Ask to allow anonymous Web search
Blog: By using the new AskEraser tool, users will be able to set their privacy preferences so the search engine does not retain their Web search history.
Update: TripAdvisor denies Facebook Platform app acquisition
Blog: The company releases a brief statement that suggests the Facebook Platform application Where I've Been was not actually acquired.
Monster puts kibosh on rogue server
Blog: Job site pulls the plug on a rogue server that was stealing information about job candidates from its database.
Motorola: We're not looking to replace Zander
Blog: A board member says a BusinessWeek story claiming that the mobile-phone maker's board is looking to replace its chief executive is wrong.
Anatomy of an Ikea product
What does it take to get a chair from the design table into your living room? News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman takes a look.
Woz, meet Jack Tramiel
After all these years, Apple co-founder and Commodore founder finally meet--at a celebration of the Commodore 64.
Sites that help you lodge complaints
If you've been wronged or you're just not happy with the way you were treated, there are some sites on the Web that will help you get your voice heard.
Google App Engine misfires
A morning outage in Google App Engine--a hosting service for Web application developers--was resolved around noon Pacific Time Thursday.
iPhone heat issue much ado about nothing
Some reports on Friday claim that Apple admitted in a tech note to having heat issues with the iPhone 3GS, but that's just not true.
Report: Acquittal in MySpace suicide case
Lori Drew used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenage girl to the point of suicide, but a Los Angeles judge said that prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.
Report: Guilty verdict overturned in MySpace suicide case
Lori Drew allegedly used a fake MySpace profile to harass a teenager to the point of suicide, but judge says prosecutors can't use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act against her.
Net Neutrality gets a boost from the feds
The Obama administration has included the FCC's Net Neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.
DOJ opens formal investigation into Google Books settlement
Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
Fisker's good Karma
At a dinner speech recently, Henrik Fisker laid out his plans for Fisker Automotive and its first car, the plug-in hybrid Karma.
Apple fixing iPhone SMS security hole
Researcher says attacker could exploit vulnerability in the way iPhones handle text messages to do things like use GPS to track the location of the phone, turn on the microphone or turn the phone into a botnet zombie.
TracFone offers $45 unlimited plan
TracFone's new StraightTalk service delivers 30MB of data plus unlimited calling and messaging for $45 per month.
AT&T breaks sales records with iPhone 3GS launch
AT&T sold more phones the first day the iPhone 3G S went on sale than it ever has.
Hard disk or solid-state? Think again
Although solid-state drives are in vogue, market forces and technical issues are making them a little less appealing than before.
CNET News Daily Podcast: On building ethical military robots
Robotics engineer Ronald Arkin talks about giving robots a built in "guilt system" that could make them better at avoiding civilian casualties; Jammie Thomas-Rasset plans to appeal RIAA case; and Waledac spam set to explode over July 4th weekend.
Microsoft: Bing needs to improve when news breaks
For several minutes following reports that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital last week, Microsoft's Bing search engine buried news results for searches on his name.
Report: Google deal to buy Twitter in the works
The rumor mill is in full gear over speculation that Google may acquire Twitter . The news comes from two separate and unnamed sources that claim talks between Google and Twitter are in the late stages, according to TechCrunch's Michael Arrington. However, Arrington says he has spoken to a third source that says talks are just in the early stages. Arrington says his third source claims...
How bad off is tech? Depends on who you ask
Until this week, the major analyst houses have said the current recession is not as bad as what the tech sector suffered though in 2001 and 2002 after the dotcom bubble popped. Forrester, IDC, and Gartner still all agree that IT spending is down, but whether this recession is worse than the dotcom fallout is now a matter of debate. The fact that analysts were maintaining that IT is not in...
Linux, Windows Server both hit by economy
An industry analyst forecast has Linux shipments slipping a bit more percentage-wise than Microsoft's Windows Server, but Microsoft is feeling the pain of the economy, too, said an analyst who worked on the report. The IDC quarterly forecast of worldwide x86 server OS shipments for the year 2009, released last month, has Linux declining year over year by 16.1 percent, from 1.747 million s...
