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Software RSS FeedsMcAfee SuperDAT 4867 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files....Feed Source: McAfee DAT 4867 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... iNetFormFiller Free v3.5.13 - Stores personal data and fills web-forms automatically. Records any order of actions required for form filling (including clicks on web-links) and automatically reproduces this order. Possibility to edit forms without page loading, subject profiles, intellectual identification and filling of fields of any types.... 12Ghosts ShowTime v8.09 - Enhance your taskbar clock to show the date and a second time zone. You may display seconds smaller and the date in a different color, for example. Everything is configurable! An alarm can be set daily or at a certain date. The comfortable snooze function reminds you repeatedly until it is answered. With a list of 12 world times, chimes, hour signal, chronograph, and quickly accessible countdown the program is powerful and a pleasure to use.... 12Ghosts Backup v8.09 - 12Ghosts Backup saves every change of your documents while you are working on them. Automatically stores changed versions in an archive folder and applies a smart filter to keep versions of all ages.... 12Ghosts Shredder v8.09 - Overwrite files, drag and shred, DoD conform, Wipe Disk. Delete even if the file is locked! No trails are left of any compromising or confidential information. Nobody will ever be able to recover files from your disk! Nobody will even find out the previous name or file size. The file can be overwritten several times with random bits so that even the finest magnetic tracks are mixed up. An irreplaceable extension for every Windows user.... LBE Desktop Helpdesk v4.0.163 - Easy to use helpdesk software,sensibly priced to suit all businesses. No extensive training required. Easily configured to reflect the way that you work. Uses e-mail to keep everyone informed. Maintains a complete audit trail of all actions. Extensive reports supplied. Scalable - supports Access, Oracle and Sql Server. Complete control over data presentation including conditional formatting, export to html, print preview, drag and drop grouping.... Usenet Explorer v1.7.2 - Usenet Explorer is a multi server, multi windows, multitasking newsreader for text and binaries. A powerful binary downloader, without compromising support for text. Supports virtual groups and grouping binary posts into collections. Full download automation capabilites. Fast and reliable. Includes comprehensive usenet binary indexing service. ... FTP Voyager v13.0.0.4 - FTP Voyager lets you perform FTP tasks as if working locally in Windows Explorer. Connect to any FTP site, drag-n-drop files, synchronize, simultaneous transfers, auto-resume downloads, and more. Allowing you to maintain your web site by clicking on one button, FTP Voyager transfers only files that need to be transferred. FTP Voyager includes direct server-to-server transfers, multiple window support, scheduler, queuing, and much more. FTP Voyager gives you everything you need and more to make your FTP operations easy and hassle-free.... Serv-U v6.3.0.1 - Serv-U is a powerful, easy-to-use, award-winning FTP server created by Rob Beckers. An FTP server uses the FTP protocol to share files across the Internet. Serv-U is not only 100% compliant with the current FTP standard, but also includes numerous features unique to Serv-U that make it a perfect file sharing solution for virtually everyone.... ShellToys XP v5.2.2 - ShellToys XP is a suite of 27 shell extensions adding new features to the Windows context menu for files, folders, windows and dialogs. Right-click a single file to encrypt, decrypt, shred or split it, change its extension, date or attributes. Image files display a preview on the menu, zip files display contents for easy extraction of one or more files.... Audiotools v6.32 - Audiotools is a direct to disc audio recorder used to record from LPs and cassettes whilst breaking into separate songs automatically or under user control. It can process audio live or off-line, applying equalization, gain, noise reduction etc with support for plugins to add further processes. The software works with files in a variety of formats, including MP3, WAV, OGG and WMA, and also includes built in support for CD ripping and burning.... Cursor Hider v1.4.7.1 - Cursor Hider helps you to work more productively. It removes the mouse pointer (the mouse cursor does not cover the entered text) while you are working with the keyboard and returns the pointer with any mouse action. You can turn off the mouse pointer completely. This is very useful option for touch screen devices. You will not see the cursor at all.... EMS MS SQL Manager Lite v2.5 - EMS MS SQL Manager Lite is a light and easy-to-use freeware graphical tool for MS SQL/MSDE administration. It has minimal required set of instruments for those users who are new to MS SQL server and need only it's basic functionality. It makes creating and editing MS SQL Server database objects easy and fast, and allows you to run SQL scripts, manage users and their privileges, simply edit SQL queries and more.... Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 4, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000,
NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me,
NAV 2002 Professional Edition,
NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro,
NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT,
NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher,
NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel),
NAV for MS Exchange (Intel),
Norton SystemWorks (all versions),
Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions),
pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT.... Medved QuoteTracker v3.7.9C Beta - QuoteTracker is a Windows program that integrates with various datafeeds, brokers and financial sites to provide you with streaming real-time quotes, Live intraday charts with Technical Indicators, Level II quotes, Time and Sales, alerts, news monitoring, and everything else you may need to effectively trade in today's market.
