Getting presents for using a specific search engine? People who in the future will use Microsoft’s Live Search instead of Google as search engine, should be able to gather bonuspoints. These bonuspoints can be traded for musicdownloads, t-shirts or even fly-miles. The bonusprogram will be introduced shortly in the USA, but it’s not sure that [...]

The music industry (EMI, Sony, BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music) and Flash memorycard producer Sandisk are working together to put an end to the use of the cd: with a new format put onto a Micro-SD card with the name ’slotMusic’. Next to music in Mp3 format, there should be space to put [...]

Since the 23d of september 2008 the new Firefox update 3.0.2 is available for download. This update will solve several security problems and some visual and stability problems of the browser.
More information:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/de/firefox/3.0.2/releasenotes/

Old Google employees are working on a new killer searchmachine that should become better than Google.com. The new searchmachine has a black bachground instead of the white Google background, and there are only 6 results shown per search.

At this moment, mostly English website are indexed in the search engine, which makes it sometimes hard to [...]

Google Knol, an abbreviation of the word ‘knowledge’,is now online and usable for everyone. The new knowledge website will probably soon be an extensive encyclopedia, like Wikipedia.
Different from Wikipedia is that not everyone can change articles. At Google Knol only the author has the rights to change the text of his article. Mostly the [...]

An email that should come from customs, actually contains a virus, according to the security experts of Avira. The spam emails have the subject “Parcel requires declaration”.
Text of the email:
Good day, We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9. Please fill out the customs declaration attached to this message [...]

Joss Whedon, the director that got famous with his Western - sci-fi series ‘Firefly’, has made a new mini series in 3 episodes. This new mini series, ‘Dr Horrible’s Sing alon Blog’, is not financed by big studios, and will not be seen on television.
The captain of the firefly, Nathan Fillon, is back in [...]

The new Apple iPhone 3G is already cracked by employees of the gadget website Gizmodo.com. It is said, that the phone was already cracked before it’s official introduction.
A cracked iPhone can be used on all networks, so not only on the networks of the providers Apple has an exclusive deal with.

Thirteen1, the brand new and completely free to read online gaming magazine that launched last month is out again with its new edition bursting at the seems with content, giveaways and more.
Released on the 13th of every month at 1PM thirteen1 is completely free to read and requires no download. The online magazine aims [...]

After Microsoft has postponed Service Pack 3 for Windows XP already several times, also due to compatibilityproblems, AMD users are now reporting problems with SP3. In some cases the computer will not start anymore, in others the computer crashes during installation.
Dr. Jesper M. Johansson, Microsoft expert, gives solutions for these problems in his blog.
In [...]