McAfee Family Protection app for iPhone offers more protection to keep kids safe Online.

Parents whose kids own iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and worry about their safety Online, can rest a little easier with the knowledge that there is help just a click away in the form of an app.
The app called Family Protection is from McAffe and is designed to help parents protect their children from inappropriate Internet content. The new app offers a more adequate protection compared to the old built-in Safari Web browser with one that comes with URL and search filtering capability to prevent the access to inappropriate sites. According to AppScout, the new browser covers more areas like tabbed browsing, bookmarks, pinch zoom and link sharing.
The McAfee Family Protection app does also monitor Online usage and generates reports of sites visited and durations. Ultimatly, it gives parents the power to block individual sites and even remotely deny all Web access altogether.
The app is available now on the Apple App Store for $19.99.


For more, see AppScout.com

Support for Docs.com is now available for Facebook's fan pages.

The collaborative venture between Microsoft and Facebook in the area of Office documents called Docs.com, received a boost last week with the announcement by Microsoft of the availability of support for Facebook fab pages. With the new addition, administrators of Facebook fan pages will be able to disseminate Office docs as a supplement to their existing Web pages, said PC Magazine.

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New and more secure Hotmail to be released this summer.

Despite being the number one web mail in use in the world, Microsoft's Hotmail has always suffered a perception problem in the U.S. where it comes in distant second behind Yahoo mail.
Microsoft has set out to change that with the upcoming release of a new and revamped Hotmail with users' security as the main priority. To prove that point, the new Hotmail will use HTTPS to encrypt all data sent within the system.
To help users against phishing schemes and others impersonators of financial institutions and governments agencies like the IRS, Hotmail will begin showing a safety symbol next to those entities after they have been identified. To protect against password thefts when using a public Wi-Fi, the new Hotmail will offer its users the option to request a temporary one good only for one single use and that will be sent to users in the form of a text message to their cell phones.
Users will also notice a new tool called "personalized spam filtering" that will help reduce the number of e-mail messages marked as spams that in fact aren't. The personalized filter should be able to automatically recognize people people with whom someone communicate with often and keep their messages from being sent to the trash bin. The filter is also designed to let users personalize which sender's messages they want to block or allow.

For more, see NewYorkTimes.com

Foxit Reader 4.0 is a free safe PDF Reader alternative to Adobe Acrobat.

For most people, when the need arise to work with Adobe PDF files, it became almost like second nature to use Adobe Acrobat Reader which dominate the market in that category.Licensing fees and recent widely publicised security concerns linked to the Adobe Acrobat, have made it opportune for some PDF Reader alternatives to be given a second look by users.
Heavy weights like Google have gotten into the act with the search giant release of Google Reader as part of its Google Docs. Beside Google, some much less known players like Foxit Sofware have their own free PDF Readers.
Foxit Software recently announced the release of its recent version of its free PDF Reader called Foxit Reader 4.0.
According to AppScout, Foxit version 4.0 reader allow users to do comment, spell check documents collaboration, to populate PDF forms all that with a multi-level security and multimedia support.

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Skype video-calling software is availlable on some Internet ready TVs.

Made popular by Skype, video-calling service has gone from being the thing of early adopters, to becoming more widely used by the general public. But until now, it was confined to computers or smartphones, leaving out one ovious device, the TV set. That is about to change with the introduction of a Skype software designed for TV sets.
It comes preloaded on some TVs models which when hooked to a TV webcam, will anyone to make high-definition video calls on the big screen.
The only limitation is that the software is available only on some models of Internet ready TVs like the Panasonic with Viera Cast and the Samsung 7000 and 8000 series with Samsung Apps.
LG 's Netcast models are said to be next in line to get the Skype software, according to the New York Times.
With either brand of TV, users will have to spend about $150 on a new webcam to be hooked to the TV. Skype is not planning to stop with the TVset with the announcement of a a software development kit or SDK that will allow third parties to embed Skype video software in all kind of devices like navigation unit, automobiles dash boards, PBX telephone etc, the Times said.

For more, see NewYorkTimes.com

New improved Amazon Kindle DX is set to go on sale July 7 at a lower price.

It was not a very long time ago when Amazon reigned supreme in the e-readers market with its Kindle models. That what then and now the e-reader market has became very crowded with new players entering the field almost every day; those players range from well known to lesser known. And now with the release of the iPad tablet which is a multiple functions device that can serve as an e-reader and with more tablets from different manufactures to enter the market in the near future, one can only feel Amazon line of thinking: how to hold on to its market share? It's response came last week with the announcement of the upcoming release of its high end Kindle DX model loaded with new features at a reduced price of $379. It will go on sale July 7 and will joint the standard and more popular Kindle e-reader already offered at the reduced price of $189 after competitor Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its Nook e-reader.
According to TechNewsWorld, "the new Kindle DX comes with an improved screen contrast, zoom capability for handling PDF files, a collection of tools that allow readers to better organize their reading materials and offer the ability to share selections from books and periodicals via social networks using the free 3 G service that is available with the device."


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New Google News "News for you" is rolled out.

On Wednesday, Google announced a new Google News page that is totally different from the previous set up and was introduced without any warning to its users.
The new Google News is an attempt by the search giant to customize the news that people will see on their front page when they open Google News. Called "News for you", the new feature "will offer a stream of local, customized and socially edited content" quoting the News York Times. The aim is to let users choose which sources they want showcased more prominently in their news feeds with a favorite source appearing above the rest.
According to the New York Times, Google goal with this project is to have the biggest stories of the day highlighted with multiple pages devoted to them. Also, Google is trying to present a local news brief that will try to be as neighbor specific as possible with display of weather conditions.
"News for you" has a social sharing feature with the possibility for users to share what is called "story clusters" which are articles grouped together with links to several news sources, still according to the Times.
The revamped Google News site is rolling out for the English-language edition of Google News in the United States on Wednesday and will reach in other countries in the coming months.