Report: IBM, Sun deal said to be close
IBM and Sun Microsystems are close to a deal under which IBM will acquire Sun Microsystems for about $9.50 per share, The New York Times reported in its online edition Thursday afternoon. Citing unnamed sources familiar with discussions between the companies, the DealBook column of the Times' business section reported that the deal could be imminent and announced as soon as Friday. [ ...
Apple hints at launch of Nehalem-based Xserve
An Apple online store is set to take preorders of new Xserve servers carrying Intel's new Xeon chips, hinting at launch of the devices in the near future. A notice on Apple's Hong Kong online store is offering to take preorders of the Xserve based on Intel's latest Xeon server chips. However, preorders cannot be placed as the link hasn't been activated yet, and customization capabilitie...
IBM sees Conficker hitting 4 percent of PCs
IBM is the second company in two days to suggest that the number of computers infected by the Conficker.C worm may be higher than previously thought. After scanning 2 million computers over the past 24 hours, IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division said Thursday that it had spotted the worm on 4 percent of the IP addresses it monitored. [ Internet infrastructure provider OpenDN...
Hackers seize on 0-day flaw in Microsoft's PowerPoint
Microsoft warned Thursday that hackers are actively exploiting a software vulnerability in PowerPoint, the company's presentation application. There's no patch yet for the bug, which could allow an attacker to completely control a computer. It affects Office 2000 Service Pack 3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac, Microsoft said in an advisory . Office 2007 is unaffe...
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz
Any week in which April Fool's falls is deeply suspect in terms of news. But we're pretty sure we weren't hoodwinked in this week's quiz, which covers topics from the dark (worms, botnets, spammers) to the light (dating services, IPOs, and dishy redheads). Can you tell the real news from the fake? Give yourself 10 points for each correct answer. No foolin'. OK, let's go. 1. It was a Fool...
Adobe, Nokia outline planned ventures at Web 2.0 show
Officials from Adobe Systems and Nokia emphasized endeavors in the application design and form factor spaces in presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo conference Thursday in San Francisco. Touting a linkage between application developers and designers, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demonstrated the company's planned Flash Catalyst product at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San Francisco. Nokia's Anss...
Central Desktop delivers Outlook plug-in
Central Desktop has enhanced its eponymous Web-hosted collaboration suite with a plug-in for Outlook that the company believes increases its viability as a SharePoint alternative. Microsoft Outlook is the desktop e-mail program of about 70 percent of Central Desktop's 270,000 end-users. Because Central Desktop has designed its suite as a less-expensive and easier-to-manage option to Micro...
IBM continues push for Sun, but will the deal kill Solaris?
The high-stakes, but still under-the covers battle by IBM to take over Sun Microsystems is still in play, but IBM may be rethinking what it is willing to pay for the enterprise vendor. The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported today that IBM has dropped its offer to $9 to $10 a share, below its previously discussed price of $10 to $11. [ Special report: IBM in talks to ...
iTKO touts Web 2.0, virtualization in test product
iTKO on Thursday is offering an upgrade to its Lisa product for services testing, validation and governance, touting capabilities for Web 2.0 applications and virtualization. Geared to architectures like SOA as well as to business process management, Lisa version 4.6 includes service virtualization for simulating a testing environment and enhanced UI testing support for rich Internet ap...
Dell frees latest Vostro laptops of bloatware
Dell on Thursday introduced small-business laptops that will be free of bloatware, which could help improve system performance and protect storage space. The Vostro laptops will be preloaded only with software that is requested by buyers, Dell said. "Bloatware" refers to trial software that laptop makers often load onto new machines. Software publishers often pay PC manufacturers to inclu...
IBM, Mayo form open source health IT consortium
Biomedical informatics researchers at IBM and the Mayo Clinic have launched a new open source consortium focused on natural language processing (NLP), in an effort to help doctors share diagnosis and treatment information. The Open Health Natural Language Processing Consortium , announced Thursday, will focus on technology to allow for large-scale data aggregation, allowing doctors to mi...
Longjump puts SaaS inside IT shops
Platform-as-a-service provider Longjump announced this week that its on-demand Business Applications Platform can now be licensed and used within a customer's four walls. "Now we are shifting gears. We've found that some large companies are not ready to push all their information into the cloud," said Pankaj Malviya, founder and CEO of Longjump. "We are trying to solve this problem." [ ...
