Monthly Archives: February 2009
Phorm unleashes legal attack on critics
News articles based on a survey indicating public opposition to Phorm’s web snooping and advertising system have been withdrawn after the firm made legal threats to their publishers. The independent consumer watchdog Which? sent a press release to newspapers earlier … Continue reading
Microsoft release Windows 7 application compatibility update
Following on from the Internet Explorer 8 update that Microsoft released for Windows 7 Beta a day ago, another update has been released targeting application compatibility. Judging by these two updates released, Microsoft is progressing nicely, and the most recent … Continue reading
Facebook reaches out to users about policies
Facebook is following up on recent news about them changing their Terms of Service, with a backlash from users worldwide in an uproar about Facebook owning people’s content, than an update to revert back to the old Terms of Service. … Continue reading
Windows 7: Changes since beta for the RC
After a long post yesterday by Steven regarding Windows 7 feedback, which focussed heavily on how Microsoft was gathering the feedback for Windows 7 and the feedback process, the E7 blog has posted the changes that users will see from … Continue reading
Windows 7 RC set for April 10, 2009
There have been so many dates flying around concerning the upcoming Release Candidate for Windows 7, and it’s beginning to become a daily subject in the blogosphere. Just when you thought that we were going to see a Windows 7 … Continue reading
Windows 7 RC expected at the end of February
WinnFuture, a German website reports that the one and only RC build of Windows 7 will be ready at the end of February to be sent to select testers. According to WinFuture’s sources, the first-RC build has been compiled by … Continue reading
Facebook reverts back to old Terms of Use
Facebook recently made changes to their Terms of Use on their web site, which gave Facebook all permissions of your images, videos, and content when submitting anything to the web site. The social networking web site received a tremendous response … Continue reading
Facebook: We own your content forever, and ever
According to The Consumerist, Facebook made a small but significant change to its TOS (“Terms of Service”): now they claim complete ownership of all of the content you upload for all time and can use it for any purpose, including … Continue reading
Windows 7 moves toward August 2009 RTM
Cnet has come up with a report saying that Microsoft is set to release Windows 7 by the end of this year’s holiday shopping season based on PC industry sources in Asia and the U.S. According to the ZDNet Taiwan … Continue reading
Microsoft releases Windows Live Essentials build 8064
As we reported a few weeks ago, Microsoft has officially rolled out an update to Windows Live Essentials (Build 8064). If you’re not familiar with Windows Live Essentials, it is a suite of applications that include: Windows Live Mail (Desktop … Continue reading