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Moblf’s tagline ‘Web on SMS’ should be enough to tell you about the new service. Yes, I’m talking about the new FriendFeed app released by Moblf that allows you to get updates from various web services delivered to your mobile phones via SMS.

Twitter brings all your friends’ updates, however, misses out on the friends’ feed front. Here Moblf plays its role. Simply use your Twitter username to set up an account along with the promotion code “Insta” (invite for first 300 people). FriendFeed users will certainly find the service useful.

For Mac users Microsoft is bringing good news for them. Microsoft will be releasing its latest Office version for Mac. The 2007 Microsoft Office Words, Excel, Power Point and Outlook features will now be present on the forthcoming Mac version that will be available at the retail outlets from 15th January.

Microsoft is dropping the Visual Basic for Application (VBA) from it�s soon to be released 2008 Mac version. VBA will be replaced with AppleScript. This means that macros created with Office for the Windows version will not run on Office for the Mac.

Microsoft Office for Mac will not update its earlier draw back of lack of support of the Unicode and BiDi languages. Therefore, if Mac users wanted to write in Arabic or Hebrew then the Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac will be of no use to them.

The Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac can be run both on PowerPC as well as on Intel Macs. The Office Open XML format will be built into Office 2008 for Mac. Mac users can now gear up for the new Microsoft Office suite that is variously priced between $400 and $150.

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If you are a big fan of Microsoft, there’s a good news for you. Microsoft has released a free module for it’s Office Communication Server 2007, which will allow users to troubleshoot the voice quality issues over a network. The best part is that it will be done in real time and the tool is free of cost.

Mostly known as QMS, the Quality of Monitoring Server is designed as a software based competitor. This is Microsoft’s competition to Cisco Systems Inc. The QMS will be used to collect data or rather metrics regarding the individual calls. The software will then analyze the information and compare the parameters like loss, jitter, delay, device quality, etc.

Starting in November, MySpace�s 110 million active users will use Skype-enabled MySpace�s instant messaging client, MySpaceIM for free calling.

This is the first time that Skype has allowed its technology to be integrated with a 3rd-party application.

Now it�s bad news for video pirates! Many copyrights owners have had sleepless nights because of the many fold faces of Digital piracy. Few months back Google has assured the video sharing website YouTube of developing a video recognition anti-piracy tool. Goolge along with a number of media companies had come forward with a software to stop uploading of copyrighted videos on the website. This task was not an easy task as each video needed to have a digital fingerprint and this made it difficult to completely automate process.

McAfee has released the 2008 editions of their applications including McAfee Total Protection, Internet Security, and VirusScan Plus. McAfee has become the first company to offer three critical platforms in a single solution.

Several companies are investing their development time in AIR applications (Ajax and Flex-based programmme), an alternative to Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash. eBay has also launched a hybrid Web-desktop application based on Adobe’s AIR technology. The company will showcase its new product, called eBay Desktop at the Adobe’s MAX 2007 conference in Chicago.

A latest improvement in the spam fighting tool is the software that fights spam. A tool developed recently, allows von Ahn’s team to digitize documents and protect them against spam messages. This particular technology is known as CAPTCHA. Yahoo seems to be making good use of this technology under the name of CAPTCHACHAT.

Adobe systems is boosting its strategy of delivering dynamic web content on mobile devices with the launch of new Adobe Flash Lite 3 software, which brings quality live video on mobile phones.

If ever a laser printer will be in demand for its elegant looks and stylish designs, then it is Samsung�s latest ML-1630 monochrome laser printer, which has been launched last month. It is said to be the slimmest and stylish laser printer in the world with high performing qualities.

Are you ready to split your screen of your videos? I am not joking. Yes you can split you�re the screen of your videos directly from your Webcam through Tjoon.

Did you remember? When last year BitTorrent has bought the free-but-closed source uTorrent, then the company has released the first version BitTorrent which combines �Torrent code with its own open-source base.

If you are asking from yourself, how can one RSS feed be better than original one? If you are not happy with Digg�s RSS feed service, which allows you to Digg only 40 items in 24 hours. Then I must say check out Digg�s new RSS feed service. Then you should consider DiddFeedr.

Nothing is impossible for Microsoft. We are very well familiar with Google Analytics service. Now, Microsoft is also coming with its upcoming service, called Gatineau to directly compete with Google Analytics.