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Review: The Patriot Aero streams media without wires—not even a power cable
Like its Seagate Wireless Plus and Corsair Voyager Air competition, the Patriot Aero is by all appearances a simple, if somewhat large, 2.5-inch external USB 3.0 hard drive. The only clue that it’s...
View ArticleMalware steals Litecoins, Bitcoin's younger sibling
A simple piece of malicious software is circulating that steals Litecoins, a virtual currency based on the Bitcoin system. Security vendor ESET wrote the malware infects Windows computers. The program...
View ArticleGoogle rakes in cash from dangerous YouTube videos, claim state attorneys...
Google is benefiting in terms of advertisement revenue from YouTube videos that depict and even promote dangerous or illegal activities, two state attorneys general in the U.S. have stated in a letter...
View ArticleReview: Soluto's paid product offers low-cost support services for small...
Back in 2010, Soluto's first product was a modest affair: All it aimed to do was cut your PC's boot time by removing clutter from your startup. It was well-received, too. Since then, Soluto has grown...
View ArticleWindows 8.1 Photos app loses Facebook, Flickr, and other image sources
In Windows 8.1, the built-in Photos app will no longer serve as the hub for all your online and networked images. Microsoft will drop integration for Facebook and Flickr from the Photos app in the...
View ArticleVulnerability allows attackers to modify Android apps without breaking their...
A vulnerability that has existed in Android for the past four years can allow hackers to modify any legitimate and digitally signed application in order to transform it into a Trojan program that can...
View ArticleICANN board approves registry agreement for new gTLDs
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has approved a broad registry agreement that moves the organization forward in its efforts to offer more than 1000 new generic top-level...
View ArticleReview: CC PDF Converter protects your work with Creative Commons licenses
With Creative Commons licenses, you can distribute your creative work for free and specify the conditions under which it can be used. For example, you can offer your work free for use, provided you...
View ArticleFake Twitter-follower market is adapting, growing, and getting ever cheaper
Psst, want to get 1000 followers on Twitter, quick? It'll cost you: Eleven dollars. While honest folk grind out blog posts and thoughtful tweets in an attempt to grow their credibility on the popular...
View ArticleBill Gates to keynote Microsoft event, take questions
Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will deliver the keynote address at a Microsoft research event later this month, the first time he has done so in eight years, Microsoft said. Gates will speak at the...
View ArticleTwitter toying with more tailored ads aimed at protecting users' privacy
Twitter is working on some new approaches to offer more personalized ads to users, partly based on their online activity outside of the social network. The experiment, which will display promoted...
View ArticleMicrosoft pushes for better touchpads on Windows laptops
Given how many great laptops have been sullied by miserable touchpads, it’s good to hear that Microsoft is trying to do something about it. During last week’s Build 2013 conference, program manager...
View ArticlePreview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials comes with new nag feature
A preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2 is now out, complete with a nag feature aimed at administrators. The new preview pushes related Microsoft services at SMBs via a dashboard that will...
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How to fix a broken favicon
A couple days ago, I fired up my Web browser to discover that my Facebook "favicon" (the little icon that appears on the favorites toolbar right below the address bar) had changed. In place of that...
View ArticleOracle quietly slashes BI software prices
Oracle has quietly cut the list price of its flagship BI (business intelligence) Foundation Suite significantly, possibly in response to increased market competition. BI Foundation Suite was...
View ArticleBox CEO: IPO, beefed up collaboration features on the horizon
Box, the red-hot provider of the eponymous cloud storage and file-sharing service, will boost the collaboration capabilities of its product in the next 18 months, and could become a publicly traded...
View ArticleYahoo buys Xobni; some products have a year to live
Yahoo said Friday that it has bought contact management specialist Xobni for an undisclosed amount, presumably to enhance Yahoo Mail and its related applications. But as to the future of Xobni’s own...
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Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, has died
Douglas Engelbart, a Silicon Valley engineer who invented the computer mouse and is credited with many of the concepts that underpin modern computing and the Internet, died on Tuesday at his home in...
View ArticleEx-Windows 8 chief agrees not to badmouth Microsoft, gets stock payout
Microsoft’s former head of Windows 8 development has agreed not to badmouth Microsoft or work for some of its competitors and in return will receive a payout for unvested stock in the company,...
View Article'Darkleech' malware undertakes ransomware campaign
A persistent, widespread malware campaign that utilizes compromised Apache servers is locking users' computers and demanding a fee of US$300 to free their data.Researchers from Eset wrote that the...
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