Amazon automates Hadoop use for developers
Amazon.com has launched a hosted service designed to simplify for developers the use of the Hadoop implementation of the MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets in processor clusters. Called Amazon Elastic MapReduce , the cloud computing service is aimed at developers whose applications need to crunch large amounts of data, for which Hadoop is ideally suited. [ Follo...
EMC unveils SourceOne for archiving, compliance
EMC on Thursday unwrapped the SourceOne product family of enterprise archiving, compliance, and e-discovery software. "It's a whole new architecture for integrating multiple kinds of archiving," said Whitney Tidmarsh, chief marketing officer of content management and archiving at EMC. "The old school of archiving application by application is on its way to death." [ E -discovery vendor...
Microsoft Office coming to the iPhone?
Workaholics tethered to their smartphones have another reason to switch to Apple: Rumors that Microsoft's Office Suite is coming to the iPhone are inching towards reality, and iPhone apps with document and spreadsheet editing capabilities are also on the way. At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco , CEO and organizer Tim O'Reilly asked Stephen Elop, President of Microsoft Business Divi...
Palm opens Pre mobile phone to developers
Palm is taking what it hopes is the next step in to make its Palm Pre a viable iPhone competitor . On Wednesday, at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Palm opened up its Mojo Software Development Kit (SDK) program to a "broad group of developers." The Mojo SDK allows developers to make applications for Palm's newest operating system, WebOS , which replaces its once popular Palm OS . The ...
Users to SAP: Enterprise support KPIs need more work
SAP and its customers disagree not just about the value of its Enterprise Support service, but also about how to measure that value -- and now, it seems, about how close they are to agreeing on how to measure that value. The key performance indicators (KPIs) by which SAP will measure the value of its Enterprise Support service are far from ready, the head of the French SAP user group said...
FAA Gets Its New Virtualized Flight-Plan System Off the Ground
EXCLUSIVE: The FAA, which has suffered a series of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes during the last several years, has upgraded its legacy flight-plan filing system to a new open-systems server and storage infrastructure supplied by Stratus Technologies. This architecture is now replacing critical systems that directly affect all air travelers in the United States. - The people whos...
iPhone 3G S Tops Consumer Reports Ranking, with Palm Pre Close Behind
The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports newest smartphone Rankings, though the Palm Pre was close behind. The new capabilities and form factors of smartphones this year forced the advice-giver to reconsider is testing model. - The Apple iPhone 3GS topped Consumer Reports newest smartphone Ratings, according to the blog of the no-nonsense magazine that Americans h...
iPhone 3GS Tops Consumer Reports Ranking, with Palm Pre Close Behind
The Apple iPhone 3GS asserted itself to the top of Consumer Reports' newest smartphone rankings, though the Palm Pre was close behind. The new capabilities and form factors of smartphones this year forced the advice-giver to reconsider its testing model. - The Apple iPhone 3GS topped Consumer Reports newest smartphone ratings,
according to the blog of the no-nonsense magazine that Americans...
Google Apps Opens Up Contacts to Socialize The Enterprise
Google makes it easier for users to find contacts within an enterprise, a move that mirrors some of the functionality in existing enterprise social software providers such as IBM, Socialtext and Jive. Inbox socialization is table stakes for software makers who want to want to appeal to new enterprise customers by making it easier or workers to find company colleagues. -
For Google Ap...
Five Continuing Trends in Data Storage
As we do at six- or 12-month intervals here at eWEEK, we offer a short list of key continuing trends in data storage, based upon daily conversations with storage vendors, analysts, data center managers, CIOs and CTOs -- even a few former industry executives now blissfully retired and simply watching this evolution with continued amazement. - Data storage historically has been thought of as ...
CSC to Resell Microsoft Cloud Services
CSC has announced an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell the software giants cloud-based Microsoft online services. - CSC has announced an agreement with Microsoft where the systems integrator will resell cloud-based Microsoft online services.
Under the agreement, CSC will resell the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, part of Microsoft Online Service...
