updates are being rolled out today and, according to the developer’s latest tweet, should be available “between now and the next couple of hours.”
The [...]

HP’s Slate not Favorably Comparable to an Apple iPad

HP’s Slate not Favorably Comparable to an Apple iPad

It has been reported that on Monday, the concept of the Slate as a Netbook without keyboard achieved some position, amid information that the Slate does not match positively to an Apple iPad.
Last week, the reports showed that the ultimate decision on the HP Slate would come only after it is released to major review [...]