Adobe Unveils Webtop version of PhotoShop

As I alluded to in an earlier post, online photo-editing applications keep getting better as the competition heats up between startups like Picnik and FotoFlexer. Today, a very large competitor, Adobe, is entering the market by releasing a Web-based version of Photoshop for editing pictures called Photoshop Express. It is in public beta and anyone can sign up. Photoshop Express is by no means just Photoshop ported onto the web. It would even be a stretch to say it’s a stripped down version ...

Microsoft (Pretends To) Force Yahoo’s Hand

April 5, 2008 Board of Directors Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Dear Members of the Board: It has now been more than two months since we made our proposal to acquire Yahoo! at a 62% premium to its closing price on January 31, 2008, the day prior to our announcement. Our goal in making such a generous offer was to create the basis for a speedy and ultimately friendly transaction. Despite this, the pace of the last two months has been anything but s...

How to import old email to Gmail

Got a new Gmail ID? But wondering how you can transfer your old mails from your other accounts to it? Scared if left there, the account may soon get inactive with you loosing all your email. Wish there was a system by which you could transfer all your mails to your new inbox and have them all at one place, refer to them whenever required without having to actually switch accounts. (pls read the whole article on the given link for more information) Here are a few tips by which you can actual...

Google: Hacker's new tool

SAN FRANCISCO: Infamous computer hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC) said that it is offering a software tool that lets people use Google to scan websites for security flaws. CDC says a "Goolag Scanner" programme based on work done by a hacker using the name "Johnny I Hack Stuff" is available for free download at its website. The tool lets people with fundamental programming skills check websites or Internet domains for weaknesses that could be exploited by hackers, according to CDC. T...

Yahoo, Google test search ad partnership

SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is surrendering some of its advertising space to Internet search leader Google Inc. in a test that appears designed to frustrate Yahoo's unsolicited suitor, Microsoft Corp. ADVERTISEMENT The experiment announced Wednesday will allow Google to place ads tied to about 3 percent of the queries made in the United States through Yahoo's search engine — the Internet's second largest after Google's. Without specifying a start date, Yahoo said the Google tests will last...

Got a death wish? Try suicide machine

LONDON: Just one press of a button and you'll take your last breath. One of Germany's most promising conservative politicians and lawyer has unveiled Europe's first suicide machine for people with a death wish. The killing machine named 'Perfusor' can end a person's life with a swift injection of potassium chloride. If the machine, designed to evade strict laws banning assisted suicide, goes into production then Germany rather than Switzerland could soon become the destination of choice for...

Microsoft's Ballmer Sets Deadline for Yahoo

Microsoft on Saturday gave Yahoo a deadline of three weeks to make a decision on its "generous offer" of $31 a share in cash and stock or else it will launch a proxy fight to win investor support. In a letter sent to Yahoo's board, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said, "now is the time" to negotiate final terms of a deal, one that would mark the biggest-ever takeover in the high-technology industry. Read the full text of the letter. "If we have not concluded an agreement within the next three wee...

Photoshop Express goes free

SAN FRANCISCO: The maker of the popular photo-editing software Photoshop launched Photoshop Express, a basic version available for free online. San Jose, California-based Adobe Systems Inc says it hopes to boost its name recognition among a new generation of consumers who edit, store and share photos online. While Photoshop is designed for trained professionals, Adobe says Photoshop Express, which it launched in a "beta" test version, is easier to learn. Photoshop Express will be completel...

Reliance, 5 others commit Rs 65,000 cr for fab units

NEW DELHI: Six companies, including Reliance Industries (RIL), Videocon, Moser Baer and Signet Solar, have committed investments worth Rs 65,000 crore to set up semiconductor and other micro-technology units in the country. The companies have sought a cumulative capital subsidy of Rs 13,191.16 crore under the semiconductor policy for setting up the units. “The investments are envisaged over 10 years and would be for manufacture of silicon chips, solar photovoltaic (SPV) cells and LCD monit...

The Year's Biggest Cybercrime Convictions

Phishing Spam The federal CAN-SPAM Act, passed back in 2003, makes it illegal to send unsolicited e-mail without an opt-out function or with misleading header or subject information. The first criminal prosecutions under the law are only now starting to trickle into the federal system. Jeffrey Brett Goodin of Azusa, Calif., has the dubious distinction of being the first felon convicted under this law, according to the Department of Justice. He was sentenced in June 2007 to five years and 10 ...