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It’s taken ten months for the official announcement, but it’s finally happened. Some of you might remember that when GoLive 9 was released, it was available only as a download with no boxed versions.
Adobe has finally released an official announcement stating that the development and sales of GoLive will be discontinued starting April 28, 2008. […]

Popular payment service, PayPal, is planning on blocking browsers that don’t have any anti-phishing feature. If implemented, this would mean that older versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox would be blocked. Apple’s Safari browser will also be blocked by the payment service should the plan come to fruition.
PayPal’s Chief Information Security Officer, Michael Barrett, said […]

If you wanted to look for a specific video or image that was sent to your Gmail account, how fast could you find it? Would you even be able to find it? If your answer to both questions is “maybe”, you’re going to love this one.
Xoopit will let you browse your Gmail account for images […]

A lot of us use presentations made from either PowerPoint, Google Docs, or other applications. Most of these apps work fine but I think you’ll be interested in this next one.
SlideRocket is a web application that lets you design and manage your presentations, as well as allowing you to share libraries of slides and assets.
Let’s […]

Sporting a new welcome page for testers, Firefox 3 Beta 4 is now available for download. The 4th beta boasts better integration with Vista, OS X, and Linux. Improvements to the Javascript engine and memory usage are also being mentioned on the announcement page.
Firefox developer, Mike Beltzner, had this to say in the developer site:
This […]

French newspaper Le Monde has published a graph of the dominant social networks across the globe. It shows which social networks are most used by different parts of the world. MySpace is still king of the hill in the U.S. and Australia, with LiveJournal being the dominant network in Russia. Facebook holds reign in Canada […]

Yahoo has officially launched its social news portal, Yahoo Buzz. Similar to most social news sites, Buzz users vote on articles they like. Stories with the most votes have a good chance of hitting the front page and could possibly hit the Yahoo home page as well. With a user base of over 500 million, […]

The Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge (UK) have just unveiled Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept phone.
The device was launched to demonstrate the possibilities for future mobile phones, specifically their flexibility which would allow users to transform their phones into different shapes. The concept phone also boasts two important features, transparent electronics and […]