In Seattle, Microsoft Corp. is giving away sophisticated writing tools/soft wares to students. A move to make such websites rich and raises the challenge higher by a notch towards Adobe System Inc. also intensifying challenges against open source softwares. It has been release that soft wares like, a software development environment found in Visual Studio Preofessional Edition, this includes graphic, web design and state of the art Web-desktop programming tools that includes XNA,  a game making studio development program. Microsoft will also give away ... Read More

It’s amazing that the HD DVD format is now on its way out – and yet the CD is still holding its own against online distributors. Or is it? According to the market researchers of NPD Group, consumers in the United States spent 10% less on music last year. Most of it is attributable to the declining sales of compact discs and an increase in digital sales online (thanks to iTunes). NPD also reports that CD sales fell by 19% in 2007, ... Read More

Inside the Svalbard Vault The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, dubbed as "Noah's Ark of plant life," has been formally launched inside a mountain close to the town of Longyear-byen in Svalbard (a Norwegian island located 600 miles from the North Pole) to protect the world's crop seeds from man made threats and natural disasters. Svalbard Vault entrance It was built 400 feet into the mountain and houses (for the time being) 100 million seeds gathered from more than 100 countries. To keep these seeds from ... Read More