It has been reported that Pirates have cracked Windows 7’s product activation. The system made RTM just a week ago, and is slated to reach users in another week, Microsoft confirmed today.
The product key posted all over the Web reportedly comes from Lenovo, one of Microsoft’s major OEM partners. It allows users to [...]
Tuesday, Microsoft Corporation announced that it is planning to open its first two retail stores in Arizona and California this fall. The software giant said Tuesday that it has signed leases at shopping centers in Mission Viejo, Calif. and Scottsdale, Ariz. The Shops at Mission Viejo already houses an Apple store, while the other location, [...]
Earlier today, Apple began pulling all Google Voice-enabled applications from its App Store, their reason being that they apparently “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Following this, the company released even worse news. Apple has blocked Google’s official Google Voice application itself from the App Store as well.
The new restrictions have been credited to [...]
Today, there was a surprise on the top 10 paid iPhone apps list, which doesn’t happen oftem. Amidst the bunch of games and camera apps was something called Offendor Locator. This app can show you, based on information retrieved from the iPhones location services, any sex offendors living around you.
Now, this information is free on [...]
Back in October, Comcast imposed monthly usage limits as a method of keeping network hogs from slowing down speeds for other, more conservative customers. But upon the new rules’ implementation, the only tool provided to help customers keep an eye on how much broadband they were using was McAfee’s Security Suite. While the program is [...]
During ceremonies in the Kenyan port of Mombasa and the Tanzanian city of Dar es Salaam, the first undersea cable to bring high-speed internet access to East Africa was unveiled. The fibre-optic cable, is operated by African-owned firm Seacom. Stretching 17, 000 km, it connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and [...]
Spotify is coming to America -finally- and has high hopes for being the next big music thing. With an application that seems to work by magic, replacing iTunes and giving access to over 6 million tracks on demand, Spotify has already spent its’ first months out of beta as the most successful music sharing platform in [...]
Today, Kingston has debuted the first 256GB flash drive. No surprise, but it’s retailing for about $1000. The device, measuring 70.7 x 16.9 x 22mm heightens flash drive storage to the capacity would associate with a laptop hard disk. Kingston boasts that the drive is “ideal for netbook users who want to extend the limited [...]
To ensure Windows 7 was given more of a fighting chance than Vista, Microsoft dramatically reduced the cost of the Home Premium and Professional versions of their newest OS by a third on promotional copies sold on a “first come, first served basis while stocks last”.
But the pre-order price shot up today at a majority of [...]
The latest Microsoft vulnerability is being attacked at an alarmingly increasing rate. Several security companies warned consumers today as the developing threat prompted Symantec to raise their Threatcon ranking to the second of four steps. Sunbelt Software, and SANS’ Internet Storm Center also bumped their warnings yesterday after Microsoft announced that the well known ActiveX [...]
