We’ve been covering One Laptop Per Child for a long time now.  Back in December of 2005, Quanta was announced as the Manufacturer, and it was known as the $100 Laptop. Since the original announcement, there have been all kinds of changes in look, function, and even price.

Netvibes has been putting a lot of work into making their site even more appealing for users, and this new addition could give them a lot of attention. In the next few weeks they will be unleashing a Universal Widget API that will let you use Netvibe’s widgets almost anywhere, including in Windows Vista, Mac’s, Google, and Opera.

The line of Windows Live services that Microsoft has developed appeared to be catching on.  Just as everybody was getting comfortable with the entire Live line like Windows Live Mail over Hotmail, or Windows Live Shopping over MSN Shopping, Microsoft decides they’re reverting back to old names. A week, ago, Microsoft announced that their mail service will officially be named Windows Live Hotmail which took many people by surprise.

We’ve said enough about Snap Previews already, but it’s going to be mentioned once more.  This time around, there’s another option to getting previews that’s similar to Snap, but yet very different.

One month ago Google released an update to the Images search that didn’t seem to be anything too major to me. All they did was hide the details for images until you hovered over them with your mouse. The resulting search screen therefore looked cleaner but users had to take an extra step if they wanted to see the details of an image, such as the resolution or filesize.

Secure and safe Web browsing is undoubtedly hard to come by these days. We’ve introduced two great pieces of software that will help keep your browsing safe, and we have yet another.

There’s no doubt that MySpace is one of the most popular social networks out there, in fact, it’s remained as one of the top 10 visited sites on the web for quite some time now. Some MySpace users visit many times throughout the day, often spending countless hours there.

Windows Vista has a feature included that ranks your hardware on a scale from 1 to 5.9. It is called the Windows Experience Index (WEI) and the better your hardware is the higher your score will be.

Just a few days ago, Alexa added some noticeable improvements to their Traffic details page. This information is helpful to publishers, and gives them a better idea of who their traffic is, and where it’s coming from.

Dell’s IdeaStorm website has only been available for a few days and the votes are already pouring in. With users from sites like Slashdot and Digg there is no doubt that many of the requested features would be related to open source software.

When Viacom pulled out the carpet underneath YouTube, I’m sure YouTube wasn’t expecting it was because there was someone else coming into the picture. Viacom left, and headed on over to Joost which is just getting their start.

There has been all kinds of controversy in the Digg arena the past week with two big companies, Dell and Yahoo, both creating Digg-like sites to receive user feedback.

It is very common for a Windows user to have several Explorer windows open at the same time, which can quickly start to clutter up your Taskbar.

I said my good-riddance to Snap Previews  when I realized that there was a way to disable them. That was just a few weeks ago, and shortly after, Snap added a few enhancements that make them much more tolerable. Thankfully, they listened to the feedback that they were getting, and with that were able to come up with options for when to trigger the Snap Preview.

I’ve been waiting for Microsoft to release Virtual PC 2007 and it looks like they finally have. I still remember the day that Microsoft started making Virtual PC a free application, and they are super smart for doing so. It allows users to install other Windows operating systems to test out new software, or more importantly check for software compatibility issues on the new Windows Vista.

We have a big announcement that we would like to make today! CyberNet News is introducing Learn Firefox. It has joined our clan, and its goal is to teach you all about Firefox.

There are a variety of different Firefox Extensions that expand your bookmarking capability.  Sure you could just use the built-in bookmarking feature, but there are extensions that are more useful, and add more functionality.  One of those is an extension called Dog Ears.

According to The New York Post, Sirius and XM, both Satellite Radio providers have been working all weekend to work out a merger agreement that could possibly be confirmed today. The Post says that talks are still in process, and that at any point the deal could fall through. If you’re a subscriber of one of these services, this could be a pretty sweet deal.

Back in January when CES was underway, we mentioned Windows Home Server, but haven’t really had much else to say about it since then. To refresh your memory, Windows Home Server works without interaction to simplify tasks among the computers in your home.

In my opinion it is a no brainer that not changing your default password on your router will increase the chances that you might lose control of the router.