Sprint announced the first ever 4G phone, HTC Evo 4G, with a massive 4.3’ display, 8mp camera with the capability of 720p video and WimMax as its 4g technology. Other features of HTC Evo 4g include Android 2.1 OS, 512mb Ram, microSD card which can be upgraded to 32Gb, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Sprint TV, HDMI Output, 1.3 mp forward-facing camera, Assisted-GPS with Sprint Navigation, seven home screens, a personal organizer, Google apps, Sprint TV, messaging, and Outlook Exchange support for contacts and e-mail. One of the best features is that it can be used as a Mobile Wi-Fi hotspot. Other physical controls include a 3.5mm headset hack, a micro-USB port, a power control, and a volume rocker. ...

Microsoft is testing a microblogging service – Office Talk that is much like Twitter. OfficeTalk is being developed by OfficeLabs, the MS lab for testing internally developed ideas. The service looks almost identical to Twitter. Few words from the official website: “Ever wish you could share information broadly within your organization without emailing everyone? Ever wish you could keep the pulse of what people in your organization think is interesting? Microblogging has that potential. OfficeTalk is a concept test to explore the value of microblogging in the enterprise. OfficeTalk is deployed internally at Microsoft and has seen over 10,000 visitors and hundreds of messages posted daily. We’re now making OfficeTalk available to a few customers in a small pilot test. Because this is an early-stage concept, the OfficeTalk microblogging experience itself looks very similar to other well-known services.” ...

It’s a sad day for all Google users in China since the site’s search operations have been shutdown completely and Google.cn is now redirecting towards Google.com.hk Here is an update from the official Google blog: So earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search in simplified Chinese, specifically designed for users in mainland China and delivered via our servers in Hong Kong. Users in Hong Kong will continue to receive their existing uncensored, traditional Chinese service, also from Google.com.hk. Due to the increased load on our Hong Kong servers and the complicated nature of these changes, users may see some slowdown in service or find some products temporarily inaccessible as we switch everything over. ...

Finally, a build of the Windows Live Essentials Wave 4 has been leaked! Features including the different views in Messenger (social, expanded contacts and a more familiar view of the contact list) are up and running, though features such as Facebook Chat are not. Download links on request!

Just installed Fedora9 in a Windows Virtual PC VM for my brother. Will it install out of the box if you have .iso Fedora image. The answer is no. When I booted the VM after inserting .iso Fedora image, VPC turned off with error - ‘An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now.’ Fortunately, after googling sometime, I came to know that I have to add some parameters noreplace-paravirt to the end of the boot parameters. ...

Microsoft today announced service packs for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users’ hands.

Hello there…last night before sleeping I started exploring some of the free Apps in Apple Store from iPod Touch and I found one interesting app - BlogWriter. I have downloaded and installed it on the way. Once launched for the first time, it asks for your credentials. The interface is simple, try it out and I forgot to mention that this post is from that app!

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Last year, Google announced a new plug-in that syncs Google’s enterprise versions of Apps, including Gmail, contacts, and calendar, with Microsoft’s Outlook. And Google just acquired Docverse, an application lets users collaborate directly on Microsoft Office documents. Today Google is taking another swipe at Microsoft with a new tool that makes it significantly easier to make the switch over to Google Apps from Microsoft Exchange. More Details: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/switch_exchange.html#utm_campaign=gamme&utm_source=en-blog-na-us-exchange_3162010&utm_medium=blog&utm_term=enterprise_blog

Microsoft Press just made this draft version of the Programming Windows Phone 7 Series ebook from Charles Petzold available as a preview download. More Details: http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_press/archive/2010/03/15/free-ebook-programming-windows-phone-7-series-draft-preview.aspx Direct Download Location of eBook: http://download.microsoft.com/download/7/C/8/7C820C6F-C205-4ECF-B9F3-1505DD13F9BF/ProgWinPhonePreview.pdf