INTERNET and TECHNOLOGY

The New Gadget: BlackBerry Storm

The final product of 2008’s touchscreen smartphone is here at least, the BlackBerry Storm—complete with both messaging and multimedia features aplenty, not to mention a nicely done touchscreen—looks set to give the Apple iPhone 3G and Google Phone T-Mobile’s Android-G1 a run for their money. Unfortunately, the BlackBerry Storm’s poky performance and failure to truly embrace touch keep it from landing a knockout punch.

Sizing at 4.4 by 2.4 by 0.55 inches and weighing in at 5.5 ounces, the BlackBerry Storm place itself between the svelte Apple iPhone and the bulky Google G1 in terms of size and overall heft, and it fits relatively comfortably in a your pocket. Below the roomy of BlackBerry Storm’s display you’ll find the standard Call, End, Back, and Menu navigations, while on the top corners are buttons for silencing ringers and locking the screen.

Speaking of which, the big draw of the BlackBerry Storm ($199 with a new two-year contract, available Friday, Nov. 21) is, of course, its 3.25-inch touch display, and it’s a true beauty. With its screen resolution of 480 by as60, the BlackBerry Storm’s touchscreen actually manages to pack in more pixels than the Apple iPhone’s larger, 3.5-inch screen, and the result is a rich, razor-sharp image, perfect for composing e-mails, internet surfing, or watching multimedia such as videos & movies.

Barring its lack of Wireless (Wi-Fi), the BlackBerry Storm makes for one of the most feature-packed BlackBerrys yet, and something tells us that the engineers at Apple company will be giving its ClickThrough display a close (and potentially envious) look. Now, if BlackBerry could whip up a Storm that’s as peppy as the Bold, well … that would be something nice.

Suprised with this ‘Microsoft Fight Google with Hotmail Revamp’ title? Actually now Microsoft is in fight between Google by using their email web application, Hotmail as weapon. From what we heard, Microsoft Hotmail comes with the new functions like online editing for Microsoft Office documents and a few more upgrades for business and non-commercial users. This news was announced not less than seven days after their launch of Microsoft Office 2010 (Office 2010).

The main function is like ‘on demand editing’ for Ms Office documents like Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. From the moment you retrieved the documents, you can choose to directly edit it in web browser or go to offline editing by using Microsoft Office. Original documents will be updated whether you’re saving the documents by using online or offline editing. The online documents also can be shared with others if you want it.

Hotmail user also will be able to synchronize emails, calendars, and contacts between their mobile phone and the Web using Exchange ActiveSync application, and download new mobile Hotmail apps.

Some of the models of smartphones will be in the first queue for Microsoft to release their Hotmail Mobile version to. The smartphones manufacturers is Nokia, BlackBerry, Sony Ericsson and many other models but never mentioned Apple iPhone or Google phone.

The world of computer and internet has undergone certain threats over the times in form of piracy/privacy and attacks which can fault your computer system and its hardware. Virus or spyware is one of such disturbing computer’s enemies. Viruses or spywares are nothing but computer softwares coded with intention of multiplying its image and broke a computer system. Virus or spyware has shown the negative aspect of computer coding as these are also built to steal data from a computer.
Virus or spyware came in multiple categories and they are recognized on the basis of their action. This is done because all the Viruses or spywares don’t have the same action and it helps the antivirus/antispyware to differentiate among the viruses and spywares and take action properly. Viruses or spywares should be recognized as computer malwares or malicious software. Any program which gets infected and also increases the chance of threat or some of them infects the whole computer system by itself. Below are the different types of virus or spyware.

1. Computer worms –the infecting program will act as a worm by duplicating itself inside-out the computer system and when it infected the Win32 folder, it will corrupt the dynamic link library (.DLL) files which needed by all the programs even the Windows OS (operating system). Its works like a worm that is this type of viruses are defined as computer worms.
2. Trojan – it is a kind of bad-ninja in the world of computer. It works in quiet & stealth manner. Sometimes you can’t really tell your computer already infected by one of the Trojan viruses. It will remain hidden in your computer system registries and in temporary file folders where Anti-Virus most likely hard to detect them. Trojan usually came & penetrates your computer system through internet.
3. Root kits, spywares, adwares – another types of the new kind of viruses. Root kit must be detected and terminated by an anti root kit software. Spywares are software which penetrates into a computer system and automatically uploading any sensitive data to the hacker. Annoying Adware (advertisement software) can be dangerous and may have some viruses/spywares in their executable files.

Mozilla Firefox 4 Release Candidate for Windows, Mac and Linux Now Available
Mozilla Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux has exited the beta cycle and is now available as a release candidate in more than 70 languages. The millions of users testing Firefox 4 will be automatically updated to this version and will join our Mozilla QA team in validating the new features, enhanced performance and stability and HTML5 capabilities in Firefox 4. Testers are encouraged to check out the Web O’ Wonder in order to see the future of the Web with cutting edge demos that showcase the incredible online experiences developers can now create. Developers can submit their own demos to the Mozilla Developer Network Demo Studio.
Firefox 4 RC includes an updated interface for all platforms that’s sleeker and easier to use.
Feature:
New Tab Location
Tabs are given top visual priority for more efficient and intuitive browsing.

Stay in Sync
Synchronize your settings, passwords, bookmarks, history, open tabs and other customizations across multiple devices so you can take Firefox with you wherever you go.
Organize Your Tabs

Reclaim your browser from tab clutter! Drag and drop your tabs into manageable groups that you can organize, name and arrange in a fun and visual way.
Manage Your Add-ons
An easier way to manage your add-ons and discover new options for personalizing your browsing.

Fasten your Seatbelts
Firefox 4 contains huge performance enhancements, including our brand new JägerMonkey JavaScript engine. From faster start up times and graphics rendering to improved page load speed, you’ll notice the difference instantly.

Tests performed on a Dell Optiplex 760 (Intel Core2 Duo), Windows 7 Professional.

Size : 12,2 Mb
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