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The Apple iPhone 4 and the Blackberry Bold 9800 Slider are two of the most anticipated smartphones of 2010, but how do they compare against each other? It’s a case of design versus functionality, with a useful bunch of features thrown in on both handsets. We’ve put the Apple iPhone 4 and the Blackberry Bold 9800 Slider head to head to find out which is the best – join us after the break to find out.

We’ve been wondering which is the best smartphone out of the Apple iPhone 4 and the Blackberry Bold 9800 Slider. One offers an excellent mix of emailing qualities and a fantastic QWERTY keypad, and the other features the best screen seen to date.

However good the text correction software on the Apple iPhone 4 is, there’s no getting away from the fact that Blackberry is the best in the business when it comes to hardware keypads, with the sliding keypad on the Blackberry Bold making it easier than ever to enter text messages and emails. With the choice on an onscreen keyboard or a full QWERTY keypad, it’s impossible not to side with the Blackberry.

The Apple iPhone 4 has shaken up the market when it comes to the display, being the first device to feature a resolution of 960 x 640 pixels. It’s said to be so sharp the human eye can’t pick out individual pixels, making it perfectly suited to browsing the internet or watching HD content. At 360 x 640 pixels, the screen on the Blackberry Bold 9800 Slider may still be capable, but it lags behind the Apple iPhone 4.

if you require on mobile email for work, there’s no doubt about it that the Blackberry Bold 9800 is still the device to have. With full support for business use, and RIM’s much-praised Blackberry Push Email service, you’ll get your mail almost instantly. The Apple iPhone 4 should be a capable understudy, however, and it’s still easy to set up email accounts.

We like the design of the Blackberry Bold 9800 Slider – the curved edges should help it to fit easily in the pocket, and it looks great with the keyboard closed. However, the Apple iPhone 4 is the thinnest smartphone in the world, and the mix of glass and aluminium edging gives it a premium feel. Apple has also given the Apple iPhone 4 a coating to help it resist fingerprints, which should also help it to stand the test of time.

The Apple iPhone 4 wins the internal storage battle, with either 16GB or 32GB depending on which model you opt for, vs 4GB in the Blackberry Bold 9800 Slider. However, the Blackberry fights back with the ability to also take microSD cards, which will make it considerably easier to upgrade the storage and to swap files on the move.

Morever, In Saudi Arabia, and UAE- Blackberry Messenger, Blackberry Email and Blackberry Web-browsing services have been suspended until an acceptable solution can be developed and applied.

As a computer technician, my clients frequently ask me “Why do people create computer viruses?”, especially after I have been called out to remove a virus from their computer. This is what I tell them.
There are hundreds of thousands of viruses out there (if not millions) and they often designed for different objectives. Most of them fall under the following categories:

To Take Control of a Computer and Use It for Specific Tasks
This is the most common type of virus, which is better classified as a trojan. These types of viruses are usually downloaded unknowingly by the computer user thinking that the file is something else, such as a file sent from a instant messenger friend or email attachment.
Once the host computer has been infected (known as a zombie computer), the trojan joins a private chat channel and awaits orders from its “Zombie Master”. This Zombie Master who is often the virus creator, will gather thousands of infected machines called a botnet and use them to mount attacks on web servers. The Zombie Master can command each of these infected computers will send a tiny bit of information to a web server – because there are potentially thousands of computers doing this at once, it often overloads the server.
The Zombie Master may want to do this to another website because it is a rival website, a figurehead website (such as whitehouse.gov) or it may be part of an extortion plan. “Send me $5000 or your Toy selling website will be offline over the Christmas holidays”.
The Zombie Master can also use these infected computers to send spam while the zombie master remains anonymous and the blame goes to the infected computers.

These types of infections often masquerade as free spyware or virus removal tools (known as rogueware). Once ran, these fake applications will “scan” your computer and say it found has someviruses (even if there arent any) and in order to remove them, you must pay for the full version of the application. A good example of such a infection is called Myzor.fk.

These types of viruses can sniff the traffic going in or out of a computer for interesting information such as passwords or credit card numbers and send it back to the virus creator. These types of viruses often use keylogging as a method of stealing information where it maintains a record of everything that is typed into the computer such as emails, passwords, home banking data, instant messenger chats etc..The above mentioned methods also allows an attacker to gather an incredible amount of data about a person which can be used for identity theft purposes.

