Ten Ways Your Smartphone Knows Where You Are
One of the most important capabilities that smartphones now have is knowing where they are. more than desktops, laptops, personal navigation devices or even tablets, which are harder to take with you, a smartphone can combine its location with many other pieces of data to make new services available.”There’s a gamification aspect, there’s a social [...]
LinkedIn Blocked in Parts of China; Investigation Under Way
LinkedIn is apparently the latest victim of the Great Firewall. From Bloomberg: China, the world’s largest Internet market with 457 million Web users, has shut out sites such as those operated by Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Google Inc.’s YouTube since 2009 to block the flow of information on politically sensitive subjects. LinkedIn’s focus on [...]
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How to check for and disable Java in OS X
There’s some concern over the use of Java in OS X following a recent finding that Flashback malware variants are now taking advantage of currently unpatched vulnerabilities in the Java runtime.Even though this malware development should not affect the majority ofMac users running OS X 10.7 or later since Apple no longer includes Java with [...]
BSkyB movie probe widened to include Netflix and LoveFilm
BSkyB’s battle to retain its stranglehold on Hollywood films on pay-TV has been given a potential boost, after the Competition Commission announced it will broaden its investigation to measure the impact of Netflix and LoveFilm.Last summer the competition regulator published a provisional decision that BSkyB’s contracts with the six major Hollywood studios – Disney, Warner [...]
Dropbox Adds Automatic Photo Uploads
Dropbox wants to be your online photo repository with a new feature that automatically uploads full-size copies of your snaps to Dropbox whether you’re on a Mac or Windows PC, Android phone, or (coming soon) an iOS device. The new upload feature is available in the latest version of Dropbox in the Android Market and [...]
This Week at Microsoft
Did you miss this post last week? I had my feet up on my desk, pretending that vacationing at home in the Chicago winter is glamorous (protip: it’s not). but I’m back, and that means our weekly roundup of Microsoft news is as well.It’s been a rather varied week, with news coming in from a number of Microsoft product [...]
Fix keyboard input not behaving properly in OS X
OS X accommodates a number of different keyboard types and layouts to support not only small and large keyboard profiles such as laptop and desktop keyboards, but also to support different language input options. The layout you are using should be automatically set up when you initially configured your system, but you can always go [...]
Intego: 2011 offered bumper crop of Mac malware
The company’s Year in Mac Security 2011, released this week, claims that 2011“was the most active year for Mac malware since the release of Mac OS X.” Much of the stepped-up activity can be blamed on the emergence of MAC Defender malware and the Flashback program that masqueraded as an Adobe Flash installer. Intego estimated [...]
Google Prepares For Christmas With Array Of Easter Eggs
Unless you live somewhere east of New York, there’s still at least several hours left before December 23rd comes to an end. but Google is eager to help everyone with kids get Christmas Eve off to a good start, and so the company’s put together lists of all the Santa-related treats its engineers have concocted [...]
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