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After successfully integrating Voice and Video Chat in Gmail Google has taken another step forward and is now offering free calls to and from Gmail itself. Integrating Google Voice into Gmail users will now be able to send and receive free calls to the U.S. and Canada with calls to other countries at very low rates right from their web-browser without installing anything (Apart from Google Voice and Video Chat Plugin).

Multi-engine anti-virus scanners are a great help when dealing with suspicious files as you are able to leverage the malware detection capabilities of multiple antivirus engines with most up-to-date definitions from a single interface. VirusTotal has been one of the most well-known such free service offering scanning of suspicious files and URLs with 42 anti-virus engines helping users reveal viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content.

One of the most needed feature to make efficient use of multi-av scanning services is an browser helper utility which would enable users to scan URL's and files right from their web-browsers before visiting the suspicious link, thankfully VirusTotal team has realized this and a Firefox web-browser addon VTZilla is now available enabling users to right-click any suspicious link and launch a VirusTotal URL Scan and even pre-scan a file before downloading from the default "Firefox Download Save" dialog-box.

Addon's have been a major plus for Firefox web-browser enhancing the overall web-surfing experience, and brand new addon Firesay is going to make it even more interesting. Just imagine surfing the web hands-free without touching your keyboard showing off your geek smartness to your friends just via voice-commands - now possible using uber-cool and geeky Firesay addon.

Currently under beta Firesay allows you to control Firefox using voice-commands and supports navigation features like opening new tabs, launching websites, closing tabs and searching Google for specified terms - checkout the video below to see Firesay in action.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 is showing some steady and impressive progress as the development cycle is inching towards a public beta release, Microsoft is emphasizing support for modern web on IE9 platform capable of delivering rich HTML5 experience that feel more like native applications than websites - supporting hardware-accelerated SVG, canvas, audio, video,and text, IE9 will be harnessing full potential of the PC to achieve best performance.

To further strengthen the ultimate goal of an fast, modern, web-browser IE9's fourth developer preview is now available for download with support for fully hardware-accelerated HTML5 and new test-drive demos showing modern SVG and native JavaScript integration in action.