Labs Gallery: Sun xVM VirtualBox 3.0 Ramps Up Challenge to VMware with SMP Support
VirtualBox, Sun's open-source, cross-platform desktop virtualization product, now boasts support for multiple guest processors. Starting with Version 3.0, which began shipping on June 30, Sun's virtualization tool can expose up to 32 virtual processors to its guest instances. The rest of the changes in VirtualBox 3.0 are primarily bug fixes and tweaks. Even so, the non-free workstation produc...
10 Additional Ways to Geek Out Your Office
Anyone can dress up the office with Ikea lamps and funky furniture, but if you want to truly stand out you have to find the objects and accessories no one else is going to have. Sure, an office desk crafted from an airplane wing may not be your style, but for the tech geek who wants it all, eWEEK presents 10 cool ways to customize your cube, including unusual iPhone docking stations, flying ala...
Cisco, VMware Look to Move VMs Between Data Centers
Cisco and VMware are working on a proof-of-concept around the idea of using VMwares VMotion technology to move live virtual machines between multiple data centers, a capability that would aid in such areas as load balancing, data center maintenance and disaster avoidance. The two companies demonstrated the proof-of-concept during the Cisco Live show. However, VMware officials warn that more wor...
How to Improve IT Cyber Security with Visual Analytics
Few disciplines require the comprehension of as much information in so little time as computer security. With billions of data records piling up daily for large organizations, no technique holds as much promise as using computer-generated images to tell the story of what's in the data a process known as visual analytics. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Justin Wolf explains how to use visual ...
How to Improve IT Cyber-Security with Visual Analytics
Few disciplines require the comprehension of as much information in so little time as computer security. With billions of data records piling up daily for large organizations, no technique holds as much promise as using computer-generated images to tell the story of what's in the data a process known as visual analytics. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Justin Wolf explains how to use visual ...
Mozilla Rushing to Fix Firefox 3.5 Bugs
Mozilla plans to release a patched version of its latest browser, to be named Firefox 3.5.1, in response to certain bugs that have revealed themselves following Firefox 3.5's June 30 release. Firefox 3.5 offers new features such as extensive support for HTML 5, faster speeds than previous versions, and support for JSON and Web worker threads. -
Mozilla will rush out a patch to its Firefox ...
Why Facebook Wants to Open Your Data to The World Wide Web
Facebook's move to simplify and create more granular controls was met with skepticism by industry analysts, who believe the social network wants to get users' profile data on the broader Web to be indexed by search engines from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Ideally, Web advertising opportunities would follow, but Facebook isn't going down that road yet. -
Facebook July 1 ushered in ne...
Michael Jackson Malware Rings in July 4 Weekend
Security researchers at Symantec and Sophos are reporting the prevalence of spam related to the death of pop star Michael Jackson last week. Rather than relying on just their normal Independence Day-related e-mails, spammers have launched a number of campaigns to infect users with malware using news about the singer as a lure. -
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Buzz Aldrin: Forget the Moon, Aim for Mars
The moon? Been there, done that.
Count former astronaut Buzz Aldrin among those who think NASA is off target with its current plans to reach the moon by 2020. Aldrin calls the new race to the moon a glorified rehash of what we did 40 years ago. Instead of the moon, Aldrin envisions an ambitious manned space flight plan that targets a 2025 manned landing on the Martian moon Phobus.
An eWEE...
AMD Rolls Out Latest Quad-Core Opteron
As AMDs six-core “Istanbul” Opteron server processor gets the bulk of the publicity, AMD is rolling out additions to its line of quad-core chips. The latest is “Suzuka,” which addresses the issues of power consumption and cost more than scalability. Suzuka is targeted at such environments as cloud computing, Web servers, small business servers and workstations. The new Opteron comes as AMD ...
Is the BlackBerry`s Advantage Over the iPhone Ubiquity?
NEWS ANALYSIS: RIM's BlackBerry devices, including the new BlackBerry Tour, are available on a variety of carriers' services, including AT T, Verizon Wireless and Sprint. That matters to enterprise customers who rely more and more on their smartphones and other handheld devices. But does Apple realize that? - Research In Motion announced earlier this week that it plans to
bring the BlackBe...