A perfect example of this type of virus was the famous MS.Blaster virus (aka Lovesan) which infected hundreds of thousands of computers back in August 2003.
This virus would cause the system to restart after 60 seconds and had two hidden messages written in its code:One was “I just want to say LOVE YOU SAN!!” which is why the virus is sometimes called Lovesan, and the other message was “billy gates why do you make this possible ? Stop making money and fix your software!!”It is believed that purpose of this virus was to prove how easily exploitable a Windows system is.

Few viruses now days are intended to disable a computer because it stops viruses ability to spread to other computers. Computer crippling viruses still exist, but nowhere near as common as the viruses mentioned above. The worst type of computer crippling viruses were back in the days of the 486 computers where the virus would overwrite the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the computer which would often prevent the computer from starting up at all.

Unlike computer crippling viruses, network crippling viruses are all too common now days. Most viruses that are designed to launch a Denial of Service attack will cause a significant load on a computer network, often bringing it down completely.

In our daily life, we use mobile for as all in one. one of my friend was saying to me "lost my mobile at the mall and am now facing certain death, all will accuse me of being lazy, ungrateful and plain old stupid. The first death I suffer will be from an utter lack of natural justice. my wife will sentence me to die by disappointment. As if I deliberately lost my mobile phone to prove to all of my friends there is no God. My best friend will kill me, all because there's a photo in my mobile of him standing next to his lover. I am not an overly dramatic person, but a year's worth of numbers, texts and photos were in my phone, and if I don't get them back my life is not worth living"
So... there is a good way to backup your mobile online, is Rseven.

Rseven is a life-caching tool. Rseven archives all the data recorded by your phone into a website. As your phone documents your daily activites, Rseven website shows your life journey in a Timeline and displays the strngth of your relationships with the people you communicate with.

Dell Streak runs Android OS, comes with a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, 3G connectivity and probably some AT&T services supported, since the carrier is working closely with Dell lately. In case you didn’t know, AT&T will be selling the Android-based Dell Mini 3 smartphone, so it wouldn’t surprise us to see the Streak in the operator’s portofolio.

After a couple of seconds of hands on experience, the folks of Pocket-lint and a few other sites present at CES claimed that the Dell tablet is very thin and promising.

The device is coming to the UK, at O2 stores in June. This touchscreen tablet sports a 5 inch display (WVGA capacitive touchscreen) and it can even be used as a phone. Dell Streak’s phone features derive from the fact that it supports 3G, WiFi, Bluoetooth, UMTS/GPRS/EDGE class 12 GSM radio with transfer speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps (HSDPA). The reviewer mentions that in no way this is a one-handed operation device and it can’t be considered a smartphone, in spite of it being smaller than the standard tablet.
I also have to mention that although Streak will be released with Android 1.6, it’ll get the 2.2 Froyo upgrade by the end of the current year. Also, the OS will be paired with a custom UI, it’ll support Adobe Flash Player and make good use of the 1GHz Snapdragon CPU. its more powerful than i-pad. :)

Microsoft has officially launched its office suite MS Office 2010. The Office 2010 is now available for corporate customers, while the retail customers will get it by 15th June. SharePoint 2010, Visio 2010 and Project 2010 are also available now.

According to a press release issued by Microsoft, two editions of the Office 2010 is available for volume licensing: Office 2010 Standard and Office 2010 Professional Plus. These special editions are most suitable for SMB and enterprise customers respectively. Office 2010 Professional & Office 2010 Home and Business are targeted to small businesses, while Office Home and Student is designed for regular users including students.

The version of Windows that succeeds Windows 7 will include a 128-bit architecture, according to an embarrassing leak from Microsoft's research and development team in the US.

Microsoft employee Robert Morgan appeared to detail the software giant's plans for Windows 8, and even Windows 9, on business networking site LinkedIn, where he listed his job as 'senior research and development'. His profile has now been removed from the main LinkedIn site, but is still viewable in Google's search cache. In it, he says he's "working in high security department for research and development involving strategic planning for medium and longterm projects."

He goes on to say his R&D projects include: "128-bit architecture compatibility with the Windows 8 kernel and Windows 9 project plan." He's also responsible for "forming relationships with major partners: Intel, AMD, HP and IBM."

Indeed, we've had the option of 64-bit versions of Windows since Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was launched May 2005. But while XP's successor, Vista, is also available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, the latter has failed to take off in a big way.

64-bit computers, which can address more RAM and are theoretically more powerful than 32-bit equivalents, are likely to become more popular with Windows 7. A 128-bit version of Windows 8 would represent the next leap in performance.

According to Microsoft's plans to release a new desktop version of Windows every three years, Windows 8 is scheduled to become available in 2012.