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Good news for Messenger, Hotmail and Windows Live users! Microsoft is preparing to launch a whole new version of Windows Live, which they gonna name it ‘Wave 4’. This most anticipated launching will be done soon, but before it goes to the market, it will be tested first by thousands of users for free.

Well Microsoft seems to finally step up again on the mobile social race. Although for some analyst this seems like a late move from Microsoft, for others it is still a good entry.

The war between Google and Apple is a tough one, also because from their great friendship, Steve Jobs (CEO Apple Inc.) and Eric Schmidt (CEO Google Inc.) became more than rivals now, as Apple's boss released a press statement saying that Google wants to destroy iPhone's reign with features that this mobile phone brought on the market.

The beautiful story started three years ago, at the MacWorld event, when Eric Schmidt got up on the stage to shake Jobs' hand and to assure him of his help in producing the revolution called iPhone. Google deveoped Google Maps for iPhone back then, and the collaboration went higher until Nexus One was released last year.

Jokes between the two of them are now difficult to imagine, as both Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt tried to accuse the other company of different things. There's definitely a war between the two companies, especially about the future of mobile technology. Apple even sued the taiwanese mobile phone producer, HTC, because it's using Android and it's not respecting Apple's patents. Many consider this as being the start of the end for Google on the market of mobile phones.

Since November 2004, when Mozilla came up with the open source browser called Firefox, Internet Explorer’s massive reputation started to shake. Nevertheless, IE still offered enough features to convince most of their users not to change to other web browsers. But since Google released Chrome, Internet Explorer started to drop in charts, even if the most used operating system in the world, Windows, comes with IE as default browser. The release of the improved IE 8, in March 2009, did nothing to help the continuously dropping shares. IE 8 is vastly improved over IE 7 and IE 6, but it seems not enough to surpass Firefox or Chrome.

In January 2009, IE 6, 7 and 8 were used by 44.8% of the users; Firefox was used by 45.5%, while just 3.9% ran Chrome. One year later, in January 2010, the charts look different. IE has 36.2%, Firefox has 46.3%, while 10.8% use Chrome. Even if IE still has a big advantage in front of Google’s browser, the statistics show that Internet Explorer drops like a rock, while Chrome rises like the sun, so it may not take a long time until Chrome will be the 2nd most used browser in the world.

Steven Anthony Ballmer the chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft Corporation, while visiting Nashville, Tennessee last week for the Nashville Technology Council’s annual meeting, slipped his signature onto a college kid’s MacBook Pro.

Mr. Ballmer was meeting with a group of students at Trevecca Nazarene University in Nashville when a student approached him and asked “Mr. Ballmer, would you sign my laptop?” The Microsoft exec turned around, and saw the silver case of the Apple Computer.