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- uTorrent silently patches critical vulnerability
- If uTorrent is the client you use to download files, now might be a good time to hit that "check for updates" button. According to security alerts aggregator Secunia, there's a "highly critical" uTorrent vulnerability that could allow remote code execution attacks with rigged .torrent files. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- IDF: Will your device really get to know you?
- The Intel Developer Forum kicks off Tuesday and the company has started with a few "day 0" presentations--including one on research on how mobile devices that can sense and adapt to you--that are worth a look. Intel released three presentations and the most interesting one--and potentially problematic--comes...
- Blog posts 2008-08-18
- Lijit secures $7.1 million series C round
- Lijit Networks, which provides search and analytics engines that benefit both bloggers and their readers, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 million series C funding round. Foundry Group, which was a late investor after Lijit closed its $3.3 million series B round last year, led this round. Existing...
- Blog posts 2008-08-12
- When will textbook publishers get a clue?
- When will textbook publishers get a clue?I buy all my books onlineI mostly use half.com, which is part of eBay. But there's also:http://www.allbookstores.com/This is an aggregator, so it searches a bunch of sites.Here's how much you can save: My "Advanced Suse Linux" book retails for $146.95 at school...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-28
- Unpatched code execution bug haunts BlackBerry
- Security alerts aggregator Secunia has raised an alarm for a "highly critical" vulnerability that puts users of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server at risk of code execution attacks. Technical details of bug are not available but Secunia says it is caused by an unspecified error in the BlackBerry...
- Blog posts 2008-07-17
- List Ticker and Aggregator for MOSS 2007 (zip)
- Websio List Ticker and Aggregator Web Part displays aggregated data from multiple lists/sites as scrolled marquee. See live demo of this Web Part on our Home Page (section 'What's New'). Main features: Simple and advanced mode; Single or multiple list aggregation; Filter items by specified field; Filter by Audience; Sort...
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Study: 637 million Google users surfing with insecure browser
- According to a new study from researchers at Google, IBM and ETH Zurich, there are about 637 million Google users surfing the Internet with a vulnerable Web browser. Using data from Google search queries and security vulnerability aggregator Secunia, the study HTML or PDF found that a...
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- What is a company blogger good for?
- I often hear from companies that want to "be social" or "hire a blogger." Usually, there hasn't been any effort put into the question of what they'd like to accomplish from the effort, so I send out the following. Now, you can call me to talk when you have an...
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Have you checked out Alltop.com on your mobile device?
- I wanted to let you know about a cool site that was launched by the famous Matt Kawasaki a while ago that I think you might find quite useful when trying to find the latest news and posts in areas you are personally interested in. The Alltop.com site is a...
- Blog posts 2008-06-21
- 1Topix (msi)
- 1TOPIX aggregator is a new solution for Web forums reading that allows you to download the whole Internet conferences or separate their threads in local database. This convenient tool let you add your favorite info sources for further off-line reading, even posting with quotes and replying. 1TOPIX saves you a...
- Software downloads 2008-06-10
- Review: HTC Advantage X7510 with 16GB flash drive, haptics keyboard and Windows Mobile 6.1
- The most powerful Windows Mobile device I ever evaluated was the HTC Advantage X7501 that was released back in August of 2007 and I wrote quite an extensive review that was my most viewed blog post of 2007. The successor to the Advantage X7501, the X7510, was announced at Mobile...
- Blog posts 2008-05-22
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?
- Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast buys PlaxoI canceled my account.RE: Comcast buys Plaxo: Will social networking and TV fly?Comcast is entirely out of touch with what it's customers want. For instance, a 1 year discount on an overpriced service doesn't attract anyone who's been paying cable...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
- Mobile software Monday: HanDBase 4.0 and Nokia Podcasting
- My plan was to post software reviews here every Monday, but at times my schedule and life doesn't allow me to give a full test of a software package and write up my thoughts so I missed last week. Thus, I am posting a double review this week on Mobile...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- Google kicks off its Facebook ground war
- Updated: Google on Monday outlined its Google Friend Connect, a service that promises to insert social features into any application and any site. Sound familiar? It is. MySpace has its friend connect service and Facebook has its version. Add it up and you have...
- Blog posts 2008-05-12
- The 31 Days of the Dragon contest starts today, win an HP laptop valued at over $5,000
- While the giveaway I am going to talk about doesn't relate to a mobile device, my fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts are a part of the contest and I think it is such a MAJOR contest that my readers here would enjoy entering for a chance to win. Today is the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Google Video now more usable
- Google Video has gone through many transformations through the years. Even the concept behind the service has gone through several transformations as they try and find their own spot on the web where they can thrive. The very first iteration of Google Video ironically had nothing...
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Ideas for organizing your media
- Several new projects and ideas emerged from Microsoft's TechFest 2008 to help streamline people's media intake. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi has some of the highlights from the event, including a political blog aggregator and an application that can search your music library.
- Videos 2008-03-18
- Yahoo!'s oneConnect: who will use it?
- Matthew Miller got excited about the preview of Yahoo!'s oneConnect at the World Mobile Congress. In Matthew's words: Yahoo's new oneConnect is one of the top pieces of software/services I saw in action. The rep was giving a demonstration on a Nokia N95 8GB device and...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- MWC08: Yahoo oneConnect aggregates all your social networks and more
- While there was lots of very cool hardware shown here at the MWC, the software and services are almost more compelling to me since I switch hardware so often. I will have to go back over my notes and figure out what I thought was the best of the show...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system
- Microsoft is fighting on multiple fronts in its 100-year technology war. Acknowledged, Microsoft has notched just 35 years, but the company is good for another 65 if it can recruit a few more generations of Bill Gates generals to lead the charge. And make no mistake, dominating markets is what...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
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