“Apple’s iPhone” secured a place in the Top 10 News Stories at the time well before it was even launched. It was the reality for the first time that Lycos revealed recently with its Top 10 News stories of 2007.Lycos has compiled a whole search report for the year 2007 and released last week.

According to the released search report by Lycos, in a rare appearance for a technology event, the “Debut of the iPhone” captured the fifth-place spot in the news category. The phone was beaten by the number of searches on the execution of Sadaam Hussein, which finished first, and, in order, by the Iran conflict, the Pakistan conflict, and global warming.

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Mozilla’s new “Firefox 3 Beta 2 “was released recently. The new beta software includes various interesting features like improved protection from cross-site JSON data leaks, tighter restrictions on cookies, clearer Web site identification by clicking on the site favicon in the location bar, better malware protection, stricter SSL error pages, anti-virus integration in the download manager, and version checking for insecure plugins.

“If you visit a malicious site using Firefox 3, it will block the site and do it with a user interface that doesn’t allow a click-through,” said Window Snyder of Mozilla Corporation.

Firefox gets an updated list of malware sites from Google every 30 minutes, and that the final release may allow or include other blacklist providers.

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‘Fujitsu’ announced the introduction of its new laptop that is expected to take precedence over one of the rules of notebook physics. This new laptop would be featuring a bigger screen than a similar predecessor model, but it is much lighter.

This technological shift and has been made possible for an important reason that it is basically based on a fundamental change in screen technology from fluorescent-backlit to LED-backlit.

Paul Moore, Senior Director of mobile product marketing for ‘Fujitsu’ did disclose in a ‘ray-statement’ to David De Jean for his story headlined “The Future Of Mobile Tech: Next Year’s Notebooks Will Be Worth Waiting For”, “ The future, it turns out, is now”. Paul Moore was speaking in generalized way about the display technology in the “LifeBook S6510” that ‘Fujitsu’ announced recently.

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Microsoft has recently announced its new offer for the customers. It is the “Zune Diagnostic Tool” that collects all relevant data which is helpful in deciphering the ‘USB and wireless sync connection problems with the portable media player’.

The information made available at  ‘Microsoft’s center’, mentions that for this new “Zune Diagnostic Tool” the user would require either Windows Vista or Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher. The software is 250 Kbytes in size and is available in English, French, and Spanish versions.

To make the “Zune diagnostic Tool” applicable and functional the user and the owner would first open the device’s software on the PC, run the ZuneDevices.exe tool, connect the player, and wait for any errors to be displayed. Microsoft suggests that for USB connections, people should wait a little for the “Zune” to appear in the device manager under portable devices. For wireless connections, owners are required to use the ‘settings-wireless-sync now’ on the device and wait for the “Zune” to display an error. It takes normally a couple of minutes after displaying “connecting to PC.”

Once the device has been disconnected, the users must should click on the ‘report’ tab of the tool, then click “save as” and save a copy of the report text. The file thus generated must then be sent to Microsoft’s Product Support Services for analysis.

Microsoft introduced the” Zune Diagnostic Tool” last year to take on Apple’s iPod, which dominates the market for portable media players. Microsoft upgraded the product line in the meantime for the holiday shopping season this year with improved 4-Gbyte, 8-Gbyte, and 80-Gbyte models that are much slimmer, sleeker, and sexier-to-the-touch than the original “Zune”, which many critics described as a “plastic brick”

In order to ensure the right and targeted market strategy for out racing the iPod of Apple and to ensure the correct linkage of the “Zune Diagnostic tool” with its own online store and software for managing music and video, Microsoft copied Apple’s strategy with the iPod and its iTunes software and store. Following the same marketing and piracy policy on the line of the Apple, Microsoft has also adopted a strategy to make it difficult for people who buy content from the ‘Zune Marketplace’ to play the files on other digital players.

Smartphone market feels upheavals with ‘Palm’ that is losing ground. “Research In Motion’s” profit has scored two times profit on the other side. The company published its quarterly earnings this week. This turned market scenario paints a clear picture of what mobile users are demanding and what doesn’t work for them as much anymore.

‘Palm’ reported a quarterly loss of $9.63 million this second quarter, compared with a $12.8 million profit a year earlier. The company’s revenue went down by 11%, and Palm’s stock fluctuated heavily.

The company hopes that the ‘Palm Centro’ and the introduction of more ‘Windows Mobile-based Smartphones’ will be its ticket to recover the revenue jolts.

“We are pleased with the early success of the ‘Palm Centro’ and intend to deliver more Windows Mobile and Palm-based products throughout the next year”, said Ed Colligan, Palm’s president and CEO.

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It was a Google’s week this time .Consecutive announcements were catching people’s attention the whole week. Furthering its efforts, Google this week launched an innovative iPhone interface for the company’s specific and dedicated Picasa photo service.

IPhone and iPod Touch users who quite often reach to the Picasa Web site via the Apple gadgets’ Safari Web browser are now automatically switched to this new iPod dedicated interface .

Once the user has logged in, he can see their photo albums very comfortably and he can easily drill down to get a full composite view of all the pictures, claims Google. It further claims that the Picasa’s slideshow feature has also been specially optimized for the devices like iPod and iPhone.

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Google reports that it has repaired a security issue in its Orkut social networking site that allowed a worm to propagate among at least 400,000 Orkut users.

“Google takes the security of our users very seriously. We worked quickly to implement a fix for the issue recently reported in Orkut. We also took steps to help prevent similar problems in the future. Service to Orkut was not disrupted during this time”, said one of the Google’s official spokesperson in an email response.

Orkut, Google’s first initiative at social networking, was launched in January 2004 and named after its creator and Google employee, Orkut Buyukkokten. The site is reported to have more than 67 million registered users across the globe. Rout however lags behind the most popular social networking websites MySpace that boasts 110 million users.

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