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Apple iphone to launch on June

Apple iphone will be available by late June in United States as scheduled and it has been approved by Federal Communications Commission. According to Apple’s request the FCC not to release photos of the phone or the phone’s user manual for 45 days after certification. Apple has also asked that, the diagrams and operational descriptions remain private indefinitely.

AT&T wireless, will sell the phone the 4-gigabyte phone for $499 and an 8-gigabyte model for $599.  The phone will be able to play music, take photos and have internet capability. The camera is 2 megapixel one and have a visual voice mail system. It has a tough screen display as well.

Apple patents no buttons mouse

Apple has patented a mouse without buttons. Patent Application number 20070080945 details a mouse having a button-less pan and scroll switch. It has touch sensitive sides, uses touch sensors and resembles the mighty mouse. It uses blue tooth technology. The mouse would sense different hand positions and act in the way according to how it is being held. It doesn’t have a scrolling bar or wheel.

Should you use a spam blocker

Spams can be annoying and damaging if it contains virus and it tricks you into giving out your personal information like passwords and credit card information.

IDC a research analyst firm expects spam to be around 40 billion this year. This rise in spam is because of image based spam that can bypass anti spam filter. Spam can also spoof email sender identity. The major e- mail servers like yahoo and gmail have anti spam tools which automatically redirect spam from your inbox to spam folder. Hotmail has sender id email authentication technology which verifies the domain against the owner of the domain and intercepts unreliable messages.

There is no ideal spam filter that safeguards each one entirely, but anti spam software can help out. Some are free which can be downloaded from tucows.com and
www.download.com

Most popular free anti spam solution is spamfigher from www.spamfighter.com
If you can afford the major providers of established antivirus software Symantec has Norton 360 and Norton internet security 2007.Trend micro inter security 2007 has anti virus, firewall, home network control, spy ware protection, parental controls, wireless network monitoring-secure internet security 2007 recognizes phishing threats and filters them into a separate email folder.

MicroSoft Vista should you upgrade

One month after Vista was unveiled Microsoft is claiming to have sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses. Does that mean that everyone is upgrading to Vista? Like everyone I would advice you to be cautious. Vista has lots of complaints with pocket pc, games, iPod’s, printers, cameras and other peripherals. Many games freeze or sometimes do not load into the system. Pocket pc is sometimes not compatible with Vista. Many drivers are not available for Vista. The software and hardware manufacturers do not have Vista-friendly versions of their products. Presently Vista is avoidable but after a year it might be necessary.

Computer chip for you

If you are confused with your computer processor clock speed, read on for the latest . Intel pentium D are now replaced by the newest Intel Core 2 Duo released on July 27, 2006.

Intel Core 2 Duo means  the power of 2 processors in one chip and so the cache is 2MB to 4 MB while it clocked between 2.4 GHz  to 4 GHz ie 40% more than pentium. The Core 2 gives more emphasiss on using available clock cycles  and power. It uses less power than the pentium line of processors. It is good for multi tasking and burning DVDs and working with graphic intensive games and applications.

The corresponding dual-core design chip for AMD is AMD Athlon 64 X2.  It clocks at 2GHz to 2.6 GHz. The power consumption is high around 35 watts to 89 watts. It is designed for desktop computers. For notebook they have a dual core chip called AMD Turion 64 X2. Its speed ranges between 1.6 GHz to 2.2 GHz. It has two processing cores, each with its own dedicated Level 2 cache memory.AMD’s mobile market share had increased with the introduction of this chip.