90% of Windows copies are pirated in China says Microsoft

According to Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, when he met with a number of high ranking government officials, including United States president Barak Obama, and Chinese president Hu Jintao, according to NetworkWorld.com.

Steve Ballmer raised some issues and concerns with Chinese president Hu, discussing how 90% out of 100% copies of Windows in China are pirated and only 10% is legit. Microsoft estimates that 90% of China uses some form of pirated software on their computer, with over half of the countries residents still using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6, a claim which is backed up by StatsCounter.com.

84% of Chinese users still running Windows XP and over 50% using Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft addresses the concern that these users may be at risk of worms, Trojans, spyware and other malicious software running on their computers. The reason for China still running dated software on their computers is because of piracy. Some users are too afraid to upgrade, in case they can't bypass the security system on the operating system.

White House quoted Obama raising the concerns from Steve Ballmer says;

"We're making progress on making sure that the government procurement process in China is open and fair to American businesses. And we've made progress as a consequence of this state visit".


"Some of it has to do with intellectual property protection. So we were just in a meeting with business leaders, and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft pointed out that their estimate is that only 1 customer in every 10 of their products is actually paying for it in China. And so can we get better enforcement, since that is an area where America excels intellectual property and high-value added products and services."

Microsoft has been battling piracy for years in America, and has gained tremendous ground in the market.

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Download Facebook App for Java Enabled Phones

There are many Facebook Apps available online for iPhone, Mac and Android smartphones, But now Facebook have launched its Mobile App for Java enabled feature phones. Now Java users can also use Facebook Apps in their Feature Mobile Phones.

Today, the largest social network introduced Facebook App for Feature Phones through a partnership with Snaptu, extending to simpler devices functionality previously available only to smartphones. The app will give feature phone users access to Facebook messages, events, pictures, news feeds, profiles and more.

The app gives users a better, almost smartphones like Facebook experience that includes simple homescreen navigation, contact syncing and fast scrolling of updates and photos. The new application works on 2,500 different models of devices from the likes of Nokia, Sony, Ericsson, LG and other manufacturers.

You can download this Facebook Application from Snaptu Right here.

Users will be able to use the Facebook app without incurring data charges.

The app is available on the following carriers in the following countries and will launch on more networks and in more areas soon:

• Dialog (Sri Lanka)
• Life (Ukraine)
• Play (Poland)
• StarhHub (Singapore)
• STC (Saudi Arabia)
• Three (Hong Kong)
• Tunisiana (Tunisia)
• Viva (Dominican Republic)
• Vodafone (Romania)

Launching soon:

• Mobilicity (Canada)
• Reliance (India)
• Telcel (Mexico)
• TIM (Brazil)
• Vivacom (Bulgaria)

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Enter Into Microsoft Spelling Contest & Win $15K

Microsoft have started a new competition between users knows as "Speller Challenge". In this competition people have to correct incorrect spelling of Bing Search Engine for better search results and the top five winners can win upto a prize of $10,000.

Bing feels that there is a lot of room for improvement in this area of their search engine as they are teaming up with Microsoft Research to offer a reward to the team that develops the best spelling alteration technique. They are calling it the Speller Challenge and goal is to "develop a spelling alteration system suitable for large-scale statistical data mining-based web search."

A common approach to spelling alteration is the noisy channel model, in which the received query (q) is treated as a noise-corrupted version of the target query (c). In this model, the spelling alteration system alters q into c and returns the latter's results. The techniques to best identify query/target pairs and best estimate these statistics are the active research problem that underlies this challenge. But that's just the foundation. Place the spelling alteration task in the context of web search, and you have another dimension to consider. The effectiveness of using a fixed lexicon is a known problem because it can lead the speller not only to miss "real word" errors but also misrecognize out-of-vocabulary tokens as errors.

If this challenge sounds like something up your alley Microsoft is offering a sample dataset for developers and researchers to use, a similar dataset will be used to test the effectiveness of the spelling alteration engine. There will be five winners with the first prize winner getting $10,000.

