For US residents who are using iPhone, booking taxi is not problematic anymore. Last week, a tiny yet useful application entered the Apple App Store, and this application is called the TaxiMagic. So with several finger pressings, the taxi will come to your location in minutes. Users can also choose which cab operator they want to ride for their own comfort and satisfaction. Not only that, besides ordering the taxi online, users can also track where their taxi is. There is an option that allows the users to actually locate where their taxi is, and how far the taxi is from the given location. Furthermore, you will also be informed of the taxi number and the taxi driver’s name, so you will not mistake your taxi with others around. In the future, there will be more features in the application, such as the traffic conditions and toll estimates, which will aid taxi bookers greatly. 

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The new web browser launched by Google, Google Chrome, is superior at speed but still lacks handy features that users found useful in Mozilla Firefox and other web browsers. Hence, Google has outlined the plan to add the RSS Feeder feature into Chrome next year, so that people can subscribe to ‘feeds’ that they like to get updated news. Now, Chrome still has no features for feeds, and that is a major reason why Internet users still stick to Mozilla Firefox as Internet browser. Furthermore, many Internet denizens also urge Google to add extensions such as RoboForm and Adblock Plus, that have been widely used in Mozilla Firefox. We can only hope that Chrome will be equipped with these features, so that it does not onlyhave speed, but also user-friendly features to facilitate the surfing on the Internet

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The giant PC company IBM has decided to expurgate Microsoft operating system in its newest PCs and instead switch to Linux for the operating system. Linux is combined with IBM’s own Lotus Symphony desktop package, which is also open-source in nature. This means that the PCs will still be equipped wth word processor, spreadsheet and presentation softwares which are in Open Document format. To release these Microsoft-free PCs, IBM has partnered up with Canonical and Virtual Bridges. This step will provide the IBM customers with more alternatives, and it will also significantly reduce the cost.IBM reports that it can save as much as $500 to $800 per PC because users no longer need to purchase Microsoft software licenses. A further $280 can be saved because users do not need to upgrade their Windows Vista edition. The IBM’s inroads into non-Windows PC has signified an intense challenge in the OS market, with another powerful competitor, Apple’s Mac that has been gaining popularity in the last years.

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Japan’s breakthrough and discovery in technology and science has been miraculous. If there was a talking robots, and robots to do household chores, now there are robots who can act on the stage. In the first robot-human theatre productions in Osaka university, a robot interacts with Japanese famous actress, Minako Inoue, and responds to her actions. The play aptly demonstrates that the robot can actually whine and act to human actors, and start or join a discussion with humans. Although the play was only 20-minute long, the production aims to extend it into full length in 2011 by increasing the capabilities of the acting robots. The robot itself is manufactured by Mitsubishi, but the software installed in it is developed at Osaka university. Probably in the near future, robots can actually converse with us in markets, banks or other public places.

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Microsoft has announced that it will cease its current subscription-based system of PC antivirus software, and instead it will replace the system with a free security suite to protect every PC. It will be named Morro, and customers can expect it in the market in mid-2009, and it will protect every PC user from trojans, spywares, viruses and many other malicious objects. This also means that Microsoft will stop selling the current Windows Live OneCare services, which is subscription-based.

This measure is taken in view of a large number of PCs that are still not equipped with antivirus software. As the Net continues to revolve, threat inundates the websites in the form of malwares, sypwares, adwares, virus and etc. Therefore, there is an urgent need to at least equip each PC with an antivirus, and to tackle the problem of affordability of antivirus softwares, Microsoft has taken this step. In the antivirus software competition, there will also be a more intense combat as McAfee and other companies stand to lose existing and potential customers to Microsoft free users.

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