Adobe promised the world that they would release a lightweight online version of their highly popular Photoshop. Well, at the Photoshop World conference they gave a sneak peak of what was to come. There was a brief demonstration held by John Loiacono, senior vice president of the Creative Solutions Business Unite of Adobe, and some details were given.
This product will be aimed towards regular users and not professional photographers. It is created to complete the Photoshop Creative Suite 3 and Photoshop Elements and wants to make “imaging technology immediately accesible …

Sony might be able to exploit one of Apple iTunes’ weaknesses and that stands in video downloads. The company is getting ready to launch a challenge to Apple’s video service according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal pointed out that Sony will be combining the PlayStation Portable, the PlayStation 3 and the Bravia HDTVs to offer some sort of download service.
This is not the first time that Sony tried to dethrone the iTunes giant. Just last week the company closed Connect, an online music service that failed due to …

When it comes to identity theft we believed all was already done. Well, Gregory Kopiloff, from Seattle, proved us wrong when he used a new scheme by using the Lime Wire peer to peer file sharing software. Through the software he got access to credit reports, bank statements, student financial aid applications and tax returns from hundreds of computers around USA. Kopiloff would then use that information to open credit accounts over the Internet and use the money to buy goods and ship them to different mailboxes in the Puget …

AMD recently announced new drivers for Linux and also unveiled some of its plans to open its drivers to the community. With this move the company will certainly earn some favors in the open source community but that is not all. Later this month we will be able to get our hands on the new Catalyst 7.9, which will add Linux support for the ATI Radeon HD 2000 together with “major performance improvements across the board” that will have as a result a “90 per cent improvement in such popular …

Microsoft Corporation announced that it plans to release the first major update to Windows Vista OS early next year. This marks a date that has been awaited by the company’s large corporate customers before implementing a new Windows operating system. The first “Service pack” release is a package of fixes, improvements and updates. Large companies usually hold back on adopting new software in order to give Microsoft time to work out the issues that are experienced by regular consumers, which usually purchase a new computer with the latest OS already …

It seems that researchers found a way to control file-sharing networks by considering bandwidth as a currency. This is how Tribler was created, a peer-to-peer system that could be beneficial. Through it sharers earn faster upload and download speed and leechers are penalized. File sharing networks are good for individuals that want to download large files but they usually end up with individuals taking more from the system than they are giving back. If too many users are downloading instead of sharing there is a stand still and the network …

The Microsoft Windows Home Server Press Preview in Berlin saw Medion launching their new MD 90110 Home Server. Without further ado, here are the specs:

AMD RS-690/Intel 945GC chipset
AMD Sempron 64 (AM2) or Intel P4 LGA 775 processors
MicroATX motherboard
1 GB GDR 2 at 533 MHz
eSata HDD
2Tb of maximum storage with 4 X 500 GB plus Raid Support
Slots: 1 X eSATA, 4 X USB 2.0 and 1 X Gigabit Ethernet
Internal hard drive bays that are screwless for easy expansion
Server Re-installation recovery button
4 Hard Drive LEDs plus 1 LAN LED
Easy media streaming through …

If you were planing to purchase the new Windows Server 2008 you will have to wait some more. Microsoft just delayed the release of the operating system from the end of the year to the first quarter of 2008. Windows Server 2008 is currently in Beta 3 and is complete. The reason why the company did the announced move was because “it needs a little more time to bake” (according to Alex Hinrichs, Windows Server program manager). There is still no mention of the upcoming virtualization technology, Viridian, which was …

It was just discovered that individuals using FBI and CIA computers have edited some entries in the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The topics touched included the Guantanamo prison and the Iraq war. Such changes violate the Wikipedia conflict-of-interest guidelines. A new program called WikiScanner, developed by Virgil Griffith of the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, was the one that traced these modifications. This piece of software makes it possible to track the source of computers that were used to change Wikipedia.
WikiScanner showed that CIA computers were used to …

Microsoft recently released updated versions of their personal finance management software called Microsoft Money. Microsoft Money Plus comes to aid the average user and offers different available tools for keeping a closer watch on finances.  According to the company there are many enhanced utilities provided including alerts on overdue or due bills, detailed cash flow analysis and tracking different markets. You could even have only key information available on your desktop so that you will not have to open the entire application to quickly find out how your finances are. …

Windows Vista just god released and Microsoft is already planning another version, that might be released in 2010 or even later. This version was initially called Vienna, but it has been renamed to “7″, after the conference in Orlando.
They haven’t even released the much needed Vista SP1 and they are working on a newer version, this doesn’t seem very smart as they have a lot of angry users, full of Vista’s errors and incompatibilities.

Veoh Networks Inc. is a site that is backed by media magnate Michael Eisner. They now hope to completely change the way people see online video and in order to do this they will offer special software that can find and play different programs from anywhere on the Internet. The extra is that it is supposed to look and feel like traditional TV, thus rising watching comfort to another level.Veoh TV plans to display different streamed episodes from TV networks and web-generated videos from sites like YouTube. A special organization …

I.B.M. plans to demonstrate a new system called System S at a conference of modern technology makers of Wall Street. The news consists in a high-performance computer system that can rapidly analyze data coming from multiple sources and in turn increase accuracy and speed in decision making. Fields of use can be very divers from stock trading to security surveillance.Stream computing is becoming more important each month. It is an effort to deal with two issues: the growing number of digital information sources and a practical need to handle data …

Microsoft just launched a redesigned MSN portal for mobile phones. It offers optimized display and improved navigation. Many web-capable phones are now capable of navigating to the new mobile.msn.com site and form there gain access to many Microsoft online services like Windows Live Messenger or Windows Live Hotmail. To see if your cell phone supports the new page simply visit it.
MSN Mobile users have a lot of facilities thanks to this web page. They can check the weather forecast, search the Internet, read sport news from Fox Sports and view …

Computer cookies are common these days and are one of the main keys in keeping online advertising alive. Whenever you visit a web site or see an ad for the first time, a cookie is saved on your hard drive. This identifies you (better said your computer) and takes further action with that ad network or site. On online host can thus determine the number of unique visitors they have. This is a very important aspect for online advertisers. Computer cookies can also aid in other tasks like keeping you …