Click here to Enter into Challenge!

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Get Facebook Updates Without Login Into Website

Do you wants to get facebook updates without being on the social network website? The answer is "Yes", Now you can get your friends’ status updates even when you can’t have the social network site open in your browser, like when you are at the office or outside at home? A new application called Facebook Desktop can do it for you easily.

When friends post updates, comment on a photo, create a new tag or do anything else that would trigger a story to go out to others’ newsfeeds, Facebook Desktop users will receive notifications on their desktops; similar to how instant messages appear.

Facebook Desktop also sends notifications about new messages, group invites, event invites and friend requests. The application works on both Windows and Apple platforms.

You can download Facebook Desktop Application here for free.

Chris Bihis, an engineer at Adobe, in a post on WebProNews says;

I moved away from my home in Vancouver for work and so Facebook has been a great tool to help keep me in touch with everyone. I found, though, that the browser metaphor for the Facebook ‘stream’ just wasn’t working for me. I didn’t like refreshing my home page constantly to see what people were up to. I also didn’t like keeping a browser open whenever I wanted to read some of my friend’s posts. So, I made a simple AIR app that hits the Facebook APIs, grabs the latest posts, and delivers them to me in an unobtrusive way. I ended up finding it so useful, I started adding more and more features, like the ability to pause or resume, replay missed notifications, update my status, etc. Eventually, I was encouraged by a friend to polish it up and release it for others to use, and so here we are!

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Get Amazon Deals Into Your iPhone - A Free iPhone App

Wants to get updates about latest Amazon Deals? Now you can get all Amazon Deals direct into your iPhone, Amazon has finally launched "Amazon Deals", a free iPhone App that provides you an overview of the new and latest daily deals from Amazon.

From this iPhone App, you can monitor deals and even act on them, purchasing items from Amazon directly from your iPhone.

Features include browsing through active deals or upcoming Lightning Deals, setting alarms for individual deals and receiving category-specific notifications (with support for Apple’s push notifications). You can also share deals via e-mail, Twitter, Facebook or SMS.

Amazon seems to be getting serious about offering users a great mobile experience. It has recently launched Price Check, a price comparison app for the iPhone that allows users to easily compare in-store prices with the prices on Amazon.

You can find this Amazon Deals iPhone Application on iTunes or learn more about it over at www.amazon.com/dealsapp.

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Earn Money Online by File Sharing Service - FileSonic

Do you know, you can actually Earn Money Online by just uploading files and share it with your friends and you will get paid when your files will be download as many times.You will be get paid by your number of downloads and according to your file size. The answer is "Yes", it’s now possible by well known file sharing service called "FileSonic".

FileSonic is now become one of the fastest file sharing service after rapidshare. They are providing many useful features for users to upload files and download files without any delay and they are also providing a chance for their users to Earn Money Online by upload files like any other file sharing service. They have introduced high payout opportunity for their Affiliate Program users. You will not only paid by just downloading your files but also you will get money by referring your friends, they are providing 20% of referral money to you.

Payouts Information:

• FileSonic pay weekly, every Tuesday from the previous Saturday to Friday
• FileSonic make payments to Paypal, Webmoney and AlertPay. Payments via bank wire transfer are available on request
• The Minimum payout is $15

How to Earn Money Using FileSonic?

• You just have to Sign up for a Free FileSonic Account, Which provides you a full access to upload files and manage your files within your account. (You can SignUp for a Free Account Here)

• Then you have to select your prefer Payment Type from the following payment option to get paid on weekly basis automatically via,
• "PayPal"
• "WebMoney"
• "AlertPay"

• Then you have to choose a relevant Payment Plan option from whether you want to get paid on Pay Per Download or Pay Per Sale. I am using Pay Per Download. Which means you will be get paid when your files will be download by your friends.

The following chart describes how much you will get paid according to different countries plan and file size all over the world.

