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Apple recent  Mac update for OS X Lion and Mountain Lion released this week removes its Java plugin from all OS X browsers. Apple’s  support page provides more details : “This release updates the Apple-provided system Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_37 and is for OS X versions 10.7 or later. This update uninstalls the Apple-provided Java applet plug-in from all web browsers. To use applets [...]

Notwithstanding , the questions about its price, Microsoft’s Surface tablets first day pre-orders for the base model are already sold out. Microsoft has confirmed it by pushing the delivery date to ‘ within 3 weeks’ on its US online store, other models are available for ‘delivery by 10/26’. The online UK store stock is still available for the initial shipping date of 10/26. [...]

Microsoft has officially announced pricing and availability for its long awaited Surface table, after maintaining almost complete silence and preventing any leaks (unlike Apple) about its Windows RT Surface tablets since first announcing them in June. The  £399  base model will give you 32GB of storage, but won’t come with a Touch Cover which doubles up as keyboard, £479 will get you a [...]

Microsoft is firing on all cylinders with its reported US $1.5 billion marketing budget for its radical Windows 8 Operating System. On Sunday it has launched a new TV commercial Windows 8 which is catchy and informative and  flaunts the redesigned fluid and bold user interface. Titled  “Windows 8 is Coming Soon,” the 31-second video opens with a countdown that starts from 10, but, not unexpectedly [...]

Microsoft is launching Xbox Music, a new music service for the Xbox 360, Windows 8, and Windows Phone,  Xbox 360 consoles will be the first to get the service starting tomorrow, it will be rolled out to  Windows 8 and Windows RT computers starting on 26 October, the same day it launches its Windows 8 operating system. Xbox Music will provide free ad supported streaming  on Windows 8 and Windows [...]

Facebook stocked opened at US $19.93 a share on Wednesday and saw a low of US $19.45 after a report about Facebook resisting  attempts  by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to disclose more about the advertising revenues from mobile. A Bloomberg News article  talks about letters between Facebook and the SEC’s corporation finance division, which oversees what publicly traded companies [...]

Ransomware “Dorkbot,” which has previously attacked both Twitter and Facebook, through messages that use social engineering tactics lead users into clicking on links has not infected Skype according to  reports from Trend Micro and other security firms, as well as from a  forum thread on Skype.com. Affected users receive messages from friends in their Skype contact lists with some variation on [...]

Amazon has introduced  its Cloud Player media service in the UK, France and Germany. Amazon Cloud Player scans users Music Player libraries and and stores their MP3s with high quality 256 kbps copies on Amazon’s servers. All Amazon MP3 purchases are automatically saved to Cloud Player for free. Customers can store up to 250 tracks for free not including the Amazon purchased MP3s. Cloud Player [...]

Facebook’s stock jumped 4.6% in intraday trade following its CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s interview with Michael Arrington, at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference at San Francisco.”The performance of the stock has obviously been disappointing,” said Zuckerberg in his first interview after the IPO launch, in an apparent attempt at reassuring investors and Facebook watchers. “We care about [...]

After GoDaddy’s massive Monday outage which had hit thousands of websites hosted on GoDaddy.com started at around 1 PM US EST and continued until 7 PM EST, Go Daddy attributed it to internal problems, not a DDoS attack by hackers. AnonymousOwn3r had claimed responsibility for DDoSing Go Daddy yesterday and had continued to take interview requests and answer questions . AnonymousOwn3r  first [...]