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Dropbox Offers Up To 5GB Of Additional Space To Beta Build Users

Brad Chacos — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:42:25 +0000

Dropbox has a lot of things going for it, but if you use the cloud storage service with any regularity, there's a good chance you'll bang up against the 2GB offered in the free version fairly quickly. (Assuming that you don't Gmail account chain trick outlined in our Dropbox Cheat Sheet , that is.) If you're chafing at your no-cost bonds, the service is giving you an opportunity to add up to another 5GB of space absolutely free -- if you're willing to be a guinea pig, that is. Dropbox is still working out kinks in its as-yet-unreleased automatic photo and video upload support, you see. [......]

Microsoft Guts Marketing Department in Massive Revamp

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:12:49 +0000

Microsoft has reportedly begun trimming (or slashing, depending on how you want to look at it) its workforce by letting go of a "small percentage" of employees who held marketing positions with the Redmond software giant as it looks to revamp and streamline its operations. The company didn't specific exactly how many employees were let go, though several reports have the number pegged at 200. [......]

Legal Setback in Germany Prompts Apple to Remove Older Devices from Online Store

Paul Lilly — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:52:34 +0000

While Apple's been busy trying to chase Samsung's Galaxy line out of the Milky Way, Android device makers have ganged up on the Cupertino outfit and experienced a spattering of success. [......]

AMD’s New Direction For 2012: Heterogenous Computing, Trinity, and Hondo

Gordon Man Ung — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:35:26 +0000

AMD emphasizes Trinity and introduces new “Hondo” ultra low power chip Despite major layoffs last year, AMD is stepping forward with an impressive portfolio of initiatives and products for the next few years. Perhaps the most exciting initiative is the company’s Heterogeneous System Architecture plan. For an in-depth look at AMD's new roadmap, see the gallery at the bottom of this page HSA will eventually erase the line between the CPU and GPU and remove such painful tasks for programmers as juggling data between the CPU and GPU. [......]

Seagate: HDD Shortage Will Be A Year-Long Problem

Brad Chacos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:28:28 +0000

A new year means a fresh start, and a fresh start entails putting 2011's skyrocketing HDD prices behind us, right? Not quite[......]

Zynga CEO Defends Copycat Game Strategy in Leaked Memo

Paul Lilly — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:22:31 +0000

The app developers behind the mobile iOS game Tiny Tower recently called out Zynga for blatantly ripping off their app to create Dream Heights, which is almost the exact same game with a different title. Copying another developer's game concepts and making them your own is by no means new to the industry or unique to Zynga, though in most cases the new product isn't a near clone of the original, as was the case with Dream Heights. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus isn't losing any sleep over it. [......]

Linux Dev Unveils Fully Open, KDE/Mer-Powered "Spark" Tablet

Brad Chacos — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:15:54 +0000

Tablets are nifty, but for the most part, they're built to be walled gardens; Apple is notorious for its heavy-handed curation, Microsoft plans on keeping Windows 8's Metro-style apps close to the chest, and the hot-selling Kindle Fire is a deeply tweaked and thoroughly managed variant of Android. [......]

Symantec Stomps Out Anonymous Source Code Threat with a Security Patch

Paul Lilly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:07:48 +0000

Symantec had promised to release a security patch for its pcAnywhere software to neutralize known vulnerabilities arising from the theft of certain source code, and the security firm has now made good on its word. The first patch was actually rolled out on Monday, January 23, 2012 for pcAnywhere 12.5 users, but there's another update now available to support pcAnywhere 12.0 and 12.1. With the patch(s) in place and the ability to follow general security best practices, Symantec says its customers have nothing to worry about[......]

Firefox 10 Touches Down on Stable Release Channel

Paul Lilly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:48:20 +0000

Mozilla's popular Firefox browser officially turns 10 today, as in version 10, not years in existence (if we're to use the launch of Firefox 1.0 as the browser's birth date, Firefox will turn 10 years old on November 9, 2014). [......]

Apple Shipped More PCs than HP in Q4 2011, But Only If You Count iPads

Paul Lilly — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:32:47 +0000

Break out the Apple cider if you live in/near Cupertino, California, and toast your hometown PC representatives for dethroning Hewlett-Packard as the worldwide client PC vendor in the fourth quarter of 2011, but only if you're willing to include tablet shipments in the overall tally. If you are, then congrats, Apple's iPad put your home team over the top and was three times more responsible for the achievement than Macs[......]