It also ties into major brokers to give you full Integrated trading from within the software. You can trade through your own broker using QuoteTracker direct access interface. Order Entry and transaction monitoring is drastically faster.... Trend Micro Pattern File 3.819.00 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ... Bersoft Image Measurement v5.0 - Bersoft Image Measurement is intended for measuring and analyzing digital images.
Measurements are done by pointing and clicking, using angle, distance, perimeter, area, point and line measurement tools or in an automated way, when calculating statistics, pixel profile, object finding, and array/band analysis.
Supports image acquisition from TWAIN devices and many different types of images, including DICOM files.... BookCAT v8.11 - BookCAT is a tool to help you maintain an inventory of your book collection. It will help you track what you have in your library, where it is, and the total value of your collection.... SQL-RD v5.0 - This powerful, intuitive and easy to use report scheduler will save you from the mundane job of manually running SQL Server Reporting Services reports daily, weekly, monthly etc and then exporting them to e-mails to be sent to your client, boss etc. Simply schedule to an email, printer, fax, ftp or folder, choose the output format (word, rpt, pdf etc). Single or packages of reports.... McAfee SuperDAT 4866 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... McAfee DAT 4866 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... Becky! Internet Mail v2.27.00 - Becky! is a multi-featured E-mail client specialized for Windows 95/98/NT4.0 and the Internet. You will find many features which are expected for an Internet E-mail software, and some of them would be beyond your expectations.... BWMeter v2.6.0 - BWMeter is a powerful bandwidth meter and monitor, which measures and displays all traffic on your network. Unlike other products, it can analyze the data packets (where they come from, where they go, which port and protocol they use). BWMeter can create statistics for all computers in your network, measuring and displaying all internal network traffic as well as download and upload from the internet.... DzSoft PHP Editor v4.0.1.1 - DzSoft PHP Editor is a handy and powerful tool for writing and testing PHP scripts and HTML/XML pages. Being designed specifically for PHP development, it has a friendly, but powerful interface that is comfortable both for beginners and experienced programmers. Has convenient one-click preview in internal browser (with no web server required), quick code inserts and many other essential things needed for easy and productive PHP development.... DeskTool v3.1 - DeskTool is a desktop toolbar designed to give you easy access to frequently-used applications by displaying an organized row of buttons from which to choose. DeskTool is tightly integrated into the desktop shell of Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000/ME/XP/2003.... Passwords by Mask v1.45 - Passwords by Mask is an application designed to generate passwords of any character content. This application is smallest, easiest and realfast program could be used for network administrators, internet service providers and other jobs where passwords must be created and administered. Passwords by Mask allow users to do choice type of password symbols. You can to fix random or specified alphabetic, random or specified numeric, random or specified alphanumeric,random or specified special or random or specified all keyboard characters for every password symbol.... Offline Explorer Pro v4.4 SR1 - Offline Explorer Pro builds on our award-winning Offline Explorer product. Using Offline Explorer you can download an unlimited number of your favorite Web and FTP sites for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. Offline Explorer also has many web development features that will allow you to easily edit, view, browse or search your downloaded Web pages using Offline Explorer`s built-in browser... Offline Explorer v4.4 SR1 - MetaProducts Offline Explorer (OE) is a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP program that allows you to download an unlimited number of your favorite Web and FTP sites for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. (HTTPS, RTSP and MMS downloads are supported in Offline Explorer Pro version.) OE also has many web development features that allow you to easily edit, view, browse or search downloaded Web pages (OE has a built-in internal browser.)... Backup Outlook v1.2.2 - Backup and restore your Outlook quick and easy. Your mails, appointments, journal, tasks, notes and contacts are saved. Furthermore your email accounts, junk-mail-settings, categories, signatures, stationeries, macros and other settings are included in the backup. BackupOutlook is even for beginners easy to use. This makes BackupOutlook the ideal tool to transfer your settings from one computer to another.... Trend Micro Pattern File 3.815.00 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ... Offline Explorer Enterprise v4.4 SR1 - Using Offline Explorer Enterprise, you can download an unlimited number of your favorite Web, FTP, HTTPS, MMS and RTSP sites for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. Offline Explorer Enterprise also has many web development features that will allow you to easily edit, view, browse or search your downloaded Web pages using Offline Explorer`s built-in browser.... Binary Vortex v3.7 - BinaryVortex downloads files from Usenet Newsgroups. It is optimized