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WriteIt! 3.4.1 (Mac)

WriteIt! 3 is a rich text editor aimed at pupils, students and researchers, simply anyone who wants to create a great text document. Now, you may ask, what makes WriteIt! so special? WriteIt! has to offer the following highlights: WriteIt! 3 offers 12 formats for you to save in and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Researcher, WriteIt, User Interface, brThere, Mice, Media Players, Corporate Communications, Web Site Development, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Peripherals, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Internet

Software downloads 2009-06-10

Pirated Windows 7 leads to malware, botnet

Several news outlets including eWEEK and Washington Post are reporting on a new piece of malware embedded into pirated copies of Microsoft's Windows 7 for the express purpose of building a botnet. According to researchers at Damballa, the bootleg copies of the new operating system have been...

Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Windows 7, Malware, WaPo, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-05-12

You are full of water, so's your food

Because humans, corn, grapes, beer, ice cream, coffee and French fries all contain large amouns of water, most of us can agree it is a necessity. There are hints that life cannot exist without fresh, relatively non-toxic water. With that in mind researchers are looking for ways to...

Tags: Food, Researcher, Monitoring, Water, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-04

Learning in the cloud with Amazon

Amazon announced its AWS in Education program yesterday, opening up cloud-based services to students, faculty, and researchers at accredited universities via grants and/or free access to its services. AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is used by everyone from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to Twitter to host applications and is...

Tags: Researcher, Amazon Web Services, Amazon.com Inc., AWS, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-30

Art of pizza tossing inspires micro motor design

Researchers at Monash University in Australia have unlocked the physics of the perfect pizza toss and will use it to design the next generation of standing wave ultrasonic motors SWUMs, devices thinner than a human hair. [caption id="attachment_1510" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Credit: Aubrie & Joseph via Flickr"][/caption] ...

Tags: Researcher, Motor, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-27

Researcher 1.03 (Mac)

The Researcher browser isn't just some browser, it's a browser that's been planned carefully. Based on the ground breaking WriteIt! 3 researcher, this browser is great for surfing the net, featuring a very easy to use User Interface, a browsing History, Flash Support, Quick Time Support, Bookmarks and more. It's...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Researcher, Web Browser, Web Browsers, Internet

Software downloads 2009-04-26

RefNavigator 2.5 (Windows)

Are you a researcher? Do you write scientific papers? If your answer is yes, then RefNavigator is designed for you. RefNavigator is a professional bibliography tool for scientific researchers, especially for biomedical researchers. It benefits you in following two ways: searching online scientific references and generating bibliographies in MS Word....

Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Windows, Search Result, Akossoft, RefNavigator 2.5, Search, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software

Software downloads 2009-04-25

Engineers create smartphones for ultrasound imaging

Proof that innovation is healthy in healthcare, two computer engineers have coupled USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone to create a compact mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits into the palm of your hand. [caption id="attachment_1473" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Credit: David Kilper/WUSTL "][/caption]...

Tags: Researcher, Medical Imaging, Smart Phone, Imaging, Computer, Smart Phones, Document Management, Healthcare, Productivity, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-04-21

Mac botnet being used in DDOS attacks

Back in January pirated versions of iWork '09 being shared on P2P networks were discovered to contain a trojan horse called "iWorkServices." The author of the malware did his thing by adding a malicious binary to the trial version of the software package. ZDNet's own Ryan Naraine...

Tags: Software, Apple Macintosh, Researcher, Malware, Distributed Denial Of Service, Desktops, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2009-04-20

iBotnet: Researchers find signs of zombie Macs

Malware hunters at Symantec have discovered a direct link between a malicious file embedded in pirated copies of Apple’s iWork 09 software and what appears to be the first Mac OS X botnet launching denial-of-service attacks. Writing in the current issue of Virus Bulletin subscription required, researchers...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Researcher, P2P, Malware, Apple iWork, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Desktops, Security, Hardware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-04-16

My Wine Researcher 1.0 (Mobile)

My wine Researcher help you to make notes about the taste, smell and food pair suggestions, evaluate the sweetness, body, acidity, tannin, and oak characteristics, save the review for later, share your favorites with your family and friends via email, and purchase your favorites.

Tags: Researcher, Mobile, Wine, Location Advantage

Software downloads 2009-04-16

Conficker wakes up, updates, drops payload

The Conficker worm is finally active, updating via peer-to-peer between infected computers and dropping a mystery payload on infected computers, Trend Micro said on Wednesday. CNET's Elinor Mills reports that researchers are analyzing the code of the software that is being dropped onto...

Tags: Researcher, Trend Micro Inc., Worm, Computer, Conficker Worm, Conficker/Downad P2P Communication, Productivity, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-09

Intel awards innovation around Classmate PC

Intel awarded four $100,000 prizes today at IDF as part of their INSPIRE/EMPOWER Challenge. Interestingly, three of the prize winners made use of the Intel Classmate PC. According to Intel's press release, The challenge called on the developer community to bring forth the most...

Tags: Innovation, Intel Classmate PC, Researcher, PC, Intel Corp., MSCC, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Smart Phones, Desktops, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Researchers Expect to Save a Year of Development With Move to Windows HPC

The French National Institute for Agricultural Research INRA wanted to expand its use of High-Performance Computing HPC to study intestinal illness and obesity, but it needed technology that would be easy for multiple laboratories to use. INRA moved away from its Linux system and instead deployed Windows HPC Server 2008,...

Tags: Researcher, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Software Development, Linux, Cloud Computing, Leadership, Open Source, Operating Systems, Development Tools, Middleware, Software, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software

Case studies 2009-04-01

German researchers score Conficker detection breakthrough

Just days ahead of an April 1st activation date for the Conficker worm squirming through the Windows operating system, security researchers at the Honeynet Project have scored a major breakthrough, finding a way to fingerprint the malware on infected networks. Now, with the help of Dan Kaminsky...

Tags: Researcher, Network, Honeynet Project, Malware, Conficker, Conficker Malware, Scanners, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Hardware, Peripherals, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Massive Chinese spynet targeted Dalai Lama

It all started with the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan leader's offices in India, Brussels, London and New York asked the researchers to examane its computers for malware. But researchers at the Munk Center for International Studies at the University of Toronto found something much more than garden-variety spyware, John Markoff...

Tags: China, Researcher, Toronto, Computer, GhostNet, Productivity, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Artificial blood, cartilage, and...brain?

Researchers report a dose of new additions this week to the list of lab-produced versions of biological matter; And, taken together, the trio of announcements below span the gamut of organic complexity that they're trying to replicate. First, a team of biochemists from the University of Pennsylvania...

Tags: Researcher, Brain, Protein, Neuron, Team Management, Semiconductors, Management, Hardware, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-03-27

"No more free bugs"? There never were any free bugs

Vulnerability researchers have always extracted value out of their work, even before there was a monetary value placed on exploits. Security researchers at last week's CanSecWest conference dramatically announced their new philosophy that software vulnerabilities should no longer be given away. The movement cites the existence...

Tags: Researcher, Vulnerability, Exploit, Security, Adam O'Donnell

Blog posts 2009-03-24

Researchers demo BIOS attack that survives hard-disk wipe

A pair of Argentinian researchers have found a way to perform a BIOS level malware attack capable of surviving even a hard-disk wipe. The researchers -- Alfredo Ortega and Anibal Sacco from Core Security Technologies -- used the stage at last week's CanSecWest conference to demonstrate methods...

Tags: Hard Drive, Researcher, Attack, BIOS, Rootkits, Security, Hardware, Components, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-23

Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet

ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...

Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-19