Solid-state drives are fast becoming popular replacements for hard drives, especially in laptops, but experts caution that SSDs aren’t as secure as commonly thought.

SSDs may offer better data security than traditional hard drives, but they do not completely erase data and are vulnerable to physical hacks from light sources like an ultraviolet laser, experts say.

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Introducing Zoho, an online office tool similar to Google Docs that allows you to work on the go, online.

What is Zoho all about?
Zoho is a suite of online applications (services) that you sign up for and access from our Website. The applications are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations. Our vision is to provide our customers (individuals, students, educators, non-profits, small and medium sized businesses) with the most comprehensive set of applications available anywhere (breadth); and for those applications to have enough features (depth) to make your user experience worthwhile.

At the moment, Zoho offers up to 10 online apps for free and that includes :

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The Apple App Store may be the most obvious addition to the recent iPod touch v2.0 software update, but the firmware update also introduces some less obvious (but welcome) tweaks to the existing applications.

Here is a list of changes we’ve noticed after a couple of weeks of using an iPod touch with the new software update.

Searchable contacts

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Microsoft Corp.’s new digital photo sharing site spent most of its first day offline as its servers strained to handle a flood of traffic.

The site, called Photosynth, stitches together a set of related digital photos into a presentation that allows viewers to zoom and pan across the scene.

Microsoft employees and partners including National Geographic had been tinkering with a private beta version of the technology. Microsoft was set to open Photosynth to the public late Wednesday, but on Thursday morning the working site had already been replaced by a page that displayed an apology.

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Apple Inc has agreed a distribution deal with carrier Mobile TeleSystems on the sale of iPhones in Russia, one of the world’s fastest growing markets for mobile telephone handsets, a market source said.

“MTS has made an agreement with Apple on the sale of iPhones,” the source said. “Sales are likely to begin in October.”

Apple declined to comment as did a spokeswoman for Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia’s largest mobile phone operator which is controlled by Russian services conglomerate Sistema.

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If you’re having problems with dropped calls on your new 3G Apple iPhone, you’re not alone.

From New York to Stockholm, 3G iPhone owners are complaining loudly about connection failures - sometimes repeatedly - during calls.

The problem typically occurs when the device attempts to move from 3G to another network.

According to people familiar with the matter, the culprit appears to be the 3G chipset provided by Infineon Technologies, a German chipmaker. Sources declined to be identified because they are not authorized to talk about the problem publicly.

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