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  • Intel releases Atom N470 processor

    The integration also makes the chip smaller, which allows PC makers to build smaller and lighter netbooks.Intel also offers the Atom D410 and D510 processors for low-cost desktops.More improvements for Atom netbooks are on tap, including a…
    01 March 2010
    Tags: Nvidia • Netbooks • Las Vegas • Graphics • Battery • Atom

  • France considers Internet censorship

    It aims to increase the amount the police spend on "security," multiply penalties for counterfeiting checks or credit cards, increase use of CCTV cameras, extend access to the police national DNA database, and authorize the seizure of vehicles…
    12 February 2010
    Tags: Material • Filtering • Filter • Blocked • Bill • Authorities

  • Microsoft Office 2010 RC released

    Microsoft has delivered a near-final version of Office 2010 to a small group of invitation-only testers, but doesn't plan to make the new build available to the general public, the company said today.The release candidate of Office 2010 was…
    05 February 2010
    Tags: Testers • Release Candidate • Rc • Edition • Beta

  • SAP Google Wave clone entering beta

    SAP conducted a "developer challenge" recently that resulted in a passel of "amazing submissions," from Android and iPhone clients to deep integrations with ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems, he said.To the latter end, SAP is also working…
    02 February 2010
    Tags: Wave • Beta • Sap • Enter • Meyer • Echoes

  • Google search dipping into Facebook

    Google's recently released Social Search feature, whose raison d'etre is to include content from users' social-network contacts in search results, can barely tap into the connections people have made on Facebook, the world's largest social network.
    29 January 2010
    Tags: Facebook • Signed • Connections • Privacy • Sharing • Contacts

  • Video will dominate networks within 3 years

    Cisco is to release a set of new products to tap into the growing demand for video By 2013, 90 percent of traffic on the Internet will be video according to a leading Cisco executive.Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of Cisco's Emerging…
    26 January 2010
    Tags: Delivery • Videoconferencing • Body • Telepresence • Beer • Seats

Latest Features

  • Five doomsday scenarios for IT apocalypse

    If an adjacent grid is still operating, the dark one may also be able to tap into its reserves.Likelihood: Low. But what if instead of simply a denial-of-service attack against select websites, the entire Internet suddenly stopped working.
    17 March 2010
    Tags: Wall Street • Stopped • Scenarios • Scenario • Rogue • Disaster Recovery

  • Google Android Gesture search: A fingers-on tour

    The more letters I added, the more refined the results became.With Google's Gesture Search, once you locate the result you want, all you have to do is tap its line to open it -- regardless of whether it's a contact, an app, a song, or a Web page.
    05 March 2010
    Tags: Query • Onscreen • Letters • Displayed • App • Android

  • Why Google Android beats the Apple iPhone

    While iPhone developers have found that one path to success is playing to our baser instincts (until Apple shuts them down), a number of Android applications are offering practical solutions that unlock the power of a phone that's really a Unix…
    04 March 2010
    Tags: Scripts • File System • Fear • Distribute • Deeper • Api

  • HTC's New Smartphones and Sense User Interface

    I find these social network feeds a bit annoying, but I suppose if you're an avid social networker seeing all of these updates in one place is useful.You can also tap and drag to highlight a block of text and either look up a word in a dictionary…
    16 February 2010
    Tags: User Interface • Seamless • Mini • Hd • Carriers • Asia

  • A look at Windows Phone 7

    It is a bit creepy if you don't know them very well, but cool nonetheless.With a tap and drag, you can easily move them around in any order you like or press a broken heart icon to remove them from the screen.
    16 February 2010
    Tags: Picture • Maps • Games • Friends • Carriers • App

  • Hands on with the Apple iPad

    Tap this button and youll activate the iPads built-in slideshow mode. In portrait mode, however, it looks very similar to the view you get when reading a single message in the iPhones Mail client—the Inbox listing is then relegated to a pop-up pane…
    29 January 2010
    Tags: Ratio • Aspect • Mix • Loads • Landscape • Jack

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How-Tos

  • How to use AutoHotkey to strip formatting from pasted text

    And on those rare occasions you want the original, formatted text, just tap Ctrl-Shift-V. The Better Paste script turns whatever gunked-up text you've copied to the Clipboard into paste-friendly plain text.
    15 January 2010
    Tags: Keyboard • Script • Copied • Paste • Formatting • Adam

  • How to open a stuck DVD drive tray

    Now, a tap of Windows-1 runs the app, and opens the drive.I haven't been able to pin down the origin of this tool, which I found in an OverclockersClub forum. I just bought a new (well, refurbished) Sony media centre PC, and while it's working fine…
    03 December 2009
    Tags: Button • Icon • App • Toolbar • Glitch • Taskbar

  • How to manage traffic on your home network

    While some of these devices may have a wired connection to your router, most tap in wirelessly.So what happens when one person wants to listen to music, another wants to watch a movie and still another wants to play an online game all at once?
    01 December 2009
    Tags: Wish • Band • Bar • Manufacturer • Dropped • Streams

  • How to DoS a federal wiretap

    Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the US. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they've discovered a way to…
    17 November 2009
    Tags: Mobile Phones • Law • Sms • University • Records • Tap

  • What is cloud computing, and can it be trusted?