for downloading images, and includes both thumbnail and full-screen image viewers. Movies, sound files, applications, and other types of files may be downloaded as well. BinaryVortex is designed to be very easy to use, and is well suited for novice users. Supports yEnc. Shareware version is fully functional with no disabled features or expiration. NO spyware and NO adware.... McAfee SuperDAT 4865 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... McAfee DAT 4865 - Virus definition, or .DAT, files contain up-to-date virus signatures and other information that Network Associates anti-virus products use to protect your computer against the thousands of computer viruses in circulation. Network Associates releases new .DAT files regularly to provide protection against the approximately 300 new viruses that appear each month. To ensure that your anti-virus software can protect your system or network against the latest virus threats, download and install the latest .DAT files.... SecureFX v4.0 Beta 4 - SecureFX is a high-security file transfer client for SFTP and FTP with flexible configuration and choice of transfer protocols. SecureFX combines an easy-to-use interface with advanced features like site synchronization, relentless file transfers, and public-key and Kerberos v5 (GSSAPI) authentication. Drag and drop files file to or from the desktop or remote servers, or perform unattended file transfers with the SFXCL command-line utility.... SecureCRT v5.2 Beta 4 - SecureCRT software combines the secure login and data transfer capabilities of Secure Shell (SSH) with the reliability, usability and configurability of a proven Windows terminal emulator.... CRT v5.2 Beta 4 - Rock-solid terminal emulator for Telnet, RLogin, and serial protocols with advanced session management. Emulations include VT100, VT102, VT220, ANSI, SCO ANSI, Wyse 50/60, Xterm, and Linux console-all with ANSI color. Switch easily between sessions with the tabbed interface and manage sessions in the session folders and Activator tray utility. CRT supports ActiveX, named sessions, auto logon, emacs mode, SOCKS firewall, and pass-through printing.... MySlideShow v2.7 - MySlideShow lets you create and play slideshows with your pictures.... Norton AntiVirus Virus Definitions October 3, 2006 - This is the latest virus pattern to detect the latest viruses. This update will work on the following products: NAV 2000 for Win9x/NT/2000,
NAV 2001 for Win95b/98/NT/2000/Me,
NAV 2002 Professional Edition,
NAV 2002 for Win98/Me/NT/2000/XP Home/XP Pro,
NAV 4.0 for Windows 3.51,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for Win9x,
NAV 5.0 and 2000 for WinNT,
NAV for Firewalls 1.5 or higher,
NAV for Lotus Notes (Intel),
NAV for MS Exchange (Intel),
Norton SystemWorks (all versions),
Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98 (all versions),
pcAnywhere32 7.5 and higher for WinNT.... TextAloud v2.210 - Converts any text into spoken words. Reads Text, Email, Web Pages, and Documents using your choice of voices. Unique Text to MP3 or WMA conversion saves your daily reading to audio files for download to your portable player. Listen to email, online news, or important documents while you exercise, work or commute. Available with exciting premium voices from ATT Natural Voices, Cepstral and NeoSpeech to add amazing personality to your PC.... KoolMoves v5.6 - KoolMoves is an affordable Flash authoring tool that is full featured and easy to use. It is ideal for creating a wide range of web content including high impact web pages, banners, navigation systems, and multimedia slide shows. It features libraries of text effects, Flash templates, and clip art. For advanced users, it has Flash MX action scripting, interface components, and bones for character animation.... HDDlife for Notebooks v2.9.105 - The simplest and most reliable method to protect data on a hard drive is to monitor its health. Even within a standard operating system, you will be able to protect your notebook hard drive if you add the HDDlife drive health monitor to standard utilities. It constantly monitors the drive state and shows you the health percentage. HDDlife gives recommendations and takes measures to ensure the health of your drive.... HDDlife v2.9.105 - HDDLife is a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.... HDDlife Pro v2.9.105 - HDDLife is a real-time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention features. This hard drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that manages all of your hard drive risks. HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based, and works both for single PCs and large computer networks.... MyProxy v7.56 - High quality web accelerator with powerful pop-up & ad blocker and cache will save your time, money and nerves. MyProxy allows you to optimize your Web connection. Browse the Internet without having to deal with ad banners and pop-up ads. Keep track of the traffic amount and money you have spent for Internet.... Asset Tracker for Networks v6.2 - Network inventory tool intended to audit software and hardware components installed on the computers over the network. This asset management tool will collect your network inventory information, provide the Network Administrator with the detailed comprehensive reports and allow you to export assets details to external storages, such as SQL database or web site... Advanced Directory Printer v1.17 - Advanced Directory Printer is a Windows based application designed to
print or export a list of directories, sudirectories and files.
