Shenzhen, China, January 2: Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, together have busted the biggest ever software counterfeiting ring. Fortifying their efforts, the Shenzhen court in southern China sentenced 11 culprits involved in the ring, to 18 months to six and a half years in prison Wednesday. The convicts are found guilty of violating the national copyright laws and manufacturing and distributing counterfeited Microsoft software worldwide.

Sunnyvale, December 17: Palm has opened its own version of an online app store, called ‘ software store’, which helps mobile users to download software directly from store to their handsets.

Silverlight 2.0, Microsoft’s rich web application will now be available for the consumers. Microsoft today announced the arrival of the latest technology which is designed to be light weight and more versatile than Adobe’s Flash technology.

The giant search engine Google has introduced a new exciting and a useful application that would help users to avoid embarrassing e-mails.

Ottawa -- The Canadian government is considering legislation that would leave it up to companies to advise customers when data theft occurs.

Schaumberg, Illinois, based Motorola Inc. is all set to expand its mobile music operations in Asia by acquiring Soundbuzz Pte. Ltd. Soundbuzz is an online music retailer based out of Singapore, and Motorola is hoping this move will help push its offerings in the domain of mobile music upwards in Asia.

Motorola undoubtedly dug out a lot from its first generation of Razr phones but such a successful model could not be terminated soon, so the cellphone manufacturer that is desperately seeking similar sensation has rolled out its successor – the Motorola Razr2 series.

If time is money, then email is one of my biggest expenses. With more than 4,000 emails -- past and present -- crowding my inbox, it sometimes feels like my email is driving me, rather than vice versa. That's why I was so intrigued to read an article in The Washington Post last month about a venture capitalist, Fred Wilson, who declared "email bankruptcy."

After all the swirl surrounding the launch of the iPhone by Apple (the iPhone was finally launched, but not by Apple; instead it was launched by Linksys), now there are rumors of Google planning to launch its own Google Phone. The Observer has reported of talks between Google and Orange to launch a multi-billion-dollar collaboration to design the Google Phone.

India is witnessing a sharp growth in online population with total number of internet users, aged over 15 years, rising 7.8 per cent to 18.02 million in June 2006 from 16.71 million in March 2006, a latest survey from US-based technology research firm Comscore Networks shows.

The world’s leading software company, Microsoft, has warned users about a virus that sets up a ‘keystroke log” program when an e-mailed PowerPoint file is opened.

According to computer security experts, the rigged PowerPoint presentation is sent from a gmail address and includes 18 slides purporting to contain "humorous" images about love between men and women.