Not even 24 hours had passed following Google’s sneak preview of its new social networking initiative — Google+ — before the grumbling began. Briefly, one of the key features of the service, which is still in field-test mode, is +Circles, which allows users to group people into different classes or categories such as work friends, [...]
HP will release the TouchPad in select markets Friday, putting the webOS mobile operating system the company acquired when it purchased Palm into an HP-branded tablet. “WebOS is a very solid operating system that’s very competitive with both iOS and the Android offerings,” Tom Mainelli, a research manager at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. The TouchPad has [...]
Under the legacy approach to software development, developers write code, which is then frozen, tested by another group, released and ultimately supported by yet another team again. Under this highly structured approach, large enterprise software applications are typically updated every 6 to 12 months, and up to several years can pass between major operating system [...]
Apple has attempted to dial down the flack it’s received since the release of its latest movie-editing application, Final Cut Pro X, by publishing an FAQ that addresses some of the editing world’s edgier criticisms. Meanwhile, professional film editors angered by Apple’s recently released Final Cut Pro X video editing software are flocking to sign [...]
If there’s any lesson to be learned in high school, it’s that popularity is a fickle mistress. One day, you can be riding high on the strength of your awesome gaming skills, say, and the next, a fleeting fashion faux pas can bring you crashing down again. But maybe that was just Linux Girl. In [...]
Microsoft has applied for a patent on technology that may let its user secretly intercept Voice over IP communications, amend the content and store it. The application was filed in December 2009 and was recently made public. The technology could allow the monitoring of conversations, voice messages and video conferences over a variety of devices, [...]
Google took a second stab at social networking Tuesday with the launch of Google+, a program designed to interactively connect users and challenge worldwide social networking king Facebook. The search engine giant failed with its first attempt at an online social network, last year’s Google Buzz, which encountered difficulties in cracking the crowded social scene [...]
Between the repeated attacks on the United States government’s IT infrastructure by foreign hackers and incursions by LulzSec, a hacker community whose members wandered in and out of government cybersystems before publicly disbanding this week, it’s not difficult to conclude that the U.S.’s federal IT infrastructure is the cybersecurity equivalent of Swiss cheese. LulzSec trashed [...]
Converting media files can be a huge chore. The lack of standardization results in competing audio and video file standards. The file conversion fiasco is further compounded by a lack of choices that do not require a computer degree to use. Frustration mounts in using various media players and conversion tools that handle some but [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday launched its newest cloud service, Office 365, in 40 markets. The service consists of online versions of Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Lync. Pricing runs from $2 to $11 per user per month. Microsoft’s building up an ecosystem around the service, and more than 20 service providers around the world, [...]