Nokia PC Suite 6.85 upgrade

Looks like Nokia has PC Suite version 6.85.11.1 just about ready for official release. And it has been nicely improved from the previous version.

The first thing you notice when you launch Nokia PC Suite 6.85 is the new sidebar:

The upper part of the sidebar has a nifty application that allows you to Drag&Drop any file from your PC to your Nokia phone. I tried this with pictures, mp3 and video and it worked great. Nokia PC Suite even converted the file I dropped to mp4 format readable by my Nokia N95.

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GOOGLE co-founder marriage

Google chief’s search engine reveals his wedding secret

GOOGLE co-founder and chief executive Larry Page’s wedding today is supposed to be a secret affair.


But his own search engine is undermining the effort.

A recent Google search for “Larry Page marriage” revealed a number of details about the event. Mr Page will definitely be married today to a woman named Lucy Southworth at an “undisclosed location” — meaning on Necker Island, Richard Branson’s 74-acre estate in the Virgin Islands.


Six hundred guests are reportedly due to attend the ceremony to see Mr Page, 34, and Ms Southworth, 27, tie the knot.

Although the guest list is a closely-guarded secret, former US President Bill Clinton, his wife and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, U2 singer Bono, as well as several billionaires and Silicon Valley visionaries are thought to have been invited.

Having only dated for a year, it is not known if the happy couple have signed a pre-nuptial agreement.

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Microsoft releases a ton of details about Windows Vista SP1

With the public release of the first release candidate for Windows Vista Service Pack 1 scheduled for this week, Microsoft is making a ton of documentation available explaining the ins and outs of the service pack.

In a nutshell, the update packs a ton of hardware compatibility, system reliability, performance and power consumption, and security improvements. The standalone installer will be 450MB, but if you download Service Pack 1 through Windows Update, it will probably only take up about 65MB. That's because you may have already downloaded many of the hotfixes, security updates and other features included in Service Pack 1.

Reading through the whole list of updates will probably make your eyes bleed, but here are a handful of features we're excited about:

• Adds support for Direct3D® 10.1, an update to Direct3D 10 that extends the API to support new hardware features.
• SP1 addresses issues many of the most common causes of crashes and hangs in Windows Vista, as reported by Windows Error Reporting. These include issues relating to Windows Calendar, Windows Media Player, and a number of drivers included with Windows Vista.

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8 most dangerous technologies

High-tech consumer products and services include everything smart phones, voice-over-IP systems and flash memory sticks used into their workplace. In a recent survey of corporate users by Yankee Group Research Inc., 86% of the 500 respondents said they had used at least one consumer technology in the workplace, for purposes related to both innovation and productivity.

Below 8 popular consumer technologies and services that have crept into the workplace and provide some insight into how companies are achieving the balance of security, productivity and sanity.

1. Instant messaging

2. Web mail

3. Portable storage devices

4. PDAs and smart phones

5. Camera phones

6. Skype and other consumer VoIP services

7. Downloadable widgets

8. Virtual worlds

Unfortunately, this trend poses problems for IT organizations. For one thing, the use of these technologies increases the risk of security breaches. Moreover, users expect IT to support these devices and services, especially once they interact with applications in the corporate environmen.

Resources of information here