On the last day of New Year, users of Microsoft’s Zune music player reported that their 30GB Zune devices were freezing up. The Zune’s message board was filled with complaints when they found that they could not get to their songs or pictures.

The Zune developers could find the root of the problem only on the middle of the day. In its Zune 30 FAQ, it advised users with frozen Zunes to follow these steps:

1. Disconnect your Zune from USB and AC power sources.

2. Because the player is frozen, its battery will drain–this is good. Wait until the battery is empty and the screen goes black. If the battery was fully charged, this might take a couple of hours.

3. Wait until after noon GMT on January 1, 2009 (that’s 7 a.m. Eastern or 4 a.m. Pacific time).

4. Connect your Zune to either a USB port on the back or your computer or to AC power using the Zune AC Adapter and let it charge.

Hope everything goes on well with the Zune music player in the future.

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 are advised to use another browser like Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, due to a serious security flaw in the IE 7. The flaw in the IE is reportedly making it very easy for hackers to obtain personal data and passwords of IE users.
“Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer,” said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.
Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it. Microsoft is hurriedly putting together an emergency software patch to resolve the issue, but in the meantime if you are concerned about your privacy, we can only suggest that you seek an alternative browser.

Mozilla has released its latest version Firefox 3.1 beta 2 with the private browsing feature as in the Google chrome. Once the private browsing option in toolbar is selected, the system will not store any history, users can easily change into normal mode by clicking the private browsing option again. According to Mozilla, this is not the final tester update, expect one more beta version.

On 7^th December Intel announced that it is claiming “world record” for their future optical communication. Intel going to use silicon photonics for optical communication, particularly this will be useful for high bandwidth applications. Ultra fast transfer of date in future computers powered by many processors cores – Intel. “This research result is another example of how silicon can be used to create very high-performing optical devices,” the development can be used not only in optical communications but areas such as sensing, imaging, quantum cryptography, and biological applications, Mario Paniccia, an Intel Fellow and director of the company’s Photonics Technology Lab.

Wordpress has planned to do more update in their next release. It has around 400 program changes including 200 changes in main program, and fixed more blocker bugs. Comments, Theme & Plugin related and Greater controls are going to play main role in this. In December 10, Wordpress will release self hosted blogs. New icon designers selected from winners of their icon design contest, are also specially employed for this update.

Power.com is a social networking site for new generation. Through power.com we can access other popular communities like Facebook, Myspace, Orkut, Hi5, know our friends updates and use the power.com feature on other network. “It forms a node for all the social networks”. They have planned to add instant messengers services like Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail, Spark, AOL and access to other social networks like Twitter, Flickr, linkedin also. The new version is design to mainly target U.S users.

Motion sensitive games enables users to play without touching any controls.
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Hitachi has introduced Ultra High End LCD projector, this is the entry of Hitachi into the professional AV market. “For the first time the high end AV market can benefit from Hitachi’s ongoing commitment to drive down total cost of ownership through innovative design, quality engineering and built-in reliability. Whatever the application and in any environment, these capable, low maintenance and flexible projectors are an ideal solution for this demanding market” - Axel Kutschke, Senior Manager, digital media group Hitachi.

Myspace introduced a new application for Research In Motion’s Blackberry smartphones, with in one week it has been downloaded by 400,000 people. Facebook had launched the first application for Blackberry in late 2007. Both Myspace and Facebook move deeper into mobile applications, and launched their application for iPhone.

HP unveils new 12.1 inch touch screen table PC. The new ultra portable tablet PC’s weight is just 4.65lb, the baseline setup includes Vista Home Premium, a 2.1GHz AMD Turion X2, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics set, 250GB of HDD space and a built-in webcam. In this screen we can use more than one finger at a time. It has media smart which offers an awesome digital media experience.