Posted by Aruna on July 29th, 2010
Predictions that Apple’s bright tablet computer would be a Kindle-killer haven’t quite come to pass: Amazon CEO Bezos says that the growth rate in sales of his e-reading device has tripled since June, when he dropped the Kindle price to $189. (Clearly increased competition from other e-readers, like Sony Reader and the Barnes and Noble Nook, hasn’t dampened the Kindle fire, either.) And he’s still kvelling over last week’s announcement that e-book sales on Amazon exceed the number of hardback books sold by the e-commerce site. “And that’s with a device at the end of its product life cycle,” he says.
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Posted by Aruna on July 29th, 2010
Apple’s new Safari extension gallery looks a lot like the iOS App Store, populated with colorful icons that hold strange and wonderful things. In case browsing the 100 extensions Apple offers for Safari 5.01 is too much effort, here are eight good ones to get you started:
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Posted by Aruna on July 29th, 2010
Just a few short years ago, all a PC needed for protection was a basic antivirus program to guard against any malware that arrived via an e-mail attachment, embedded in a shareware application or piggy-backed on a floppy disk.
These days, however, the threat landscape has changed drastically. Now PC users have to cope not only with viruses, but also with spyware, spam, infected Web sites, adware, key loggers, phishing schemes and much, much more. It’s enough to make your head spin.
The crowded market makes picking a suite a bit of a dilemma for most users. Narrowing down which product to use requires a closer look at what type of protection is available.
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Posted by scamboy on July 28th, 2010
The latest Chrome browser is currently in the version of 5.0.375.125 for Linux, Mac, and Windows to address multiple vulnerabilities.
Google who released the new version earlier on monday said that these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information.
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Posted by Aruna on July 28th, 2010
The second beta release of the next version of Firefox is now available.
Download Firefox 4 Beta 2 from Mozilla and test it out. Windows, Mac OS X and Linux builds are available in multiple languages. We were originally expecting it to arrive last Friday, but the release was delayed a few days for quality assurance testing.
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Posted by Aruna on July 27th, 2010
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told ABC’s Diane Sawyer this week that Facebook would “definitely think about” adding a Dislike button to the site, allowing users to express distaste for updates or pages on Facebook.
But Zuckerberg is just humoring us: Facebook will never add a Dislike button, regardless of users’ demands.
Here’s why:
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Posted by Aruna on July 27th, 2010
Microsoft released early preview versions of Windows Phone 7 smartphones to 1,000 developers last week to start giving them–and the world–a peek at what the new mobile OS can do. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the features the device lacks overshadow the features and functions that set the device apart from all of the copycat smartphones currently available.
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