admin @ May 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Security of data online is a big concern for consumers, businesses, and the government. Leaked data can not only cost money, but can significantly undermine national security. With data security as such a high priority significant sums of money are spent to protect private and public networks form nefarious attacks.
Despite the massive budgets and [...]
admin @ May 29, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Dell is one of the largest computer makers in the world and long before the computer maker jumped into bed with Alienware, Dell had its own line of gaming machines. Dell spent lots of money and effort to market is XPS gaming line that increasingly became blurred with its Studio multimedia computer line after the [...]
admin @ May 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In the realm of automotive sales, exclusive features often provide an important means of differentiating oneself from the competition. GM has OnStar and Ford has its SYNC functionality, a hot feature which allows for the integration of mobile phones and portable media players with Ford vehicles among other things. The feature was developed by software [...]
admin @ May 28, 2009 # No Comment Yet
At one point, many internet users first came online using AOL. The ISP was the largest and most popular around thanks in part to the fact that the CDs multiplied like rabbits and could be found virtually anywhere.
AOL is a mere shadow of its former self thanks to cable and phone companies offering many [...]
admin @ May 27, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Intel has been directing a lot of resources towards its multi-core efforts. It recently opened the Intel Visual Computing Institute to spur development of its Larrabee many-core GPU, and showed off its Nehalem-EX CPUs which can execute 128 threads simultaneously on an eight socket system. During the Intel Developer Forum in August 2008, the company announced that [...]
admin @ May 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Even though it sounds like something straight out of a Star Trek fan’s possibly frightening dream, security company Sophos has translated its Sophos Threat Detection Test into the popular Klingon language from Star Trek.
“Our routine monitoring of sub-space transmissions alerted Sophos that the loss of the Klingon battlecruiser Klothos was not due to Romulan [...]
admin @ May 26, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Microsoft’s Windows Vista has officially entered its Service Pack 2 (SP2) phase, with the release of the second service pack for the operating system to the public. Windows Vista SP2 — beta and release candidate versions have been tested over past months — brings many security and bug fixes, as well as some performance improvements. [...]
admin @ May 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Mozilla has announced a new Mozilla Labs offering called the Jetpack API. Jetpack is from the virtual lab development team within Mozilla Labs. Jetpack is described as a browser enhancer using open web technologies.
EWeek reports that the new API allows developers to write Firefox add-ons with security as a main focus. The API is [...]
admin @ May 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The netbook market is huge right now and the only major computer maker in the U.S. to not currently offer a netbook is Apple. Rumours are swirling that Apple will be jumping into the netbook market and with Apple’s WWDC coming next month many think an Apple netbook is coming sooner rather than later.
Analysts [...]
admin @ May 22, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The European Union and Microsoft have an icy relationship. The EU’s business regulatory arm, the European Commission, has fined Microsoft almost $2B USD over the past decade. It is currently hounding Microsoft with allegations that it engaged in impropriety, bundling its own browser — Internet Explorer — with Windows.
A number of third party browsers [...]