Microsoft has just released Silverlight 4 based facebook client for both Windows and Mac OS X. Back in April last year, Microsoft showed off a proof of concept facebook client which was made using facebook’s Open Stream API on Silverlight but unfortunately that never saw the light of the day. After a long wait, they have finally released a fully working client for users running Windows and OS X – with full capability to run it out-of-the-browser.

First grand slam tournament of the season – the 2010 Australian Open Tennis Championship is about to begin. The tournament which starts on 18th January will last for 14 days till 31st January 2010. Online streaming sites such as UStream, Justin.tv and the official Australian Open website will be broadcasting the event LIVE. You can watch the top tennis players in the World including 15 times grand slam champion Roger Federer, as they all compete for one of the biggest prized crown of the year.

The International Consumer Electronics Show 2010 kicks off tonight with keynotes by Steve Ballmer, CEO Microsoft and Robbie Bach, President of Entertainment & Devices Division. Their keynotes like always will be streamed LIVE all the way from Las Vegas on January 6th, 2010 at 18:30 PST (Pacific Standard Time). Click here to see what time is it in your region.

Today is Black Friday, the day which marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. We have been covering on all the latest juicy Black Friday deals from wherever we can find the best from all over the Internet. All major online retailers like Apple, Microsoft, Dell, HP, Walmart and Best Buy stores have great offers which you can take advantage of from their online sites, without having to actually go and get in line just to get the discount you are looking for. Here’s quick roundup of all the Black Friday 2009 Internet sales that we have covered in the last few days.

Google has been quietly testing its new revamped Google Search homepage and it now seems like they are slowly rolling it out to all the markets. Thanks to the trick posted by Gizmodo, you can now try out the new Google Search and have a feel for it. Simply follow the steps below to get to the new Google Search page.

After the fantastic discovery of Water on the moon last week, here comes yet another astronomical event that shouldn’t be missed at any cost. The annual Leonid meteor shower will peak on the dawn of November 17th (or 18th in some places) and will be visible all over the world. According to NASA, the best time to view the Leonid meteor shower in United States is after 1:30 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) on 17th.

The habitants of the Planet Earth and especially the NASA scientists, were indeed highly delighted by discovering the presence of water on its satellite planet Moon. Earlier in our post, we have given a detailed overview of this mission. Google, as we had already explained in our earlier posts, is known for celebrating important events and personalities in its own peculiar way by changing its doodle on the Google.com homepage to represent that particular day or event in such a way that it truly reflects and confirms to the occasion. Today, Google has changed its logo globally, with a space-inspired doodle, to mark the discovery of water on Moon which, is an essential for life to go on.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA in Jun 09, launched a lunar satellite into orbit, which was to fire a rocket booster at 5,600 MPH velocity into a Moon crater near the Southern Pole of the moon, to cause a six-mile-high explosion with the hope to find water on the Moon. NASA scientists were eager to see LCROSS (Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite) launching a Centaur rocket into the moon to cause a big blast in the crater. The massive explosion kick up 350 metric tons of debris, letting the trailing satellite cameras analyze the mess for signs of water. Scientists scouring the surface of Earth’s satellite to search for a precious resource called “Water”. The satellite due some reasons could not be scheduled to reach the moon until October 8.

Microsoft today has released an update to its Software Development Kit (SDK) for the most popular social networking site, Facebook. With Microsoft SDK for Facebook Platform 3.0, developers can build rich Facebook applications using Silverlight, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC and Windows Forms. The SDK contains samples, controls, templates, and help documentation for implementing a simple Facebook Connect functionality, to a fully functional desktop, mobile or a web application. According to a Microsoft spokesperson: “the goal is to enable .NET developers to quickly and easily leverage the various features of the Facebook Platform.”.

Hi-tech Warship USS New York, LPD-21, whose stem bow has been constructed out of the seven and a half tons of steel recovered from World Trade Center’s twin towers site after the 9/11 catastrophe, has finally sailed today for its namesake city. Built in New Orleans, USS New York at the moment is heading towards NYC where it is going to be commissioned next month. It was christened “New York” to honor the 9/11 attack victims in that city.

To mark the 140th birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, search engine giant Google replaced the letter ‘G’ on its Indian homepage with the face sketch of Indian Independence leader Gandhi who has been famous the world over for his philosophy of ‘Non Violence’. He, after Rabindranath Tagore, is the second person from Indian subcontinent to appear on Google’s homepage.

Stephanie Hannon – Product Manager of Google Wave has just sent out an update (tweet) to her followers via twitter confirming that Google has just started sending out invitations for Wave. It will take Google hours before they complete sending out invites to about 100,000 users today.

Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration which was first unveiled at Google I/O conference in May. Wave is basically Google’s attempt at how email would look if it were invented today. Google will officially roll out Wave (Preview) to the first 100,000 users who have signed up for the service through Wave site (http://wave.google.com), to developers who are already enrolled in developer preview program of Wave, and selected paying customers of Google Apps.

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft and Apple, Yahoo! today has launched its new advertising campaign, promoting “Yahoo!” as a brand through its new US $100 million dollar “Anthem” ad campaign. The new ad which is of a minute in duration covers people from all over the world, giving nice glimpses of their lifestyles, cultures and emphasizes on the word “You” a lot.

It’s that time of the year again – The annual Apple’s special music event and its highly anticipated keynote address takes place today on 9/9/09. Apple is expected to refresh the current iPod lineup with 3rd generation iPod Touch getting camera, new range of iPod Nano, iTunes 9 with social networking features and the GM release of iPhone OS 3.1 firmware (unconfirmed).

Recently, Google’s new doodle with its theme of “unexplained phenomenon” caused a big buzz on the web world. Everyone came up with their own versions of stories on their sites, Facebook and Twitter pages explaining why Google has chosen a UFO to display upon their search engine website depicting a flying saucer sucking away the second “O” in Google with its tracking beam.

Google normally changes its logo on the Google.com homepage to mark important events. Today, it mysteriously changed its homepage logo to a UFO with a link to the search terms “unexplained phenomenon” leaving many wondering what event the doodle is intended to represent.

The 2009 US Open Tennis Championship is underway at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York. The tournament which has started today will last for 14 days from 31st August till 13th September 2009. Online streaming sites such as UStream, Justin.tv and the official US Open website will be broadcasting the event LIVE. You can watch the top tennis players in the World including 5 times defending champion Roger Federer as he competes for one of the biggest prized crown of the year!

uMonitor is a uTorrent client app for iPhone and iPod touch which lets you monitor your torrent files being downloaded through uTorrent on a Windows PC or a Mac.

The new Yahoo! Messenger 10 Beta for Windows is finally here with much needed improvements in the video calling feature of the software. You can now make high quality video calls with an option to go full screen in video with complete synchronized audio.