AMD has announced that it will  shed the ATI brand name from its line of graphics products. It could make sense to the gamers and graphics enthusiasts who’ve been scratching their heads over different lineups from AMD.  AMD will be rechristening  its consumer graphics products as Radeon and professional graphics products as FirePro. This will bring to an end of a brand name synonymous [...]

According to Microsoft’s Major Nelson  Xbox Live Gold will be more dearer in the UK, US,  Canada, and Mexico from November 1 this year.  A single month will see a rise of 1 GBP, it will be raised to 5.99 GBP  from the current 4.99 GBP per month. “Since launching Xbox LIVE in 2002 we have continually added more content and entertainment experiences for our members, while keeping the [...]

MySpace MySpace had few weeks ago revamped itself and looked more like Facebook, it is now further sucking up to its once bitter rival by allowing  MySpace users to sync their posts to Facebook, which means  that users on Facebook can see their friends’ MySpace items without leaving Facebook. Apart from updates, users can share their links, photos, videos, music and application installations [...]

According to report Google’s YouTube is in advanced negotiations with Hollywood movie studios to launch a streaming pay-per-view online movie rental site before the end of this year.  The Rental site would be either be connected to YouTube or could be a standalone new service  which Google would promote directly to its massive search and video empires users. This new service will be a direct [...]

A study result  conducted by a  psychologist about  Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults.The current study examines how narcissism and self-esteem are manifested on Facebook. Self-esteem and narcissistic personality self-reports were collected from 100 Facebook users at York University. Participant Web pages were also coded [...]

Apple has earlier used a September event to release new iPods and announce upgrades to the iTunes service. Keeping with the tradition –  Apple will be holding a media  event on September 1st out in San Francisco, and we think that it is for  new Apple TV everyone is talking about. Apart from a  Apple TV release, which is expected to be relaunched with a naming change to Apple iTV, Apple [...]

Now  you can make phone calls from Gmail without visitng  your Google Voice page. Google is bringing Gmail and Google Voice together with the launch of phone call integration within Google Chat and Gmail, the goods news doesn’t stop here – the calls are free to US and Canadian landlines only. The initial testing with Skype showed that the new Google’s service has better quality [...]

Mozilla has released a new beta version of its browser Firefox. Firefox 4 includes two very interesting features namely Firefox Sync and Panorama Tabs. The new features allow users to sync their settings and create tab sets. Firefox Sync, allows users to access the  bookmarks, history, awesome bar settings, passwords, form-fill data and open tabs across multiple computers and mobile devices including  [...]

ASUS, the Taiwan based  notebook and  motherboards vendor  announced two laptops in its N Series range — the 15.6” N53JN and and the 17.3” N73JN. The new N Series from ASUS is the first ever range of laptops to address the problem of sub-standard audio on portable PCs. Both models features the latest NVIDIA® GeForce 400M 3D chipset with Optimus™ technology for outstanding power source-optimised [...]

Facebook Facebook will implement a long delayed tab width reduction on Pages. The official reductions begins today. The change has been announced by Facebook back in October 2009, but was delayed. After the reduction, the maximum width for any Page tab is 520 pixels, down from 760 pixels. Applications and canvas pages will need to be reformatted or else they will appear broken. The change [...]