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  • Google updates Android developer kit

    Also featured is a sample application making use of OpenGL ES 2.0 vertex and fragment shaders.OpenGL ES 2.0] brings the ability to control graphics rendering through vertex and fragment shader programs using the GLSL shading language," said David…
  • Mozilla patches old version of Firefox

    The newest Mozilla browser, Firefox 3.6, already contains the patches.Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 address three critical flaws in the browsers' Gecko rendering engines, the HTML parsers, and their implementations of web worker, an enhanced…
  • Symphony 3.0 beta signals another attack on Office

    Lotus also has added digital signature support, editing features, graphic objects rendering, richer Java and LotusScript APIs, and an add-on installer for Notes.It also continues support for the .docx format that was at the heart of the i4i patent…
  • IE flaw gives hackers access to user files

    The vulnerability has since been fixed by Microsoft.The attacks led Google to announce last week that it would phase out support for Internet Explorer 6, starting with Google Apps and Google Sites in March.The IE vulnerability disclosed on…
  • Virus comes back from dead to hit hard drives

    As with viruses of old, its spread is aided by its ability to infect the modern equivalent of floppy disks, USB sticks.Delivering itself as a bogus IQ test program or through an infected website, Zimuse fills the first 50Kb MBR of each disk with…
  • Mozilla releases Firefox 3.6 update

    JavaScript performance is improved, as are overall browser responsiveness and startup time.Firefox 3.6 is built on Mozilla's Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering platform, which has been under development since early 2009 and contains many improvements for…

Latest Features

  • HTML 5 to shake up the web

    Content authors can embed markup written in MathML (for rendering equations) and SVG (for rendering scalable vector graphics) directly into their HTML 5 markup. Web developers can use JavaScript to manipulate the content of canvas elements…
  • Microsoft vs. Google: The empire strikes back

    Sharing and collaboration over the web are just as easy as with Google Docs, but the Office Web Apps are clearly meant to complement their desktop siblings, rather than rendering them obsolete.Underscoring this distinction is the Office Web Apps…
  • Reader's top stories of 2009

    Internet Explorer has got used to having its ass handed to it in browser rendering tests, but now Google comes along and cleans up their mess for them. The economic crisis, the lingering effects of the recession, natural disasters, war and revolution.
  • Guide to SAN and NAS virtualisation

    HPC (high performance computing) applications, such as seismic processing, video rendering, and scientific research simulations, rely heavily on file virtualisation technologies to deliver scalable data access.Three architectural approachesFile…
  • The unstoppable rise of mobile applications

    It's almost impossible, rendering critical mobile apps that need the Internet to perform their functions practically useless.What's the problem? Mobile applications face a few giant obstacles on their path to stardom with the general public.
  • Top 10 open source apps for Apple Mac OS

    A number of other browsers like Flock and XeroBank marry Firefox's core rendering engine with other features. Most Mac lovers love the Mac for the carefully wrought user interfaces and the crisp design, and never pay attention to the open source at…
 

How-Tos

  • How to update your BIOS

    But if you make a mistake in the update process, you risk rendering your PC unbootable. Updating your BIOS can cut boot times, fix compatibility issues, and improve overall performance - or brick your system if you do it wrong.
  • How to create waves with Google Wave

    This replaces Internet Explorer's rendering engine with that of Google Chrome. By now, you've probably heard mutterings about a new Google innovation known as Wave. Google wants you to organise and share your social and business events using a…
  • Eight critical steps for migrating to Exchange 2010

    In previous transition scenarios with Exchange, moving a mailbox would temporarily take the mailbox offline, rendering it inaccessible and potentially locking users out of email for a long time. Requirements for those implementations depend, of…
  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    Features likely to be important for enterprises, he says, include the canvas tag, which provides dynamic rendering of bitmap images (think Flash-like 2D drawings) that will "significantly advance user interfaces"; the postMessage API, which will…
  • How to transform your operating system into a chameleon

    And the 3D graphical desktop manager gives you four separate desktop workspaces, rendering them all together as a cube which you use to switch from one workspace to another. Or do you long to give Mac OS X a test run but don't particularly want to…
  • Case Study: Vodafone McLaren Mercedes' transparent tiered storage

    Clearly the tape access will be slower than disk but if there is too much data to be held on disk in the first place then this is a limitation that is necessary.In fact, with very large files, the streaming speed of tape access could compensate…

Reviews

  • Corel VideoStudio Pro X3 review

    Corel VideoStudio Pro X3 adds graphics-card acceleration to speed up rendering performance. It can also use your PC's graphics processor (GPU) to speed up a number of transition and special effects.This GPU support will work with most recent…
  • Synology DS1010+ review

    They use Linux software RAID, and previous incarnations of the small business-focused arrays had a somewhat anemic CPU, rendering the boxes quite usable for general purpose storage, but with roughly 35MBps writes, not really applicable to heavier…
  • Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z review

    In the Blender 3D rendering and iTunes MP3 encoding tests, the dual-core CPU's speed was plainly evident; it recorded a time of 1min 09sec in the Blender test and 1min 06sec in the iTunes test. The Lenovo ThinkCentre A70z is very much a workhorse…
  • ASUS U50Vg review

    This configuration produced times of 1min 12sec and 1min 08sec in the Blender 3D rendering and iTunes MP3 encoding tests; these are fast times and indicate that the U50Vg can be used comfortably for most multimedia tasks.
  • MSI Wind Millions Special Edition U135 review

    In the dedicated CPU tests - Blender 3D rendering and iTunes MP3 encoding - the Wind U135 recorded 6min 57sec and 7min 50sec, which is an efficient result compared to many other netbooks we have seen.The 250GB hard drive recorded an average…
  • Dell Latitude E4300 review

    It recorded a score of 104 in our WorldBench 6 benchmark suite, which is not far off the performance of a gaming notebook such as the ASUS G60J gaming notebook.You can use the Dell Latitude E4300 notebook for creating elaborate office documents…

White Papers

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    The methodology fully complies with the concept and freedom of a browser and Web services as a means of rendering the information to a user. The Microsoft .NET strategy continues to confuse many users and vendors due to the lack of understanding…
  • Customer Churn: The Stealth Enemy

    This is very different from the old paradigm of transaction marketing, where the focus is predominantly on making the current sale.This shift in business thinking has been necessitated in no small measure by the commoditization of offerings and…
  • Improving Regulatory Compliance with Encryption

    Enterprises now routinely conduct operations outside the boundaries of the corporate firewall, rendering past-generation strategies for securing internal data strongholds ineffective. This paper examines the role that encryption plays in minimizing…
 
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