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 [...]

Microsoft offers free anti-virus

Microsoft offers free anti-virus

Microsoft Security Essentials is aimed at home users.

A trial version of Microsoft’s free anti-virus software has been launched in the US, China, Brazil, and Israel.
Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) promises to provide people with basic protection against viruses, trojans, rootkits and spyware.
The software giant has been criticised in the past for [...]

Intel and Nokia band together

Intel and Nokia band together

Analysts say mobility and portability is the way of the future

The world’s largest chip maker has teamed up with the world’s largest mobile phone maker to create what they say will be a “new exciting industry”.
Intel and Nokia said their “technology collaboration” would deliver new mobile computing products [...]

OLPC software to power aging PCs

OLPC software to power aging PCs

Sugar runs on the XO and rival Intel Classmate PC

Software originally developed for the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can now be used to power any old PC.
Sugar on a Stick, as it is known, can be run from a USB drive to give aging PCs a [...]

Collecta vs. Google in real-time search matchup

Collecta vs. Google in real-time search matchup
With public discussion increasing over whether Google may be overrated, some former AOL executives are slowly mounting a challenge…right this moment.
If you have a completely new search engine — in other words, one that’s not a renamed version of Windows Live Search — you need to give it a [...]