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MSN Messenger 7.5.0311 With MSN Messenger you can chat online instantly in real time with friends, family and colleagues. It's faster than e-mail, more discreet than a phone call. Chat using a webcam, send text messages to mobile phones, and express yourself instantly online in real time with new, cool emoticons. MSN Messenger looks like you! Sign in with your own picture, create your own emoticons, and represent yourself with new, cool backgrounds!

Siemens AG is developing thin, flexible, low-cost electronic displays they foresee being used on such things as packaging and admission tickets. At the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt, Siemens developers exhibited miniature color displays that can be printed on paper or foil. These can be produced at very low cost compared to LCD panels. They are expected to be on the market by 2007. The displays operate using electrochromic substances, materials that change color when an electrical voltage shifts charges in their molecules.

Microsoft are now helping in the fight against Phishing. After sitting back for so many years whilst third party software creators helped computer users, Microsoft are now definately trying to fight back against the bad guys out there. (Only trouble is you need to have the MSN toolbar installed to use their anti-phishing tool). Quote from their website. View Webpage here. Download MSN toolbar here. Download Microsoft Phishing Filter here.

Firefox 1.5 Beta 2, the second and final Beta release of the next generation Firefox browser, is now available for download . Those currently running Beta 1 are able to receive Beta 2 via auto-update. Like Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, Beta 2 is being made available for the developer and testing community, with no end-user support provided. Normal users are urged to use the latest version of Firefox 1.0. Nightly builds of 1.5 Beta 2 have been available since Oct 1. The most visible change in 1.5 Beta 2 is that the "Allow web sites to install software" checkbox is gone, replaced with a "Warn me when web sites try to install extensions or themes" checkbox, as shown in this scre…

Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled , according to a BBC News story. Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, came up with the idea on a trip to Cambodia. Negroponte says MIT and his non-profit group, One Laptop Per Child, are in discussions with 5 countries, Brazil, China, Thailand, Egypt and South Africa, to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children, according to the ZDNet article The $100 laptop moves closer to reality . A prototype should be ready by November, for the World Summit on the Information Soc…

Security researcher Amit Klein has released a research document detailing a newly-discovered Internet Explorer security flaw. Potentially, an attacker could use a JavaScript component, XmlHttpRequest, to spoof a legitimate web site, access the browser cache, or tap into traffic between the target computer and another web site. Secunia,in an advisory,rated this vulnerability "moderately critical". ZDNet reports that Microsoft is unhappy about this vulnerability being publicized, and urges researches to report such findings privately, so fixes can be provided. Microsoft probes report of IE flaw | Tech News on ZDNet It has not been determined if Firefox is a…

The popular Firefox extension Bookmark Backup has a new version in testing, with a major change in function. Up to now, this extension has backed up bookmarks and, optionally, other Firefox profile data, each time the browser shut down. The new 0.4 version, however, also backs up this data at intervals while Firefox is running. This occurs each 2 hrs by default, but this can be modified by the user. This "partial rewrite" of the program also aims to improve reliability. Pike, the extension's author, is seeking users to help test the new version, download available here: http://www.pikey.me.uk/mozilla/?addon=bb

Firefox 1.0.7 Specific changes in Firefox 1.0.7 * Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens * Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only) * Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an "eval" statement * Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors * Other stability and security fixes

CWShredder 2.16 Changes in CWShredder 2.16 *CWShredder now cleans the CWS.Cassandra variant that includes a desktop hijack as well as a browser hijack.

Need a quick, simple and effective way to backup Mozilla profiles, including Firefox, Thunderbird, Mozilla Suite and Netscape? MozBackup 1.4.2 will make a backup of all aspects of your Mozilla profile, which can be customized to suit your preferences, and the created backup can be easily restored at a later date. The backups are saved in .pcv format which is much the same as the .zip format. MozBackup homepage

Short article about Vista and Office 12. NY Times

Shareaza is a peer-to-peer client for Windows that allows you to download any file-type found on several popular P2P networks. Shareaza is FREE & contains NO Spyware or third-party products. The 2.2 release comes with major updates/fixes/improvements for the program and the networks it supports. Changelog Downloads

Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download. This is the first Beta release of the next generation Firefox browser, to be released later this year, and it is being made available to the developer and testing community for compatibility testing and to solicit feedback. Note: This is not the final release of the Web browser, it has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support. If that sounds scary, you'd probably be better off with the latest version of Firefox 1.0. Download: Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (Windows)