Microsoft’s Internet Explorer security patch is now available, as is a security update for Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Here’s a breakdown of what you need and where you can get it.
Mention the words “battery life.” The first gadget that comes to mind is probably the energy-consuming laptop computer — particularly if you’re on the go a lot.
If not, it should be. There never seems to be enough juice to run your portable PC, but if laptop PCs were the extent of your battery blues, you might not feel so, well, powerless. Read the rest of this entry »
With increase in the popularity of the portable music systems, there has been an increasing demand for headphones to extract the best from them, itechnomax brings you the top-5 headphones to hit the market. Check them out.
Sprint Nextel announced Wednesday that it will start selling dual-mode 3G/4G wireless broadband modems for laptops starting Sunday.
Sprint 3G/4G USB Modem U300
(Credit: Sprint Nextel)The new device allows users to access both Sprint’s 3G cellular data network and the new 4G WiMax wireless network the company is building as part of the new Clearwire venture. Read the rest of this entry »
San Francisco – SensAble Technologies, provider of haptic devices, applications, and toolkits, is offering OpenHaptics 3.0, a software development kit to simplify touch-enabling of computer applications.
New categories of developers such as scientists and simulation and training providers can add a sense of touch to their applications, the company said. The product works with SensAble Phantom force-feedback haptic devices, which simulate, for example, the feeling of tissues in a human body by pushing back on a user’s hand. Read the rest of this entry »
The Google Docs team recently released a cool time-lapse video showing how their engineers painted snowflakes on a spreadsheet by filling individual cells with different colors.
For more examples of spreadsheet art, check out Art Of Office – it’s a Microsoft site for Mac Office users that hosts dozens of artwork created in Excel like this pixel painting of rural women. Read the rest of this entry »
They’re called the “iPod Generation” — all those kids wired to earbuds and MP3 players this holiday season as they hunker down to endure long road trips or relatives that visit even longer. But they’re at risk of becoming the “Huh? What?” Generation.
OK, we’ll admit it. Some of us are drawn to dangerous gear like bears to a picnic basket. There’s just something devilishly appealing about mixing a few of our favorite things (tech toys) with one of our least (a ride in the back of a squad car). Just remember: If misused, these gizmos could get you slapped with a set of handcuffs along with a criminal record.
Apple will launch an upgrade to its low-end desktop, the Mac Mini, at January’s Macworld Expo in San Francisco, according to an Apple corporate employee. Read the rest of this entry »
Just think about it. No sockets required to charge your moblies. No running out of Battery while talking on the phone. No feeling frustrated because the lights are gone. All this is thanks to the new Solar Keychain. The size is perfect, good enough to fit into your pockets with your keys. Read the rest of this entry »
On Wednesday, Nvidia is launching its GeForce 9400M “Ion” graphics chipset for Netbooks and small desktop designs. And the Santa Clara, Calif., company is hoping for another coup like the one it staged at Apple, where Nvidia bumped Intel silicon out of the Apple MacBook because of underperforming graphics.
These music creation technologies are disrupting the normal ways in which music has been made in the past.
These music creation technologies are disrupting the normal ways in which music has been made in the past. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks
against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Our investigation so
far has shown that these attacks are only against Windows Internet
Explorer 7 on supported editions of Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows
XP Service Pack 3, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, Windows Server
2003 Service Pack 2, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Service Pack 1, and
Windows Server 2008. Read the rest of this entry »
The NC10 has one of the best batteries we’ve seen in a Netbook, second only to the current 9- and 10-inch Eee PC models from Asus. With about five hours from a not-too-bulky 6-cell battery, it’s a good choice for long flights or extended coffee shop sessions. Read the rest of this entry »
Virgin Media has launched its new 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) domestic broadband service.
In doing so it will be the first UK ISP to roll out a next generation broadband service that runs far faster than most others available to UK web users. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent study from ABI Research, “Mobile Network Vendor SWOT Analysis,” examined the strengths, weaknesses and strategies of the world’s major wireless infrastructure providers. It provides insights into why bad economic times affect some companies more than others.
Microsoft has been rumored for some time to be renaming its Live Search “Kumo” in 2009. However, a trademark application the company filed this month suggests Microsoft may use the name for more than just its search engine.
An unpatched security hole in Internet Explorer that is being exploited affects all versions of the browser, making it more serious than originally believed when it was first publicized two days ago, Microsoft says. This flaw is present in every version of IE in use today, from IE5 all the way through to IE8 Beta 2.People visiting trusted sites could be affected as well from sites targeted by SQL injection attacks through which malicious code is injected into sites,The company recommends setting the Internet zone security setting to “high” and using access control lists to disable Ole32db.dll to provide the most effective protection against an attack.The SANS Internet Storm Center reports that hackers are breaking into legitimate Web sites and uploading code that could install data-stealing software on the machine of a user who visits the site using Internet Explorer. SANS’s chief technology officer Johannes Ullrich estimates that thousands of sites have been seeded with this exploit to date.
Microsoft’s updated advisory lists a number of mitigating factors: Protected Mode in IE 7 and IE 8 in Windows Vista limits the impact of the vulnerability; IE on Windows Server 2003 and 2008 runs in a restricted mode known as Enhanced Security Configuration that sets the security level for the Internet to high; the attacker could only gain the same user rights as the local user; known attacks can not exploit the issue automatically through e-mail.
I would personally advise users to stop using Internet Explorer for a while until a patch is made available. Dont rely on Anti-Virus because according to VirusTotal.com only 4 out of 32 anti-viruses were able to detect it as malicious or suspicious.
Made by tech czars and some of the biggest names in their fields, these predictions have gone way off the mark. In fact, some of them have gone so awry that they are read like a `joke’ today.
Here are the 5 that have been the worst of the lot.
Hardcore gamers know that if you want the fastest possible frame rates, you need the speediest graphic cards available. With this crowd in mind, Gigabyte has recently announced the Gigabyte GV-R487D5-1GD graphics card—an ATI Radeon HD 4870-based, PCIe 2.0 x16 card with 1GB of 256-bit GDDR5 memory.
The GIGABYTE GV-R487D5-1GD features ATI TeraScale graphics engine, boasting teraFLOPS of GPU computing power with 800 stream processors and nearly one billion transistors, claims the company. Equipped with 1GB GDDR5 memory, the GV-R487D5-1GD is able to deliver nearly two times the memory bandwidth of the previous generation.It also supports dynamic contrast and enhanced DVD upscaling and capable of Blu-ray functionality with dual-stream picture in picture and one-cable connectivity.
