Windows 7

Windows 7 appears to be less problem-plagued than its predecessor. Microsoft had added two new ways to get help-through an online forum called Microsoft Answers and via the Microsoft helps feed on Twitter. Microsoft has validated some 60,000 solutions. The goal of microsoft is to either answer simple questions or to point people to a place where they can get a more detailed answer.

Tokyo man marries game character

Japan's internet commounity has witnessed relationships and marriages to avatars. A man by the name of Sal decided to be the first human-to-avatar union. He married Nene in front of some friends and Web users watching the ceremony live online. Sal says Nene is better than a human girlfriend.

track your pet with a GPS

Techonology has changed pet ownership in the last couple of years. Increasingly social networking tools like Twitter and blogs are used to share ideas and information about pets. Most people dread the day their pet gets lost, now you can enter GPS pet tracking that xompanies like Zoombak offer.

AOL looking for people to get laid off

AOL is looking for a few volunteers to get fired. The company is asking for 2,500 employes to voluntarily lose there job. As part of the company's restructuring one way or another the company must eliminate 2,500 jobs. Now those who sacrificed there jobs will get a larger severance package than anyone that stays and is

later laid off.

Auto-captions come to YouTube

Some of YouTube's videos started featuring machine-generated captions this week. This will be a major impact and change for the deaf and hearing imparied, who do not have access to the majority of online videos.

Facebook paves way for IPO

Facebook has decided to introduce a dual-class stock structure, just like Google. It seemed very controversial for them to do, because they give certain shareholders much stronger voting rights than others.The use of seperate classes of shares to protect the voting contro; of a narrow group of investors. Facebook will convert all current shareholders to class-B stock, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the plan.

3G wireless still holds promise

While many carriers are planning to upgrade to their 4G networks, hundreds of wireless providers throughout the world are also expected to upgrade their exisitng network, even though it's an upgrade the 3G applications are supposedto be as good as the 3G. For this reason, for the next couple of years most people will likely continue using their 3G technology, and 4G services will still be available, but not as popular.

New Study

According to a new study, older people have an increase of chance of getting run over when using a cell phone while walking across the street. The results are based on two lab studys in which participants had to maneuver on a treadmill to cross an actual street, the treadmill would move when the person walks. The first, with 36 college student, showed that the students who were trying to hold a phone conversation took 25 precent longer to cross the street. Second they took much elder people and noticed while they were walking with there cell phones in there hands and talking, it took them 30 seconds more. The phone added some kind of destraction for a starnge reason.

Obama has never actually used twitter before

If you are one of Obama 2.6 million followers on Twitter, you have probably heard that Obama our president had admitted during an event at Shanghai, that he has never actually used Twitter before.

The topic was brought up when the president fielded a question regarding China

restriction of Social network.

YouTube 1080p

Now YouTube gives you the option to watch videos on 1080p resolution. Currently the highest quality video available on the site is 720p. YouTube stores all uploaded content at the original resolution. Now you could watch amazing videos on high definition resolution.

The Android Verizon Phone

Verizon new Motorola Android phone is off to a solid start. In it's first week of sells it was estimated to fifty thousand Droid phones were sold. While the number may seem small compare to the 1.6 millions 3GS came out, it's still the fastest selling Android phone to date. It is also good to know this is the first Verizon smart phone that has features compared to the iPhone.

Modern Warfare 2 band in Russia

Russia has decided to band the best selling game "call of duty Modern Warfare 2". So this means you will not find the game selling on any of the shelfs in Russia. The game revolves around a conflict between the US and Russia, the game is basically shooting civilian in a Russian air port. Thats one of the reason why the game had been band.

DVD2BLU

warner announced a service called DVD2BLU, this service enables customers to exchange used DVD movies to the same title just in blue ray format . Each exchange arranges from 8 to 10 dollar depending on the title, after you mail in your old DVD's on a prepaid you are going to receive a new BLURAY movie.

released Chrome OS source code

Google released the Chrome OS source code, this operating system from Google is free. At this event Google emphasize the speed which is a 7 second boot time. The Chrome OS is available now, but you would need to be running limits to build it, or you can wait for it's official release later on.

An internet that speaks to you

Research network commissioned by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) to see whether computer-to-computer communications. Instead of connecting computers rather as telephone exchanges work, using switches to set up an electric circuit over which data could be sent, packet switching breaks a message into chunks and sends each chunk - or packet - separately, reassembling them at the receiving end.

Nokia Throws the Book at Apple

The Apple's popular iPhone seems to be the center of the complaint. Nokia has filed a massive lawsuit against Apple. Nokia hasn't specified monetary damages, they could range from $400 million to $1 billion. Claiming infringement of its patents for the GSM and UMTS wireless standards, among others.

The Young and the Twitterless

a general age group, young adults and teens have been relatively slow to warm to Twitter. Some, of course, go to the max crazy about the microblogging service and blog every two minutes, but others either don't see the point for having to twitter. There's the fact that their elders like twittering, and some teens may say it's uncool. However, that's bound to change as tech-savvy Gen Xers reach middle age, some senior citizens become more comfortable with social networking. While Facebook's audience is aging, Twitterers are getting younger.

Wii's Glory Days May Be Over

Nintendo is counting on new games to pull its once-dominating Wii out of a sales funk in time for the holiday season. Nintendo lowered its forecast for the full fiscal year to a 230 billion yen. Nintendo also cited a strong yen, which hurts Japanese exporters by reducing their overseas earnings. Nintendo reduced the Wii price to $200 from $250 in the U.S. Sales of Nintendo's DS handheld machines fared better than the Wii, Nintendo remained upbeat, saying it hoped to sell 30 million DS machines for the full year through March 2010.

