Archive for April, 2008

April 25, 2008

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Google offers free IM service for everyone at your domain

Familiar with Google Apps? You now have another good reason to start using Google Apps for your organization, if you haven’t started yet – it’s time now, and that’s the free IM service (Google Talk) offering. You can now use the IM service for all the employees in your company. Not just plain text messages, Google’s IM service for your domain also offers free PC-to-PC voice calls anywhere in the world. That alone will save thousands of dollars in phone

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April 24, 2008

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LaCie launches 500GB rugged hard disk

LaCie has taken the storage capacity of its popular rugged hard disk to as much as 500GB. The latest disk drive supports FireWire 800, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0. The drive is bus-powered, so need for any external power sources. Just plug into the computer and your drive is ready. LaCie’s hard disk features scratch resistant aluminum shell & shock resistant rubber bumper. Yes, that’s right, its shock resistant hard disk drive that people on the move, with bad

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics

April 23, 2008

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Microsoft unveils LiveMesh – synchronize files across all your devices

Did you ever wanted to synchronize all of your latest information such as files, emails and others to be available on all the devices you use? Microsoft’s Live Mesh is the tool that will allow you to accomplish just that. Install Live Mesh software on all the devices you have, create your mesh, add folders to the Mesh and all the information is automatically synchronized on all the devices. Pick any device from the Mesh and you will always find

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Posted in: Industry News

April 23, 2008

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been released

Microsoft has released Service Pack 3 for its Windows XP family of operating system. This release does not affect the end user’s experience with the operating system but mostly contains the previously released fixes and updates. However, this release contains many smaller but newer functionalities that might be of some help to IT Administrators and people in IT department in-charge of end user computing. The new and enhanced functionality that, are worth mentioning, comes along with SP3 is as follows:

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Posted in: Windows

April 23, 2008

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The Beo5 universal remote control is too good

Have you ever heard of or seen a universal remote control that’s exclusively customized to work with the devices you own? Beo5 remote control just does that. Beo5 is your personal remote control that can be 100% customized to control only the products you own. These products could be your TV, music system, video players etc. With Beo5 there is always an answer to ‘what does this button do?’. The remote you own controls just the products you have and

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Posted in: Gadgets/Electronics

April 22, 2008

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Turn your SmartPhones into Wi-Fi Hotspots with free software

Aimed towards SmartPhones running on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile 6 Professional operating systems, TapRoot Systems is offering free software that can turn your SmartPhone into a Wi-Fi hotspot and let other wireless users use your phone to access Internet. The software is called WalkingHotSpot and is available as a free download from TapRoot’s web site. Once the software is installed onto a smartphone, it can let devices such as computers, gaming devices and MP3 players access Internet using the

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April 21, 2008

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Fujitsu offers hardware based hard disk encryption

Fujitsu has announced the release of their 2.5 inch hard drives that features AES-256 bit encryption using the hardware in the hard disk itself. Since the encryption keys resides in the hardware of the hard disk, the chances of someone breaking into it is highly remote. Hard disk based encryption puts less burden on the system to encrypt and decrypt the data for regular system use. This hard disk also has a feature that can erase the content of the

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