Microsoft Tag was introduced at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. One year later, coinciding with the first anniversary of Microsoft Tag, Softpedia is glad to offer you an insight into the future of mobile tagging. 1. Please tell us a bit about yourself and your role with Microsoft.My name is Aaron Getz and I’m the Product Unit Manager for Microsoft Tag.2. First things first, what’s Microsoft Tag? Please talk a little bit about the technology behind the project. Microsoft Tag allows for almost anything in the real world to be quickly linked to an interactive experience on your mobile phone. A Tag is a small barcod... [read more >>] Not very long ago, cosmetic doctors and surgeons put up a united front to warn of the dangers of buying do it yourself kits of Botox or other fillers off the Internet and then using them without having any experience or the proper qualification to do so. We live in an age in which, whether we like it or not, the pressure to look a certain way has become too strong to ignore, and they say this could also explain why such DIY kits, although extremely dangerous, are seeing a surge in popularity.
We strive to look “perfect” (whatever that might mean) and, because of this, the temptation of choosing one such kit over having the pro... [read more >>] Kingston's debut in the SSD market has been made possible by the company's partnership with Intel. However, since the debut of the first Kingston branded SSDs, the company has grown significantly, having expanded its lineup with new solutions, such as the recently introduced 40GB SSDNow V-series, specifically designed as a performance drive, for the boot partition of a desktop or notebook PC. The company has recently been promoting its SSD lineup, with media meetings all over Europe. We had the pleasure to sit down and have a discussion with Adrien Viaud, application engineer, Kingston Technology. He went through the company... [read more >>] Malwarebytes burst the bubble this week and came out accusing IObit of copying their database, thus providing through their IObit Security 360 product the same protection as Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware. The copyright infringement implications led to DMCA serving of the latter to a number of software download websites in US.Both security vendors have engaged in a war of statements on their respective blogs, stirring up heated discussions among users on their forums. Speculations have been made, opinions expressed, but no official answer to clear all haze has been given. We tried to learn about the sparks that lit the scandal and the elem... [read more >>] Web designers around the Globe are already very familiar with websites like FlashDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle, VideoHive or the Tuts+ network. What many don't know is the fact that all of these websites and more actually started three years ago inside a garage in Australia. One of the founding members of the Envato Network (which owns all of the above mentioned websites) is the charming Cyan Ta'eed.Alongside Collis, Cyan put together a mammoth network for web-professionals, assuring them a secure place in the Web 2.0 Hall of Fame. Along with the new redesign of their marketplace network, a blog post and a video inte... [read more >>] Fashion equals fabulousness but, these days, fashion has another edge to it: it also equals exclusive, not so much in the sense that it offers women the guarantee that they won’t be walking down the street and see someone else with the same frock as them, but rather in that certain sizes are completely left out. Plus size women are often overlooked by designers and even mainstream clothing outlets, so much so that they’re often forced to wait for sales or forego all aesthetic considerations just to be able to buy something new. Of course, that’s not to say that curvier women don’t want to be fabulous as well &ndash... [read more >>] During this year’s Computex 2009 show, NVIDIA took the stage with a number of new Ion- and Tegra-based products, showcased by some of the company’s partners. Despite rumors prior to the debut of the computer show in Taiwan, the Santa Clara, California-based graphics maker didn’t reveal any details regarding its much-anticipated 40nm-based graphics processing units. However, the launch of the new Ion-based PCs, as well as the highly anticipated Tegra devices, confirmed NVIDIA’s business orientation, becoming a company that is involved in more than just graphics.While we weren’t able to make it to Computex oursel... [read more >>] Not long ago, we were telling you that, in her approach to weight loss, television personality and socialite extraodinaire Kim Kardashian had found a very strong ally in Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet. She was not the only one to discover this special diet that places emphasis on calorie control for the most extraordinary results, since almost anyone who’s anyone in Tinseltown has tried it, from singer Mandy Moore, to Oscar-winning Jennifer Hudson, the original American Idol Kelly Clarkson and even acclaimed British movie director Guy Ritchie. In other words, Dr. Siegal’s Cookie Diet is the hottest thing in Hollywood right now... [read more >>] Not long ago, we were telling you about a zombie movie like no other before: “Colin” by Welsh director Marc Price was unique in more ways than one. For starters, it had been made on a budget of just $70 (£45); secondly, it brought something new to the table in that it was shot entirely from the zombie’s perspective; and, last but not least, it premiered at Cannes and managed to cast in a corner of shade Hollywood big productions whose budgets were somewhere in the range of millions of dollars. For such a small film and a new director, these are clearly amazing accomplishments. Understandably then, when we got to spea... [read more >>] Not long ago Panda released its Panda Cloud Antivirus product, thus marking a shift in the paradigm of malware detection and removal. Even if in beta, it quickly gained popularity among users thanks to its connection to Collective Intelligence, a huge database of malware signature files. Based on the concept of cloud computing, this innovative approach yields remarkable results in both efficiency and impact on resource consumption.The application is intelligent and has been designed to act only when necessary taking fast action in detecting and eliminating malware on your machine without affecting the performance of the system. However, aft... [read more >>] | 
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