Facebook gets $200 million, looks at paid services

On its surface, the DST investment is a rather strange announcement. As a startup, why would you give away share in your company for money you do not need? Admitted, $200 million is nothing to sneeze at, but Zuckerberg claims that it is just a “buffer” and a “cushion” for Facebook. The company has no [...]

Intel previews advanced Nehalem processor, eyes demise of RISC-based platforms

According to Intel, the chip is likely to accelerate the adoption of Intel-based platforms over RISC-based systems.
“(Nehalem-EX offers) lower total cost of ownership, higher performance, lower electricity bills and the ability to standardize on a flexible IT environment,” the company explained in a statement.

Mozilla straps on Jetpack, embarks on mission to personalize the Web

Jetpack will be an exploration in using Web technologies to enhance the browser (e.g. HTML, CSS and Javascript), with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play,” the company explained in an official blog Read the full story… [...]

Microsoft To Launch $80M Ad Campagin To Attack Google

Microsoft has used attack ads to go after Apple, and now it has Google in its sights.
The software giant is set to launch an $80 million to $100 million campaign for Bing, the search engine it hopes will help it grab a bigger slice of the Read the full story… »

Microsoft drops Kumo – rebrands to Bing

Microsoft has officially dropped the codename “Kumo” from its rebranding of its Live Search to help compete against search engine giant Google, by giving Live Search a new name. The newest name will be “Bing” instead of “Kumo”. The new ad campaign will be placed on TV, radio, Internet, newspapers and other media to outlets [...]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 trailer released

Finally, what is possibly the most anticipated game of the year, Modern Warfare 2, trailer been released. This title’s iteration is also being done by the original developers, Infinity Ward, where as the last title was done by Treyarch. Read the full story… »

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8.5.3

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (formerly LiveState Recovery) combines the speed and reliability of disk-based, bare-metal Windows® system recovery with revolutionary technologies for hardware-independent restoration and lights-out operation. The result is unparalleled freedom to restore systems anytime, from anywhere, to virtually any device. Read the full story… »

Auslogics Disk Defrag 2.0.0.7 Beta

Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today’s modern hard disks. Get the maximum Read the full story… »