If you've always wanted a Chumby but couldn't get past it's $200 price tag (it's actually been slashed to $150, while the Chumby One goes for $120), perhaps the new Internet Clock Radio from Altaz is more your speed. With a street price of around $90 shipped, it's cheaper than a Chumby. Altaz equipped its device with a 3.5-inch touchscreen with a 320 x 240 resolution. [......]
A recent hacker attack against hosting provider Reality Check Network resulted in a massive blackout for several popular torrent sites, TorrentFreak reports. The attack took place on Saturday morning, corrupting the Master Boot Records (MBRs) of several servers, RCN said. [......]
Tens of millions of Facebook users are potentially being bamboozled by many of the social network's most popular apps, The Wall Street Journal reports . According to WSJ's investigation, these apps are sharing users' names, and even their friends' names, to dozens of advertising and Internet tracking companies. But that's only the half of it. [......]
Looking to change it up a little? Hey, change is good (imagine wearing the same pair of briefs everyday), and if you've got a hankering to shelve Firefox or Chrome for awhile and try something new, now is as good of a time as any. Opera Software just updated its Opera browser to version 10.63 with a new JavaScript engine that's supposedly 50 percent faster than in Opera 10.50. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III, Net1News Exactly what is it that convinces a Windows 7 user to drop the Web browser that came with her operating system - Internet Explorer - and try one of its many free competitors? The very name "Firefox" implies both speed and savvy, two factors its predecessor - Netscape Navigator - did not always possess[......]
Microsoft says it's overwhelmed and humbled by the initial response to Internet Explorer 9 Beta. It has released some figures to quantify the “early customer enthusiasm.†According to the Redmond-based company, IE9 Beta had been downloaded over two million times by the end of the second day. [......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III, Net1News The latest wave of upcoming changes to the world's two most used Web browsers, jointly responsible for easily three-fourths of the Internet's HTTP requests, has nearly everyone in the business rethinking the meaning of "quality" as it pertains to browser architecture. [......]
Users looking for a no-contract 3G data plan with low limits and high prices (we didn't get that backwards, folks) have reason to jump for joy, and reach for their wallets. AT&T's revamped Dataconnect Pass service offers a variety of data and payment options, and we'll let you be judge if any of them sound appealing[......]
OnLive's cloud-based gaming service launched in June with Wi-Fi support conspicuously missing from its armory. While OnLive's lack of Wi-Fi support was never really a pressing concern for the vast majority of the world's population, it did matter to both the service's early adopters and detractors, with some admittedly ardent fans even stooping to such abject lows as building Ethernet loopback adapters to pass off their Wi-Fi connection as a wired one. [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews If Microsoft wants to build market share for its latest version of its Internet Explorer browser, that may be all but impossible. The company has decided to make IE9 incompatible with Windows XP, as it lacks the necessary technologies to power the new browser[......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Coinciding with Microsoft's launch of the Internet Explorer 9 beta, Adobe today rolled out a preview version of a new Flash Player it's calling "Square." Because of the hot demand for a native 64-bit Flash Player, Square adds to the existent Linux 64-bit version by offering support for both Windows and Mac OS. Adobe says users of the previous 64-bit Flash Player for Linux will find this version to be faster and more reliable. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Right on schedule, Microsoft has made the long-awaited Internet Explorer 9 beta available for download. [......]
Maximum PC readers tend to be ahead of the curve in common sense computing, so it probably won't come as much of a surprise that using the term "free" when searching for stuff online increases the chances of running across a malware infected site. What we did find shocking, however, is just how much a single search term increases that risk. In a report titled, "Digital Music and Movies Report: The True Cost of Free Entertainment" ( PDF ), security firm McAfee claims that adding "free" to a search for music ringtones results in a 300 percent increase in the risk of landing on a site booby-trapped with malware. [......]
By Ed Oswald , Betanews The entertainment industry may have encountered another setback in its efforts to protect its content Monday as a hacker has reportedly cracked high definition content protection, more commonly referred to as HDCP. A supposed "master key" has begun to make its way around the Internet, although its validity has yet to be confirmed[......]
Even while shying away from offering live streaming services to its millions of users, YouTube has sporadically dabbled in live streaming, making exceptions for some influential partners like the White House, Indian Premier League and U2. But it appears as though the Google-owned online video titan has finally decided that it is time to go live! In fact, the site is currently more live than it has ever been thanks to a two-day pilot run that began on Monday . “Today and tomorrow, tune in as we open a new chapter of YouTube live streaming[......]
