The first Open Source alternative to Facebook, Diaspora launching on September 15. Diaspora is the brainchild of four New York University students, Dan Grippi, Max Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy who set out to create an alternative to Facebook over 1 year. Full story

15 Years ago today, Windows 95 Launched. Windows 95 celebrating its 15th birthday. It's hard to imagine it now, but the launch was greeted with the sort of hype that only Apple generates today. It set up Microsoft for five years of awesome financial performance that nearly made the company the most valuable in the world. Full story

Those of you with several Gmail accounts, keep reading this post. Google officially announced multiple sign-in feature to Gmail, which will let users switch back and forth between Gmail accounts without going through the sign-in procedure. Full story

Mozilla has released the first beta version of Firefox 4, its updated browser that offers new features like a revised menu layout, more screen space for Web pages, and more HTML 5 HD video support. The Firefox 4 team released Beta 1 in the first week in July and must have been beavering away like, er, beavers to get this done. It posted a set ... Full story

Facebook made a new and a big hire today, Google’s director of engineering Matthew Papakipos is leaving the search giant for Facebook, according to a Tweet he just sent out. It’s certainly a talent loss for Google, which scheduled to launch Chrome OS in the Fall, and a huge talent win for Facebook’s engineering team. Facebook isn’t giving specifics on what Papakipos will be working ... Full story

There’s now less than a month until the SP 2 for Windows XP expires completely. Support for Windows XP SP 2 is set to expire come next month in accordance with Microsoft. According to the Redmond company, “Support ends 24 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first.” On July 13th, it will be ... Full story

You're the computer whiz in your circle of friends and family, which means, inevitably, somebody is going to call for tech support. If you can't fix it in person, these are the best approaches we've found for troubleshooting from far away. Full story

The search giant, Google Inc. has snatched one of Canada's hottest tech startups, Bump Technologies Inc., better known as the creators of BumpTop--a freeware application that transforms one's generic, two-dimensional desktop into a walled, three-dimensional, navigable display. Full story

Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload. Full story

The world’s most-used internet browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer or IE, is on a steady decline in India, reveals a study by Irish metrics firm StatCounter. IE, as it’s known, has lost almost 20% market share in India in the past two years, even as Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox make great strides. Full story