Top 5 non-obvious feature enhancements to Office 2010

Top 5 non-obvious feature enhancements to Office 2010
The question has been asked, who really needs to use Microsoft Office these days? The answer is, anyone who is in the business of professionally generating content for a paying customer. Word 2010 may not be the optimum tool for the everyday blogger, and Excel 2010 maybe not [...]

AMD claims six-core Opteron performance lead over Intel Xeon

AMD claims six-core Opteron performance lead over Intel Xeon
Just last month, AMD began shipping its first 6-core, 45 nm Opteron server CPUs with “Istanbul” architecture, with the top-of-the-line 2.6 GHz, 4- and 8-way 8435 SE selling for $2,649 in 1,000-unit quantities (“trays”). Perhaps ahead of schedule, yesterday AMD cut the tape for a 2.8 GHz [...]

First TraceMonkey vulnerability poses new priorities for Firefox 3.5.1

First TraceMonkey vulnerability poses new priorities for Firefox 3.5.1
Developers on the “Shiretoko” track for Mozilla’s new open source Firefox 3.5 Web browser now have very good reason to expect a ship date for the first round of bug fixes and vulnerabilities. A very big vulnerability has turned up in just the wrong place: a public [...]

Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 3: Finding a place for more tabs

Firefox 3.5 vs. Chrome 3 Showdown, Round 3: Finding a place for more tabs
Neither Chrome nor Firefox pioneered the art of tabbed browsing, though Firefox made it popular first. Can Google seize upon this feature and make it its own?
With Web pages having evolved into Web sites and moving on to become Web applications, we [...]

AT&T: Without a landline phone, you could die

AT&T: Without a landline phone, you could die
On the off chance that you may accidentally discover you’re allergic to peanuts (we wish we were joking), AT&T says a landline is superior to a cell phone.
AT&T and an associated group of telecommunications companies under the name “National Emergency Number Association” (NENA) released the results of a [...]

It’s official: Google Chrome, the operating system

It’s official: Google Chrome, the operating system
Perhaps the single biggest threat to Microsoft as a viable software concern could be delivered by Google, if any part of yesterday’s announcement becomes reality.
Well, this answers the question about why no Android for netbooks. In a stunning announcement late Tuesday evening, the company that for years had been [...]