Windows 7 RC (7100) out early on torrent trackers
While the partner page Microsoft put up a few days back announcing the availability of the Windows 7 RC turned out to be another minor slip-up, the results in Mininova's index are a bit more real. — ...
Windows 7 Release Candidate Update
There certainly has been a lot of discussion about Windows 7 in the last few weeks. A lot of folks want to know when they can get their hands on the official RC, when we are going to RTM, and what I ...
Results of the Inaugural Facebook Site Governance Vote
Today, the Facebook site governance vote ended after a week in which you were able to voice your opinions as to which documents should serve as the foundation for governing the site. On behalf of eve...
Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7
Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott reveal a new Windows 7 application compatibility feature called Windows XP Mode. Yes, it's that “secret new feature” you've been hearing about ... Over a month ago, w...
Obama's BlackBerry
President Obama will soon get his souped-up, high-security BlackBerry for use in and around the White House and during presidential travel, according to Obama administration officials. The top-secret...
How To Overhype Your Search Engine
After covering search for 13 years, I'm more than a little jaded. I've seen any number of search start-ups promise to revolutionize how we search. None of them have in the huge way they've promised,...
Snow Leopard Server to offer low cost, secure mobile access to iPhone
Apple will leverage the popularity of the iPhone to deliver business users new Mobile Access services in Snow Leopard Server to securely deliver corporate email, contact, calendar, and intranet web se...
Google's New “What's Popular” Feature Aims to Clone Digg
Google's personalized home page, iGoogle, added a new feature that basically clones the core features of Digg and StumbleUpon by embedding them into a gadget that is easily accessible from right withi...
Geocities
Yesterday, TechCrunch reported the news that Yahoo! is planning to shut down Geocities. That is sad news on many levels. Geocities was the web's first community and it was my first “mega deal” when ...
Apple found guilty of willful patent infringement
Apple has been found guilty of willfully infringing on a “predictive snooping” patent awarded to Opti Inc. in 2002. The company has been ordered to pay just over $19 million in compensation, despite ...
Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac OS X
Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets overnight: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release...
Did AT&T Lie To Congress About Using Behavioral Advertising?
Congress is apparently holding hearings this week about behavioral advertising — the controversial online practice of targeting ads to people based on where they surf. In the past, Congress has sugge...
Self-replicating machine replicates
Destroy industry and money and make us all wealthy? Sweet — Free whitepaper - CRM your salespeople will love — Next month will see a new version of the self-replicating RepRap machine, but owners...
The Technology Generation Gap at Work is Oh So Wide
Recently, business information solutions provider LexisNexis released the results of a study that examined how technology was used in the American workplace. The focus of the study was on the differi...
Whatever Happened to the Top 15 Web Properties of April, 1999?
As I quietly lamented (or at least noted) the impending death of GeoCities today, I wanted to double-check my memory that it was once one of the very largest sites on the Web. Yup-ten years ago, in A...
China Pushes Its Own Blue-laser Optical Discs
Chinese manufacturers hope to sell hundreds of thousands of optical disc players for a locally developed next-generation disc format this year, a spokesman for an industry group promoting the format s...
Apple Apology For Baby Shaker Criticized
The application, which depicts a crying baby, has users quiet the infant by vigorously shaking the smartphone. — Apple on Thursday apologized for offering on its App Store the “deeply offensive” Bab...
New worm bypasses Gmail's CAPTCHA
On April 22 2009, Bkis Honeypot system discovered a new worm, which we named W32.Gaptcha.Worm. The worm automatically signs up and creates random Gmail accounts for spamming purposes. To do so, it m...
Twitter Eats World: Global Visitors Shoot Up To 19 Million
Twitter's march towards world domination continues apace. This morning comScore released its global numbers for March, 2009. Worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increased 95 percent in the month of Ma...
Apple Stores: The big chill
Is there an Apple Store near you? Count yourself lucky, because the days of Apple's (AAPL) aggressive expansion into the branded retail space are over — at least for now. — After opening more than ...
Boom times ahead for mobile Web access
After a slow start, mobile Web access has finally taken off, thanks in large part to better technology, and it will drive growth in Internet use in the future, industry leaders say. — “More people i...
Conficker infected critical hospital equipment, expert says
SAN FRANCISCO — The Conficker worm infected several hundred machines and critical medical equipment in an undisclosed number of hospitals recently, a security expert said on Thursday in a panel at the...
Conficker Hype a ‘problem,’ Says FBI Cyber-chief
Mainstream media hype leading up to the Conficker worm's April 1 software update may have distracted people from legitimate cyber threats, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's head of cyber secu...
The Mad Dash to Digitize Medical Records
GE, Google, and others, in a stimulus-fueled frenzy, are piling into the business. But electronic health records have a dubious history — Watch the Video... Neal Patterson likens the current scram...
PowerPoint and TIFF file viewing
A few months ago, we added fast online viewing of PDFs in your browser. As of today, that same viewer now supports TIFF and Microsoft PowerPoint document formats too: you can now view TIFF and PPT fi...