Like someone had quoted earlier, Microsoft is not where it thought it would be and its attempts in the mobile arena has been really lame. Smart phones are the fastest selling product in the mobile market and has shown a significant increase in sales comparing to last year. Symbian OS based phones rule the market with an approximately 50% while Microsoft’s Windows Mobile trails back with a 9%. But with the launch of its new mobile phone software, Microsoft is hoping to make a fortune in the smart phones market.
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K7 Computing, who are very big in Asia with over nine million customers (including a quarter of the Japanese market), has announced its release of K7 TotalSecurity Version 10.0, Internet Security Software to help safeguard users from virus threats, spyware and hackers.
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Either Microsoft or the EU are doing a U turn about the propose Windows 7 E, the version of Windows 7 without IE. Microsoft’s Dave Heiner has announced that plans for Windows 7 E have been abandoned at the last minute.
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The soon to be released final version of Windows 7 is expected to be a great platform for gaming. People who aren’t contented with their game play experiences with the XP or Vista need to check out the Windows 7 to get the best of their games.  Now the most pertinent question in most of your minds would be -  How can Windows 7 be better than the Windows Vista or XP with respect to gaming? or How can Windows 7 be a gamer’s delight?
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Ambitious Mozilla is always working to keep Firefox on top of the browser wars. It released Firefox 3.5 a month ago, recently released screen shots of Firefox 3.7 and now one more Firefox 4.0.
At their wiki site Mozilla has released two mock up themes for Firefox 4.0. These are named A and B.
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The idea of a family pack which allows your operating system to be installed on multiple computers in your home was first promoted by Apple with the OS X Family Pack. It has now been confirmed that Microsoft is copying Apple (again) and releasing a Family Pack for the upcoming Windows 7.
Earlier this month keen blogger Kristan Kenney was poking around in a recently leaked build of Windows 7 Home Premium and ran across the term “Qualified Family Pack User” in the Microsoft Software License Terms. This started a rush …

With the October 22nd launch date for Windows 7 barely three months away, Microsoft is preparing other members of the Windows family to play well with the new OS.
This weekend saw a public Beta of the free Power Pack 3 update for Windows Home Server. PP3 supports silent backup and recovery for Windows 7 system, compared to the current WHS behaviour of backing up a Windows 7 PC but also showing a misleading notification by the host PC’s Action Centre which claims there’s no backup in place.
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Three months after the release of version 0.9.9, the VLC developers have announced the release of version 1.0.0 of their popular VLC Media Player, code-named Goldeneye. VLC is a free open source cross-platform multimedia player for various audio and video formats. Version 1.0.0 of VLC is a major release and, in addition to numerous bug fixes, includes several new features, new formats and new codecs.
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Here at the Hi-Tech Squad we don’t often “recommend” software but there are two critical bits of software that everyone needs a good anti virus and good backup.

For the anti virus the best free offering is AVG Free and for backup we just found out about GFI Backup…
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VirtualBox 3.0 has been released by Sun. This major update introduces Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines as well improved 3D support.

VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization solution, developed by Sun Microsystems (it was originally created by German software company Innotek). When it is installed on an existing host operating system (known as the host) additional guest operating systems can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

VirtualBox the only professional x86 virtualization solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General …