Facebook has come with a rather new idea to provide users with an option to memorialize Facebook profiles of family members who passed away. This new move from Facebook comes after there were a number of complaints about people who received updates about deceased relatives. Facebook will remove all features like status updates and contacts from the profiles of the deceased person and will memorialize the profile.
Relatives of the dead person have to submit solid evidence when reporting a death. Something like a obituary or a news article that reports …

Vodafone, one of the biggest mobile operators in the world has finally entered an agreement with Apple to sell its popular iPhone in the UK. This announcement came along with the similar agreement with one another operator, Orange. So far, this privilege is held only by the mobile service provider, O2. Now Vodafone and Orange will enter the market as well. Company sources said that that interested people can register the handset online and it will be made available in the market in early 2010. Whereas Orange announced that their …

Microsoft has released its new security software and this software is available for free download in the Microsoft’s Security Essentials website. This software can be used as a basic protection against viruses, Trojans, root kits, and spyware. This is the second attempt by Microsoft in providing anti-virus software with the first one being the beta version of the Microsoft’s Security Essentials (MSE) software which has been codenamed as “Morro” and has been made available to the people from specific countries such as US, China, Brazil, and Israel. When Cliff Evans, …

UK’s leading newspaper, The Guardian had the shock of this week when their jobs website was compromised by hackers. This security breach put some of the sensitive data of the site users at risk and the website’s users were increasingly concerned about the safety of their personal information. The Guardian said that it had identified the accounts from which personal data was hacked and emailed the person’s affected in the attack.
A case was registered at the cyber crime division of the Metropolitan Police and investigation of the case is pending. …

Speaking on the issue of audio and video piracy, Business Secretary of the UK, Peter Mandelson said that he was going to work on toughening the UK piracy policy. He said that the UK would go about this by first cutting off people who kept downloading illegal pirated content from the internet mainly by file sharing. He added that the policy would be something like the one that was introduced in France earlier.
Offenders who keep downloading files persistently will be sent two warning letters and if they still refuse to …

The Sky Player service that was supposed to start its service for Xbox Live users was put off in the last minute. With this new service, customers would be able to watch a number of Sky TV channels and other TV shows on demand. A number of Xbox Live users were disappointed when the launching of the service was postponed. Though Sky had announced the decision to work with Microsoft’s Xbox months ago, the release came several months later.
Officials at Sky apologized for the postponement of the release and said …

Web Design Ledger has a great post listing the 20 Do’s and Don’ts of effective web design.

The introduction goes like this: When you are creating a website (or hiring a web/blog designer to create one for you), there are specific items you need to be aware of. Things that normally wouldn’t cross your mind. For the average person who wants a website or blog for their business, they are after one very important thing – sales. Now, they may tell you that they want the big flashy logos, or the …

Having just got hold of my copy of Windows 7, I decided to install it on my rather long-in-the-tooth PC. It is a 2.5Ghz P4 with only 1.75GB of memory and a 40GB hard drive… OK stop laughing there at the back… But it works for me as I am mainly an Apple Mac user…
Anyway… I stuck the Windows 7 DVD in the drive and booted and I got this strange error: “Cannot boot from CD – Code 5″
This is quite odd as other DVDs boot fine on this machine …

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The recession has hardly hit computer makers Apple and it was evident from the profit reports they published for the last three months. The computer maker had made a profit of about $1.67 billion in a time period of three months and the sales surged to $9.87 billion. Though computer and iPhone sales rose by 17% and 7% respectively, the sale of their music players, iPod slumped.
Steve Jobs, the Chief Executive of Apple said that the rise in the sales of Macintosh computers and iPhones, compared to previous years has …

Imagine this, you leave your home in the morning and drive to the motorway. Once there you team up with a number of other cars and you all inch close to each other. Then once you are in formation you can let go of the steering wheel and spend your time reading the morning paper.
This is the vision of a new part EU funded project called SARTRE (Safe Road Trains for the Environment) which will develop and test technology for vehicles so that they can drive themselves in long road …