Microsoft is launching the first smartphones packing Windows Mobile today, and has shared a few details on the new OS ahead of its full announcement.With a cleaned up, easier-to-use interface, WinMo 6.5 promises better browsing capabilities and easy access to services such as Windows Live, Bing, Mobile Office Communicator and Microsoft Online Services such as [...]

Apple’s latest beast based operating system, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, will be available earlier than expected. This Friday, August 28, in fact. Rather than filling the operating system with fistfuls of new features, Apple says its worked on the architecture of OS X to make it quicker, lighter and neater. Mac OS X Snow Leopard will [...]

A Chinese court has jailed four people for spreading their bootleg “Tomato Garden” version of Microsoft’s Windows XP program, in what the Xinhua news agency called the nation’s biggest software piracy case.
Hong Lei, the creator of the downloadable “Tomato Garden Windows XP” software, was jailed for three and a half years on Thursday by a [...]

The traditional pub quiz faces many threats. Now joining the music-round-destroying Shazam app, Wikipedia has launched an official iPhone app. The free application, obviously named Wikipedia Mobile, is not the first Wikipedia app in the iTunes App Store but it is the first to be officially sanctioned. The Wikimedia Foundation which oversees Wikipedia says the app is [...]

American software company RealNetworks has been banned from selling a program that lets people make copies of their DVDs, in a US court decision that could have far-reaching implications.
After a year-long case over the legality of the company’s RealDVD software, a district court in San Francisco ruled that Real had violated America’s copyright laws and granted [...]

Khalid Shaikh’s company has developed more than 900 apps for the iTunes, and has raked in thousands of dollars a day in the process. Now Apple is banning the developer from its App Store. While no one really seems to be defending the developer on the grounds of quality, the complaints apparently stem from copyright [...]

Tunebite is the best solution to remove copy protection from music, audio books and films & then convert it to one of 100 file formats
Since 2004, Tunebite has been mentioned and singled out for excellence in more computer trade publications than any other legal software solution that removes DRM copy protection. Tunebite legally removes the [...]

Although even the best-connected users can’t get their hands on Windows 7’s final code until Aug. 6, people willing to pirate the new operating system can download it today from several file-sharing sites, searches show.
Build 7600.16385, which Microsoft declared as Windows 7 RTM, or “release to manufacturing,” earlier Wednesday, leaked to the Internet almost a week [...]

Free application MetatOGGer is an advanced MP3 (and OGG Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, Musepack, Windows Media, WavPack, and Monkey’s Audio) tag editor that can automatically tag your music by creating audio fingerprints and comparing them with online database, MusicBrainz.

And while MusicBrainz already has its own dedicated application for this, we’ve always found Picard to be a [...]

Windows only: Hunting down application after application to fill a new computer with your favorite software can be a pain. Free application Smart Installer Pack makes it easy.
Just download the (rather hefty) 227MB application, run it, and choose à la carte from the many popular applications contained within, from Firefox or Chrome to Picasa or [...]

VLC 1.0 has got several cool new features, one of which is the ability to record what is playing in the screen.  Here we will take a look at how easy it is to record a DVD or other video formats using VLC.
Record Using VLC
You won’t see the record button in the default view so [...]

If you find yourself with very long startup times after upgrading to Firefox 3.5 (from say 10 seconds to the order of minutes), you may be experimenting a bug due to a change in how Firefox 3.5 gets the randomness it needs for security purposes on Windows.
The procedure involves scanning some temporary folders looking for bits [...]

DVD, CD and BD media keep their data only for a limited period of time. And the data starts to degrade slowly. It might be possible to get back some files on the DVD’s or CD’s but in case of one single big file of some650 MBor like wise things become hard. Even if a [...]

In the age of the Internet, it’s difficult to keep things under wraps till you launch a product. Microsoft’s announcement of Office 2010 is still a few hours away, but since its page went up a while ago, Google already cached it!
The biggest news out of the launch is, without doubt, the introduction of the Office [...]

iTunes can display song lyrics for music  files, but it doesn’t automatically slurp in that data in the same way as it does album art. To grab lyrics, download the free iTunes Lyrics Importer. Close iTunes first, and then install and launch Lyrics Importer. iTunes will also open.
You can obtain lyrics for specific tunes by [...]