Posted on May 27th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
“Are you a bit of mess when it comes to Valentine’s Day?” Foy asks in the text that accompanies her video. “Are you nervous and lost when put under the pressure of being extra romantic on February 14th? Well, not any longer…Microsoft has services and products that will make SURE your sweetie feels nothing but [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Grossman recommends users of
Firefox consider using the NoScript plug-in and set it to forbid IFrame content. More details on configuring NoScript to block this attack can be found here. Additional US-CERT tips for securing other browsers can be found here.
Although clickjacking, which may contain up to half dozen specific vulnerabilities, has been around for years, [...]
Posted on May 20th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
The sleek silver 3-pound notebook was announced with great fanfare back on January 15 with configurations that sported older Merom-class Intel low-voltage processors and a 64GB Samsung solid-state drive.
“But it’s gotta be coming. They’re certainly very committed to the notebook space,” he said.
Meanwhile, Intel is shipping high-performance “X” series SSDs in 80GB capacities now. [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
“They realize that every decision that they make is going to have long-term repercussions, and they aren’t rushing to decisions,” Hockenberry said. With competitors such as Research in Motion, Google, Microsoft, Palm, and Symbian gearing up to court developers with their own mobile application platforms, the solid foundation laid by Apple and its partners [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Surely Jones is seeking sympathy rather than justice. Because even if he somehow persuaded a court that he was right (which would seem a little unlikely), he will always be known as the scratchy phone seller who sues his customers.
One can’t help wondering, however, whether Jones might put his legal mallet away and instead [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Also on Thursday, Nokia cut its global outlook for sales of handsets for the second time in three weeks. The company warned that the slowdown in the market is occurring much more quickly than it had originally expected. The company said it now expects the volume of sales to fall at least 5 percent next [...]
Posted on May 10th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Since its release earlier in the week, iTunes 8 has bedeviled some Windows Vista users with the so-called blue screen of death, or BSOD, and other issues. Speculation has focused on an incompatibility with USB devices, such as Webcams and printers.
Also on Friday, Apple posted recommendations regarding problems experienced by Windows XP and Windows Vista [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Dodgeball, acquired by Google in 2005, will be shut down “in the next couple of months.” Once a popular social/geolocation experiment, it’s been largely supplanted by Twitter.
The clock started ticking on Google Video when it bought YouTube in 2006. Starting, “in a few months,” Google Video will no longer allow user uploads. That makes sense considering YouTube’s function. In 2007, Google turned off users’ access to paid videos on Google Video. It should be noted that
Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by admin | No Comments »
Let’s face it–CompUSA (although it has made a comeback to some extent), died at the hands of online tech retailers and Best Buy. It faced many of the same issues currently plaguing Circuit City–little customer traffic, for one–and it couldn’t stand up to the experience and prices offered at Best Buy and online.
First off, it needs customers in its stores. Obviously people buy products at Circuit City stores, but if there’s a Best Buy within a close proximity, I’m willin