Rules and Conditions:

• For free users that download from FileSonic, we count multiple downloads from the same IP address. Only completed downloads are counted.
• We now count downloads from premium users. We count one download per premium user every 24 hours.
• Payments are made every Tuesday automatically, without any requests!
• We pay you 20% from the earnings earned from affiliates, who you referred to FileSonic. This is the highest payout you will find for any file hosting services.
• If you download using your account, you will not be paid for it.
• All files uploaded must be in accordance with our terms & conditions
• Please do not abuse, as all fraud will be detected and blocked. If you try to cheat our system, you will be permanently blocked from FileSonic.

So what’s more you are thinking now? Just registered yourself in FileSonic and start earning today by just uploading files and share it with your friends for more income. If you are getting any problem then tell me in Comments Box, I will help you further.

Click here for Free FileSonic Account SignUp!!

Happy Earning!! :)

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How To: Download Facebook Photo Albums with FacePAD

Facebook is now become one of the fastest platform of communicating and interacting with your friends and family all over the world. People use facebook for many purpose like sharing, connecting and explore new people, but one of the best feature facebook providing is photo sharing feature and people exchange their photo albums with their friends and family in many occasions and ceremony’s. Actually people loves to share their events photo albums online with their friends and family.

Many people are not aware how to download their and others Photo Albums simultaneously from facebook, so today i am going to share one of the useful Firefox Add-Ons which provides you facility to download facebook photo albums by just single click. You can download the pictures of an album by the simple right click option, but when the pictures are way too many it sometimes get hard to load them. So, by using this simple and effective Firefox Add-on photos can be downloaded and viewed easily. The name of this useful Firefox Add-On is "FacePAD".

You can use "FacePAd" to download whole facebook photo albums by just a single click option and you're done! It’s simple and easy.

Steps of Easy Installation:

• In order to use this Firefox Add-On extension, first you have to download Firefox (if you don't have it).
• Then, Go here and download facePad.
• Restart Firefox. and you're done!

How to use "FacePAd" to download Facebook Photo Albums:

• Login to your Facebook profile.
• Goto the photos from which you want to download the album.
• Right Click on the album name to download it.

FacePAd downloads the album pictures in the default download directory of Firefox. You can change the directory by going to TOOLS > OPTIONS > SAVE FILE TO

It’s a very effective and useful ADD-On and it would sure make things easier for you to download photo albums of any occasions. :)

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Make Free Calls Through Gmail

Now good news for Gmail users in New Year 2011, Google has announced that Gmail users are now able to make free phone calls to the U.S. and Canada and also make cheap phone calls over international calls (Call around the world for pennies per minute) When calling featured was added to Gmail back in August, the company said that it’d be making such calls free “for at least the rest of the year,” with per minute rates starting at $0.02 per minute for international dialing.

The service made a major splash initially, with 1 million calls placed in the first 24 hours and pundits predictably calling the service a potential Skype killer. That said, we haven’t heard many updates about the traction the service is getting since then, though free calling for all of 2011 certainly stands to lure more users.

We’ve more good news from Google, So Stay Tuned and let us know in the comments if you’re making phone calls from Gmail.

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Download TuneUp Utilities 2011 - Full PC Maintenance Software

Are you searching for best PC Optimization and Maintenance Software to make your PC and Windows work fast and avoid unexpected delayed time? Now your wait is over. Latest version of TuneUp Utilities 2011 brings all you need for your PC maintenance to increase your system performance.

TuneUp Utilities 2011 is one of most popular PC Maintenance Software available today to enhance your PC performance and avoid your system start up delay time. It consume low system memory as compare to other pc maintenance tool to boost up your system performance, you will see dramatically change in your system performance after using this valuable software tool. TuneUp Utilities 2011 works best with Windows 7, Windows XP and Windows Vista

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Download Total Audio & Video Converter Software - Full Version

Now you won’t have to worry about formats of your Video and Audio files. You can now easily convert your any Video and Audio files in any of your relevant formats. Total Video Converter is one of the best Video and Audio Converter Software. Its extremely powerful and full-featured converter software that supports almost all video and audio formats. The software is designed to convert video for your mobile video player as 3gp, mp4, PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone etc and also VCD or DVD player, XBOX360.

