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Latest News - October 2011
- Webroot's SecureAnywhere Security Software is Better Than a *BLEEP* Sandwich
- Microsoft Explains Rationale Behind Controversial Windows 8 Start Menu
- McAfee's Crash Happy Add-On for Firefox Lands on Blocked List
- AVADirect Adds 24GB Option for X7200 Notebook
- Amazon Offers Free Encryption For Storage Service
- Rage Debut Marred By Performance Issues, Dubious Reviews
- Apple Introduces iCloud Service
- Asus Eee Pad Slider Hands-On Video Demo
- Oracle Tries To Make It's Mobile Platform Relevant Again
- JVC's GC-PX10 Is Part Camcorder, Part Camera, All Frankencam
- Microsoft Launches New Tools To Make Hotmail More Relevant, Interesting
- Raging Over Firefox's Rapid Release Schedule? Mozilla Hears You
- Corsair Announces Vengeance and Value Select 8GB DDR3 Modules
- Apple Unveils iOS 5 Updates
- Apple Spills Details On the New iPhone 4S
- Apple: 250 Million iOS Devices Sold (and Other non-iPhone 5 Facts)
- Rhapsody Buys Napster
- Alienware M18x Gaming Notebook: A Tale of Two GPUs
- Google's Chrome Skyrocketing Up The Charts, Could Overtake Firefox Soon
- Does $20B = iPhone 5 Exclusivity for Sprint?
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All News for October 2011
The spunky folks over at Webroot are firing on all cylinders in the creativity department, and we have to admit, what they're doing is both intriguing and comical. The company just unveiled its new SecureAnywhere line of antivirus Internet...
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The Windows 8 Start Menu Screen is shaping up to be a bone of contention between Microsoft's engineers and those following the company's Building Windows 8 blog. In a series of recent articles, Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky delved into the...
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Firefox has had its share of problems over the years, the biggest (and most persistent) one being the well documented memory leak. Some suffer from it, others don't. But frequent crashes? If you happen to be experiencing those, check your...
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The X7200 notebook from AVADirect already boasts some incredible features, including support for six-core Intel chips, dual ATI/NVIDIA GPUs, and up to three SATA drives, but now you can opt for up to 24GB of memory, too. In order to take advantage of all 24GB of RAM, users will need Windows...
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Thanks to a new Server Side Encryption feature, Amazon Web Service customers will be able to easily encrypt data stored on the company's Simple Storage Service (S3). Before this new feature was revealed, businesses had to choose an encryption algorithm, create and store keys, and "bottleneck"...
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id Software's Rage has launched for PC and the various consoles, but the game comes loaded with a laundry list of issues. Most of the graphical problems appear to affect ATI users, but not all--texture pop-in is reportedly a huge issue for both Nvidia and ATI. Texture pop-in, for those of you...
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In addition to the anticipated announcement of the iPhone 4S yesterday, Apple also introduced the iCloud service that will officially launch October 12, a few days before the iPhone 4S will be made available. According to Apple, iCloud is a set of free cloud services that includes iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream, and Documents in the Cloud....
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The Asus Eee Pad Slider is a break-out device, much in the way the Asus Eee Pad Transformer broke the mold not so long ago when it was announced. Though it's built on the same base NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform that many 10.1 Android Honeycomb slates are these days, the Slider offers a netbook-like slide-out keyboard solution that takes the...
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Oracle revealed on Tuesday plans for its next-generation mobile and embedded development platform, JavaME 7. JavaME is the mobile system upon which the most intelligent phones were based before there were today's crop of smartphones, and it still powers billions of devices. It is also the...
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Is this the Frankencam? Perhaps! JVC's new GC-PX10 is half video camera, half still shooter, and it's certainly one of the strangest hybrid cameras of any kind that we've ever seen. The company's marketing this as a camera that can offer...
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Hotmail is one of the oldest mass-market, free email services, but it's been overshadowed for years by Gmail. Microsoft has overhauled Hotmail several times in a bid to make the service easier to use, and is preparing to launch a new suite of...
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The cool thing about Firefox's rapid release schedule is you never have to wait very wait very long for whatever potentially awesome features (or big time bug fixes) are included in the next build. That's rad. It also comes at a cost. After a...
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Designed to take advantage of that 32GB of total system memory or to give a notebook serious performance boost, respectively, Corsair announced 8GB Vengeance and Value Select DDR3 memory kits. The Vengeance kits run at 1600MHz (1.5V) with...
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Today, Apple let loose with a number of product announcements, not the least of which concerns iOS 5. Apple claims that there are over 200 new features in iOS 5, but the company boiled them down to the most important ones, which we’ll cover below. Note that new iPod touches will also run on iOS 5, so these updates are pertinent for touch...
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Apple is finally sharing the formalized specs on the iPhone 4S, and they confirm much of what we've suspected. The new phone looks nearly identical to the current iPhone 4, but is reportedly "all new" inside. Many analysts have speculated that the new iPhone 4S will fix the antenna issues that...
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Apple fanatics are on the edge of their seats today eagerly awaiting for Apple to unveil its next iPhone device and let the world know all the gory details. Well guess what? You won't find any of that here, because Apple has yet to officially...
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Rhapsody announced plans to purchase Napster from Best Buy. Although the full details of the deal have not been released, we do know that Best Buy will retain a minority stake in Rhapsody. The deal is expected to close on or around November 30 of this year. As a result of the deal, the subscriber bases of the two largest on-demand premium...
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Big, bad and unapologetic. These three words accurately describe the Alienware M18x. Unapologetic about its size, this is a desktop replacement notebook that almost defies the entire category of portable machines. Sure, it's portable, in the sense that you can move it from room to room or...
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Is Google's Web browser about to push Mozilla's power house out of the #2 overall browser slot? Perhaps. StatCounter's newest browser data is suggesting that Chrome could take over the #2 spot, a spot that Firefox currently holds, as early as...
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How did Sprint finally score the iPhone? It did so by guaranteeing to Apple that it would purchase 30.5 million iPhones over the next 4 years, amount to $20 billion worth of the handsets, at current pricing. That's just part of the story emerging on Monday, the day before the next-generation...
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And just like that, on the eve of Apple's iPhone 5 event, the Zune was no more. Microsoft's valiant effort into the world of portable media players seemed to have a snowball's chance in summer at making it, even from the start. Despite a huge...
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And the fast, just keeps on getting faster. And cheaper. And more mainstream. And that's just the way we like it. As hard drives continue to best SSDs and NAND-based storage solutions in price, the latter two are besting HDDs in terms of...
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