The best Antivirus Internet Security Software vendors have realised that the role of enterprise and corporate IT security has changed significantly over the last 10 years. The increased popularity of the Internet and web has created an array of new possibilities available to businesses via the internet. The cost of reaching a worldwide base of customers has all but disappeared. Read more...
Adobe Systems, the maker of Flash, Acrobat and Photoshop, plans to acquire Utah-based Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share, the companies announced late Tuesday. The deal would combine Adobe’s Web design tools with Omniture’s Web analytics tools. Read more...
Sony announces the launch of the new Sony VAIO TR Series ultraportable laptop designed for the travelling professional.
The PCG-TR5MP is the first Sony VAIO TR Series notebook to feature a built-in DVD burner, providing users with a new Read more...
A few weeks back, the FCC asked Apple, AT&T and Google to respond to questions as to why Apple rejected Google Voice for entry into the App Store and why several Google Voice related apps were pulled. You can read letters from both Google and AT&T at Engadget. Apple has issued a press release that includes their answers, while AT&T put also put out this brief release. Read more...
Apple has responded to the FCC’s request for information around its rejection of various Google and third party iPhone applications for the iPhone.
In short, Apple denies that they rejected the Google Voice application, but they go into great detail about how the Google Voice application hurts “the iPhone’s distinctive user experience.” All of those statements are either untrue, or misleading, or both. Read more...
There can be few more hotly contested areas in tech than the one that surrounds your humble TV.
On the one hand you have consumer tech giants like Sony, Panasonic and Toshiba all trying to persuade us to buy Blu-ray players, PVRs and, of course, new TVs.
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Stefan Constantinescu of IntoMobile has written a lengthy piece dissecting the long, tortuous history of the Newton II/Apple Tablet/iTablet/Tablet Mac. It’s a pretty comprehensive look at seven years worth of speculation, rumor, outlandish analyst claims, more speculation, more rumor, and event after event with no release of what’s become Apple’s most infamous vaporware product. Read more...
Last month, we took you on a tour of computing’s most venerated classic PCs. In our classic PC hardware retrospective, we highlighted the computers that deployed the innovations we take for granted today. But just as a car without gas is just roadblock, computer hardware without software is essentially paperweight. And while it’s true that the hardware is the visually sexier component of a system, the software is equally important and often more challenging to create. Today, we take a look at the history of early computer software, from the first character-based interfaces to the last pre-32-bit OSes (yes, Mac OS included). We also spotlight the notable programs that ran on these various platforms, including the first productivity and design applications. And because we’re avid gamers, we couldn’t neglect video gaming’s contribution to the software world — we included the firsts of each gaming genre.
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This guest post is written by Mary Hodder, the founder Dabble. Prior to Dabble, Hodder consulted for a number of startups, did research at Technorati and wrote her masters thesis at Berkeley focusing on live web search looking at blog data.
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