Google adds 'click to call'

Google has enabled a “click-to-call” service in AdWords on mobile smartphones so users can call numbers in mobile ads, according to a blog post. In an handy Youtube tutorial called Mobile [Ad]itude (*groan*), Meredith Papp from the Google Mobile Ads team discussed the new feature:
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Harry Potter & His Dark Materials authors reject Google Books

Best-selling authors J.K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, along with several other major British writers, are voicing strong disapproval of a financial agreement Google is offering authors to make their books available online, reports Times Online.
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Microsoft, Google, Apple and Yahoo are all compared at the macro level

Google, Microsoft, Apple and Yahoo are four mega corporations that are all competing for your attention.  The New York Times has put together a chart that compares all of these competitors and displays all the areas they compete.
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Microsoft has sold over 60 million Windows 7 licenses, Q2 results

Microsoft today announced a record revenue for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2009. Microsoft confirmed it had sold more than 60 million Windows 7 licenses in the second quarter making it the fastest selling. The revenue increase was a 14% increase from the same period of the prior year resulting in $19.02 billion revenue for the second quarter.
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Google releases Chrome 4.0

Google has released version 4.0 its Chrome web browser, which it claims has more than 1,500 new features.
It only works under Windows of course, so Apple and Linux users will have to wait about a year before the Chrome browser on their machines is up to speed.
Actually the 1,500 features are file extensions that are created by developers to add functionality to Chrome. Goodness knows how many of these Firefox has and no one considered them as the highlight of a browser release before.
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Facebook is big on the mobile web

ACCORDING TO LATEST FIGURES from browser firm Opera, the majority of people using the mobile web do so to check and visit their Facebook profiles."Facebook is now the most-visited social network on the mobile Web," write the report authors. "Unique users of Facebook grew more than 600 per cent during 2009, helping the site surpass VKontakte, formerly the most popular social network among Opera Mini users.
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Firefox 3.6

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE OUTFIT Mozilla has released its free Firefox 3.6 web browser.
The Mozzarella Foundation's Firebadger 3.6 includes better support for web standards and access to more than 6,000 free add-ons that allow users to customise their web browser experience.
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Microsoft to release Windows Mobile 7

RUMOURS THAT Microsoft will soon launch Windows Mobile 7.0 – a mere few months after the disappointing firmware upgrade otherwise known as Windows Mobile 6.5 – have been rife for months. But fresh speculation over a confirmed launch has been galvanised by Digitimes and an analyst’s leaked research note yesterday.
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Comcast switches from McAfee to Norton

 Internet service provider Comcast announced that it will be switching from McAfee anti-virus to Symantec's Norton Security Suite. The switch from McAfee to Norton will benefit Norton, Comcast and its 15.7 million customers.The deal between Comcast and Symantec is a triumphant win for both companies - and a big loss for McAfee.
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Windows NT flaw found after 17 years

A CRITICAL FLAW has been found in the Windows NT trap handler that makes all Windows machines wide open to hackers. The problem has been a feature of every Windows system for the last 17 years and no one has noticed.According to Full Disclosure, the security hole in Windows allows users with restricted access to escalate their privileges to system level.
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Intel Core i5-661

Intel is getting into high gear with their Core processor family early on the new year, as they are set to release 6 new desktop processors and 11 mobile processors this month. Along for the ride will be 3 new chipsets for desktop PCs and 4 oriented towards mobility.
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Movidius taps Android for multimedia

SEMICONDUCTOR UPSTART Movidius is launching its first chip, which is aimed at meeting the growing demand for better multimedia processing on mobile devices.The guys at Movidius have spent the last years developing the Myriad architecture, combining both hardware and software to boost applications such as real-time video editing, 3D rendering, HD playback and recording and video enhancements for improving low-bitrate Internet video and mobile television on mobile devices.
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HP to release a 3D printer

Under the cunning plan Stratasys will make a 3D printer that HP will release later in the year. This printer is not designed for everyday consumer use, but will be designed for architecture and component prototyping.
This printer will not be cheap, but HP tells us the market timing is right for the machine.
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ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G Motherboard Review

The ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO motherboard is an AMD 785G platform built with Home Theatre
PC and High Definition media applications in mind. Key to its allure are a trifecta of video outputs - HDMI, VGA and DVI - powered by the integrated graphics AMD Radeon HD 4200 graphics card and 128MB of onboard SidePort memory.
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Casio announces EX-Z300 - EXZ250 and EZ-Z85 cameras

Casio announced in Japan two new Exilim Zoom slim digital cameras. the EX-Z300 and EX-Z250. Both of them have a 4x optical zoom lens with 28mm wide angle and 4x digital zoom.The Casio Exilim EZ-Z250 has a 9.1 megapixel camera with almost the same features mentioned above in the Z300. 

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AMD releases DirectX 11 mobile processors

ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES (AMD) has released its line of DirectX 11 mobile graphics processors that it claims will bring improved graphics and application performance to Windows 7 laptops and peace in our lunchtime.
The Radeon HD 5000 Mobility series graphics cards are the fastest laptop processors ATI has released and can decode two Blu-ray streams simultaneously, if you're so minded.
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Google releases its Nexus smartphone

Google has started flogging its Nexus smartphone that is based on its Android operating system from its own website. The Google hosted web store will sell the Nexus and other Android related gear.
Manufactured by HTC, the Nexus One features dynamic noise suppression, a 3.7-inch OLED display and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor.
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Microsoft announces Office 2010 pricing

Office 2010 applications suite is nearly out of beta and on release will be available in four different versions. Micrsoft expects sales to be high. It said that in just seven weeks, more than two million people around the world have downloaded the beta version.Office 2010 will be released in four versions
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Toshiba adds Cell to its TVs

Toshiba announced at CES that it has added the Cell Broadband Engine processor to a line of televisions.The company's CellTV sets will add media centre features to HDTVs powered by Cell chips like those that run Sony's Play Station 3 consoles. Toshiba said the Cell CPU will increase the power of its TVs by about 133 times to provide sharper displays and enable advanced features.
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Avoid online virus scan

There are Lots of virus threats available to spam the  working System. The right word i can put is that  lots of virus are created to spam the working of the PC .Now you can feel the difference between these two. Yes , Virus are Nothing But the one of the hacking tool for hackers. Is That so ? let we discuss more in this section .
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Samsung N510 Complete Review

Even though the N510 has much more powerful graphics than most netbooks, it still provides very good battery life, providing 6 hours 30 mins of light every day use, and dropping to 3 hours 45 mins during more intensive use, such as gaming and HD playback. Know More of Review and specification Further inside
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Asus ENGT240 1GB DDR3 Video Card

The ENGT240 is a very quiet, small, and power efficient mainstream card that won't be a dissapointment to HTPC users and mild gamers. This video card also comes very handy for those looking forward for some PhysX action. You might have a powerful card that renders your games but by having one of these little beast in your system as a dedicated PhysX card, it could bring up your framerates tremendously.
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