Information fields include file name, type, extension, size, creation
time/date,last access date, last write time/date and file attributes --
and you can choose which fields to print or export.
Advanced Directory Printer allows you to sort the list of directories,
sudirectories and files.... Trend Micro Pattern File 3.811.00 - The Official Pattern Release or OPR is Trend Micro's latest compilation of patterns for identified viruses. It is guaranteed to have passed a series of critical tests to ensure that customers get optimum protection from the latest virus threats. ... Global Downloader v1.2 - GD is a universal application to search and download files from the Internet quickly and conveniently. It combines many functions of different Internet programs like P2P client, FTP client and Download Manager. GD lets you have many Internet applications in one universal program. GD has a nice looking user interface and it's very easy to use. GD can resume broken downloads, supports multiple p2p/ftp/ftps recursive downloads, and drag and drop.... 90's game hero Duke Nukem returns after delay of more than a decade - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Friday, 2K Games and Gearbox Software announced they will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC in 2011. The game was first announced in 1997 and has long been considered the most legendary case of "vaporware," that is, hardware or software that is announced but released either too late or not at all.The story of Duke Nukem Forever is so legendary that its delay inspired its own parody game franchise. D3's Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard was released in 2009, and featured a gun-slinging action game hero very similar to Nukem returning to video games after a six-year hiatus."Gearbox has enabled die-hard key Duke Nukem franchise builders and skilled veteran game makers to stand together and deliver," Randy Pitchford, president of Gearbox Software said today. "All gamers deserve a happy ending and after al... Ping off to a rocky start as spam, issues plague service - By Ed Oswald, Betanews
Apple's foray into social music is not going well as its Ping service is experiencing a multitude of problems, including comment spam, a lack of promised functionality, and generally inconsistent user experience.Security researcher Chet Wisniewski at Sophos said Apple is not employing any type of spam or URL filtering, as comments such as those advertising "free iPhones" were already appearing some 24 hours after the site's launch. He also said that Apple has made it easy for those to abuse the service."No credit card or other positive identification is required to participate," he pointed out in a blog post. Without this, a user could create accounts easily simply by creating a bogus iTunes account which in turn would allow a bogus Ping account to be created.Ping is also suffering from a case of overpromising and underdelivering, apparently. ... Company of Heroes Online open beta launches, rewards early adopters - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Video game maker THQ has opened the beta of Company of Heroes Online, a free-to-play World War II strategy game based upon THQ's critically acclaimed real-time strategy franchise Company of Heroes, originally released for Windows in 2006.The open beta of Company of Heroes Online includes 17 multiplayer maps which can be used in two, four, six, and eight-player modes, and beta testers can play one-player campaign mode from Company of Heroes for free. Users that register on ... Verizon offers prepaid data plans for smart phones - By Ed Oswald, Betanews
Verizon strengthened its prepaid offerings on Thursday, introducing prepay data plans for consumers who wish to use smart phones on a no contract basis. While the acquisition costs for those phones will be significantly higher, a customer would be free to leave at any time.Prepaid data plans would cost the user $30 per month, and include unlimited data access. The company would offer a 250MB data plan for "multimedia" phones, which would be a $10 per month add on. Both offerings would become available beginning immediately in Verizon's own stores, and online on September 28, the company said.Data plans are not mandatory on prepaid phones, but would require a voice plan in order to be added to a user's account. The monthly fee is the same as a postpaid contract holder would pay, although its voice plans start at a $5 premium to the postpaid customer.... Samsung bets on Galaxy Tab in race against Apple's iPad - By Ed Oswald, Betanews
In what could potentially be the first serious challenge to Apple's dominance in the tablet sector, Samsung Thursday debuted the Galaxy Tab, a 7-inch Android powered tablet device. It will initially be available in European markets later this month, with a broader worldwide launch shortly afterward.Although the device's screen size is smaller than the iPad, much of the rest of the specifications are quite similar. The Tab includes a 1GHz processor; up to 64GB of storage space; 3G, Bluetooth, and 802.11 wireless connectivity, and high definition playback of digital content.One thing it does have that the iPad does not is a front and back facing camera: the front one is 1.3 megapixels, while the back camera would support 3 megapixels as well as an LED flash. No announcement was mad... Why can't Apple's Ping sing? - By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Is Apple going to compel me to write another "I was wrong post?" Yesterday I extolled Ping -- Apple's new social music discovery tool -- based on features and product strategy. Finally, late last night, Apple widely distributed iTunes 10, giving me the chance to finally use Ping. The results aren't good. The discovery tool is simply useless, because Ping doesn't reflect my current music listening habits.One of Ping's most important personal features is "What I Like." It can automatically display 10 popular songs, allowing friends to see what the Ping user (hereafter referred to as Pinger) listens to (there is a manual option, too). "What I Like" is crucial to music discovery friend-to-friend, and it broadcasts the Pinger's musi... Toshiba recalls overheating and melting Satellite T-series notebooks - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Thursday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada announced a recall of three Toshiba Satellite T-series notebook computers: T135, T135D and ProT130, for reports that the units' AC adaptors cause them to overheat and melt.
