To accompany Google Trends, which show the popularity of search terms in relation to each other over time, Google has now released a new feature - Hot Trends. Hot trends provides the hottest current searches updated throughout the day. For each Hot Trend, there are results from Google News, Google Blog Search and web search, which help explain why the search is hot. Hot Trends also allows viewing of what queries were hot on a particular day.

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The Windows Live Folders allows you to upload your files, providing access to them from an internet browser (both IE and Firefox are suppoerted). The key part is using Windows Live ID to limit access to the files you have uploaded, allowing you to keep them private, share them with contacts, or make them public. With Windows Live, it’s the sum of the parts that gives it so much potential.

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Skype has released a new beta of version 2.6 for the Mac which brings a cool new feature: Call Transfer. This lets you transfer an active Skype call “effortlessly to other friends and family on your Skype contact list.”

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With Windows Vista already on the market for a couple of months now, Microsoft is phashing out the old Windows XP. Not everyone is happy about this as the old OS is still quit popular among consumers:
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Yahoo Inc. plans to offer unlimited e-mail storage to its roughly quarter of a billion users, starting in May, it said on Tuesday. The world’s biggest e-mail service is scrapping its free e-mail storage limit of 1GB, or about a billion bytes of data, responding to explosive growth in attachment sizes as people share ever more photos, music and videos via e-mail.

Microsoft has a 2GB free e-mail storage limit, while Google caps its Gmail service at 2.8GB.

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