Intel has unveiled details of its plans for the breed of super-thin, rapid-on, tablet-like laptops which it calls “Ultrabooks” at China’s Computex Taipei 2011. The computer chip giant expects Ultrabooks to take over 40 percent of the laptop market within six to nine months. The new super-thin laptops run on Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor. The [...]
Microsoft will preview specially made Windows tablet software as soon as this week, Bloomberg recently reported. It will showcase the operating system’s touchscreen interface running on hardware that uses an Nvidia Tegra chip, according to the report. “Right now, the stated strategy is to have Windows 8 run on everything except smartphones,” Rob Enderle, principal [...]
Well, the Linux bloggers down at the blogosphere’s Broken Windows Lounge had just barely finished chanting Skype’s funeral dirge last week when word came that there might be reason to belt out another round. Sure enough, turned out Skype has decided to cut its ties with the free and open source Asterisk telephony system, leaving [...]
When I received my shiny new Apple iPad 2, my first fear was protecting my new gadget from breaks or scratches. I know the iPad 2 is wicked strong, but I’ve also seen tough electronic devices fail in unexpected ways. So extra-robust protection is a must for me, and a super-protective case is right for [...]
This is turning out to be an amazing decade, with companies getting a rebirth, other firms getting new identities, and still others sliding into delusional obscurity.
Microsoft released the impressive Windows Phone platform and recently added 500, yep 500, new features, which should give the Android folks a bit of a scare, though Jobs, who is [...]
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The email industry is under a prolonged and targeted attack. Going back almost a year now, service providers and their clients have been the focus of so-called spear-phishing and other intrusions that have resulted in large-scale direct and indirect data breaches. It’s scary stuff, and the worst of it is far from [...]
Google has introduced a new tool to the social networking world using one of its strong suits: Gmail. In the next couple weeks, Google will debut a feature for Gmail called the “People Widget.” The widget will appear to the right of messages and display information about contacts, including recent messages, shared documents, calendar events, [...]
Italian security researcher Rosario Valotta has discovered a new way for hackers to steal their victims’ online credentials — stealing the session cookies from whatever site a victim is visiting. The stolen cookies can then be used to get victims’ computers to download malware, forge clicks or send messages, according to Valotta’s website. The attack, [...]
Based on initial sales reports and some tablet market flip flops, the few Android tablets that have hit the shelves so far seem to have crashed and burned. Early sales figures indicate that no Android tab is coming close to being the much-awaited Apple iPad alternative. But will time heal all? Does the Android tablet [...]
What is Lodsys? It’s a patent troll company. And by all accounts, when it comes time to check in at Hell, patent trolls are said to have a spot right near the front of the line, right next to the people that put kittens in burlap sacks and throw them into rivers. But Lodsys is [...]