The new year has just begun and if 2008 is anything like 2007, we should expect a bunch of acquisitions in the tech world.  As I heard someone say recently, acquisitions should be considered the lottery for geeks, except the odds of "winning" are much higher than the actual lottery.

Now that people have had time to settle down from the MacWorld event this morning we thought we would take a look at some of the buzz from around the Internet. We'll checkout the new iPhone firmware, show a video of the new MacBook Air, and give our opinion on the video rentals.

When using your web browser there are a lot of things that you can do to speed up your efficiency and productivity, particularly when it comes to keyboard shortcuts.

Everyday we get thousands of spam trackbacks, pingbacks, and comments here on our site. Since we're powered by WordPress we use an amazing plugin called Akismet that stops spammers cold in their tracks. It wasn't until the other day that I realized how crazy it would be if there were little or no spam protection on all the blogs out there.

A lot of sites decided to go the Twitter route this year for providing fast updates to their readers who wanted to keep up wit Macworld. The excess traffic must have caused an overload because ironically, Twitter has been down (they weren't the only ones either... Engadget was crawling!).

The Steve Jobs keynote will be starting shortly out in San Francisco at the Mascone Center West at Macworld 2008. We'll have a complete round-up after it's over, but if you'd like to keep up with what's going on live, Engadget will be posting that coverage. While you're waiting for it to start, checkout the video below with past bloopers! As the video shows, anything can happen...

Ten years is a long time to wait for a follow-up customer service call, wouldn't you say? A few people are calling the following story a hoax, but there's certainly the chance that it's not. If it's true, Microsoft recently made a follow-up call to see if a caller's problem had been resolved, only it was 10 years late. A whole decade!

Welcome to Daily Downloads brought to you by CyberNet! Each weekday we bring you the Windows software updates for widely used programs, and it's safe to assume that all the software we list is freeware (we'll try to note the paid-only programs).

We're a few weeks into the new year, and we thought that it would be nice if we helped you with your resolution to trim off some fat...from your computer that is. Today we're showing off 6 different applications that are all condensed versions of what you might already be using.