As a promotional and marketing strategy for its Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser, Microsoft Australia has launched a “Ten Grand Is Buried Here” competition to attract users to download and use IE8 to win 10,000 Australia dollars. Users who want to take the chance to win the lucrative prize need to download and upgrade their browser to Windows Internet Explorer 8. Users will thence have to follow @tengrand_IE8 on Twitter for daily clues that point to the buried loot. Clues will be released at random times from Friday 19th June. Based on the clues given, users can analyse and try to locate where the 10 grand is hidden by the Redmond company. The correct webpage where the money is hidden can only be opened and viewed with IE8. Clicking on the “Claim” button will lead users to win the 10 thousand Australia dollars from Microsoft.

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The global leading company in external storage solutions, Western Digital (WD) has launched its new 4TB My Book Studio Edition II (WDH2Q40000) dual-drive external storage system, which the company claims as the world’s first 4TB portable hard drive for creative professionals and Mac computer enthusiasts, compatible with Apple Time Machine automatic backup feature, offering extra-high performance and maximum flexibility thanks to its dual-drive RAID 0 configuration and quad interface (4 interfaces), including eSATA, USB 2.0, FireWire 800 and FireWire 400.

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Occasionally you may encounter such a situation whereby your hard disk drive is almost full but in case you have no plan to upgrade to higher capacity one, here is a free software utility that you can consider. Named as Fast Duplicate File Finder, it will able to help you identify duplicated copies in your hard disk drive and allow you to delete them, freeing up the hard disk space for more optimized PC performance.

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Notepad is a common text-only editor that doesn’t support any formatting. However, many people find it to be very useful with the simple interface and functionality that made it faster and easier to be used for basic text operations. The appearance doesn’t change as well since day one till now, even switching to Windows Vista or Windows 7. If you are bored with its appearance and would like to have a different one, you may want to give Glass Notepad a try.

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The world’s leading company in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies, Samsung has added two new ‘Pop’ colors – Sweet Pink and Ocean Blue, to its popular S Series portable hard drives (1.8-inch 120GB S1 Mini and 2.5-inch 500GB S2 Portable hard drives) that first spotted last October in 4 colors including Piano Black, Snow White, Wine Red, and Chocolate Brown.

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This is another luxury phone from Mobiado which is targeted to luxury conscious users. The Grand 350PRL has an appealing design and features a full QWERTY keyboard. The stylist phone has been prepared by using aircraft aluminum and is plated with black nickel.

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Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is the official name for new free anti-virus security offering from Microsoft, which previously codenamed as Morro. Microsoft Security Essentials replaces Windows Live OneCare and Windows Defender.

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The global leading provider of mobile devices, Nokia has expanded its popular XpressMusic family with its new compact Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, which features large 2.9-inch (640 x 360 pixels) wide touchscreen display with tactile feedback, 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash, ability to record 640 x 360 pixels resolution video at 30 fps, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g, 3.5mm headphone jack, and Contacts Bar that provides users instant access to social networks, based on Symbian S60 5th Edition OS.

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