The world's most visited site has one more addition.

YouTube on Friday announced that its player now supports 4k, a standard resolution for films that measures 4096x3072 pixels. As YouTube Engineer Ramesh Sarukkai explained in the announcement on YouTube's official blog, "4K is nearly four times the size of 1080p," and it dwarfs even Imax, which projects films in the slightly smaller 2k format, with its 2048?1080-pixel resolution.

Japan's Sony Corp said on Wednesday that about 535,000 units of its "Vaio" brand personal computers globally may be in danger of overheating and that it has provided software on its website to eliminate the problem. The company said in a statement that there have been 39 overheating cases in total, all reported outside Japan. Some of these have resulted in damage to computer bodies, but no burn injuries have been reported. Some of Sony's F and C series Vaio PCs made in January this year and some custom-made models from the same series have been affected, the firm said.

iPhone 4 has been hacked already ! It arrived in the markets just a few weeks ago. It seems Apple didn't fix a security hole properly.

Google had last year announced they would like to know what their users' wishlist about Google Reader was.

So finally there seems to be no operating system which can beat Linux in terms of security ! Wow, that is something mindblowing !
Yeah I am talking about Macintosh or Apple Mac that used to be in the top of lists of most secure OS
Many geeks, computer technicians, etc., etc. used to say that Macintosh is the safest of the three popular OSes in the decreasing order - Windows > Macintosh > Linux

Microsoft announced today that they will be launching Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on March 22. The version of the product being launched is second beta along with .NET Framework devleoper tools 4.0. Both products are to be released on the same day i.e. March 22.

The product has a very special feature called 'Tivo-like recording' that Microsoft has masked as Intelli Trace.

Nowadays there are many viruses, trojans, etc. everywhere on the web. Trojans are basically malicious piece of software that is designed to leak out private information from the infected computer like your ATM No, Passwords, etc.

Adobe's Flash program is being used on heavily trafficked Web sites to collect information on how people navigate those sites even if people believe they've restricted the data collection, according to a new study.

The study comes as the U.S. government is evaluating how it uses cookies on its own Web sites. A cookie is a small piece of data that can record how a person has used the site. The information can be used to track, for example, how many times an advertisement has been viewed, allow someone to stay logged into a Web site or track the items in an online shopping cart.

Cookies don't identify individual users, but many users choose to restrict cookies through their Web browser preferences. Although cookie data is anonymous, some users worry about third-party advertising networks, for example, collecting data and building profiles.

Read the two-page article at networkworld.com

Wow! What a great news ! Toshiba is launching a fuel cell based charger.

We all are aware about the threats to the environment due to the battries currently used in devices.

Mozilla yesterday patched 11 vulnerabilities, 10 of them critical, in Firefox 3.0, the browser that has another few months to live.