Computers

CodeWeavers challenging President Bush, dangling free software

July 30, 2008

The challenge is that if President Bush can achieve any of their goals before leaving office the company will give away a free copy of their software to anyone who wants one for 24 hours.

Comcast broke the rules

Manuel Uribe

July 21, 2008

Earlier this year, Comcast defended its position on its questionably lawful practice of "diurnal network pattern" (more active in the daytime than nighttime) stoppage, which informed users know as "bandwidth th...

Zac Browser brings autistic children into their own digital realm

Terri Schwartz

July 1, 2008

Zack didnâ€™t like computers. At age 3, he was diagnosed with severe autism. His parents decided to send him to a specialized school, where he could get one-on-one attention. It was there that he was first introduced to computers. [...]

Is your ISP messing with your P2P — and lying to you about it?

Manuel Uribe

May 26, 2008

Germany's Max Planck Institute has recently done testing that illustrates practices that cable Internet users have suspected for some time now -- major US Cable ISPs, Comcast and Cox, are blocking peer-to-peer ...

McAfee identifies “Downloader-UA.h,” first medium risk malware in three years

John M. Guilfoil

May 6, 2008

McAfee Avert Labs reported Tuesday the most significant malware outbreak in three years with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse they're calling "Downloader-UA.h," which is spreading by masquerading ...

Spring cleaning in cyberspace

MJ Paradiso

April 30, 2008

10 tips for improving email productivity

Averatec announces semi rugged Voya line

John M. Guilfoil

April 22, 2008

Averatec announced Tuesday the availability of two new semi ruggedized laptops in their new Voya series.

iTunes upstages Wal-Mart as top music retailer

John M. Guilfoil

April 4, 2008

Apple proudly boasted on Thursday that their highly successful iTunes Store has passed Wal-Mart as the top music retailer in the US. iTunes has sold over four billion songs to over 50 million customers since...

WordPress 2.5 RC2 available

John M. Guilfoil

March 26, 2008

The WordPress Development Blog announced Wednesday that the second release candidate for the upcoming WordPress 2.5 is available for immediate download. The developers also release a video screencast as a sn...

Safari 3.1 launched

John M. Guilfoil

March 18, 2008

Apple announced Tuesday that Safari 3.1 has been released for Mac and Windows systems. "Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2," Apple said in a statement. "Saf...

IOGEAR launches PCPortal

John M. Guilfoil

March 10, 2008

IOGEAR has released a hardware-based virtual desktop solution that lets users access their computers from any Internet connection without the need for managing and configuring software. The PCPortal also all...

The MacGyver crack

Torrey Meeks

February 22, 2008

Take a seven dollar can of compressed air from any office supply store. Flip it over, and spray its liquid nitrogen on a computer's DRAM, or digital random access memory. Reboot the computer, or even extract th...

Microsoft opens up, shares secrets

Joe Sinicki

February 21, 2008

In what is being called a "major shift in the company's business practices," Microsoft announced in a conference call Thursday that it would open up and share some of its business secrets with other software companies, including its competitors. [...]

Mozilla Messaging opens shop

John M. Guilfoil

February 18, 2008

Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, announced Monday that it has begun operations. Mozilla Messaging will initially work towards developing Thunderbird 3,...

Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion

John M. Guilfoil

February 1, 2008

Microsoft announced Friday their decision to offer to buy Yahoo!, taking all outstanding shares for $31 each in what would be a monster $44.6 billion deal. It would be a 62 percent bonus to shareholders holding...

Our take on the MacBook Air

Matt Hemenway

February 1, 2008

There's been a lot of talk about Apple's latest laptop the MacBook Air, and a lot of this talk seems to be by people who aren't quite clear on the concept and target market segment. First announced in the middl...

MySpace page sends fake XP update

John M. Guilfoil

January 11, 2008

McAfee Avert Labs announced Friday a Trojan horse attack disguised as a Microsoft update on a particular MySpace profile. Attackers send friend requests to the victim MySpace users. Clicking on the person's...

DOJ serves karma, indictments to spammers

Torrey Meeks

January 3, 2008

On Thursday, some good news hit the battered lungs of a billion junk email filters like pure oxygen: Eleven of the world's most prolific spammers -- nine of whom live in the U.S. -- were indicted by the Departm...

deskUNPDF Professional

Mike Preble

December 31, 2007

When it comes to converting PDFs to word documents for editing, your software choice options are very limited. Docudesk, a company, which specializes in PDF software solutions, announced it's deskUNPDF Professi...

Worm found on Google Orkut

John M. Guilfoil

December 20, 2007

Almost 400,000 members of Google's social networking site, Orkut, were victimized by a new spam worm spreading around the site, said McAfee's Avert Labs. "While the worm doesn't appear to harm users' PCs, it...