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Skype flaw can reveal users' identity, location, filesharing habits
- Security researchers have revealed vulnerability that could allow an attacker to identify a person, track their location and monitor their filesharing habits. In a paper titled "I Know Where You are and What You are Sharing: Exploiting P2P Communications to…
BitTorrent updates Mac clients, iPad gets remote makeover
- BitTorrent has announced new stable version of its µTorrent and BitTorrent Mainline clients for the Mac, bringing their feature set closer to their Windows counterparts with support for RSS feeds and Smart Feed subscriptions, scheduling, and more. One of the major new…
Microsoft outlines Windows 8 search improvements
- Microsoft has detailed some of the improvements they have made to search functions in Windows 8. Program manager for the search, view and command user experience team Brian Uphoff authored the post on Microsoft’s Building Windows 8 blog which focuses…
PC version of Battlefield 3 leaks onto torrent sites
- With just over a week before its official launch in the U.S., DICE’s highly anticipated PC version of Battlefield 3 has reportedly made its way to various torrent sites. Gaming website Dark Side of Gaming says the download is 9.96GB…
Weekend Open Forum: What are your software essentials?
- Let's revisit an old topic for this installment of the Weekend Open Forum. Three years ago we asked about your software 'essentials', those that you rely on everyday and usually install on your machine first thing after a clean install. …
Microsoft details Windows 8 Task Manager features and layout
- Microsoft has detailed some of the new changes in Task Manager coming with Windows 8. The new version is a major change to the app that brings multiple improvements to one of Microsoft’s most commonly used features.
Ubuntu Linux 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' debuts
- After months of anticipation, the latest release of Ubuntu Linux (11.10) hit the download servers yesterday roughly six months since the release of its previous version, 11.04. The free operating system from Canonical is now available for download as 32-bit, 64-bit…
C programming language creator Dennis Ritchie dies at age 70
- Pioneering computer scientist Dennis Ritchie passed away yesterday at age 70 after battling a long running illness. Ritchie was better known as a co-creator of Unix, but he also invented the C programming language back in 1971.
Apple publishes guide on how to set up iCloud
- Apple has released a guide to show users how to set up iCloud on their iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac or PC. The instruction set also details how to activate Find My iPhone, a feature that allows you to easily…
Microsoft discusses Windows 8's Metro UI changes
- Microsoft's Windows 8 developer preview has been out for about a month, and while first impressions have been generally favorable, it has also received some harsh criticism from people who just don't like the new Metro UI Start screen. In…
BlueStacks' Android-on-Windows software ready for testing
- Silicon Valley startup BlueStacks has officially launched the alpha version of its App Player for Windows, which lets users run Android apps in full screen on Windows 7. We covered the announcement of BlueStack's virtualization solution back in May, but…
Adobe previews prototype blur-fixing feature at MAX 2011
- Adobe has offered a peek at an upcoming feature for Photoshop that could make blurred photos a thing of the past by calculating the movements of the camera at the time the image was taken and enabling a one-click fix.…
Windows 8 to feature improved memory management
- Windows 8 will have a smaller memory footprint than previous versions, providing better performance to systems and devices using small amounts of RAM. Since the OS will be fully compatible with ARM SoC products, having plenty of available memory on…
Google releases Dart programming language, takes aim at JavaScript
- Google has launched an early preview of their new programming language for web application developers. Known as Dart, the language intends to overcome some of the inadequacies found in JavaScript and eventually evolve into a solid platform for structured web…
Download of the Week: Chrome Remote Desktop
- Call it an obsession of ours, in the past two years that we've had our Download of the Week feature, we've recommended several different applications to remotely manage a range of PCs or hardware around you.
Microsoft updates antivirus after falsely labeling Chrome as malware
- Microsoft has made changes to its Security Essentials, Forefront and Defender software after it falsely identified Google's Chrome browser as a well-known online banking Trojan called Zeus and blocked it from users' computers. In an advisory bulletin released on Friday, Microsoft…
Google’s plans for Chrome keep moving forward
- As noted last week, Google's Chrome browser usage has risen to 16.2 percent according to the latest stats for desktop and laptop computers released by Net Applications. If this growth continues, it could see the browser break the 20 percent…
Download of the Week: Process Manager for Windows
- Process Manager for Windows is a simple utility that adds a few handy options to Windows' context menu when right-clicking on a taskbar item. The app runs silently in your system tray and eats less than 1MB of RAM. Though…
Chrome on track to overtake Firefox by year's end
- Google’s Chrome is on track to surpass Mozilla’s Firefox as the second most popular browser globally by the end of the year. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer holds a solid lead among all other competitors, according to data from free website analytics…
Mozilla releases Firefox 7.0, improves memory usage
- Mozilla has released the final build of Firefox 7.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux today. The latest stable release is said to correct an issue that has plagued the browser over the past several iterations, resulting in a faster and…
Comcast preparing tablet TV streaming app, for home use only
- Comcast is working on a tablet app for Xfinity customers that would allow them to stream live television to select tablets. The app was originally announced by Comcast CEO Brian Roberts in January at the annual Citi Conference for Media,…
Google shoves Chrome 15, 16 into beta, dev channels
- Google's rapid release schedule has continued this week as Chrome versions 15 and 16 hit the beta and dev channels a mere week after the first stable build of Chrome 14. Available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux, the Chrome…
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