The New Total Video Converter let you experience Unparalleled High-Definition movie. It is the best and unique software today with incomparable support for converting and burning video to AVCHD disc which can work on PS3 and Blu-ray player. Meanwhile, it supports for converting and burning video to HD formats like H.264 TS, Mpeg-2 TS, WMV-HD, MKV-HD, DivX-HD, Divx-HD, MOV-HD, FLV-HD and MP4-HD.

Download Total Video Converter Now to convert your all Audio and Video Files in your Recommended Relevant Formats.

Main Features of Total Video Converter:

• Convert all kinds of videos to mobile videos or audios (mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi, amr audio) which are used by cell-phone, PDA, PSP, iPod, iPhone, Xbox360, PS3 etc.;
• Photos slide show combines multi-photos and musics with more than 300 photos fantasy transition effect;
• High compatibility and high efficiency for Importing RMVB or RM video/audio;
• Convert various videos to MPEG videos compatible with standard DVD/SVCD/VCD;
• Burn the converted videos to DVD/SVCD/VCD;
• Rip DVD to popular videos of all sorts;
• Extract audio from several of videos and convert which to all kinds of audios (mp3, ac3, ogg, wav, aac);
• RIP CD to audios of all sorts directly;
• Support using with command line;
• Combine several video and audio files to one video file;
• Demultiplex or extract video and audio;
• Multiplex video and audio to one file;

Supports:
All Windows Version including Windows 7, XP and Vista

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5 Best iPad Speaker Docks To Enhance Audio

 

Now you can convert your Apple iPad into home theater entertainment device by using some surrounded and high quality speakers. A speaker dock for your iPad would be a great investment for your entertainment you can use that speaker for your iPhone device too by just using any plug and play device. Besides offering vastly improved audio, it gives your precious ‘Pad somewhere tidy to sit and charge.

If you want to enhance the quality and want to boost your iPad’s audio for music, movies or gaming, we have got five surrounded speakers docks that offer different functionality and suit different budgets, from $80 to $300 from Amazon at discounted price.

Following Speakers Docks will truly enhance your iPad Audio Quality and provide you best output. Choose and Buy the best one according to your needs for your equipment from Amazon Store.

1) Jensen JiPS-250i

This budget option won’t blow you away with its basic speakers, but it will offer a sound boost for music, movies and gaming. It can be used horizontally and vertically (with adjustable viewing angles) and boasts video line-out for playing your iPad’s content on the big screen.

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2) Altec Lansing Octiv Stage MP450

This good-looking speaker dock claims to provide “room-filling sound” from two speakers and charges your iPad while docked. The stand pivots for both landscape and portrait viewing with multiple viewing angles. The included remote will allow you to control your ‘Pad from the sofa — all of which adds up to a tidy product for film fans.

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3) iLuv Audio Cube iMM747

This promises to be a rather neat desktop solution. iLuv’s Audio Cube is a great option for music lovers as it will only dock your iPad vertically, but offers great sound. In addition to charging the device, there’s also the option to sync your tablet with a Mac or PC while docked.

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4) iHome iA100

Angled firmly as a bedside solution, the iHome iA100 turns your iPad into a rather swanky alarm clock. Along with the iHome+Sleep and iHome+Radio apps, the dock will give you advanced radio alarm clock functionality, charge your iPad over night and play audio via Bluetooth

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5) Philips Fidelio DS8550

The Fidelio has a few tricks up its sleeve — as you might hope for that high-end price tag. Besides docking and charging an iPad, it also boasts wireless Bluetooth streaming so you can hold your iPad (or use it in another stand) while the audio streams from the Fidelio. Its rechargeable battery is good for up to five hours playback on the go and the free Fidelio app offers enhanced alarm functions if you want to use the dock on your bedside table.

Click and Grab It!

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