Though there have been no injuries reported, the CPSC said it received 129 reports of the computer cases melting and deforming, presenting a fire and burn hazard.Toshiba's own recall notice says the problem stems from a potentailly faulty DC-In harness, which "in some circumstances, overheat to the point of ... First voice-over-LTE call placed in US public safety band - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent Thursday announced that the first voice call in the 700MHz band of LTE has been completed. This is the section of wireless spectrum that is being utilized in the United States' national public safety network.Part of the FCC's National Broadband Plan (Chapter 16, to be exact) outlines the creation of a nationwide interoperable public safety wireless broadband communications network, used specifically for first responders and issues of national importance. The high speed network will utilize a 10MHz block of spectrum in the 700MHz band, and approval for construction has been obtained in ... Samsung: new wireless USB chips capable of 480Mbps max - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Samsung Thursday announced its latest two-chip wireless USB solution capable of transmission speeds up to 480Mbps with an actual throughput rate of 200Mbps. The result is reportedly ten times more power efficient than 802.11g Wi-Fi. The product is made up of two chips, S3C2680, a baseband processor with an ARM 9 core, built-in NAND flash controller, SD I/O, and two USB 2.0 PHYs; and S5M8311a, a separate RF transciever. The chips can be deployed in SD cards, USB dongles, or embedded directly into consumer electronics. Samsung says the solution is especially suited for digital cameras and HD camcorders for high throughput local content sharing. ... HP wins 3PAR with $2.4 Billion bid, Dell backs down - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
The bidding war between HP and Dell over virtualized storage company 3PAR is in its third week, and as of Thursday morning, HP looks to have won. The Palo Alto IT giant turned the tables on Dell with a $2 billion bid last Friday that caused 3PAR to announce it was terminating the merger agreement it had reached with Dell in mid-August. When Dell received 3PAR's notice of termination, it raised its acquisition offer once again, from $27 per share to $32, and modified the terms of its proposal to include an increased termination fee of $92 million. 3PAR's board of directors determined Dell's offer to be unacceptable, and HP fired back with a counter-offer to buy 3P... Roku and Boxee weigh in on today's AppleTV update - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
While the over-the-top (OTT) streaming entertainment category has not made a big dent in the mainstream home TV viewing market yet, it's a hot business, and service providers, software makers, and hardware manufacturers are all jockeying for the biggest piece of the pie.
