Facebook users now have yet another reason to rejoice while using the social networking site as voice chat has come to Facebook! The new utility that will enable users to have conversations with people in their friend list was developed by Vivox rather than Facebook itself. Vivox has been the leaders in providing voice chat for a number of virtual worlds and already has a user base of about 15 million worldwide.
Users just need to download the plugin and install it in their PC’s to start voice chatting in Facebook. …

Microsoft recently unveiled the new avatar of its Zune music player – a competitor to the iPod range of music devices from Apple. The new Zune player will feature a touch-screen and users will be able to download and play high-definition videos on the player. The player comes with an organic LED display that is highly energy efficient and can be docked with a television on which the high-definition videos can be streamed.
Microsoft has priced the 16 gig Zune player at $220 and the 32 gig one at $290 and …

A new high speed cable that has been laid connecting East Africa to the world is all set to go live. Africa always had a handicap when it came to internet services as most of the service providers offered customers very slow internet connection and charged exorbitant usage charges. With the launch of the new cable, more countries in East Africa, especially Kenya is all set to experience the power of real broadband internet.
A senior official from Kenya said that the highest recorded broadband speed provided by Kenya’s largest internet …

The long awaited $1m contest by the online movie rental company Netflix has come to an end. Bellkor, a team of seven strong people have won the challenge and they claim the $1m prize money. The actual challenge is that to make the Netflix website to predict the customers’ movie preferences and give recommendations based on their preference. The challenge was announced around three years back and around 51000 contestants around the globe have tried their hand over the challenge and have only resulted in failure.
The actual challenge …

The Internet is huge, not large, but huge and there are lots of dark things hidden in it. As the Internet becomes more and more essential to our everyday lives so do the risks of identity theft. There is a new breed of thief on the prowl, the Data Snatcher. Data Snatchers hide in even the most trusted websites, to steal your personal information: credit card details, private files & your identity.
Gaj-IT.com has a posted a very scary and yet informative video about data snatching. The video shows how a …

Yahoo’s new boss Carol Bartz is very much interested in regaining Yahoo’s position on the internet. And as the first step towards this, Yahoo has re launched its new web portal. He feels that this step might increase the revenues from it and also the visitors’ traffic. This new portal will also open up to rivals and also the users can integrate other non Yahoo related services such as Facebook and even Hotmail. The main reason behind this inclusion into the portal is that it might increase the traffic …

The wait for the Gmail’s push for mobile phones has come to an end and on Tuesday, Google had expanded its sync services over the air with Google mail capabilities which was restricted to only iPhone and Windows mobile so far. Initially Google sync came in order to synchronize the calendar and contact details and now it has expanded with Gmail messages too. These Google sync messages can be received on your mobile and the user is alerted of the incoming messages as per the mobile’s setting as to whether …

Internet giants Google have released a new service, that now lets users flip through the pages of leading newspapers and magazines.  The new service named Fast Flip is Google’s new attempt at helping users to read news articles fast.Google has so far partnered with more than 30 leading news agencies including BBC. At a time when news agencies are trying to make money from the online content they provide, this new service comes as a boon.
Fast Flip will offer screenshots of popular news bits and the displayed news will also …

As part of the Internet giant Google plans of creating a huge online library of books, publishers are being offered concessions to European publishers who are concerned about the move. The project which is aimed at putting out-of the print copies of books into a digital format is successful so far and many such books are already in the digital form. However, Google would only do this if it was granted consent by the publishers if the book was in print elsewhere.
Publishers in the Europe are concerned as this can …

There has been lots of brouhaha over the release of the trial version of Microsoft’s new operating system “Windows 7″. Chip maker Intel and Microsoft have now said that the new OS will save a great deal of power and also will have faster booting times. After all the negative criticism for their earlier operating system Windows Vista, Microsoft hopes that the new OS will perform as promised by them. Microsoft said that it has been working with Intel in a partnership to develop a better and faster OS and …