Even with dedicated IT departments, businesses and schools struggle with the complex, costly, insecure computers. Staging, imaging, updating and repairing software problems are some of the daily activities - a typical IT department is responsible for. Crashes, long boot times, application conflicts, endless updates, viruses, security issues and obsolete hardware all frustrate IT managers and end users - and most users don’t need or want the complexity and annoyance of their current PCs....

Since it’s release, Apple has been collecting location data on it’s users of the iPhone. This has been very worrisome to various users and privacy advocate groups. However, for a solid week, Apple has been denying that it tracks users locations at all. Finally, a security researcher released a data file that showed that the iPhone was in fact gathering location data. Apple released a list of 10 questions recently saying that the location data doesn’t store the physical location of iPhone users, but instead keeps a list of cell phone towers and Wifi hot spots around the user....

After Sony PlayStation’s recent security breach (hackers managed to steal personal wealth information from its system), we now have Symantec reporting that Facebook might have accidentally leaked your personal information. This is a serious security issue where the world’s largest social networking platform should concern. According to Symantec’s blog post, third parties, in particular advertisers, have accidentally had access to Facebook users’ accounts including profiles, photographs, chat, and also had the ability to post messages and mine personal information....

Its confirmed now! After Wall Street Journal’s report, All Things Digital has now confirmed that Microsoft just bought Skype for a huge amount of $8.5 billion. This deal to buy Internet telephone company Skype is officially going to be announced early tomorrow morning. Early reports indicated that Facebook and Google were also looking to acquire the telephony giant, but it was Microsoft with its highly aggressive bid which got them....

This one is a biggie if you are a Counter Strike fan! You can now download a map for Counter Strike where Osama Bin Laden was dwelling in Pakistan. This map is the place where Osama Bin Laden was hiding in Abbottabad, same compound which turned out to be his resting place. According to the map’s creator - it “may be used as a base for a bomb or hostage map at a later stage....

Do you remember Steve Ballmer toning ‘Developers, Developers, Developers…’ which had set the Internet surprise! Ballmer is quite passionate about technology and of course Developers. Here is the original version of that video taken from YouTube - Surprised? Now, this original video was remixed with fabulous lyrics. Listen now! This is a must hear for every developer and check out the lyrics - I’m a developer in many senses of the word...

In addition to Microsoft series of many labs (Office Labs, Fused Labs, Dev Labs…), it now added Business Intelligence (BI) Labs to it. These labs are meant for showcasing the technologies which can be later converted into full-fledged commercial products. BI Labs is a collection of experimental business intelligence projects and useful applications made available from internal sources across Microsoft. Following applications are available currently - PivotViewer Extension for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services...

Recently, Apple admitted that location tracking (which stores your location to a database file) as a bug and will be fixing in upcoming iOS software update. Even, I tweeted on April 28 (Osama was killed after that!) that someone should give Osama Bin Laden an iPhone before Apple updates iOS in a funny way! Did Apple help Obama administration find Osama using this iOS bug? Check out this comic below -

RIM yesterday announced two new devices BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 along with new Operating System labelled BlackBerry 7. The bad news is there is no legacy support for this new OS which means you can install on older devices. This updated OS includes voice-activated search, corporate/personal separation of data through Balance, new productivity apps preloaded, and the browser has a few enhancements, with HTML5 video, and “Liquid Graphics”. Additionally, RIM also announced two new devices – BlackBerry Bold 9900 and 9930 Smartphones claiming to be thinnest and most powerful featuring the renowned keyboard with Touch screen and new BlackBerry 7 OS....

According to a report from TechCrunch, Twitter has won the battle and acquired TweetDeck for an approximate unconfirmed figure of over $40 million. Of course, you may remember the earlier reports that UberMedia acquired TweetDeck. Niow, what happened? Read on.. UberMedia had a 30 day exclusive on the deal, but negotiations took so long giving Twitter an opportunity to make a higher deal and Tweetdeck was in play again. Twitter do not allow UberMedia and other Twitter related startups to grow its market share....