Google hasn't had much luck with the social web. Somehow, its approach so far has failed to provide any meaningful products. But social is the future, at least that's how it looks right now, and, with Facebook becoming stronger every day, Google is worried. After so many misses, it now hopes to score a hit, and is launching Google Buzz, which we got wind of earlier today, a sort of FriendFeed for Gmail with a few Google twists. The way Google sees it, the social web today is like the plain, old, regul...
[read more >>] Back in late 2008, Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA surprised everybody with the launch of a new product aimed specifically at the low-end netbook and nettop market. The NVIDIA ION was widely acclaimed as one of the outfit's most interesting products, as it basically enabled OEMs to create low-priced PCs that offered better graphics, compared with what Intel's Atom platform was capable of. At that time, there was a wide media coverage of the new solution, generating enough hype for users to really w...
[read more >>] A few minutes ago, the wonderful developers behind the KDE project announced the final and stable release of the highly anticipated KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4.0. Dubbed Caikaku, KDE SC 4.4.0 is the next major release with over 7,000 bugs squashed, over 1,400 new features, new applications, new effects, and much more! KDE SC 4.4.0 is composed of the KDE Plasma Workspace, the KDE Applications and the KDE Development Platform. It introduces window tabbing, netbook interface, authentication framework and s...
[read more >>] Although the Apple store is yet to go back online, Apple has updated its press room with a new announcement – Aperture 3. As the company’s next major release of the powerful photo-editing and -management software, Aperture 3 ships with over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes. Aperture 3 runs as a 64-bit application on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. According to Apple’s official report, Aperture 3 also introduces new tools to refine photos. Besides Brushes, a feature used for painting ...
[read more >>] A Lebanese hacker claims to have hacked Orange's regional website in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) through SQL injection. The attack allegedly gave him access to the website's administration interface and information on almost 60,000 customers.Orange is the fifth largest telecom provider in the world with a presence in 166 countries and territories and an estimated 189 million subscribers. According to information on its website, Orange Cote d'Ivoire was the group's first subsidiary on the ...
[read more >>] In usual Tuesday manner, Apple has unceremoniously taken its web store down, telling customers to sit tight as the company updates the online venue with goodies. It is generally believed that Apple’s Macintosh computers are on track for a number of hardware upgrades. Nothing else new is expected from Apple, this time around. With the iPad hype reaching critical levels around the January 27 announcement, few rumors focused on the remainder of Apple’s product lineup, including the company’s deskt...
[read more >>] One of the upcoming mobile phones that should land on the market with Google's Android operating system on board is the HTC Incredible, which has just emerged in a series of leaked photos, as well as in a video that is meant to offer us a glimpse at what it can deliver. The handset hasn't been officially unveiled, though rumors on it already emerged into the wild.
The upcoming HTC Incredible is expected to arrive on the market on the airwaves of Verizon Wireless, and is said to come pre-loaded with ...
[read more >>] Welcome to the 83rd issue of Softpedia Linux Weekly!
The following Linux-based operating systems were announced last week: openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1, VortexBox 1.1, Elive 1.9.60, Mandriva Linux 2010.1 Alpha 2 and Linux Mint 8 KDE Community Edition. In other news: Canonical announced the immediate availability of an important kernel update for its Ubuntu operating systems, which patches 10 kernel vulnerabilities. The weekly ends with the video clip of the week, the latest Linux distributions released/updated an...
[read more >>] The Mobile World Congress is set to kick off only one week from now, and most of you might already know that this year's main character at the event is expected to be Microsoft's next-generation Windows Mobile 7. A great deal of rumors on the upcoming operating system already emerged, but now it seems that a full list of features on it is available for our reading pleasure, along with various tidbits on when the platform will be launched and on when the first handsets running under it will land.
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[read more >>] Following the revival of redsn0w, the infamous iPhone Dev Team has released an updated version of its PwnageTool application for those looking to jailbreak their iPhone or iPod touch. Available as a free download, PwnageTool is a Mac-only application that only jailbreaks (doesn’t unlock) iPhones, while Windows users have different tools to download and use. Folks owning hacked devices running iPhone firmware below 3.1.3 will be able to preserve their unlock by jailbreaking via PwnageTool, but not if the un...
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