According to TechCrunch, eBay is all set to acquire StumbleUpon, a popular web discovery site which helps users find new sites, and more recently videos.

Image hotlinking has become a big issue on the Internet. It occurs when another website directly links to an image on your own site which will eat up your bandwidth. If someone hotlinks to an image and their site doesn’t receive much traffic, the publisher may never notice that this is going on.

It was just a couple of weeks ago that MetaMan sent us a tip saying that Comcast customers in the US were receiving warnings that they needed to cut back on their excessive bandwidth use, otherwise they would face termination (sounds like the Verizon ordeal, doesn’t it?). Some customers have already gotten cut off which is frustrating to say the least.

The Direct2Dell blog just posted about a new laptop that Michael Dell has. It is a Dell Precision M90 that is fully tricked out with all of the latest technologies that most of us just dream about. So what kind of specs does this bad boy have? Check them out:

Microsoft just released updated Virtual PC images for Windows XP that users can legally download. Virtual PC images are a single file that contain a “clone” of an operating system. The Virtual PC software is a free download provided by Microsoft and is used to run multiple operating systems inside of Windows.

While Google Calendar is a great way to keep organized, people have found another use for it. Using Google Calendar and the new “Search Public Events” feature, people are able to scoop up “private” corporate data that’s probably meant to be private, but is set for the public to view.

The Green Button is a forum that all Windows Media Center users have probably visited at some time or another. The community there is great, and they even have Jessica Zahn (a Windows Media Center Program Manager) participating in some of the topics.

A few days ago, Apple made the big announcement that their Leopard operating system will be delayed until at least October due to pulling engineers from the project to go work on the iPhone.

Google Spreadsheets is finally starting to catch-up with competitors by adding support for charts.  This has been a wanted, and needed addition for quite a while because it brings it one step closer to the options you’d have if you were using a spreadsheet application offline.

Tabs are probably one of the things that have almost become a requirement for Web browsers. Without tabs I know for sure that my productivity would dramatically decrease because they help me multitask in a way that keeps all of my Web browsing separated from my other applications.