Apple Quarterly Results Could Provide Guidance on iPhone 3G S
Apple will announce the financial results of the third quarter of its 2009 fiscal year in a conference call on July 21. The announcement follows a busy quarter in which iPhone 3GS sales passed 1 million units in three days led by AT T but sold in equal parts by the Apple store, Best Buy and Wal-Mart. The results also come after CEO Steve Jobs returned to work at the company. -
Apple will...
10 Must-See iPhone Apps for Doctors and Patients
Since Apple launched the App Store in July 2008, users have downloaded more than 1 billion iPhone Apps with a variety of uses (or non-uses, if you consider all the games and procrastination tools currently on the market for the device). Companies such as Google, Salesforce.com, and Oracle have even introduced enterprise apps for the consumer-centric devices, aiming to solidify their hold on the...
Microsoft Pulls Off the Wings of Butterfly
Microsoft has ended its Windows Live Butterfly program, which provided a forum for IT pros to play with the betas of the newest Microsoft products before their public release. For those users, Microsoft is offering a number of new options, including MVP program membership and access to future beta testing. -
Microsoft is officially ending its Windows Live Butterfly program, which let a sel...
Ad Industry Sets Seven Privacy Protection Principles
Internet marketers have agreed on a set of seven principles for online ads to foster consumer trust and forestall government regulation.
Apple Files Touchscreen-Related Patent Applications
The iPhone-maker may be on track to fix one of the biggest complaints about the smartphone, and to add RFID and biometric identification capabilities.
WiMax Ready To Surge Again
Growth of the wide-area technology slowed in the economic meltdown, but analysts predict the deployment of WiMax equipment will take off again by year end.
Canonical, Eucalyptus Offer Private Cloud Consulting
Consulting service would encourage the concept of hybrid clouds -- open source private clouds that align with Amazon's EC2 public cloud.
Google Optimizes Search For Mobile Phones
The search giant is tailoring its results to fit better on a mobile screen, and it will also include relevant data from Google News, Google Images, and other Web properties.
Apple Planning Fix For iPhone SMS Flaw
An SMS vulnerability in Apple's iPhone is slated for disclosure at the Black Hat conference later this month. Apple is reportedly rushing to get a fix ready.
Mobile Payments Startup Raises $8 Million
Bling Nation is entering the highly competitive space filled with deep-pocketed rivals like Visa and MasterCard.
California, Hawaii Governors Veto Online Sales Tax
Online retailers, led by Amazon and Overstock, are resisting state legislators' efforts to raise revenue with online sales taxes.
Apple Obliquely Addresses iPhone 3SG Overheating
Users have complained of handsets overheating while using applications that tap the iPhone's GPS and 3G wireless components.
Nokia Updates Ovi Maps
The 3.0 version of Ovi Maps includes 3-D views, weather information, walking directions, and a host of other features.
China's Green Dam 'Definitely' Coming
The controversial requirement that PCs in China come with the Green Dam Web filter may have been postponed, but the rule will be implemented, a Chinese official insists.
Apple Bans Another iPhone App For Nudity
BeautyMeter showed a nude picture of a 15-year-old girl. It's the second explicit app Apple has removed from the App Store in the last week.
First American Spatial Solutions and ESRI Partner, Release Risk Analysis Solution
First American Spatial Solutions and ESRI have released Risk Analysis Solution for ArcGIS.
Dell To Offer Location Features On Mini 10 Netbooks
Skyhook Wireless' Wi-Fi position app is already a standard feature on tens of millions of Apple iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
Farmers Completes Acquisition of 21st Century Insurance
Largest acquisition in the company's history strengthens its position as the third-largest personal lines carrier in the U.S. and makes it the top auto insurer in several states, including California.
Hedge Fund Investors Demand More Data and Oversight
Many hedge fund investors burned by last year's market meltdown will likely demand a system of checks and balances in which outsiders keep a closer watch over assets.
NACHA Launches International Payments Committee
The U.S.-International Committee will allow payments stakeholders in the U.S. to play a more prominent role in shaping the international payments space.
Q&A: Obama's Health IT Czar On Strategy, Incentives
Dr. David Blumenthal explains how work is progressing on a stimulus program that would give doctors and hospitals incentives to use "qualified" electronic health systems.
