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- Are there really 800,000 Windows 7 apps?
- Good question. [Edited]That number may be a *bit* off, but it seems as if a lot of the apps I use daily are being updated with Windows 7 in mind. Paint.net, Ccleaner, Windows Live, and Zune just to name a few.Chrome is another one, but I personally don't use it....
- Discussion threads 2010-01-07
- Why is Apple meddling with my Windows AutoRun?
- Not suprised...Why would Apple try to keep their competitor secure? It would go aggainst their own adds.Oh and I'm not suprised that apple wants to meddle with autorun... I always disable that feature and it will stay disabled... I just hope Apple wont try to stealth enable it... PS: Great...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-10
- News to know: Adobe; OpenSUSE; Ubuntu; IBM; P2P; Palm
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Adobe Flash for all smartphones ... except iPhone Andrew Mager: Google and Adobe join forces on Open...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Microsoft Bing gets visual search; full 2.0 update later this fall
- Top iPhone appsHa ha, one of the visual search galleries is for iPhone apps, how ironic!BUT, Can We Block The Bing Cookies?One issue that is irritating me with MS is their disregard for me, and for every person who uses MS products. (No, I am not anti MS. However, I...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...
- Blog posts 2009-09-14
- Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon
- Do you even read your own stuff?From your quote:". . . will be releasing a $50 kit at the end of August that will make reading 125-kHz RFID chips ? the kind embedded in [b]employee access cards[/b] ? trivial." emphasis addedAnd yet you go and say that this is a...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- News to know: Amazon; Yahoo-Microsoft; Wireless carrier exclusivity; YouTube; Oracle; HP-IBRIX
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles Dana Blankenhorn: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- The Twitter hack: Let's not start blaming Google or the cloud
- The Twitter hack: Let's not start blaming Google or the cloudOf course not. You would not want any of your funding pulled...Will you be this generous with Microsoft?When MS has security issues, it's always 'MS stinks." I hardly ever hear ZDNet writers claiming the user is at fault. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-07-15
- 1337pwn XBOX Live Friends Application 2.0 (Mobile)
- *** ALSO AVAILABLE ***Be sure to check out 1337pwn.com's completely new XBOX Live Friends application, iNXES. It's the new XBOX experience on your iPhone or iPod Touch. Now in the AppStore!-----The 1337pwn XBOX Live Friends list application allows you to view your 360 gaming friends from just about anywhere. At...
- Software downloads 2009-07-03
- Microsoft Security Essentials beta to be capped at 75,000, kicks off today
- Microsoft Security Essentials beta to be capped at 75,000, kicks off todayLast I heard... *edited*OneCare had less false positives then all the other AV/AS software, and scored pretty high in tests.Assuming it's junk just because it's Microsoft kinda makes you look like a... fool.*Edited after realizing I had typed the...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-23
- US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countries
- US government sanctions hit Windows Live Messenger in embargoed countriesgreat opportunity for Google and YahooNow is the time for an agressive campaign by Google and Yahoo to convert all those users blocked by M$ to their IM.By the time we invade them or bomb them into the rock age, M$...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-28
- eDiscovery Legal Minefield Migraines
- With compliance discovery typically averaging out at a million US dollars per legal case, the whole area of retrieving all digital dialog around a dispute is the time and money sink that stresses IT staff and slows line of business technology adoption. Legal...
- Blog posts 2009-04-28
- News to know: Perfect Windows storm; Nokia; SugarCRM; Google Earth
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily . For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Paula Rooney: Firefox 3.1 beta 3 delayed again Mary Jo Foley: XP, Vista, Win 7: The brewing of a perfect storm...
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Cloud boom or cloud bubble?
- Cloud boom or cloud bubble?Salesforce blowsI'm so tired of every idiot tech reporter talking about how great salesforce is.Working with them is a nightmare. They have stupidity and ineptitude coupled with arrogance. They don't even support record locking for integration. That's CS 101 stuff.Vendor lock-in? And...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-20
- Add XBOX Live Friend 1.0 (Mobile)
- QUICK & SIMPLEHave you ever had someone give you their gamertag and offer "Add me to your Friends List"? This application provides a quick shortcut to add them to your XBOX Live Friends List via XBOX.com.INSTRUCTIONSStart the application, enter their gamertag and press Done. The application will launch Safari and...
- Software downloads 2008-11-20
- News to know: Windows 7; Oracle OpenWorld; Adobe CS4; Search 2.0
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows Live team confirms Win7 to replace subsystems with services Ed Bott: How to set up a new PC in one easy session ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-23
- Jordan Agency Provides Data Within Seconds, Compared to Three Days Previously
- The Civil Status and Passport Department CSPD of Jordan manages records of more than 10 million citizens. It wanted to provide this data securely to other government departments and external organisations, such as public utility providers that use it to verify citizens' identities. A key requirement was to shorten the...
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHA broken by spammers
- Breaking Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail's CAPTCHAs, has been an urban legend for over two years now, with do-it-yourself CAPTCHA breaking services, and proprietary underground tools assisting spammers, phishers and malware authors into registering hundreds of thousands of bogus accounts for spamming and fraudulent purposes. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Maxtor Black Armor
- We're not surprised to see the Maxtor Black Armor emerge in a time when so much confidential data is transported by external hard drives. The 10GB Black Armor drive ($150) is a portable storage device with built-in Advanced Encryption Standard hardware-based encryption to prevent digital theft. Unfortunately, this added security...
- Product reviews 2008-06-18
- Microsoft CardSpace killed before it really began?
- According to Neowin, computing students at the University of Bochum, Germany, have worked out how to retrieve vital security tokens from Microsoft's CardSpace framework. CardSpace is highly tipped to be the successor to Windows Live ID Passport and making passwords a relic of the Cold War, using self-signed or certificate...
- Blog posts 2008-05-31








