The future of online services is login free. Creating accounts for one use, forgetting passwords and failed login attempts are facts of our current web life.AV, a new video chat service from AOL is one of the new breeds of web services that takes advantage of link sharing and social networks to dodge requiring a login at all. AV is a new product from AOL’s West Coast HQ in Palo Alto....
Only slightly earlier thanour previous predictions, Xbox’s Avatar Kinect has finally dropped and is available through Kinect Fun Labs. In the future, Avatar Kinect will require users to have an Xbox Live Gold plan, but there’s a free trial period for all users until September 8th. Microsoft previewed Avatar Kinect at CES in January. It creates a virtual hangout or meeting space where you’re represented by your Xbox avatar, which mirrors with surprising accuracy your body’s movements and even facial expressions....
According to sources speakingwith WinRumors, Avatar Kinect for the Xbox will be released on July 27th. This is, however, not the first rumor that we have heard about the release of Avatar Kinect. The last time we went round the shrub with the topic was with apotential launch date of May 24th. That prediction was obviously mistaken. Avatar Kinect will be a part of Kinect Fun Labs, something that Microsoft released this year at CES....
With our online lives increasingly moving to the cloud, keeping track of all the different communication channels, social outlets and document stores we use can become difficult.MultiMi, a new Windows app from anti-virus firmAVG, could be one of the best solutions to this problem yet. We were given a pre-release demo of the product – so how does it fare? The app lets you hook up your accounts on a wide range of services, from Gmail to DropBox and Google Docs, Twitter and Facebook to YouTube and Flickr....
AVG Technologies, creators of the popular AVG Antivirus and anti-malware software tools, has today launched “AVG Family Safety“, the latest tool aimed at keeping children safe on in the internet. The Windows-only application aims to calm fears of parents who are worried about the safety of their children, protecting the Internet-generation from unwanted messages and communication from online predators and cyber-bullies on over 80 social networking websites. Adults can set the software to monitor chats and network messages on these sites, setting the different filter options within the software to according to he age and awareness level of each child using the computer in the house....
