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If we all could still remember Google acquired the online collaboration tool Jotspot long way back and they are now back with Google Sites. Now website building will become much more easy with Google sites. It is a part of the Google apps and is now live for public use. This will be a great tool for small companies for project management.

Opera is one of the loved browsers among the mobile users and now it has a super improvement! The default search engine has been changed to Google from Yahoo. Inside information has revealed that Opera might have received a fat check from Google like Firefox gets for having Google as the default search engine.

The rumors which we heard a few days back have really become true. A massive upgrade has been made to the Apple Macbook and Macbook Pro range of laptops. The processors have been upgraded to 2.4 core 2 duo for macbook and it is the best time to buy! The memory and the hard disk capacity have also been upgraded. On a lighter note if you want to save some bucks then you can pick the old version from amazon or else where for a few hundred dollars less.

This has been one of the things which many people are waiting for and it is going to happen shortly. Inside information has revealed that new Mac book pro pricing and part numbers have started popping up. It is also unsure whether these changes would be made to Mac book or the Pro version. Lets wait and see what is in store for us!

The internet speeds have drastically gone up in the recent years. I guess most of us will still remember the days when we used to connect to the internet using the telephone modem. The advent of broad band has changed a lot of things and with it web conferencing, video streaming , p2p sharing have all taken a new dimension.

BT Broadband is one of the leading providers of broadband internet in the UK. You can get speeds of up to 8 Mbps for the downloads and the package includes UK evening and week end calls. The lower end package is priced at 8.95 pounds a month and it is definitely a great deal. The best of all is that if you order online before the end of this month you get a free wireless BT home hub free of cost. So if you are looking to go in for a new broadband internet connection then BT would be a very good option.

The Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate 2 has been released to the public by Microsoft. The pre release version was intially tested by some beta users and it can be downloaded from the windows servers. It has incorporated many back end changes but significantly not many changes are noticeable as per the long release notes.

The cost of PCs and laptops is getting lower and lower and the Indian company HCL is now taking a giant leap and they have come up with the Mileap X which is damn cheaper. It comes at a price of 13990(~$360) and weighs less than a kilogram. It also has a pretty good configuration and is targeted at schools, colleges and government departments.

Memory sticks have changed a lot and aid us very much in transferring data. The capacity of the sticks have considerably increased over the past years and the price has drastically come down. Two years before i remember buying a 1 GB memory stick for around $100 and now i can get ten of them for the price i paid. Sony is releasing a 16 GB memory stick at the CES!!

Gmail is one of the best email services and it has every thing which a normal user would want and also they keep on adding pretty good features and time to time. The Gmail developer who incidentally left Google has said that it was in one day he developed it and in the past four years, lot of transitions have happened. Long live Gmail!!

Google adsense and adwords and definitely the two biggest things in the online adverstising arena and they do keep innovating so that every one can make the best out of it. In a latest one Google has been testing video ads on some of its search results page and this is definitely a good transition. People so far have not got much used to video ads and many also find it annoying. Lets see how ell can Google carry it!