Power.com : Convergence of Social Networks?
Power.com is one of the newer social web services in town.
It does not try to emulate any other network but enables the user to stay connected to most of the other social networks at a single place.
Some of the features promised by the service:
Users would be able [...]

Adobe Flash most popular for watching online videos
Google YouTube uses Adobe Flash for streaming videos online.
This alone could be responsible for the popularity of this format for online video watching.
ComScore has released their report which states that Adobe Flash technology powers eighty-one per cent of worldwide online videos.
The Flash plugin is installed on [...]

Secunia PSI is in version 1.0 now!
Secunia has released the first final release of their PSI application.
Secunia PSI 1.0 is now available for download.
The beta versions of the application had been under public testing for around 17 months.
This application has already been awarded the first rank on the ‘Ten free security utilities you should already [...]

Microsoft: No job cuts planned
Microsoft seems to be one of the few exceptions today. The company has said that they have no plans to cut any jobs.
The US based software giant said that they are in fact planning to add workers in the coming year.
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie said: “Right now we’re still on a plan [...]

Fedora claims to have as many as 9.5 million users
Red Hat’s Fedora community claims that their version of the Linux OS is used by around 9.5 million users worldwide.
They arrived to this number by calculating the number of unique IPs that access their servers for updates.
This number is not very accurate as IPs [...]

BdEmailer comes to Apple iPhone
BdEmailer is one of the newer applications that has arrived in the Apple App Store.
The developers claim that this application is the first wide email iPhone app that supports client SMTP.
Nothing extraordinary except for the fact that it duplicates the functionality on the Apple Mail app that is already shipped with [...]

TweetStalk: Follow people on twitter without letting them know?!
TweetStalk is one of the newer services which are connected to the popular micro-blogging service Twitter.
TweetStalk has a simple concept. It enables you to follow people without letting them know that you are following them.
We really could not find a practical use for it but [...]

In case you do not like the new iGoogle!
Google recently updated their iGoogle service which features a space consuming sidebar.
A lot of users of this service do not like the new feature.
They do however have a temporary solution.
Google has a link working which still enables the user to checkout the older format [...]

iGoogle and Orkut gets integrated Google Talk
Google is now working in integrating Google Talk on their other services like iGoogle and Orkut.
Google Talk is being added to the navigation sidebar on the recently updated iGoogle which most users still dislike.
iGoogle also gets the integration of Google Suggest feature though it can be turned off.
Orkut [...]

My MapQuest service launched
MapQuest was once the primary source for online mapping. They now face intense challenge from similar mapping services from Google, MSN and Yahoo.
MapQuest has now announced the launch of their My MapQuest service.
My MapQuest enables the web users to save their favorite maps and directions which can be accessed [...]