End of an era as come as AOL officially retires Netscape,the browser that brought World Wide Web to computer screens in every corner of the planet and connecting us like never before. Leading news website Betanews has a detailed report on the sad dismissal of the web browser which had played a major in shaping the today's internet. March 31, 2008 will mark 10 years since the Netscape development team opened up the source code to the browser that ushered in the Internet era. With its...

According to a report by famous tech news website Winbeta , Microsoft has decided to phase-out the OEM editions of Windows XP by the end of this year despite consumers resistance to adopt Vista due to compatibility issues and hardware requirements. As a result computer manufacturers will only be able to sale Vista loaded Pc's. By early 2008, Microsoft's contracts with computer makers will require companies to only sell Vista-loaded machines. Despite Microsoft's relentless promotion of V...

2006 will be remembered as a mile-stone year during which we saw some real breakthroughs and never seen before wonders of Information Technology including Dual Core Processing, 64-bit Computing, New hardware architectures, Massive adoption to Wireless, and All new displays. But it seems like only a beginning; a first step towards something out-of-imagination. In 2007, Wide-scale roll-out of quad-core CPU platforms by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices; coupled with multi-threaded application...

Betanews (www.betanews.com) reports that Microsoft and Novell, longtime software antagonists, have inked a partnership. The agreement announced Thursday between the world's largest seller of patent-protected software and a leader in the open-source software movement has potentially important business, technical and legal implications. The Headline reads as: In a surprise move that left many jaws on the floor, Microsoft and Novell held a joint press conference Thursday afternoon announ...

Betanews ( Link ) reports that AMD has revealed the plans to introduce CPU-GPU Combo by the end of year 2008 or at the start of 2009. Report headline reads as: If there was any doubt that CPU maker AMD’s principal reason for acquiring graphics chip powerhouse ATI was to build a mobile computing platform that would rival Intel’s Centrino, it was erased this morning with AMD’s announcement of a platform project it’s currently calling "Fusion." Please check the provided link for det...

ExtremeTech, a well known and respected website dedicated for technology news, has taken an in-depth look at the newly released WindowBlinds 5. In an exclusive article, they have discussed almost every feautre of WindowBlinds 5 like per-pixel alpha blending, as well as the ability to change toolbar icons, progress animations, and the hue and saturation of the Windows interface. For more information please check the provided link.

The GNU GPL is the most widely used Free Software license worldwide: Almost three quarters of all Free Software programs (also known as Free and Open Source Software, or FOSS) are distributed under this license and after almost 15 Years of successs GPL is goin to be revised. According to an announcement by Free Software Foundation Inc. (FSF) and the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) , the review process for Version 3 of the GPL will continue through 2006 with a final license due out in ...

The dawn of civilization blessed on human race with the exploration of papyrus and invention of Paper. Through paper, man learned how to write and educate, convey his emotions, and express his self. In 20th century, Flood of Information Technology (IT) rendered many old means of information but paper is still the most suitable medium of passing and getting the information. Phillips has made a prototype of e-Paper which has more functionality than the e-reader currently being used and h...

Some un-expected ups and downs have occurred during past 4 days. Few new skins have top-downed the old ones and we have crossed the half way down. So here is the updated report of WC Subscription Contest upto 8th day of the contest. Day 5 - 8 (30/08/05 – 2/08/05) 1. CursorXP: Top Skins 1. Silver Cursors 2 by JJYing with 1,051 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 2. Relic Cursors by IGP-85 with 881 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 3. NarutoDagger by Basj with 6...

The updated report of the 4th Day of the contest. Day 4 (29/08/05) 1. CursorXP: New Submissions: Swords by Subliminal Visions ( Link ) Top Skins 1. Silver Cursors 2 by JJYing with 797 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 2. Relic Cursors by IGP-85 with 507 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 3. NarutoDagger by Basj with 479 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 2. LogonStudio New Submissions: Abridged Resonance by Himangshaw ( Link ) Xedion by Great ...

Here is the updated report of the WC Subscription Contest. Day 2 and 3 (27/08/05 and 28/08/05) 1. CursorXP: New Submissions: Male Symbol by lihu 1266 ( Link ) Floral Theme by Himangshu ( Link ) Relic Cursors by IGP-85 ( Link ) Top Skins 1. Silver Cursors 2 by JJYing with 708 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 2. NarutoDagger by Basj with 415 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 3. Relic Cursors by IGP-85 with 313 Unique Downloads by Registered Users 2. Lo...

As you all know that we have a Skinning Contest goin on. The categories are CursorXP, LogonStudio, and BootSkin and First three postion holders in each category will recieve a FREE WC Subsription from the supponsors of the contest (Ama02, Fairyy~, me Black Xero, Bichur, Jafo, and Apocalypse_67). The idea was presented by Apoclypse_67 and he is the main supponsor and then rest of us joined in. The contest started on 26/08/05 (Eastern Time) and will continue till 09/09/05 (Eastern Time). For det...

August 24, 1995 was the day when Microsoft released its first true GUI based Operating System named as Windows 95. Windows 95 spread like a jungle fire and within two post-release months, over one million "registered" copies were sold and pirated ones are even un-countable. Although, speaking in terms of real numbers, Windows 95 accounts for just over one percent of the Windows client operating environment installed base total today but Microsoft's officials have admitted that one of their...

October 23, 2001, the release date of iPod, might always be remembered and considered as D-Day for Apple. iPod brought real twists and warps in music market. iPod was not based on a new concept. Companies before Apple released hard drive based music players, but none had the charm and elegance in the Apple implementation. Unlike the competitors, the iPod used a high speed FireWire interface to transfer files on and off of it, and it used a tiny hard drive, that made the device a quarter of the...

As Windows Vista Beta 1 released, the word-war started whether Microsoft has copied Apple's Tiger techonologies or not. Some say that Microsoft has copied, they give examples of similarity in icons, presentation system approach, and icon naming, and some say that Microsoft has not copied but improved, they quote the examples of features like virtual folders, network presentation and search as you type. Eweek has done a comparision of both operating systems and result came out in form of a ...