    Naturally, a public cloud is a service that anyone can tap into with a network connection and a credit card. Everyone in the IT industry is talking about cloud computing, but there is still confusion about what the cloud is, how it should be used…
    16 November 2009
    Tags: Software Vendors • Infrastructures • Flexibility • Amazon • Latency • Cloud Computing

  • Five ways to improve website uptime

    You can't fix the Internet, but you can tap these tools to decrease downtime for your organisation's website. When the site GDGT.com went live this past summer, Ryan Block was expecting a lot of interest.Prior to launch, the former Engadget.com…
    05 November 2009
    Tags: Downtime • San Francisco • Advance • Mechanisms • Programming • Viewed

Reviews

  • Canon PowerShot S90 review

    Shooting in Raw allows you to tap every ounce of image quality out of the Canon PowerShot S90 compact digital camera, and it's an option you rarely see in a model this size.In addition to the control dial on the back of the Canon PowerShot S90…
    03 March 2010
    Tags: Sensor • Pocket • Iso • Disable • Cameras • Balance

  • HP EliteBook 8440W review

    The 1600-by-900-pixel, LED-backlit screen is a cut above most 14-inch displays, allowing more visible windows to be on tap when you're working in a multiple-application environment.The 8440w's expansion options are more prosaic, however.
    24 February 2010
    Tags: Robust • Plastic • Noise • Multimedia • Frame • Connector

  • Verbatim SSD ExpressCard 64GB review

    Where they improve on the original PC cards - and seriously trump USB 2.0 - is in their capability to tap into a seriously fast data bus. Pop it in the slot, and it sits flush so you'd barely know it was there.We alighted upon the 64GB version of…
    18 February 2010
    Tags: Slot • Interfaces • Hd • Flash Memory • Boot • Benchmark

  • Palm Pixi Plus review

    You simply tap it to shrink an app to card view.Although it is narrower, the Palm Pixi Plus's keyboard is slightly easier to use than the Pre Plus's. The "Plus" in the Palm Pixi Plus smartphone really means one thing: the addition of Wi-Fi…
    22 January 2010
    Tags: Connected • Palm • Smartphone • App • Keyboard • Hotspot

  • Palm Pre Plus review

    To shrink an app down to card size, you simply tap this area (on the original Pre, you would press the button).Besides the omitted hardware button, the only other design differences are subtle changes on the slideout keyboard.
    22 January 2010
    Tags: Button • Battery Life • Games • App • Cover • Gaming

  • Google Nexus One review

    Tap on one of the group stacks, and you can view the photo thumbnails in a grid. Google recently unveiled the latest version of its Android operating system, Google Android 2.1, along with a new device built specifically to run the new OS.
    13 January 2010
    Tags: Motorola • San Francisco • Outlook • Calendar • Shots • Tmobile

White Papers

  • Utilising social networks to develop your employees

    Social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and MySpace might seem at first to be more about play than about work but it is precisely such play and the recurring stickiness it engenders that will allow people to tap into the collective knowledge of…
    10 October 2008
    Tags: Collaborative • Play • Knowledge • Enable • Interaction • Social Networks

  • Services in the IMS ecosystem

    The second is the desire to tap into the extraordinary creativity and dynamics of the IP community, so operators can provide attractive and compelling service offerings to end users. Two – basically contradicting – forces are shaping the IMS…
    13 April 2007
    Tags: Community • Communication • Enabled • Multimedia • Person • Ims

  • Improve Credit Risk Management by Double Digits

    Banks that already have mountains of transaction data, and those with very little, can all tap into this most powerful way to predict customer behaviour.Opportunity is growing, competition is up and change is afoot in Asian and Pacific Rim banking…
    26 March 2007
    Tags: Behaviour • Banks • Markets • Transaction • Interest • Pacific

  • Thinking beyond tape: The case against tap backup and the evolution of branchoffice data protection

    Thinking beyond tape: The case against tap backup and the evolution of branchoffice data protection Double-Take The high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup.whitepaper
    27 February 2007
    Tags: Branch • Recovery • Business Continuity • Distance • Tape • Sorts

  • Best Practices in Gigabit Capture

    Ensuring complete visibility of network data is the first critical component of analysis.There are three common ways for a monitoring device to access network traffic: using a switch's SPAN session, a port aggregator, or a network TAP (Test Access…
    20 February 2007
    Tags: Send • Channels • Analysis • Monitoring • Component • Session

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