Authorize.net Down, E-Commerce site

Authorize.net Down, Payment gateway service provider Authorize.net has been down and out for several hours, a number of tipsters inform us. That has big implications: since the service is used by tens of thousands of e-commerce vendors to accept credit card and electronic checks payments on their websites , means millions are being lost during its downtime.

It’s unclear when the downtime started exactly, but the consensus is somewhere between 5 and 7 hours at this point (11 AM Eastern), with e-commerce vendors desperately looking for ways to contact the company or get any first-hand information about what’s going on and when the problems will be resolved.

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Facebook and Twitter driving mobile net usage

NEW YORK: A third of young people regularly access Facebook and Twitter via their mobile, a new report has found.

The study, published by mobile research firm CCS Insight, found that access to social networking sites was driving the take-up of mobile internet services, BBC reported.

Facebook is more popular than Bebo, MySpace and Twitter combined, it found.

Its study – into mobile usage among 16 to 35 year olds – also found that the service most youngsters wanted on their phones was the BBC iPlayer.

The suggestion that Facebook is more popular than Twitter chimes with a recently published Morgan Stanley report on internet and mobile usage.

Compiled by a 15-year-old intern, the report said that teenagers favoured Facebook over Twitter.

“Teenagers do not use Twitter. They realise that no-one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless,” Matthew Robson wrote in the report.

He echoes the words of CCS Insight analyst Paulo Pescatore.

“Forget music and video downloads, social networking is where it’s at and Facebook is king of the hill,” he said.

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Microsoft start testing on Office 2010

SEATTLE, USA: Microsoft Corp. is giving a select group of technology-savvy testers an early peek at Office 2010, but it is still keeping Web-based versions of Word, Excel and its other go-to programs under wraps.

Office 2010 is due out in the early part of next year. Microsoft is adding more ways for people to work simultaneously on documents, organize their e-mail and edit videos and photos, among other changes.

Microsoft Office is by far the most popular software package for making presentations, spreadsheets and other documents. But the company has been slow to offer programs that run online and are accessible in Web browsers. Meanwhile Google Inc. has been pushing its own free versions for more than two years.

When Office 2010 arrives, consumers will be able to go online to view and create new files for free. Companies that have long-term licensing agreements for Office software can run the Web software on their own servers, or buy subscriptions to access the programs through Microsoft-operated data centers.

The company is not saying how much Office 2010 will cost. Microsoft will sell five variations on the package, two for big corporations and three available to consumers and small businesses.

Microsoft says people attending its annual partner conference this week in New Orleans will be among the tens of thousands invited to try the new software.

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Google Operating System

Google Operating System, Nine months after having launched the Chrome web browser, Google just now announced the Google Chrome Operating System, “an attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.” Google plans to offer the OS for use on a wide array of devices in about a year. Snip from the official Google Blog:
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Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

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Sony Ericsson’s New Android Phone leaked

As Sony Ericsson keeps mum about their development on a Google Android-based phone, a Danish website leaked information about its upcoming Android phone. Named as “Rachael”, Sony Ericsson scheduled its announcement later of this year according to Danish’s Mobil magazine. They also said that this particular phone model will be included in SE’s XPERIA series. So far, XPERIA series was included in the Windows Mobile X1 model.
The leaked pictures show how sleek it looks and some of its specifications give a very good fight to other smartphones on the market today. For instance having an 8.1-megapixel camera has greater edge to other smartphones which is limited to 3-megapixel cameras. When it comes to its fellow Android phones, it also reigns supreme as both the HTC Hero and Samsung Galaxy has only 5-megapixel camera.

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