Microsoft offers free anti-virus

Microsoft offers free anti-virus

Microsoft Security Essentials is aimed at home users.

A trial version of Microsoft’s free anti-virus software has been launched in the US, China, Brazil, and Israel.
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) promises to provide people with basic protection against viruses, trojans, rootkits and spyware.
The software giant has been criticised in the past for [...]

Intel and Nokia band together

Intel and Nokia band together

Analysts say mobility and portability is the way of the future

The world’s largest chip maker has teamed up with the world’s largest mobile phone maker to create what they say will be a “new exciting industry”.
Intel and Nokia said their “technology collaboration” would deliver new mobile computing products [...]

OLPC software to power aging PCs

OLPC software to power aging PCs

Sugar runs on the XO and rival Intel Classmate PC

Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can now be used to power any old PC.
Sugar on a Stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a [...]

Collecta vs. Google in real-time search matchup

Collecta vs. Google in real-time search matchup
With public discussion increasing over whether Google may be overrated, some former AOL executives are slowly mounting a challenge…right this moment.
If you have a completely new search engine — in other words, one that’s not a renamed version of Windows Live Search — you need to give it a [...]

1M iPhone 3G S sold over weekend, Jobs claims lead

1M iPhone 3G S sold over weekend, Jobs claims lead
Think of it this way, if the iPhone 3G S was a music album, it would have gone from zero to platinum in one weekend.
According a statement from Apple today, between Friday’s launch of the iPhone 3GS and Sunday evening, its third full day on the [...]

‘The Android Family’ grows with myTouch 3G

‘The Android Family’ grows with myTouch 3G
T-Mobile USA has unveiled myTouch 3G, the sequel to its exclusive Android touchphone, the G1.
We first began to see this device only four months after the G1’s launch, as the HTC Magic for European Markets, and then again as as the Google ION, an exclusive giveaway at the Google [...]

Congress: Should cell phone exclusivity contracts be illegal?

Congress: Should cell phone exclusivity contracts be illegal?
Key US Senators are opposed to the type of contracts that enable only AT&T to sell the iPhone. But proving their point may be more difficult than they predicted.
Exclusive cell phone sales and distribution contracts, such as the one between AT&T and Apple Inc. for all models of [...]

Now official, it’s up to the public to test Firefox 3.5 RC2

Now official, it’s up to the public to test Firefox 3.5 RC2
It’s the third build that was supposed to have been the Firefox release candidate. After some concern about what’s going on, the third time is finally the charm.
Although two (2) “candidates for release candidates” for the next Mozilla Web browser have been released in [...]