Can’t believe it? Yes, again, news about Windows 7. It’s has been 2 months since my last post about Windows 7 Milestone 1. It was interesting and funny to watch how skeptics around the world reacted to my news. Many people denied and tried hard to prove what I posted was not true. Well, skeptics here is very reasonable but the evidences they used were merely those not-yet-updated ‘Vista’ in version windows or dialogues, and, many F words. That’s not reasonable, nether works. How desperately I hope those guys know more about software development and engineering. You know there is something like the dark side of the force, especially when you have control on something and feel a little bit more powerful than the people you’re Read further »

Microsoft isn’t going to show Windows 7 to attendees of the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles until Tuesday, October 28. But new info about what’s part of the pre-beta build that will be provided to show-goers is beginning to trickle out. According to a variety of sources, the build that will be distributed at PDC — and, a week-plus later, at the company’s Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) — will be one of the M3 (Milestone 3) builds. Like the build that leaked in September, this will be a 6801 numbered build, sources say. But it doesn’t seem to be the same one I saw a few weeks back. UX Evangelist blogger Stephen Chapman says Read further »

Big software releases like Windows Vista mark the end of “planned software” for the industry, according to Red Hat chief executive Jim Whitehurst. Speaking at a forum in Singapore on Friday, Whitehurst said the proprietary, “top-down, planned” software-development model, characteristic of closed-source companies, is coming to an end. Such a model is demonstrated by Vista and the number of bugs within it, he said. Whitehurst claimed that there are “half the number of bugs in Linux per thousand lines” compared to the Microsoft operating system, because of the open-source, collaborative model. Vulnerability-research company Secunia released a report earlier this year stating there were more flaws reported last year Read further »

Deloitte’s recently released Wireless Security Survey assessing Mumbai’s — India’s financial capital — state of security awareness in respect to wireless security, shows an ugly picture of insecure wireless networks in both, business, and residential districts. With Mumbai being the home of India’s most important financial institutions, next to the majority of multinational corporations, it may also turn into the playground for the next high profile data breach. The key findings of the survey are: Of the 6729 wireless networks seen, 36% appeared to be unprotected i.e. without any encryption 52% were Read further »

Cisco Systems and Tata Communications have expanded a network of public TelePresence meeting centers to the U.S. and U.K., with plans to set up 100 of the high-end videoconferencing centers around the world by the end of next year. Tata, an India-based telecommunications carrier, opened five of the centers in India earlier this year. They are available by the hour for meetings between individuals or companies that can’t or don’t want to invest in their own TelePresence systems. Tata operates the facilities and uses its international backbone network to link them. TelePresence is a Read further »

  The Mozilla team has just released Firefox 3.1, but I don’t recommend you download it just yet as this is just the first of several beta releases. This version is intended to be used by developers and Web designers to test their plug-ins and Web pages against the new browser. If you do decide to take Firefox 3.1 beta 1 for a spin, be warned: your add-ons may cease to function. Here are some highlights of what’s under the hood: Geolocation: a Java-based set of Web tools that can do things like plot maps, give directions, geotag photos, and give a location for a blog Read further »

Joining the MacBook Pro, Apple’s MacBooks, their best-selling mac ever, also received a complete hardware re-tooling today, with rejuvenated hardware packed inside a brand-new aluminum case, thus banishing white and black plastic completely from Apple’s main product lineup and linking the consumer and pro notebooks under the same design vocabulary for the first time. The old plastic MacBooks have been dropped to $999.  •Built with the “Brick” manufacturing process that casts the entire notebook’s frame from a single piece of aluminum (removing cut-out pieces, rather than bolting on additions), the Air-inspired Read further »

The new MacBook Pro 2008 is, at last, the worthy successor to the mythical PowerBook Titanium. From its new design—with an iMac-style glass screen, smooth Air-style surfaces, and no-button trackpad—to its guts—with new processors and the Nvidia GeForce 9600m GT—there’s little not to like about the new MacBook Pro 2008. In fact, this thing is absolutely amazing. Full specs and details after the jump.  The MacBook Pro 2008 comes with • The latest Intel processors running Read further »