Bing Adds Twitter Searches
Microsoft's new search engine looks to capture the real-time Web.
U.S. To Release $4 Billion For Broadband
Funds are part of a program built into the federal stimulus package to build an affordable high-speed Internet structure in rural areas.
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Android to go beyond phones to a range of personal devices
The Android mobile platform is destined to be part of many other devices, and a San Jose provider of embedded Linux products will take that a step further by providing an Android-ready Linux kernel for chips to be used in those devices.
Don't sign away your future: Noncompetes done right
You do have rights when presented with a noncompete agreement. Just know what you're signing, and know what your employer is really trying to protect.
Don't try this at home: AMD overclocks new Phenom II X4 to 7GHz
AMD on Thursday introduced the latest member of its Phenom II X4 family of high-performance quad-core CPUs, which the No. 2 chip maker said it had run as fast as 7GHz in extreme overclocking tests.
Apple doesn't get netbooks? Too bad.
No wonder everyone is pining for Steve Jobs to return to Apple. Other executives at the company don't seem to grasp future product trends.
Hathaway advocates for direct White House role on cybersecurity
President Obama's acting senior director for cyberspace called for a more direct White House role in coordinating national cybersecurity efforts.
Don't try this at home: AMD overclocks new Phenom II X4 to 7 GHz
AMD on Thursday introduced the latest member of its Phenom II X4 family of high-performance quad-core CPUs, which the No. 2 chip maker said it had run as fast as 7 GHz in extreme overclocking tests.
With six-core chips and a roadmap, AMD preps for stimulus money fight
With the federal government moving quickly to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the U.S. economy, chip makers AMD and Intel both want a piece of the action. And they're rolling out chips to try and get a competitive advantage.
With six-core chips and a road map, AMD preps for stimulus money fight
With the federal government moving quickly to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to stimulate the U.S. economy, chip makers AMD and Intel both want a piece of the action. And they're rolling out chips to try to get a competitive advantage.
Opinion: Questioning the netbook phenomenon
On Wednesday, Apple COO Tim Cook dissed netbooks and their 'cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware [and] very small screens.' But can any computer maker, including Apple, ignore the trend completely?
Rigged Word docs exploit 2008 bug, say researchers
Attackers who are probably based in China are exploiting a December bug in Microsoft Word to hijack Windows PCs, Vietnamese security researchers warned today.
VMware warns that revenue may fall for the first time in Q2
VMware reported a first-quarter profit on Wednesday but said that sales are being hit by the recession and it might report its first-ever drop in revenue next quarter.
Netbook or ultraportable: Which is best for the job?
The boundaries between the two portable computer types are blurring. Here's how to decide if a laptop or a netbook is right for you.
Are price hikes in store for Sun software support?
Oracle's pending purchase of Sun Microsystems may not have an immediate effect on what customers currently pay to use Sun software, but changes are likely coming, observers said this week.
Nokia puts mobile wallet on SIM card
The new Nokia 6216 classic handset incorporates support for Near Field Communication technology on the SIM card, paving the way for operators to more easily deploy mobile-payment systems.
Apple execs heap scorn on netbooks
Apple executives may be ridiculing netbooks as a computer category not worth their while, but analysts aren't buying the dismissive talk at face value.
Microsoft adds health care to global e-government platform
Microsoft extended a comprehensive e-services framework it is developing for governments around the world, with new modules for helping them build better IT networks for social services.
Will Oracle hike prices for Sun's software support?
Over time, Oracle likely will try to raise the support fees that customers pay on Sun's software, analysts said. But they added that Sun's open-source focus gives users other options.
Mac mini media center: Control everything remotely
In the first three parts of my ongoing venture to make a Mac mini a powerful component of my AV empire we've covered upgrading the Mac, connecting it to a typical AV system, and configuring it to access local and streaming media. We now turn to one of the most important elements of any AV system--controlling it all from the couch.
Windows bugs never really die
Hackers can successfully attack Windows PCs months or even years after Microsoft fixes a flaw, a security expert said today, because there always remains a pool of unpatched systems.
