Swim with Deepfish Browser

Deepfish is a mobile browser from Microsoft Live Labs. Deepfish is a new type of mobile information browsing experience, aimed at preserving the rich layout and full form of documents on mobile devices while providing novel ways of effectively navigating that content on small screens. Multi-resolution of Deepfish allows you to zoom in and out of pages.

Deepfish don't support ActiveX control, AJAX, HTTP POST, JavaScript and cookies yet and it requires Windows Mobile 5.0+ operating System and minimum 64 MB primary memory.

Microsoft Live Labs are still working on to improve its functionality and to enhance it features.

Google also has an application for better and fast access of Gmail.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is here

Microsoft Corp. is giving its web browser software its first major upgrade in years. The new release brings Microsoft's browser more in line with competing products such as Opera and Firefox.

So what's new in IE7:

• A New Look (Obviously)
• Tabbed Browsing like Firefox with thumbnail images of open tabs like Opera 9
• Better interface for printing documents (something new)
• RSS feeds syndication (need of the time)
• Integrated Search Box (again like Opera and FireFox)
• Improved security feature including phishing detection (must needed feature for all Microsoft product)

You can get IE7 from Microsoft's site here.

Microsoft Zune

Zune is a player by Microsoft which will give direct competition to Apple iPod.

Zune is a 30 GB Player which means you can store up to 7,500 songs, 25,000 pictures, or 100 hours of video. Zune also has a built-in FM Tuner. Advanced tuning capabilities allows to see the name of the song currently playing on select frequencies local FM radio stations.

ZuneInsider is a dedicated blog for Zune where you can get daily updates and more details. A teaser site of Zune by Microsoft.

And here is the factsheet, press release and all details about Zune.

Meanwhile Apple Computer also unveiled its long-rumored video iPod, as well as a new iMac and an updated version of iTunes that lets users buy music videos, TV shows and movies. Check out news here.

Kerala : Free and Open Source

After banning Coke and Pepsi, Kerala(a state in India) is distancing from Microsoft now.

Here on, nearly 1.5 million students in the 2,650 government and government-aided high schools in the state will no longer use the Windows platform for computer education. Instead, they have switched over to the free GNU/Linux software.

"We have decided that we will use only free software for computer education in Kerala schools. We have implemented the Linux platform in high schools; it will be implemented in other schools step by step," Kerala Education Minister M A Baby told rediff.com.

They also started giving training of the Linux platform to around 56,000 teachers.

Linux PC dealers are excited about the government decision to promote Linux platforms in schools and also receiving lots of inquiries now.

Microsoft VISTA on Sale

The most awaited Operating System, Vista by Microsoft is on preorder sale by Amazon.com and would be available by January 30 , 2007.

Amazon's Web site reveals that the company has started taking pre-orders for different versions of Vista, priced between $100 and $399.

Check out here.