The giant mobile phone maker aka Nokia has officially introduced its own version of netbook named Nokia Booklet 3G. It’s very interesting to see how Nokia can compete in this already crowded and tough market segment. Popularity of netbook has increased recently thanks to its lower price and great portability. With many years of experiences in mobile phone segment, Nokia also includes some of its unique features into Booklet. Well.. we can say this is actually looks like more a hybrid of netbook and smart phone. Here are the official specs of Nokia Booklet 3G: Read more…

Boubouille of MMO-Champion has posted the details of the upcoming expansion, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm.

Head over there and take a look. But be forewarned, there are significant spoilers in the post. So don’t look if you care about such things.

After the break we’ll take a look at some of the major points Boubouille has reported on. Read more…

SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc said on Monday it has revamped its search to compete against Microsoft Corp’s Bing, even as it relies on the Redmond giant to power its queries.

The announcement of plans to put a new face on Yahoo Messenger and Mail and add functions to its search engine came after news that Google and Yahoo each lost a fraction of a point of U.S. search share to Microsoft last month. Read more…

In the course of developing highly interactive web sites it is
necessary to deal with large amount of data flow between client
browswer and web server. It is quite cumbersome handling such large
amount of data using hidden fiels in HTML forms. This problem can be
overcomed by using HTTP cookies. HTTP cookies are the bunch of
data/text sent by the server to the web browswer. Web browser store
this data locally and send back to the server each time it accesses
the server before it expires. Note that now a days Most browsers allow
users choice to accept cookies or not, sometime rejection causes web
site to not work properly.

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Microsoft will consider Windows 7 E ‘ballot screen’ for other browsers

European Commission has stated that Microsoft has offered to include a “ballot screen” with choices of Web browsers, including Internet Explorer 8 and others, as a way for the company to comply with the EC’s directives. Last month, the company decided that it would remove IE8 from Windows 7 for European customers only, though that move alone was initially met with skepticism by the continent’s legislators, who claimed that the move by itself would not restore choice to consumers.

“Under the proposal,” reads today’s statement from the EC, “Windows 7 would include Internet Explorer, but the proposal recognizes the principle that consumers should be given a free and effective choice of Web browser, and sets out a means — the ballot screen — by which Microsoft believes that can be achieved. In addition, OEMs would be able to install competing Web browsers, set those as default, and disable Internet Explorer should they so wish. The Commission welcomes this proposal, and will now investigate its practical effectiveness in terms of ensuring genuine consumer choice.”

A mechanism for letting installers choose their Web browsers may be easy enough to implement; what may be difficult is effectuating the upgrade procedure. The first versions of Windows 7E for Europe, at least at the outset, will not be able to upgrade over existing installations of Windows Vista or XP, Microsoft has previously informed Betanews. Enabling the ballot screen, which would in turn enable the installer to trigger third-party browser installation (perhaps through the installation procedure, perhaps over the Web), may for upgraders require the installer to effectively uninstall older Microsoft Web browsers such as IE7 or IE6 — processes which, at the time, Microsoft engineered (perhaps intentionally) to be difficult.