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Anti Virus in the cloud. Titanium Internet Security.

Windows PC users have to be constantly vigilant while on the net, and keep their anti virus software up to date. One of the disadvantages of many anti virus software applications is that they are constantly using system resources while running in the background. This can have a serious impact on the computers performance. Trend [...]

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BBC News – Vodafone backs down in Android row

BBC News – Vodafone backs down in Android row: “” One of the reasons people have for not using an iPhone is the strong hold Apple has over the software. All official apps come from the iTunes App store and all software updates come direct from Apple via iTunes. Because of that, this kind of [...]

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Apple’s Cube was ahead of its time

Opinion: Apple’s Cube was ahead of its time – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK: “” “Looking back today, it seems that the Cube was simply ahead of its time. It was an ingenious and striking design that missed the mark by about five years–and $1,000. But don’t tell that to the loyal Cube owners out [...]

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Facebook’s Places Feature About to Launch

Facebook’s Places Feature About to Launch: “There are, of course, complications, which leave the geolocation- and local-services start-up community with plenty of questions about how much of their data they will have to share with Facebook if they tap into the new APIs. And additionally, Facebook’s tendency to garner bad press with regard to privacy [...]

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H.264 GPU Decoding in Flash Player on Mac OS X is live

H.264 GPU Decoding in Flash Player on Mac OS X is live [ by Thibault Imbert ] – ByteArray.org: “We just pushed a few minutes ago a new version of the Flash Player 10.1.82.76 containing a nice feature that was in beta until now called ‘Gala’. Yes, H.264 GPU decoding in Mac OSX is now [...]

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Adobe fixes six critical Flash bugs | Security | Macworld

Adobe fixes six critical Flash bugs | Security | Macworld: “Tuesday’s update was 2010’s third for Flash Player, the Adobe browser plug-in that’s installed on an estimated 99 percent of all personal computers. Previous updates in March and June have fixed 33 other flaws. As is Adobe’s practice, it revealed only the scantiest of details [...]

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Smartphone security put on test

BBC News – Smartphone security put on test: “BBC News has shown how straightforward it is to create a malicious application for a smartphone. Over a few weeks, the BBC put together a crude game for a smartphone that also spied on the owner of the handset. The application was built using standard parts from [...]

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Google knows who you know.

If you have a Google profile, depending on how much information you have filled in and how active you are on the internet, Google knows who you know. Click here to find out. [It] is the network of connections Google uses to identify relevant social search results. It is based on a combination of the [...]

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Apple iPhone users warned of JailbreakMe security risks – Telegraph

Apple iPhone users warned of JailbreakMe security risks – Telegraph: “” Although the jailbreakMe operation is completely benign it does make use of a serious loophole in mobile Safari. The exploit requires the user to click on a PDF link in a website which can then take advantage of the way the PDF viewer loads [...]

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Microsoft quashes proposed industry leading privacy setting for IE8

This is a must read, especially for those still using IE, but also for web browsing in general. It should influence the way you use the browser, and which browser you choose to use. Basically it describes the tussles within Microsoft between the developers of Internet Explorer 8 and other MS executives more interested in [...]

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