The Rapidshare booth at the Leipzig Games Convention While customers of Megaupload, both legitimate and otherwise, try to figure out where to turn next, other file sharing companies are ready to step up to fill in the gaps—at least for legal uses. And RapidShare , the next largest "digital locker" service, claims to be unconcerned about the MegaUpload case's precedent. [......]
NextGoals is an app that attempts to motivate the lethargic to exercise and stay fit. How does it work[......]
Intel has released their Q3 financials, and for the most part it's good news for their investors. Their revenue (GAAP) was a record $14.2bn, up $3.1bn from last year's Q3[......]
How could Intel let IDF pass by without announcing a new solid state drive? Turns out it couldn't, and while the event wraps up, the Santa Clara chip maker rolled out a replacement SSD series for its existing single-level cell (SLC) X25-E Extreme drive. Taking the X25-E's place is Intel's new 710 SSD, a purpose-built multi-level cell (MLC) drive for data centers[......]
For those of you who always dreamed about having your own cloud, Western Digital wants to make your dreams come true with its new WD 2go and WD 2go Pro mobile apps for its My Book Live personal cloud storage solution. The part about dreams is admittedly cheesy (and we're to blame for that one), but as far as the personal cloud goes, that's what Western Digital envisions as you remotely connect to your My Book Live drive from any computer or through your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, or compatible Android device. WD's My Book Live brings the cloud to your home by combining a physical drive you're free to tuck away wherever convenient with Web-based access to your data. [......]
Google didn't let the Fall season get in the way of its Spring cleaning effort, which saw the sultan of search announce a plethora of project terminations, including Google Desktop, Google Maps API for Flash, and a laundry list of other platforms. Some are being merged into others, and many are closing outright[......]
What's your life work to an ID thief? During 2002, JP Martin decided to analyse every bit of information his company had about its customers. The firm, Canadian Tire, had its own credit card and Martin discovered patterns in his customers' purchases. [......]
In recent years, the courts have struggled to decide whether the government needs a warrant to access historical records about a cell phone user's location. Some courts have found that when users turn on their cell phones, they "voluntarily" transmit their location to their cell phone providers and thereby waive any expectation of privacy. On Monday, Judge Nicholas Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York soundly rejected this line of reasoning. [......]
Security software is not something that is generally associated with mobile devices such as phones, but the open nature of the Android platform means that viruses are a real threat, just as for desktop computers. [......]
If the security of your system depends on users making intelligent security decisions then you're basically doomed. After all these years of experience with end users on the Internet we know that they can't be trusted to make those decisions correctly[......]
When we woke up this morning, we had no idea that the security of backup data would be the trend of the day, but here we are anyways (and to be fair, we don't think so clearly in the morning). We've already told you about the supposedly invincible M-Disc , so let's talk external drives; Seagate's new GoFlex Turbo HDD hit store shelves today, and it comes with the company's SafetyNet Data Recovery Service included. [......]
Wolfram Research, the innovative company behind the Wolfram|Alpha computational search engine, officially launched a new online document container called Computable Document Format (CDF) which is essentially your average PDF file that has been given the ability to do live computations and display the data accordingly. The programming and computational functions in Wolfram's Mathematica software can be used to build, for example, a complex graph with a number of variables[......]
Over the course of the next four years, the federal government will close some 800 computer data centers -- which works out to around 40 percent -- in order to save some nickels and dimes, and in an attempt to modernize how it uses computers to manage data, according to a report in The New York Times . Most data centers don't require a large staff, but even still, analysts estimate the closures will eliminate tens of thousands of jobs. [......]
The combined search market share of Microsoft's Bing and Bing-powered Yahoo (AKA BingHoo!) keeps creeping up. [......]
As someone who hates phone calls in the first place, Google Voice has been a boon to my workflow. [......]