Epix Launches

Epix Launches One-Two Punch With TV-Web Movie it will only be available on one broadcast provider: Verizon FiOS. However, that's not the only way subscribers will be able to see. It will also offer an online channel with HD content. However, online movie lovers can go to epixhd.com/invite and see if they will be one of the lucky few to experience standard- and watch high-definition movies on their computers for free for three-day weekends throughout November.

Mozilla releases first beta of Firefox 3.6

Faster execution of Web-based JavaScript programs, better browser responsiveness, and faster startup time.T he ability to drag and drop files from the computer to the browser. This is useful for uploading files to Web sites, as will a feature not in the beta but planned for the final version. The organization plans to release the final version by the end of the year, with Firefox 3.7 in the first half of 2010 and Firefox 4.0 in about a year.

Nokia Confirms N-Gage Phasing Out In 2010

The company will maintain features for the games and will keep the N-Gage store open through September 2010, after the existing set of N-Gage games will no longer be available to buy. Widely criticized early on for its form factor and limited game library, the N-Gage was largely unable to shed its negative gamer reputation.

the MediaBook

The device reportedly has a touch screen, text-to-speech function, and an SD memory card slot. It will run on Creative's Zii System-on-chip and will be Internet-enabled. Just another electronic device which displays books in text, videos, pictures, text, and services in one device that supports a media-rich experience.

Marketer ordered to pay Facebook $711M damages

Facebook said a California court has awarded the social networking Web site $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case against Internet marketer Sanford Wallace. Apparently Facebook sued Wallace for accessing users' accounts without their permission and sending phony posts and messages. Wallace had earned himself a nickname the"Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day.

iPhone comes to China

Apple's iPhone made its long-awaited formal debut in the world's most populous mobile phone in Beijing. There are already an estimated 1.5 million to 2 million such phones using China Mobile 3G service that allows Internet access and other features.Unicom's iPhones lack WiFi because it was temporarily banned by Beijing, which was promoting a rival Chinese system.

Windows 7 on a Mac

Have you ever wanted to have a Mac, but Windows as well you wanted the softwear on both operating systems, well it's possible. The new version of VMware fusion will allow you to run with all the fancy 3D effects that comes with windows seven to run on top of a Mac. Thanks to the ultra-fast Migration Assistant for Windows. Install an app on your PC, connect it to your Mac with a cable or wirelessly, and VMware Fusion will guide you through the rest.

Verizon, Motorola will soon display the Droid

Verizon Wireless customers will soon be able to get their hands on Google Android phone called the Droid. It will be available to consumers starting November 6, customers can pre-register for the device now. The new Droid is loaded with lots of cool Android apps and has access to the more than 10,000 applications available in the Android Market. The device offers voice-activated search that allows users to speak and ask a question and the Google-powered search engine will deliver Web results or results from the device such as contacts, music, and photos. The voice search also works with directions for Google Map. It shows the geographic information, such as My Maps, Wikipedia entries, and transit lines on the map.

Create a font from your own handwriting

Now you can turn your own handwriting into a font that you can use on your computer. You dont need to install anything, it runs over the web, and it's free. Head over to fontcapture.com all you have to do is click on "create your font now". It steps you through the process of creating your font. So they ask you to print out a PDF, these little boxes which you fill in the letter number character. Then you scan in the peace of paper, then when your done they will ask you to upload that particular image to the website, and then they will ask you to name the font. When your done voila you have your own font.

Voice Chat coming to facebook

Sometime in the next few weeks, the social network Facebook that millions of people use everyday. Users will be able to have high quality voice conversations with anyone on their friends list. . This is suprisingly not being offered by Facebook itself, it's being offered from Vivox, a Boston based company that provides the integrated voice service for virtual worlds.it's not clear how many of Facebook's users will choose to adopt Vivox's technology, and for the time being, at least, Facebook is not involved in any way in promoting the new service

While hiring companies turn to Twitter

In today's society you have to go through a whole process to get hired. Now instead of sending resumes and references far and wide, just tweeting is now an option for a person who is looking for a job.

Google News launches Arabic editions

Google News this week launched Arabic editions of its popular news aggregator for Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Google would not display specific numbers on how many people actually use Google in Arabic-speaking nations. Having the Google and Yahoo services in Arabic will undoubtedly become the flow of information from and to the Arab world.

Ebay is selling SKype

Skype is a free internet communication service will be purchased for about 2 billion dollars. Which means Ebay lost 1.1 billion dollar in the sale, according to Ebay's caculations.

Buy your friends on Facebook

Now for the cost of $177 to $727 you can buy friends. The Australian marketing company offers 1,000 to 5,000 firends. They hope to save you time and strength by easily just buying a few thousand friends. Facebook is not happy about this, but starting this week, 1,000 new Facebook friends cost less than $200

Apple offers ready made ringtones.

Apple has acquired the rights to offer ready-made ringtones for the iPhone , and the managers are hoping to have them accessible in time for next week's press conference, music industry. There is speculation that there could finally be an announcement that a Beatles catalog is coming to iTunes.

Astronauts complete second spacewalk

NASA officials said, that the space shuttle Discovery crew had completed there second spacewalks schedual out of the three they plan to do. The crew has unloaded about half of the 8 tons of supplies ferried to the station aboard Discovery, the astronauts have until Monday to complete the job. There third final spacewalk is schedual is set for Saturday.

Google apologizes for Gmail

tens of million of users use Gmail everyday. They rely on Gmail for there communication of course. On tuesday Gmail took some servers offline to perform routine maintenance, causing routers to become overloaded with traffic. widespread chatter on Twitter and other social networks were down. Treynor a Gmail server explained Google's engineers are compiling a list of things they intend to fix or improve as a result of their investigation into the breakdown.