Google is staffing up its new Manhattan offices with some 500 employees. Why is the Internet giant making the Big Apple its second home? Proximity to Madison Avenue and the media giants is only part of the answer. New York City is emerging or re-emerging as a hot tech center. Read more

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CrunchGear’s Matt Hickey has been tracking rumors about a Zune phone for the last week. What began as a reliable tip is now a solid story: Last Monday Microsoft filed an application with the FCC for an enigmatic wireless device that could be used to talk over the Internet. The device is described as being used for “consumer broadband access and networking.” Microsoft goes on to say that the device would use OFDM as its communications protocol, not WiFi or Bluetooth. The standard OFDM (orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing) is a modulation scheme that is used widely in upcoming 4G standards of the future. Sprint/Nextel may be the carrier, since they are building out a 4G network that will work with the OFDM standard.

And the most interesting part of the story is that this device may be available in May, a month before the iPhone.

[Via: Crunch]

Google’s web based email, Gmail, was once only available if you knew someone on the service that could send you an invite. You could have also gone through the trouble and bought one for $250 on eBay. Well today Google announced that the service is now open for anyone that wants one, without an invite, or without sending an SMS to get an account. There is a free 2 GB of email storage for the taking if you don’t have an account yet. Of course the Gmail account comes with Google Calendar and Docs & Spreadsheets to use and store data in as well.

Microsoft has taken all possible steps to protect their latest and most advanced OS. Still all efforts are turning out in vain as according to reports the operating system is already been cracked by some Iranian hackers.

Microsoft has taken all possible steps to protect their latest and most advanced OS. Still all efforts are turning out in vain as according to reports the operating system is already been cracked by some Iranian hackers.

These hackers have managed to present the “fully-cracked” version of the operating system.

The pirated version is presented by an Iranian Software company and also has the possibility for its owner to have a legal serial number of the OS. With the legal serial number the users can easily activate the OS from Microsoft’s web site and enjoy all the benefits of buying a Pirated Original version of the OS.

Still better is the cost of the pirated version. While the original version of the OS is selling for around $650 you can easily get your hands to this pirated version for just $8. I don’t think this is the response that Microsoft expected from their ‘Most Advanced Operating System’.

[Via:CIO Central ]

I’d rather hear Steve Jobs favorite sayings than Bill Gates squeaky nerd voice telling lies about windoze. Check out Steve’s favourite sayings.

If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas.

Ever since the end of the Apollo program, “folks around the world have been thinking about returning to the moon, and what they would like to do there,” says Jeff Volosin, strategy development lead for NASA’s Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. Now, NASA is going back; the agency plans to send astronauts to the Moon no later than 2020. “So we consulted more than 1,000 people from businesses, academia and 13 international space agencies to come up with a master list of 181 potential lunar objectives.”

For example, the moon could be a good location for radio astronomy. A radio telescope on the far side of the Moon would be shielded from Earth’s copious radio noise, and would be able to observe low radio frequencies blocked by Earth’s atmosphere. Observations at these frequencies have never been made before and opening up a window into this low frequency universe will likely lead to many exciting new discoveries.

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