It’s been rumored for a while and strategically leaked to Michael Arrington over at Techcrunch, but the big G just made the official announcement. They’ve agreed to acquire video sharing monolith, YouTube.com, for $1.65 Billion in Stock. From the Google Press Release:
Google To Acquire YouTube for $1.65 Billion in Stock
Combination Will Create New Opportunities for […]

Coming soon to millions of virus ridden, spyware and keylogger infested, wide open to hackers and phishers PC near you:
“Due out on Oct. 10 are six security updates meant to patch issues identified in Windows, with an additional four updates aimed at fixing vulnerabilities in Office. Both sets of updates will include patches for product […]

SEATTLE, Washington and CUPERTINO, California —October 5, 2006 — Starbucks and Apple® today announced the availability of the Starbucks Hear Music catalog on the iTunes® Store (www.tunes.com), giving iTunes users the ability to preview, buy and download a wide variety of Starbucks popular Hear Music titles. Hear Music produces a wide range of albums […]

If you’ve been watching the tech news channels at all over the past 2 months, you’ll have read reports and seen horrifying pics of charred Dell and Apple laptops. Both companies have issued recalls on the Sony batteries that caused the carnage, but Sony itself has been reluctant to issue it’s own recall, until now.
Snip […]

Gizmodo, one of the most popular gadgets site on the world wide web, got a new design today, just a few hours ago. I’m digging the new logo but wondering if it will never stop the bouncing, it can get a bit annoying after visiting a few pages… I’m not too fan of the glowing […]

The World eBook Fair is an internet event with the duration of 1 month, providing access to 300,000 eBooks that can be downloaded for free, the first edition just started today!
Usually, the price is $8.95 per year, but since this month is the celebration of Project Gutenberg’s 35th Birthday, the fair has open their doors […]

phpBB, one of the most famous (and free) forum systems has been upgraded to version 3. It’s still on beta stage, phase 1, so bugs are something to expect. Lets just hope there aren’t many security issues…
Wink In the first 24 hours since phpBB3 Beta1 has been released, there have been 8373 downloads (a download […]

One of the sites included in the Microsoft France network has been hacked and defaced by Turkish hackers.

Half an hour ago I checked the Microsoft Experts Site and the domain was still accessible with the defacement being displayed. Right now it seems that the site is offline, the Microsoft tribe took it down =[
Kudos to […]

ASCII-WM is a service that provides a different way to watch World Cup 2006 games. What way is that? ASCII - a character encoding based on the English alphabet.
Not the most convenient way of watching a soccer game because you won’t understand what is going on (just see the image and prove me wrong) but […]

Mozilla just finished the deal with a top model to promote the world-wide-known browser - Firefox - in a campaign that targets Microsoft geeks that still use Internet Explorer. Desperate times call for desperate measures…
So, I would like to congratulate the new sexy-blond-Scandinavian Firefox mascot: Alexandra Ansgar.
This is just the first of many photos […]