Posted by Saad Hamid on July 21, 2009
July 20, 1969 marks an historic day in the history of mankind when Apollo 11, the first manned spaceflight, successfully managed to land on the moon under the supervision of commander Neil Armstrong.

To celebrate the glory of this historic event, Google has decided to add a new feature to Google Earth which they are calling as the Moon in Google Earth.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 20, 2009
To many of us, the Internet remains to be a dreamland of hope and freedom where we can download any content for free so whether that might be legal or not. The Pirate Bay, the world's largest bittorrent tracker, remained to be the savior of our needs until when things got serious and its owners were sentenced to prison.
Suddenly after, The Pirate Bay was acquired by a Swedish software company for a whole sum of $7.8 million and the new owners showed interest in making it a legal content sharing website. But according to a source, it might be what one calls as Subscription-based Content.
Means that users will be able to access an 'All you can Download' zone on The Pirate Bay for a monthly fee. The new owners are trying to make deals with record companies and movie studios to turn this Pirate company into a legitimate business.
The new The Pirate Bay owners also have plans to allow users to reduce their monthly subscription rate by allowing them to share a portion of their disk space, thus creating an efficient peer-to-peer network around the web.
Listening to this, users who have been quite active at sharing content on The Pirate Bay and may look for alternatives. As for now, nothing is known about when the new owners plan to rebrand The Pirate Bay but one thing is for sure, either it will create a business revolution or it will kill The Pirate Bay once and for all.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 20, 2009
It can't be ignored that when Palm announced the WebOS, the official successor to the PalmOS that now comes in the Palm Pre, it did make quite an impact in the industry in terms of being a powerful operating system that could compete with the iPhone OS.

But as Mojo, the Software Development Kit for WebOS, has been released to the public, much of the developers are claiming that WebOS is not meant for Gaming.
Craig A. Hunter seems to one of these developers who claims that Palm Pre does not provide the required environment for developers to build sophisticated apps for the device that are now a days required by smartphone users and can be commonly seen on the iPhone OS. To his concerns, lack of OpenGL access is what's keeping developers to explore more of WebOS in the Gaming area.
This makes us to believe that all future devices from Palm will also not be as sporty in terms of Games as they will also run on the WebOS. Perhaps the limitation to Graphics hardware is what's causing all the issue and Palm may remove this limitation in the future.
As for the iPhone, Gaming has already become one of the its key selling points and if Palm really wants to compete with it, it will have to open doors to allows developers to fully explore the WebOS environment and make Games with rich-graphics.
Posted by UzEE on July 20, 2009
An interesting trademark application unearthed by Long Zheng suggests that Microsoft might be working on a new platform and content distribution system for its mobile devices. While Long believes it to be an AppStore for Zune HD, I think it just might be a re-branding of the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

Microsoft has been going through a recent re-branding process, like Bing for example - which is essentially Live Search with improvements, or on a greater scale, Windows 7 which is "Vista done right".
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 8, 2009
Lets be honest! the rumors of Google making an OS have been there since Adam and Eve made it into this world but with the announcement of Google Chrome web-browser, everything came to a rest.
That's where the actual story begins and after all this years of speculation, Google has finally announced that it is working on an operating-system that is being dubbed as the Google Chrome OS. According to Google, this OS is an attempt to rethink what operating systems should be.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 8, 2009
It wasn't long after the iPhone 3GS got into the hands of people that they have already started discovering some issues with the device, the biggest issue of which is the Overheating of the iPhone.
Many users have experienced that their iPhone gets more hot than usual when extensive graphics applications are used.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 7, 2009
Good news from the iPhone Dev Team tells us that the new version of Redsnow, the multi-platform unlocking tool for the iPhone 2G and iPhone 3G, now also works with the iPhone 3GS.
An unlock tool for the iPhone 3GS has been much anticipated by Apple fans since its release and even though there was a tool named Purplerain to unlock the iPhone 3GS, the fact that it wasn't backup up by the iPhone Dev Team didn't bring relief to many hearts.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 7, 2009
Microsoft Security Advisory is reporting that a new exploit has been found in Internet Explorer and that users may immediately take notice to ensure a secure environment on their PCs.
As by Microsoft:
Microsoft is investigating a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote and may not require any user intervention.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 6, 2009
Now for the users who are in contract with AT&T, enabling the new Push Notifications feature on their new iPhone OS 3.0 won't be much of a problem. But for those with an unlocked iPhone, this needs to be hacked in order to be used.
As always, The iPhone Dev Team has cooked up something and come up with a way to enable Push Notifications on unlocked iPhone 3.0 as mentioned in one of their Twitter status.
Posted by Saad Hamid on July 5, 2009
A couple of days ago Mozilla released Firefox 3.5 and the new version of this ever-favorite web browser now brings a lot a lot of new features including a Private Browsing mode.
Private Browsing mode is now a days a standard feature in all of the state-of-the-art web browsers including IE8 and Google Chrome and now with Firefox 3.5, users can surf the web or do whatever they want without leaving any traces.