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Ashampoo AntiVirus (exe)

Ashampoo AntiVirus offers comprehensive protection against viruses, worms, Trojans and dialers. Set it, forget it, and get on with more important things. It protects against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and dialers and includes advanced heuristic-analysis algorithms that can identify as-yet unknown threats on the basis of their behavior. It checks...

Tags: Protection, Trojan Horse, Dialer, Virus, Background Scanner, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Scanners, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2007-09-03

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Stealth Company decloaks... as Siri

Silicon Valley stealth-mode startup, Stealth Company, revealed a little more about itself overnight and rebranded as Siri. Stealth Company's website has proved vague at best over the past few months, for example tantalising with allusions to underpinning technology; "We are not building...

Tags: Software, SRI International, Siri, CALO, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-13

9/11 suspects get laptop, no Net

Al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed gets a laptop and 12 hours of battery time a day, but no Internet. That's what a military judge ruled last week, according to the Miami Herald. The issue in the 9/11 trail of Mohammed and his coconspirators is what resources they...

Tags: Battery, 9/11 Commission, Laptop Computer, Engineering, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on

Magshoe has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons. LOD, Israel--Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be...

Tags: Shoe, Israel, Magshoe, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals, Reuters, scanner, security, air travel

News items 2008-10-13

PaperLess (zip)

PaperLess is a document scanner / manager. This software allows you to scan documents, and search them. You don't need to organize, just search. This works with PDF (multi-page). Simple user interface, search, keywords for search. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Tags: Etpan, Scanners, Hardware, Peripherals

Software downloads 2008-10-13

IBM signs up new client for sustainability consulting

A financial investment firm from Boston, Jantz Morgan, is turning to IBM's green consulting services arm (aka IBM's business strategy consulting practice) to help it integrate the idea of sustainability into its corporate operations. The focus will go beyond the company's impact on the environment; it will...

Tags: Sustainability, Consulting Service, Consulting, IBM Corp., Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-11

My three cents: Verizon's text fee could cripple SMS services

Verizon Wireless dropped a bomb today on companies that send content over SMS text messaging systems. Techmeme Effective Nov. 1, companies that send messages and other notifications to Verizon Wireless customers via SMS text message - that's everyone from Google to Twitter to startups like alerts.com - could be forced...

Tags: Fee, Verizon Communications Inc., Text Messaging, Messaging, SMS, Verizon Wireless, Twitter, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-10

A robot to destroy breast cancer cells

Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. 'If the biopsy displays...

Tags: Breast Cancer, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Rod, Cell, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Stereoscope Theatre (exe)

Travel back in time with a look at life in Turn-of-the-20th-Century America with this fun, musical, 3-D slideshow ebook download for Windows. Features a background soundtrack of Scott Joplin ragtime classics. Big, beautiful vintage stereoview scenes come to life on your computer screen with the help of red-blue 3-D glasses....

Tags: 3D, Vintage Antique Classics, E-books, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Easy Sudoku (dmg)

Easy Sudoku is a great way to start playing the relaxing puzzle game of Sudoku. The game has gentle background music, great graphics, and three different assists. Registered users enjoy three different tilesets and an extra game mode: X Factor Sudoku. It features 3D Graphics and particle effects, custom built...

Tags: Music, Bonehead Projects, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-10

Zyxel NSA-220 NAS

The empty, two-bay Zyxel NSA-220 NAS device has solid overall performance, a good Web interface, and can be found online for a reasonable cost of $220. Aside from an FTP server, media server, iTunes server, and print server, the NSA-220 also has the capability to keep track of RSS feeds...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Printers, Zyxel NSA-220, hard drive, ZyXEL Communications Corp., NAS, RAID

Product reviews 2008-10-09

Anonymity and the Internet

Anonymity and the InternetBecause of course...Anyone who registers on an internet site or forum always registers with their real name, address, etc.. aside from their "handle". The only thing to do now is find the John Smiths that live at 1122 B. Woogie Ave. MyHouse USA.It will probably come down...

Tags: Internet

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

Winter Clock Screensaver (exe)

Myriads of snowflakes are slowly reduced playing magic light of the polar lights. Time of a holiday, what is the time comes nearer remained up to Christmas? Snow-white analog clock on a background of the polar lights count stayed time and inform you how much days, hours, minutes, and seconds...

Tags: Screensaver, Light, All-Sweets

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel X-25M, SSD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-08

F-Secure Internet Security 2009

F-Secure Internet Security 2009 is a complete suite of antivirus, antispyware, antispam, antiphishing, and personal firewall tools for personal desktops. We've been hearing good things and looking forward to reviewing F-Secure for years, however, several little things bothered us about this release. F-Secure Internet Security 2009 costs more than the...

Tags: Firewalls, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, Network security, F-Secure Corp., F-Secure Internet Security 2009, F-Secure Internet Security

Product reviews 2008-10-08

TripleTee DNS Syncronization Tool (exe)

Synchronizes DNS information between primary master and secondary slave MS DNS servers in the background. The application monitors primary server, creates or removes correspondent secondary zone on slave server whenever new primary zone is added or removed on master DNS server, and sets up zone transfer. This version is the...

Tags: DNS Server, Primary Server, TripleTee Software, Domain Names, Servers, Internet, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-10-08

Zune 3.0

Photo gallery:Zune 3.0 softwareIn order for Microsoft's Zune MP3 player to compete against Apple's iPod, Microsoft not only had to create a great MP3 player; it also had to create a solid software client to compete against iTunes. In doing so,it's created an attractive, full-featured digital-media jukebox that some users...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Media players, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Zune

Product reviews 2008-10-07

Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat

[ UPDATE: The details are out. Lots of unresolved clickjacking issues] A security researcher in Israel has released a demo of a "clickjacking" attack, using an JavaScript game to turn every browser into a surveillance zombie. The release of the demo follows last month's...

Tags: Webcam, Click, Web Browser, Twitter, Raff, Games, Web Browsers, Security, Personal Technology, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.

Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...

Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Backgrounder extension for jailbroken iPhones

In a recent piece for Daring Fireball Jon Gruber writes: background processing is the one factor that unites the four dock apps. Phone, Mail, Safari, and iPod all continue running in the background; no other apps, including those from Apple, do... ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Application, Backgrounder Extension, Wiki, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Digital Music, Digital Media, Telecom & Utilities, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07