A proposed boycott on eBay listings went into effect on Monday, and since then the number of listings on the site dropped from around 14.5 million down to 14 million. That comes out to a 3% drop overall, which isn't quite as high as the strikers would have liked to see.
One of the features on Microsoft's Zune that users have praised is the capability to wirelessly sync files and share music. Up until this point, that's really all that the wireless was used for but now news is starting to unfold that Microsoft will be utilizing the wireless for games.
One of the things that I was pretty disappointed with at CES this year was Microsoft's "future" segment. It's where they often give us a glimpse of what to expect 10 or 15 years from now, and when watching it I normally find myself giggling like a little kid in a candy store. This year they really didn't put much thought into it.
We've got 123 invites to giveaway to CyberNet readers for a new people search engine called 123people.com. Before we get into the details about how you can get an invite, we'll explain what the service is first.
Web hosting is a big industry these days with so many people and businesses running sites of their own. Royal, which is Pingdom's official blog, recently took a look at web hosting now versus 10 years ago. It's actually amazing to see the changes in storage space offered, and the increases in data transfer between then and now.
I had been wondering whether Windows XP SP3 got lost somewhere in the Microsoft abyss, but it looks like it is alive and kicking after all. Microsoft slowly but surely rolled out Release Candidate 2 yesterday, which is available for download via Windows Update.
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).
One of the areas that I've always felt Firefox has lacked in is sidebar configurability. Other browsers, such as Opera, come with way more sidebar options out-of-the-box making it easy to throw a sidebar onto any side of the browser. The beauty of Firefox, however, is that there are plenty of extensions to solve any complaints.
