Windows Live Messenger 8.1 Beta out for beta testing
Microsoft has sent out invitations to users of their Live Messenger to test out a new beta of this instant messaging application.
Some of the new features being touted in this release are:
• Redesigned, smarter contact cards give you more data about and easier access to your [...]

Skype launches video enabled application
The software company, which has pioneered VoIP on the internet, Skype, has finally unveiled the latest version of its popular internet telephony application. And this update brings free video calling facility as rumored in the market. They already dominate the voice telephony market on the internet and now they aim to [...]

Sun Microsystems looking at open source community to revive itself
Sun Microsystems has revealed that they plan to give some of its key software to customers for free. The aim is to get more people to use their applications and bring in revenues through support and other value added services. Sun is also aiming for support [...]

Microsoft Vista Beta 2 to come in 2006
Software giant Microsoft is due to release the next major iteration of the Windows Operating System sometime next year. We have already seen the first beta of Microsoft Vista and the second beta was somewhat expected to be released in December this year. However, Microsoft has confirmed that [...]

Apple releases Broadband Tuner 1.0 for broadband users of Apple OS X
Macintosh maker Apple has launched a software utility for the owners of Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. this utility is Broadband Tuner 1.0 and it is aimed at the web users who have access to high-speed broadband connectivity. Since, the company has to [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 to arrive today?
We have already seen a couple of false alarms regarding this much-awaited launch of the next major release of the Mozilla Firefox web browser. A leading community site announced the launch a couple of days back but ended up apologizing for the false alert. However, today should be day when [...]

Apple giving huge discounts on Microsoft Office
Macintosh maker Apple has silently launched a new program to lure more Windows OS user to their platform. They are now offering massive discounts for Microsoft Office with newly purchased systems. The scheme is called ‘Office Bonus’ offer and it will last till the end of January 2006. The [...]

IBM might offer a free version of DB2 database next year
With Open Source, software products in the database market becoming popular, commercial vendors in this field like Oracle and Microsoft are feeling the heat. Both Oracle and Microsoft have decided to launch a free variant of their database products in the market in the coming [...]

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3 is out
A couple of days earlier, a news site announced claiming their own internal sources that Mozilla Foundation was going to launch the final of the Mozilla Firefox 1.5 browser. However, that news was denounced by the developers who said that they were instead planning to launch a third [...]

Apple iTunes, QuickTime have more security issues
Apple Computers had recently launched updated versions of their popular iTunes digital jukebox application and the QuickTime media player. This update was to fix certain security bugs in the application. However, new security flaws have appeared in these two software applications, which are yet to be fixed.
A security [...]