The ever evolving Google has taken over a new start up company called ‘Writely‘. “Writely allows you to edit documents online with whomever you choose, and then publish and blog them online.” This seems to be part of google’s plan to enter the ‘office’ market, currently dominated by Microsoft. It already offers a 2 Gb e-mail service called gmail and soon, maybe a new service called ‘gdrive’ which information about was leaked by google to the internet in error. Gdrive would let users store the contents of their computers for free!

On google’s weblog Jen Mazzon of Google Writely Team said “For the last five months, I’ve been part of a Silicon Valley startup called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I’m happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google”. DO

Microsoft has launched a new search website as part of their web-based services windows users. Live.com is a clean design and hopes to keep Microsoft in the search engines wars. Now while live.com is as easy to remember as google.com, a clever move on Microsofts part, it may not be smooth sailing for the website.

The engine is the same as the MSN (search.msn.com) one, so no differences in the results as of yet. As regards the User Interface, however, they have introduced a fun looking way to navigate through the search results. It does look well as a design, but is a bit of a pain to use. After a few searches on the system, it get’s annoying. It may be a step in the right direction for the company though, as it promises windows users; more web-based features in the Future. DO

US television network CBS, has selected 14 shows that will return for its next season. This includes some new shows such “Ghost Whisperer” staring Jennifer Love Hewitt, also a show called Criminal Minds has been lined up by the network.

‘CSI’ Fans will be left with nothing to complain abut however, all the spin-off series are back and of course the original CSI. ‘Two and a Half Men’ is also to return, while ‘Yes, Dear’ will not be renewed by CBS.

Apparently gaining root access to a Mac is “easy pickings”. In other words its easy to hack!

ZDNet website reports on how a ‘Mac Nut’ set up his mac mini computer as a server using the famous OS X system and invited people to take it over as a part of a competition . And within hours the competition was closed and the server was hacked!

“It probably took about 20 or 30 minutes to get root on the box. Initially, I tried looking around the box for certain misconfigurations and other obvious things, but then I decided to use some unpublished exploits — of which there are a lot for Mac OS X,” Gwerdna told ZDNet Australia. DO Source ZDNet website

A new television station is about to hit Ireland on March 30th. Channel 6 Ireland will have a target market of the under 35 age group. The station will only be showing on Chorus and NTL systems to begin with, due to a dispute with Sky over its carriage on their service, as previously reported on DO. However, the station can be viewed by 600,000 people in Ireland.

The shows that will be on the station include Star Trek, Sex and the City and Prison Break, although the station notes there will be some Irish shows in it’s lineup. The channel is reported to create 25 jobs. DO

Former Superman Star, Bond Girl and now a Desperate Housewives Star Teri Hatcher has revealed how she was molested as child from the age of 5.
The abuse only ended when Teri ‘went ballistic’ when her mum asked to invited her uncle, Richard Hayes Stone, over for dinner. The article can be read in Vanity Fair. DO