Internet cafés, hotel and airport kiosks, business service centers, and similar office equipment leasing companies were not allowed to rent Windows and Office products to others until now, but after conducting experiments Microsoft has finally decided to roll out this business model for there Windows and Office product line worldwide, here is what Microsoft Partner Network Website has to say about the new rental licensing program :

Windows desktop operating system and Microsoft Office system licenses do not permit renting, leasing, or outsourcing the software to a third party. As a result, many organizations that rent, lease, or outsource desktop PCs to third parties (such as Internet cafés, hotel and airport kiosks, business service centers, and office equipment leasing companies) are not compliant with Microsoft license requirements.
Rental Rights are a simple way for organizations to get a waiver of these licensing restrictions through a one-time license transaction valid for the term of the underlying software license or life of the PC. Solidify your role as trusted advisor by helping your customers become compliant using an additive license that fits their business model—without requiring special tools, processes, reporting, or paperwork.

Once acquired rental rights licenses permit organizations to rent, lease, loan, or outsource PCs to third parties with licensed, qualifying Windows operating systems and PCs with licensed, qualifying Microsoft Office applications.

We have reviewed a wide range of free and paid anonymity services including VPN and proxy based solutions to bypass internet censorship with ease, a new anonymity service named Astrill is now here to raise the bar in already competitive internet censorship bypassing solution market - the service currently under invite only beta allows users to browse the web securely and anonymously via a private encryption algorithm so nobody (not even your ISP) can know what sites you have been watching. With Astrill users can bypasses any kind of firewall or filtering and use Wi-Fi on public places with safety as nobody will be able to snoop into the encrypted data stream.

Astrill is very easy to use and all you need to do is to install the utility and signin with your registered username/password to get started, We have 100 EXCLUSIVE beta invites for our readers, to register for free limited period beta follow the instructions at the end of the post.

Wanna give Google Chrome OS a try here is a nice option to install the OS on your USB pen-drive without the hassle of compiling your own distro from source-code, thanks to ChromiumOS Cherry you can now download a pre-compiled build of Google Chrome OS ready to install on your USB pendrive and boot directly into Chrome OS on any machine capable of booting from USB.

MalwareBytes and SUPERAntiSpyware are two popular and trusted free software's when it comes to cleaning of malware ridden computers, but these automated signature based scanners become useless when you are dealing with a little known malware not yet included in the anti-malware database or when the malware is smart enough to detect presence of these utilities and terminate them, in such cases advance computer users resort to manual removal of infected files by taking help from tools like ARSwp, System Repair Engineer, SpyDLLRemover and ATool to name a few - today I am going to share a pretty little known but excellent must-have utility dubbed 'FreeFixer' which provides everything you will be needing to detect and get rid of those hard-to-remove malware files manually.

FreeFixer is an simple to use utility which allows users to scan and delete potentially unwanted files belonging to adwares, spywares, trojans, viruses and worms; unlike other signature based automated malware-busters FreeFixer simply scans all the places from where these malware gets loaded white-listing trusted known genuine files allowing advanced computer users to detect and remove unwanted files from getting loaded next time you boot your computer.

Popular iPhone/iPod jail-breaking utility redsn0w is soon going to be updated and made available to Windows, Mac And Linux users allowing jailbreaking of iDevices running iPhone OS 3.1.2, iPhone Dev Team member musclenerd twitted that they have found the lost redsn0w source-code and are going

Finally the much awaited Google Phone is here putting an end to all the rumors and speculations, the final specifications and pricing seems promising and only time can tell how Google Nexus One compete against Apple iPhone, Palm Pre or any other Android based phone.

You can find all the details like 3D phone demo, pricing, complete specifications, how to buy, demo-video and complete comparison with other smartphones including total ownership costs below.

Scrybe a new free utility from Synaptics allows users having Synaptics touchpads capable of multi-touch functionality to quickly perform common tasks using simple, easy-to-remember customizable gestures. Users simply need to draw a symbol which performs pre-configured action like browse Internet, launch applications, initiate searches with selected text, cut/copy/paste, control media-players, rotate/crop/tag images and perform common windows system tasks by simply drawing symbols on their TouchPad.

Once getting used to the application can be quite addictive making you do simple repetitive tasks with ease productively as shown in the video after the jump.

Computer system snapshot based backups can be a life-saver if you have important data on your computer, we had shared quite a few free alternatives to the most well-known commercial software utility for the task "Norton Ghost" and now another promising utility has been released by well-known computer-security software maker Comodo - suitably named Comodo Time Machine the free utility worls on almost all flavors of Windows allowing users to do a complete system rollback enabling restoring of computers to an earlier point in time with ease.

Comodo Time Machine allows users to take manual snapshots or schedule automatic snapshots backups to be taken at regular intervals, the 'snapshots' are a complete record of their entire system including the registry, critical operating system files and user-created documents, when disaster strikes the utility let users roll-back their computers to the last known working state.

Microsoft routinely provides a single installable package with collection of updates, fixes and/or enhancements for their software as Service Packs addressing common annoyances and adding new features to their products, After quite successful launch of company's latest operating-system Windows 7 it now seems that Microsoft is all-set to start external beta-testing of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1), Blogger Rafael has found that as previously done a beta ‘candidacy check’ within Windows Update achieved via simple registry key and value pair needs to be done for getting authorized to download the new Windows 7 SP1 Update.

Google Nexus One cellphone is expected to get revealed after two days on January 5, 2010 and after leaked pricing for USA more information on international retail-prices has now surfaced; the phone will be costing $529 for the unlocked version and $179 with a contract through T-Mobile in USA but will add considerable amount to the $529 figure thanks to taxes and duties - Country specific final price-list for Google Nexus One can be found after the jump.