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Microsoft is warning customers that the end is soon coming for Windows 7 in much the same way it came for Windows XP earlier this year. The company will end free mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015, but users will continue to get security updates till 2020. The move will mostly affect consumers. Businesses that pay for extended Windows 7 support, as most of them do, will be supported for another five years, until January 14, 2020. That's important, because many businesses are right now are in the process of upgrading their old Windows XP PCs, but they're moving to Windows 7, not Windows 8. There's some speculation that, given the popularity of Windows 7, Microsoft might change its mind as the date nears and continue to support it a bit longer, like it did for Windows XP. All told, Microsoft supported XP for about 13 years. That kind of extension doesn't seem likely at this point. Remember,  Windows 8  basically includes a full version

By Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc will shut down its early social-networking service, Orkut , which was launched ten years ago but has failed to put Google ahead in what has become one of the Web's most popular businesses. Google said it will shut down Orkut, which is widely used in Brazil and India but hasn't caught on more broadly, on Sept. 30, to focus on its other social networking initiatives. The company declined to say how many users Orkut has. "Over the past decade, YouTube, Blogger and Google+ have taken off, with communities springing up in every corner of the world. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkut's growth, we've decided to bid Orkut farewell," Google said in a post on the Orkut blog on Monday. Orkut was launched early in 2004, the same year that Facebook Inc, now the world's No.1 social network with 1.28 billion users, was founded. The service's shutdown comes as Google'

Cult of Mac Deals has lined up a tremendous offer that will help you take the iOS apps ideas you’ve conjured up into something very real. With  The Untouchable iOS 7 Dev Master Bundle , you’ll get 6 in-depth courses and over 70 hours of app creation training. That’s right – you’ll get a training package worth over $900 for  only $79  during this limited time offer from Cult of Mac Deals. Here’s what’s included in The Untouchable iOS 7 Dev Master Bundle: Projects in iOS:  This is the course for all programmers who will like to build on their iOS knowledge and create actual apps for the App store. It’s an ideal course for beginners as you cover the APIs in detail before using them to build these awesome projects. This course covers the most popular APIs for iOS7 and you will allow you to understand the core concepts behind these popular apps. This is the course which will help you bring your ideas to life. iPhone App Programming for iOS 7:  With this in-depth online vide

At an event in  Mobile World Congress  in Barcelona, Nokia announced three smartphones powered by Android, a mobile operating system created by Google. The company has launched the phones — Nokia X, Nokia X+  and  Nokia XL  — just weeks before it is scheduled to close sale of its phone business to Microsoft. Google and Microsoft are competitors in the smartphone market. This has led to speculation that Nokia X phones may not survive for long. Nokia X phones are developed keeping emerging markets like India in mind. In most of these markets,  Android  dominates — in India, the market share is around 90% — and Nokia hopes to woo consumers with the Android tag attached to its phones. These phones have modest hardware specifications and are likely to be priced between Rs 9,000 and Rs 12,000 in India. The Nokia X is likely to be available in India next month, while the other two phones will be available in Q2, 2014. Nokia is using the open source version of Android, which i

 Brian Acton(WHATSAPP FOUNDER) were relatively unknown outside Silicon Valley tech circles. Now they are being discussed worldwide as California's latest billionaires. The internet is alive with the news that Mr Koum, 37, and Mr Acton, 42, have  sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $19bn (£11.4bn) . In fact, before founding WhatsApp, both men were actually turned down for jobs at Facebook. This is an  irony that has not been lost  on internet commentators in light of the huge amount the social networking giant is laying out for WhatsApp. So what do we know about the men behind WhatsApp? 'Appreciate communication' Ukrainian Mr Koum emigrated to the US at the age of 16 with his mother, to escape "the political and anti-Semitic environment",  according to Forbes . His childhood in the Ukraine was a seminal influence on the creation of WhatsApp, according to investor Jim Goetz. The service, with its emphasis on messaging privacy, was influenced by

LAS VEGAS: How small a computer can get? If you ask   Intel   it is already as small as an SD card! On Monday, Intel unveiled Edison, a computer housed in an "SD card form factor". The device uses Quark microprocessor technology that was shown by Intel a few months ago. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich   said that the "computer" is meant to be used in wearable smart devices like a health tracker or in everyday products like coffee mugs that has to be connected to the internet.   Edison has built-in wireless capabilities and support for multiple operating systems. "It is a full system. It's a full Pentium-class PC in the form factor of an SD card," said Krzanich. Edison will be available in the middle of 2014.   "Wearables are not everywhere today because they aren't yet solving real problems and they aren't yet integrated with our lifestyles," said Krzanich. "We're focused on addressing this engineering innovation c

