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News to know: Free security apps; Apple earnings; $150 laptop; Business.com sold

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Some great security apps are still free. Gallery: Ten free security utilities you should already be using right.Larry Dignan: Apple delivers strong earnings; Countdown to 1 million iPhones on hold; Outlook conservative. Apple earnings soar as iPhone shipments revealed. Apple statement.Jason O'Grady: iPhone battery tips from Apple.Judge...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-07-26

News to know: Leopard; Opera Mini; iPhone sightings

Notable headlines:Photos right: Fourteen views of Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Ryan Naraine: Apple plugs three Safari for Windows holes.Ed Bott: Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista.Larry Dignan: Opera Mini beta advances mobile Web browsing; Verizon Wireless blocks it at the door.Satellite companies partner with Clearwire.Ryan Naraine: There's a...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-06-15

News to know: Apple developers stiffed; Safari review; Botnets

Notable headlines:WWDC coverage:Jason O'Grady says developers stiffed: Apple lulls developers to sleep at hardware-less WWDC. Beta Nazi: No Leopard for you.Ed Burnette: Dumb move: iPhone's "sweet, innovative" dev solution is neither.Larry Dignan: Review: Safari for Windows (what took so long?). Gallery right. Analysis: Safari on Windows, Leopard gets 64 bits.Ryan...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-12

News to know: Google buys PeakStream; VMware as a service; Firefox flaws

Notable headlines:Google acquires programming toolmaker PeakStream. The Register: Google shivs server crowd with PeakStream buy.Dan Farber: VMware offers virtualization as a service.Ryan Naraine: Mozilla downplays Zalewski's Firefox flaws. Microsoft security guru: Get fuzzing. ID theft allegations haunt founder of ID theft fraud protection service. Google: Microsoft IIS ‘twice as often' serving...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-06-06

News to know: Google Gears; Intel V8; Firefox patch; Bill and Steve

Notable headlines:David Berlind: Podcast: ‘Google Gears' vies to be de facto tech for offline Web apps. Ed Burnette and Marc Orchant.Google kicks offline Web apps into gear. Ryan Stewart:What Google Gears means for Rich Internet Applications and Apollo . O'Reilly Radar: Google releases open source toolkit for offline web apps....

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Blog posts 2007-05-31

News to know: Milan video, gallery; ColdFusion; Apple's flaw count

Notable headlines:Ryan Stewart: New version of ColdFusion aimed at .NET, Ajax crowd.Ryan Naraine: Apple flaw count for 2007: 111 and counting. Larry Dignan: The hype cycle behind Steve and Bill's dueling banjo show. How the 'Milan' table PC was born. Microsoft hopes 'Milan' table PC has magic touch. Video: Microsoft unveils touch...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-30

News to know: Facebook; Apple and Cisco patches

Notable headlines:Facebook's new platform:Dan Farber: Facebook: The social Web utility company. Facebook's Zuckerberg uncorks the social graph. Facebook: We just want to share information more efficientlyFacebook welcomes outside services. Video.Steve O'Hear: More thoughts on Facebook's new platform.Donna Bogatin: Who needs Facebook? Students fight back.Techmeme roundup.George Ou: Is the Drobo 'storage...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-25

News to know: Ubuntu Server; WinHEC; Windows Home Server; Linus Torvalds

Notable headlines:Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: LAMP On Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn Server Edition. Gallery right. Will Dell stuff Ubuntu PCs full of craplets?Mary Jo Foley: At WinHEC the future is off limits for Microsoft. Microsoft attempts to rally more hardware vendors around Rally.Ed Bott: On the road with Vista.InformationWeek: Linus Torvalds Responds...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-16

News to know: Browser data leaks; Tweetr; SOA sabotage

Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Do you know what’s leaking out of your browser? Symantec vulnerability research founder joins Microsoft.Ryan Stewart: Is Tweetr the first mainstream Apollo application?Dion Hinchcliffe: Mashups: The next major new software development model?Robin Harris: Apple’s Spotlight: keywords are so ’90s.David Berlind: Mobile RIAs: Java, Apollo, and Silverlight’s deathmatch?...

Tags: General, News to know

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Additional Resources

Photos: Top 10 reviews of the week

Here are CNET Reviews' 10 favorite items from the past week, including a 61-inch rear-projection HDTV, D-Link's dual-band wireless router, and the simple but effective Nokia 6205. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Home Networking, TVs, Routers & Switches, Tv & Home Theater, Networking, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-26

Howard's happy: Sirius-XM merger (finally) approved; Now the work really begins

The government regulatory debacle known as the Sirius-XM merger has officially ended as the Federal Communications Commission approved the deal after 17 months of deliberation and lobbying from the National Association of Broadcasters. According to the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal the FCC approved the deal...

Tags: Merger, XM Satellite Radio Inc., Radio, Sirius, Howard, Satellite Radio, Digital Music, Advertising & Promotion, Federal Government, Mergers & Acquisitions, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Government, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-26

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patched

Gaping holes in RealPlayer patchedReal is feeling threatened by AppleReal doesn't want to lose its title of "Least Secure Media Platform Ever Released" to QuickTime. How anyone can allow either of these programs on their computer is beyond me. You are practically [b]begging[/b] to get pwned.People still use that piece...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, RealNetworks RealPlayer, Apple QuickTime

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XP

21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPMy takeI don't count security patches, but I regularly have to clean malware from our XP machines but have yet to find anything on our Vista systems.RE: 21 months later, Vista is still more secure than XPFile this in the "no...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), SECURITY, Patches, Microsoft Windows Vista, secure, Microsoft Windows XP, VISTA IS

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Foxconn snubs Linux users

Foxconn snubs Linux usersWho needs Foxconn anyway.There are plenty of good MB makers that do support Linux.It's a good idea to look at hardware compatibility at the distro's website anyway. I use Asus. But I have had to update the BIOS on every Asus MB I've bought to get...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Foxconn, Linux, BIOS, ASUS, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletI WANT ONE!!Dang, I'd buy it in a heart beat. I already have an iPod Touch love it and getting ready to buy an iPhone.RE: Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTabletMay sound very nice, but unfortunately, like all Apple things, it will probably...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Apple Inc., tablet, Mystery Solved, iTablet

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missingI couldn't make this stuff up if I triedSeriously, I'm not that creative.[url=http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=48138&messageID=898138] Apple fan explains why Apple isn't responsible for PWN2OWN vulnerability [/url][i]A Perl exploit isn't an Apple bug, anymore than the Flash exploit on the Vista machine was a Microsoft...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Domain names, Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, DNS, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook

On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Microsoft joins 'patch DNS now' chant; Apple patch missing

On the heels of the release of weaponized exploit code for the DNS cache poisoning vulnerability, Microsoft has joined the chorus of security pros pleading with DNS server providers to immediately apply patches to protect users from malicious attacks. The Redmond, Wash. security...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, DNS, Vulnerability, Apple Inc., Exploit Code, Microsoft Corp., Attack, Dan Kaminsky, Domain Names, Apple Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Britain moves against illegal file sharing

CBC News out of Canada is reporting that British ISPs are making an aggressive move against illegal file sharing by implementing a program designed to discover copyright violators, who will be sent warning letters and may potentially have their internet connections disconnected. For more on the article,...

Tags: File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Mystery solved: Apple's new product is iTablet (updated)

Previously I speculated about the mysterious "product transition" that Apple's Peter Oppenheimer CFO mentioned no less than seven times in the Q3 2008 Earnings conference call with analysts. Some of his quotes from the call: We are working to develop new products that contains technologies...

Tags: Apple Inc., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-07-25