Symantec releases Norton Internet Security 2011 and Norton Antivirus 2011

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Symantec Wednesday launched the latest versions of its flagship security products: Norton Antivirus 2011 and Norton Internet Security 2011. As it has been for the last two years, Symantec’s focus remains on keeping the Norton software quick and lightweight, while harnessing...

September 8th, 2010 | Security, Software | Read More

Apple Announces Over One Million Signed up for Ping in the first 48 Hours

Apple announced on late Friday that it’s Ping Social networking service has hit 1 million users since its launch 48 hours ago. Few doubted that the service would be an instant hit since, like Google Buzz, it was shoehorned into existing products that we are forced to use everyday. According to Apple...

September 5th, 2010 | Software | Read More

Google Settles Buzz Privacy Lawsuit for 8.5 Million

Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million (US) to settle a privacy lawsuit filed over its Buzz social networking service, and as usual only the lawyers are going to get rich on this one. The exact terms of the settlement are still pending approval from a federal court judge, but for a company that is...

September 5th, 2010 | Hardware | Read More

DRM company acquires technology from music search engine killed by copyright suits

By Tim Conneally, Betanews Monday, Intertrust Technologies Corporation, a company with more than a hundred patents for various Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies, announced it has acquired all of SeeqPod’s software and patents. The company went bankrupt after being sued by Warner Music...

August 30th, 2010 | Policy & Law, Software | Read More

OpenDNS Explodes in Popularity, Records Biggest Growth Week Ever

OpenDNS, which offers a free, ad-supported DNS (Domain Name System) resolution service to your ISP’s DNS servers, announced it experienced record growth last week, which the company partially attributes to a “rave New York Times review.” “OpenDNS is firing on all cylinders, and...

August 26th, 2010 | Security, Software | Read More

How Blind People See the Internet

Your eyes are absorbing this webpage. They’re passing over this, this, then this word, right now. That’s how reading works, online: you take this for granted. But what if you couldn’t? We grant our gaze to electronic screens for most of the day, and in return, they give us anything...

August 24th, 2010 | Hardware, Software | Read More

Google Toying with "Streaming" Search

It only takes a tiny fraction of a second for search engines to answer queries but Google is not satisfied with the current state of affairs. The search engine titan is now experimenting with instantaneous search. The idea is to provide dynamic search results that change with each new character...

August 24th, 2010 | Software | Read More