Insure.com Sells for $16 Million

Insure.com sold its corporate name and the domain for a whooping 16 million dollars. The company will be renamed Life Quotes. The company had acquired Insure.com for $ 1.6 million in 2001. Insure.com is a publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ.

A company known as Quin Street acquired the domain. The same company has [...]

Finding the Right Speakers for your iPod

iPod speakers make your iPod a much more versatile music player. If you have the right speakers, you can enjoy music better and also make your listen to music. What’s more, you can even use your iPod in parties you throw!

iPod speakers come in two types: portable and home models. Portable models are very [...]

Apple releases iPhone OS SDK 3.1.2

Apple launched an update to its iPhone SDK on Thursday. This brings the current version of the software development kit to 3.1.2.

The new SDK now includes Xcode 3.2.1. It is available in version that are compatible with Leopard and Snow Leopard for iPhone and iPod Touch developers.

The update contains general bug fixes found [...]

Does Windows 7 Boot Any Faster?

Windows 7 has won many good reviews. It has been praised for loading and shutting down faster than earlier version of Windows. However, some independent evaluations indicate that Windows 7 is no good and in fact taken even longer to get started than Windows Vista.

Iolo Technologies, a company that sells software to tune-up Windows, [...]

100 Arrested in Online Fraud Crackdown

The FBI arrested 53 people for financial fraud using phishing. This operation has been dubbed “Operation Phish Phry”.

The people were arrested from Southern California, Nevada and North Carolina. The FBI also provided information on Egyptians involved in the scams to the Egyptian Government.

An 86-page long indictment has been filed against the persons involved [...]

Gmail Notifier

Gmail Notifier is a free software that alerts users of new emails. Users can also read emails, delete or mark them as read without even having to open their browser.

Gmail Notifier can be used to check up to five Gmail accounts.

Here are some key features of Gmail Notifier:

Counter of unread emails Sound [...]

Microsoft Exchange 2010 released to manufacturing

Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Exchange 2010 is code complete and has been released to manufacture. More information is available on the Microsoft Exchange Team’s blog.

The Microsoft Exchange Team posted:

“We are happy to announce that Exchange 2010 is Code Complete! Our senior leadership team has signed off on the final code, and it [...]

Startup Snatches the "Mighty Mouse" from Apple

A small start-up has defeated Apple in the a battle over the “Mighty Mouse” trademark.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Man & Machine, a computer peripheral startup the trademark for “Mighty Mouse”, the name of the company’s waterproof mouse.

Apple sells a mouse called the Mighty Mouse–a white colored mouse with a [...]

Nvidia Suspends Chipset Development for Intel

Nvidia has announced that it will be suspending chipset development for Intel’s processor until a licensing issue is not resolved between both the companies.

Nvidia is suing Intel in a Delaware court over whether Nvidia’s current license covers the new technologies used in Intel’s latest microprocessors based on Nehalem microarchitecture. This technology is known as [...]

Microsoft Planning 128-Bit Version Of Windows 8?

Windows 7 has not yet been released. However, there are rumors that say that Microsoft is considering a 128-bit version of its next OS, Windows 8.

According to Robert Morgan–an employee at Microsoft, future versions of Windows including Windows 8 would have support for 128-bit processor architectures. On his now defunct LinkedIn profile page, Morgan [...]