When AppleTV debuted alongside the iPhone at Macworld in 2007, it was more or less a stripped-down home theater PC so users could enjoy their iTunes media on their televisions. Relatively little had changed on the platform until today, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the box would lose its storage capacity and become rental-only, ... Steve Jobs: 'Ping is for social music discovery' - By Joe Wilcox, Betanews
Apple's September 1 music event ended on a sour note. Coldplay's Chris Martin gave a tepid and pitchy performance that would have sent him packing from an American Idol audition. Michael Stanclift aptly tweeted: "This guy could have practiced before this gig." Martin, whose daughter is named Apple, seemed like the right performer for what was otherwise an outstanding event. While Martin muffed, Apple -- the company, not his child -- hit every key. Not sin... Windows Phone 7 is released to manufacturing - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Microsoft announced that the highly anticipated Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to manufacturing on Wednesday, a major milestone for the project.Following the release of its developer toolkit, Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 technical preview to its developer, carrier and manufacturing partners in July. Since that time, the mobile OS has been updated in a number of ways, such as including intelligent Facebook contact filtering (only real friends show up,) and the ability to "like" Facebook posts from within the People Hub."Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform Microsoft has ever released. We had nearly ten thousand devices runni... Microsoft makes second push to upgrade households to Windows 7 - By Ed Oswald, Betanews
In a sign that Windows 7 sales may be beginning to falter somewhat, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it would be bringing back its Windows 7 Family Pack discount program. The offer gives multi-computer households the opportunity to upgrade three PCs to Windows 7 Home Premium.The deal is available beginning October 3 at a price of $149.99. This is a considerable savings over individual upgrades: a single copy of Home Premium alone retails for $129.99. It is unclear when the promotion would end, although Microsoft began pulling last year's offer in December.Statistics from IDC indicate that the average household has at least two computers, so it's not out of the question that reintroducing the offering could accelerate operating system sales for Microsoft once again.Selling the family pack likely helped Microsoft escalate Windows 7 adoption... Redesigned AppleTV now $99, rentals and streaming now the focus - By Ed Oswald, Betanews
Apple's hobby got a little more serious on Wednesday as the Cupertino company debuted a much smaller and cheaper version of its AppleTV set-top box. The device also heralds the introduction of rentable TV shows, a move that had been widely expected.The new AppleTV device is less than a quarter of the size of its predecessor, and has no storage space. Instead users would stream content from Apple's servers, and content available to the box would be rent-only.Users can either choose to use the built-in Wi-Fi or wired ethernet for Internet connectivity, and the device would be connected to the TV through its included HDMI port.First-run movies would remain at $4.99, however instead of the $2.99 p... Nokia to shut down Ovi Files 'digital locker' service on October 1 - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Nokia's cloud-based "digital locker" service Ovi Files will be shut down on October first, Nokia is warning users. The service was used for making files remotely accessible through a mobile device's browser.Nokia added Files to the suite of Ovi services in 2008 after it acquired digital locker startup Avevenu. When we tested the service back in 2008, Nokia said it planned to make Files a premium service, but it was ultimately made free in 2009. Files was significant because it was the first service in Nokia's Ovi suite that utilized the Nokia account ID.... New iPods: Apple pulls buttons off the Nano and gives them back to the Shuffle - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
At Apple's annual iPod refresh event today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs revealed the "biggest change in the iPod lineup ever," which included dramatic changes to both the Nano and Shuffle which seem to reverse advancements made to the models last year.Last year, Apple unveiled a shockingly small iPod shuffle which had no buttons. Instead, the controls for the device were put on the headphone cord, and required that users purchase an adaptor to use any headphones other than those made for the Shuffle. This year, Apple looks to have completely undone what was attempted with last year's Shuffle, and has brought back the design from the previous year which has the clickable control pad directly on the surface of the device.... A look at new portable media players for Fall 2010 that aren't iPods - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Apple's annual iPod refresh has taken place in the first week of September for the last five years, and the event coincides with back-to-school Mac and iPod promotions. Since the iPod has held a dominant share of the United States' portable media player (PMP) market, this is often the time of year when other consumer electronics companies debut new PMPs for the back-to-school season too.This year, in the days surrounding Apple's September 1 event, Sandisk, Phillips, Archos, and Samsung have all revealed new media players that will compete against the newly-refreshed 2010-2011 iPod line.
Sandisk Sansa Fuze+Milpitas, California-bas... Microsoft's flexible Arc Touch Mouse goes up for pre-order - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Microsoft Wednesday announced the availability of its Arc Touch mouse, a brilliantly designed mouse that can be flattened to fit into a laptop bag. The peripheral uses a capacitive touch panel in place of a scroll wheel, and provides haptic feedback that simulates the gentle ratcheting action of a traditional scroll wheel. In light of the recent popularity of touchscreens and... Borders offers cheapest, most diverse e-reader selection among booksellers - By Tim Conneally, Betanews
Contrary to popular opinion, the competition between e-reader hardware manufacturers is nothing compared to the competition between e-book retailers. Tuesday, second place book retailer Borders revised its aggressive strategy for e-reader sales, slashing the price of its two e-ink readers before the arrival of its Android-based tablet readers from Velocity Micro.In June, Borders unveiled its $149.99 Kobo e-reader, which was met with considerable consumer interest due in large part to its low retail price. After Kobo's launch, both Barnes and Noble and Amazon ... Copyright © 2010, Jelloreceipes.com. All Rights Reserved. |