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- News to know: Comcast-NBCU; Chrome netbooks; Google Public DNS; Psystar; Accenture
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alertand RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage: Larry Dignan: Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work? John Morris: Will Chrome netbooks really be...
- Tags: Google Inc., DNS, Accenture Ltd., Microsoft Office, Dana Blankenhorn, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Psystar, Sam Diaz, Global Warming, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Security, Hardware
- Blog posts 2009-12-04
- Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?
- Too crippledBoth Windows and Linux netbooks offer much more functionality and flexibility than the Google Dumb Terminal.No thanks...Google is going to have to start heavily marketing thisfor this to even have a chance. And that marketing strategy had better convince a distrusting public why they should trust both the cloud...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating systems, Chrome OS, netbook, Chrome, operating system, Google Inc., Win 7
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Will Chrome netbooks really be competitive?
- Acer, which last quarter overtook Dell to become the world's second-largest PC manufacturer, is known as an aggressive company. So it's little surprise that the company's chairman, J.T. Wang, vowed this week that Acer would be first to release a netbook using Google's Chrome OS sometime in the middle of...
- Tags: Google Inc., Acer Inc., Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-12-03
- Google promises faster Web with launch of Public DNS
- Google DNS? LMAO!So Google wants yet another way to track users to sell that information to advertisers and whomever they call "partners" which includes the groups that purchase ad space and flood their ad network with malware links? No thanks. After witnessing OpenDNS's tracking information being sold...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Advertising & Promotion, Web, Section 11, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-12-03
- Visual Explorer 2.0 (Windows)
- Visual Explorer is the ultimate, fully featured Web browser that comes with advanced privacy and security features, one-click Google searches, support for Internet Explorer favorites. Your privacy protected--easily remove private data such as Web site addresses you have typed into the address bar or content from web pages you have...
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows, Web Site, Web Browser, Web Page, BlueG, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Phishing, Marketing, Internet, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Software downloads 2009-12-02
- XP's usage share down, Win 7, Firefox & IE8 up
- Now, if only ....the original Amazon.com $50 price comes back CRITICAL MASS will be achieved (IE: more than 4%).Way to goCongrats Win 7, and Firefox!Hopefully we can put XP to rest for good now and move on with our lives.DOWN WITH XP DOWN WITH XPHopefully XP will see its death...
- Tags: Operating systems, Mozilla Firefox, Vista STILL, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Windows 8, Microsoft Corp., Win 7
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Pimp my iPhone: Apps for storing, editing and reading files
- iPhone streamingHello: These are pretty impressive applications. I've seen a few before and after a very in depth research we worked on something more advanced then created an iPhone broadcaster. I don't know if you ever seen this working. We are now trying to integrate it with other iPhone applications...
- Tags: Smart phones, Digital music, DropBox, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod
- Discussion threads 2009-12-01
- Can Chrome OS save us from racket ware?
- Open Source / Repositories vs. Windows Closed SourceThe idea of having GPG-protected repositories which contain open source apps is central to the notion that these apps' source code is viewed by 'many eyes' and as such, vetted.Get your app outside of your designated O/S approved repos and you 'tempt fate'.In...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, SECURITY, Chrome OS, Chrome, operating system, software, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-30
- 1st Security Agent Pro 9.3 (Windows)
- 1st Security Agent Pro is a professional password-protected system security utility to secure Windows PC and restrict access to its key features. 1st Security Agent Pro offers an administrative support for controlling access to your PC and changing user access level. Password-protect and restrict access to Control Panel applet functions,...
- Tags: Password, Microsoft Windows, F Key Solutions, Security
- Software downloads 2009-11-30
- Dark Internet Fundamentals
- We all think we know the internet - the service that has magically transmitted these words from my keyboard to your eyeballs - but how much do you know of the fundamentals? As I wrote about last year, the plumbing of the internet...
- Tags: Network, Attack, Internet, Security, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2009-11-29
- Does Chrome OS mean anything for schools?
- Benefits of the ChromeOS approachOne of the features of HTML5, that commentors on other posts seem to forget, is that HTML5 web apps can be "installed" in app cache, for offline use (Google "HTML5 manifest").If web apps can be used offline AND made to perform like desktop apps, with web...
- Tags: Operating systems, cloud computing, Desktops, NOW IT, HTML5, operating system, Chrome OS, Does Chrome OS, Chrome, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-28
- QtWeb Internet Browser 3.2 (Windows)
- QtWeb is a fast, secure, compact and portable web browser with some unique user interface and privacy features. QtWeb is free, non-commercial and open source project based on Qt framework and WebKit rendering engine used in Safari and Chrome. Major Features: customizable user interface; privacy and security features; lightweight, fast...
- Tags: User Interface, Microsoft Windows, Web Browser, QtWeb.NET, QtWeb, Web Browsers, Security, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-11-28
- ShareTool 1.3.4 (Mac)
- ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world. No server or technical skills required. Also works with VPN connections. For anyone that's been itching to get Bonjour working over VPN, ShareTool is for you! Why...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, Apple MacBook, Apple iMac, Apple iTunes, Yazsoft, ShareTool, Desktops, Digital Music, Networking, Digital Media, Hardware, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-26
- Chrome OS will rise or fall on the safety dance
- Scare tactics against Chrome OSI can see Microsoft really did the 'safety dance' with Windows it has been so successful...Chrome_OS is an entirely different modular approach plus they are using Open_Source with NO limitation of how high they can reach. I find it amazing anyone with a straight face say...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Chrome, Chrome OS, ChromeOS, security, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-24
- Windows Mobile is better than you think
- My main gripeis with the antique user interface which is little more than an uninspired, miniaturized desktop GUI.The foundations seems solid enough now - it is quite decent in multi-tasking and is generally responsive.I too believe that if MS can reinvigorate the UI they still has a strong competitor. Oh...
- Tags: Mobile operating systems, Advertising & Promotion, Operating systems, mobile, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Exploit published for critical IE 7 zero-day flaw
- Do you mean:"The vulnerability was confirmed on fully patched Windows XP SP3 systems with Internet Explorer 6 and [b]7[/b]."Also how effective is the exploit with Protected Mode and limited user account usage? I'd like to see more information on how these two mitigation techniques work against exploits. I suspect the...
- Tags: Web browsers, EXPLORER, Microsoft Security Essentials, Microsoft Internet Explorer, critical IE 7 zero-day flaw, IE 7 zero-day flaw, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, zero-day bug, exploit
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- Chrome OS: More questions than answers?
- And exactly why....would students be part of the target market or any other particular group for that matter?This is a silly post. Chrome will be lean, cloud based, local caching of data, some and growing off-line capabilities and probably grow in features/capabilities over time. It will NOT be everything to...
- Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Outlook, Wi-Fi, operating system, Google Inc., Chrome, HTML5, Chrome OS
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- A Chrome OS Video Tour
- Microsoft: Watch Out, We're Coming to Getcha!Open Source is like water, you can't stop it.Bwahahahahahhhhhhhhhh................Man this OS is a POS.There is nothing this OS can do that I can't do already with Windows 7. It looks like a piece of crap and I really wanted to give Google the...
- Tags: Operating systems, INTERNET, NaCl, Chrome, Chrome OS, Chrome OS Video Tour, operating system, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-11-23
- 1Password 3.0.1 (Mac)
- 1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both Security and Convenience. It is the only program that provides Anti-Phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding Web Form Filling and Automatic Strong Password Generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Password, Web Browser, Agile Web Solutions, 1Password, Web Browsers, Internet
- Software downloads 2009-11-23
- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
- Tags: Desktops, desktop, Google Inc., bad cloud, Desktop Application
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
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