Google are working with Verizon Wireless to create a new ‘iPad challenger’. Lowell McAdam the carriers CEO said today that the company is trying hard to catch up with the iPad host AT&T for mobile connectivity.

Diaspora, the open source social network and potential Facebook challenger, will be ready to launch on September 15, according to the project’s developers. In a recent blog post, the Diaspora team say they have the nascent social networking software up and running, and are happy with the near-final result. Despite these proclamations, however, it’s unclear what Diaspora will look like or how it will function when Diaspora finally launches.

Google has turned its e-mail service into a fully Web-based Voice-over-IP system that lets you talk to people with landlines and cell phones all over the world. I try to restrain myself from calling any new tech product or service a killer. But Google just announced that it’s integrating Google Voice into Gmail, turning its e-mail service into a fully Web-based Voice-over-IP system that lets you talk to people with landlines and cell phones all [...]

After two years of waiting, Gmail’s plug-in for voice and video chat is finally available for Linux users. “Voice and video chat for Linux supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, and RPM support will be coming soon,” says Tristan Schmelcher, from Google.

Gmail has a very useful Labs feature called “undo send” that lets you “unsend” a message immediately after sending it. If you accidentally clicked on the “Send” button or you realize that you forgot to attach an important file, you have a few seconds to click on “undo” and continue to edit the message.

WORKS ON ALL EDITIONS OF 7/R2 NOT FOR VISTA/ORIGINAL SERVER 2008! This is a little tool I put together to remove WAT, with help from various others, (Windows Activation Technologies) completely from the OS, whilst still retaining genuine status and receiving all updates (optional aswell). You can also pass the genuine check in things like Windows Security Essentials.

E-mail fills our in-boxes with come-ons to see celebrities naked and to get rich quick. Even though we know deep down that these are fakes, why do we contine to think, ‘Maybe?’ Congratulations, you won the lottery in a country whose name you can’t even pronounce! A wealthy oil executive in a far-off land wants to give you millions of dollars, right now! Sexy girls want to meet you!

Whether you’re a grizzled tech veteran or an uninitiated newbie, here are 15 essential facts and tricks that you ought to know. Think you know tech? If you don’t have a handle on every single one of these 15 tech facts, habits, and efficiency tricks, you’re not living up to your potential. 1. Don’t double-click everything: Windows 101: Double-clicking is how you open items in Windows. It’s not how you open links in your Web [...]

Today we had the pleasure of playing a little with the new Ubuntu installer, present in the latest daily build of the upcoming Maverick Meerkat (Ubuntu 10.10) operating system, due for release in October 10th, 2010. The installer is completely revamped and accessible (by Linux beginners) installer.