Ever wish you could publish straight from a word processor to your blog? Microsoft hopes that you have, as that’s the general concept driving the new Windows Live Writer. We already know that Microsoft is planning this functionality for the next version of Word, but they have now unveiled a free beta application designed specifically […]

Coasting on the high of its multi-billion dollar initial public offering, Google has introduced a new iteration of its Blogger Web service. Blogger is a self-publishing tool that dates back to 1999, intended to allow users to share a bubbling mass of opinions, thoughts, fears and desires with a worldwide audience. The redesigned Blogger […]

According to Cnet, the movie industry has plans to relax controls over how films are copied to DVDs. Digital movies, which are offered by such companies as CinemaNow and Movielink, have so far failed to catch on with the public. One of the big complaints from consumers has been that downloaded movies are prevented from […]

AMEX DIGITAL of Hong Kong claims that it will be the the first company that ship a Blu-ray disc recorder to the European market, with availability starting on August 28th. The AMEX DIGITAL Blu-ray disc recorder (M505-BDR) is a complete Media Center PC with an Intel 945P Express chipset, an Intel Core-2 Duo CPU, ATI-X1600 […]

Internet security firm McAfee have been doing some more research and revealed the top 10 spam email subject lines for July 2006, and surprise, surprise, they’re nearly all about phishing - attempting to steal account information or otherwise extort money. Here we go: Message from eBay Member PayPal Notification Restore Your Account Access Chase Online Banking Service eBay Member aw-confirm@ebay.com eBay Item […]

New research from domain registrar 1&1 has shown that 25% of the UK population either already own, or want, a personal web site or blog. Some stats revealed: Over 50% of the men surveyed wanted to create a site about their hobby, compared with 40% of women Around half of all women wanted to create a photo […]

Google has implemented another feature designed to generate profits by driving more traffic to its site. This time, the search giant has teamed with Valpak, a company best known previously as the source of those blue coupon-filled envelopes which journey so smoothly from your mail box to your recycling bin. Google is using that partnership to […]

Sony Electronics has begun U.S. shipments of 50GB dual layer Blu-ray Disc™ recordable (write-once) media with AccuCORE™ technology. The company also confirmed that it plans to start shipping 50GB dual layer rewritable BD media later this year. The capacity represents more than four hours of HD quality video, at a 24 Mbps transfer rate, allowing […]

Skype and Logitech have added a new dimension to their partnership by bringing out a complete solution for Internet calling dedicated to Skype users worldwide. The Logitech EasyCall Desktop comprises of a mouse, headset and speakerphone with a Skype-specific keyboard. The keyboard features one-touch buttons for launching Skype software, placing a call, ending a call, […]

MusicLab, a unit of peer-to-peer file-sharing software developer iMesh, announced on Thursday the beta launch of BearShare, its newly acquired file-sharing software that has been transformed into a legal peer-to-peer network. New York-based iMesh acquired the assets of BearShare, a Gnutella-based file-sharing network, in May 2006. The new BearShare will be a subscription-based file-sharing service, […]

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft and Google, AOL said that it would begin providing a custom e-mail domain services for its customers beginning in September. Like its competitors, AOL My eAddress would be provided at no charge. The service would include the registration of a .com or .net domain, plus up to 100 personal […]

Founder says Wikipedia needs to improve the quality of its content in the coming year. “We’re going to have a really strong quality initiative,” Wales told attendees in his opening keynote at Wikimania, a three-day conference for users of projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation, taking place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Wales is the founder and […]

Researchers have unveiled an image-processing technique that shows promise for fixing images spoiled by camera shake. The technique is based on an algorithm that deduces the path that a wobbling camera took when a photo was shot, then uses that path to reverse much of the resultant blurring. The method isn’t a miracle cure, but […]

Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, of storage will likely be announced in 2006, said Bill Healy, senior vice president of product strategy and marketing at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. These drives, which will have a 3.5-inch diameter, are expected to be incorporated into PCs and home servers. Healy wouldn_t say what […]

The problems of online gaming addiction date back to the days of text-based MUDs, but in more recent years terms like “Evercrack” and “World of Warcrack” have entered the popular lexicon. Now, Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts, has come forward to claim that up to 40 percent of […]