What is Malicious Softwares? What are the type of Malicious Softwares. What is Malware?:      Malware is a malicious software.  This software include the program that exploit the vulnerabilities in computing system.  The purpose of malicious software is harm you or steal the information from you. Types of  Malicious Softwares: There are three characteristics of malwares: 1 Self-replicating malware actively attempts to propagate by creating new copies, or instances, of itself. Malware may also be propagated passively, by a user copying it accidentally, for example, but this isn't self-replication. 2 The population growth of malware describes the overall change in the number of malware instances due to self-replication. Malware that doesn't selfreplicate will always have a zero population growth, but malware with a zero population growth may self-replicate. 3 Parasitic malware requires some other executable code in order to exist. "Executable&quo

 Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) at Cornell The latest Mac operating system, OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) appears to be compatible with many supported services at Cornell, though some vendors have not yet announced Mavericks support for some of their products, for example IBM’s TSM, which is used for EZ-Backup (see below for details). Mac users interested in upgrading will want to carefully [...] Update: Support Extended for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) CIT is temporarily extending support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) beyond the planned support retirement date of December 31, 2012. This extension will allow time for the preparation and testing of backup and antivirus client packages for Apple’s current operating system, OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). When these are complete, users should be [...]

We have the world at our fingertips. A sense of touch can sometimes be as important as sight, helping us to avoid crushing delicate objects or ensuring that we hold on firmly when carrying hot cups of coffee. Now, for the first time, a person who lost his left hand has had a near-natural sense of touch restored thanks to a prosthesis. "I didn't realise it was possible," says Dennis Aabo Sørensen, who is so far the only person to have been fitted with the new prosthesis. "The feeling is very close to the sensation you get when you touch things with your normal hand." To restore Sørensen's sense of touch,  Silvestro Micera  at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and his colleagues implanted tiny electrodes inside the ulnar and median nerve bundles in Sørensen's upper arm. Between them, the ulnar nerve – which runs down to the little finger and ring finger – and the median nerve – which runs down to the index and middle fingers –

Unsurprisingly,  Apple  has remained tight-lipped about the future of the  iPhone . And despite the slow trickle of news regarding  phablet-sized devices  and  sapphire displays , we’ve yet to see any authentic hardware leaks up to this point. Instead, concepts have been tiding us over, and  the latest from  Ciccarese Design  are just as sleek as  the others we have covered in the past . Federico Ciccarese’s designs showcase both 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch models of the unannounced iPhone 6, complete with displays that reach the edge of the phone, curved backs similar to the  LG G Flex  and the return of the Touch ID fingerprint reader. Ciccarese has also stacked his mockups alongside an iPhone 5s in order to give a sense of scale. Check out the comparison below, and  head to  Ciccarese Design  for the rest of the images.

Microsoft’s shaking things up for the first time since 1987 with its updated logo, which looks a lot lighter and more colorful. Its heavy, boldfaced logo is a thing of the past, banished today with the opening of the 23rd Microsoft store in Boston. On top of the light, gray text that eliminates all the bold, heaviness of the past logo, the Microsoft flag is incorporated into the design, adding four pops of color that are sure to grab one’s attention. The lightness of the new design aims to “signal the future — a newness and freshness,” said Jeff Hansen, Microsoft’s general manager of brand strategy, and the colors signify “the diversity of our products.” Don’t expect to see the new logo everywhere, though. Hansen said Microsoft will take its time integrating it across all the company’s products.

A new remote-controlled  spy tank  has a built in camera and wi-fi that lets it be controlled through an App for your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. rover s py tank remote control This nifty little device is the latest piece of personal spy gear, and remote controlled goodness. Controlled entirely through a free App called the Rover Control-App, which can be downloaded from the manufacturer’s website and installed on any iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Using a built in wi-fi adapter, with ranges of up to 200 feet, owners can maneuver the tank using on screen touch controls. Users cans steer the tank using arrow buttons and manually control the acceleration. Operators can control the rover by using its real time video stream thanks to its onboard video camera. For dark nights, or creepy basements, the camera has a night vision mode that can be switched on. The device also captures audio, so you can listen in to nearby conversations or be warned of someone coming, and can ta

Ever since Pune embraced the IT revolution , there has been no stopping to the growth of this city. With some concerted efforts by the government to give impetus to this sector, bigger giants in the software industry shifted their base there. The express highway between Mumbai and Pune too worked wonders for this sector, resulting into a boom in the real estate industry. Now, Nashik city finds itself on the same course. The Maharashtra Government is all set to lay emphasis on the IT sector in Nashik. Bigger giants in the IT industry are already eyeing this city since long, while the infrastructural development, the road widening work between Nashik-Mumbai , Nashik-Pune , air connectivity, etc, are all serving as the icing on the cake. With all such things taking place, just like they happened in Pune a few years back, the real estate industry in Nashik is set for a major boom. Says Sujoy Gupta of Samraat Group, "There's a reason to it. Nashik has all t