This week, Amazon introduced a new store centered around the Mac OS platform called the Mac Download Store. This new service is a compelling rival against the Apple’s indigenous Mac App Store that conveniently separates softwares from video games. And to celebrate the launch of the store, Amazon is offering some of the elite Mac products at a discounted price, including Office for Mac…
There are hundreds of cheap smartphones available for purchase, but there isn’t even a single “low-budget iPhone” in the market that cost less than $200. The reason is simple: Apple has always focused on manufacturing devices that falls at the higher end of the spectrum — both in terms of quality and price. All this,…
Garmin’s nuLink! services are actually doing so well that they have now become the brand of their new top-of-the-line GPS. The nuLink! 1695 is the latest device in this line and will have one year of free nuLink! services in the US. You can even have access to the nuLink! Store, which has several premium options for you to choose…
According to the latest news put forth by the Google Adsense team, blogs and websites that automatically scrape off content snippet from different websites will be weeded out of the Adsense program. This crucial step has been initiated to ensure control over the content quality on the web and to reduce the stuffed search results. Autoblogs and duplicated…
Most major browsers are focusing on speed gain via hardware acceleration. But if the latest Firefox 4 with Jaegermonkey is anything to go by, there is a lot of room for improvement even in terms of JavaScript support. The Jaegermonkey project was launched earlier this year and you can view the first preview version now. In benchmarking…
After months of speculations and sneak peeks, the latest Internet Explorer 9 has just been launched officially. The first beta of the Microsoft’s IE9 browser can now be downloaded and this is your chance to take a look at the new interface which has had a series of developer previews in the past few weeks. At first look you…
The latest statistics about web browsers are out now. And the big news is that despite all the ‘doomsday is nigh’ predictions about the Microsoft Internet Explorer, it has actually grown in terms of market share, and that too for three months in a row now. On the other hand Mozilla Firefox has lost ground to the…
Up until now Windows Live Sync and Windows Live Mesh, were separate products, but that will change pretty soon. Microsoft has just announced that that Live Sync will soon be re-branded as Live Mesh and other changes will also be made to the service. Expect these to take effect within the next two months. In a related announced Microsoft has…
Microsoft has just announced that the company will be ending its disaster/emergency communication service Vine. This comes as a surprise because out of the thousands of money spinning ventures that big corporations roll out each year, this was a noble exception. This service, although in beta, was originally designed to help you keep in touch with family…
Microsoft has just announced that the company will be ending its disaster/emergency communication service Vine. This comes as a surprise because out of the thousands of money spinning ventures that big corporations roll out each year, this was a noble exception. This service, although in beta, was originally designed to help you keep in touch with family…