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Posted May 1, 2013, 11:15 AM by Dave LeClair | Filed in IT Security, The Web
A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has provided rankings for many of the top companies with access to users' personal information. The report focuses on how willing each company is to fight to protect the private information…
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Posted April 17, 2013, 8:30 AM by Stephen Totilo | Filed in Gaming With Video
Game developers have been stuck with DirectX 9 and 2GB of memory for the past decade. While this hasn’t harmed first person shooters (they only have to manage a handful of objects at once), it has been poisonous to other genres. Next time you’re playing an RPG in first person with no party you can refer to DirectX 9 and 2GB of memory as a big reason for that.
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Posted February 19, 2013, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
According to the New York Times, U.S-based security research firm Mandiant claims it has traced the "overwhelming majority" of cyberattacks targeting American businesses to an innocuous 12-story office building located in Shanghai, China. The tower, American intelligence officials claim, is…
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Posted June 12, 2012, 6:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft, Software
Windows is betting big on the tablet market by designing its upcoming operating system around touch interfaces. But tablets running Windows RT might have a hard time competing in a market filled with $200-$300 Android devices. Google’s operating system is…
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Posted March 27, 2012, 9:30 AM by Lee Kaelin | Filed in The Web
Pedophiles are increasingly hiding child abuse images on websites that appear to the casual internet user as ordinary web stores according to the latest annual report by UK Charity, the Internet Watch Foundation...
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Posted March 19, 2012, 3:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Software
According to Opswat, a software development company based in San Francisco, Avast continues to be the world's preferred antivirus. Avast was found on more than 16 percent of computers worldwide. For the past few years, Avast has topped the survey (pdf),…
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Posted December 27, 2011, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Industry News
Microsoft is in far better shape as a whole than most people perceive. A 44-page report from Bernstein Research takes an in-depth look at the company’s financial situation and outlines a few possible scenarios regarding potential threats from tablets, alternative…
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Posted November 23, 2011, 1:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware Breaking News
It seems more troubles await AMD in the microprocessor market. A few days ago rumors started to emerge that the company had cancelled its Wichita and Krishna APUs, the 28nm the successors to its C-Series (codenamed Ontario) and E-Series (codenamed…
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Posted August 4, 2011, 8:27 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Software
Vision Mobile has published a new 45-page report titled "Measuring the true openness of open source projects from Android to WebKit" (PDF, via Ars Technica). In it, the company showcases eight mobile open source projects, and rates them on a…
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Posted March 16, 2011, 5:08 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News Breaking News
We already have a good idea of what the first wave of AMD's FX-series processors is going to look like thanks to a handful of recent leaks. Now, X-bit labs has apparently gotten hold of the preliminary details for AMD's…
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Posted March 14, 2011, 11:17 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
Intel is looking to introduce a range of Pentium processors based on the 32nm Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, according to a report by Chinese site Inpai. The budget-oriented family will apparently comprise four different chips, with the dual-core Pentium G850 leading…
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Posted March 8, 2011, 8:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
According to a report from Xbitlabs citing industry sources, AMD has finalized shipping schedules for its forthcoming Bulldozer and Llano APUs. As rumored, the company will abandon its Sempron, Athlon and Phenom processor brand names with newer products, and as…
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Posted March 4, 2011, 9:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Microsoft, Mobile Computing
Microsoft’s tablet-centric version of Windows is going to come very late to the market if the latest rumors are true. According to a report on BusinessWeek, the company expects public testing to begin at the end of this year with…
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Posted February 9, 2011, 10:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Mobile Computing
Apple's second version of its iPad tablet computer has already entered production, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citing "people familiar with the matter" the paper claims that the so-called iPad 2 will be thinner and lighter, with at…
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Posted January 24, 2011, 9:00 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
Lenovo is reportedly in talks with Japanese hardware company NEC regarding a joint venture in the PC business, according to the Wall Street Journal. Although it is unclear exactly what kind of partnership might be in the works, speculation suggests…
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