Sign up to beta test CA's 2010 edition Security Suite
With the debate only beginning now over whether Microsoft's Security Essentials will provide adequate protection for Windows 7 users or merely placate users who settle for mediocre security, the question becomes whether competitors in the security field have an appropriate alternative. CA has informed Betanews it's looking for willing participants in a registration-only beta test of its Internet Security Suite Plus 2010 edition.
Rather than consider anti-malware and anti-virus as separate functions, the new edition will utilize a unified engine managed through a completely new front end. So veterans of the 2009 edition should take note that this is a completely new product. Personal firewalls and spam and phishing filters are included in the new edition just as before; but for 2010, the Web site blocking filter has been expanded for more personal -- and more parental -- control. A P2P filter has also been added to the suite.
Intel and Nokia will partner on mobile Linux, but maybe not on Atom
As it turns out, Bloomberg News' source this morning on Intel's and Nokia's major news was kinda right, kinda not. In a morning press teleconference, Intel's Ultra Mobility Group SVP Anand Chandrasekher and Nokia Executive Vice President for Devices Dr. Kai Öistämö announced their two companies are jointly licensing critical technologies to one another, for the purposes of building platforms.
Now, those platforms could lead to Atom-based Nokia mobile devices, but the keyword here is "could." Through a barrage of questioning from press and analysts on this topic, Öistämö and Chandrasekher would only repeat that their companies will collaborate on their respective mobile Linux platforms -- Intel with Nokia's Maemo, Nokia with Intel's Moblin. But neither party would not say the collaboration would necessarily lead to any kind of Linux platform whatsoever that bears the opposite partner's brand, or is carried on the opposite partner's equipment.
Is Gateway's 11.6-inch netbook not a netbook?
The average size of those little PCs that we love so much has been slowly increasing to include full-sized keyboards, yet they retain their usual slim profile and low power demand. These larger devices are beginning to fall somewhere between the category of Netbook and Notebook.
Today, Gateway launched its first "full keyboard netbook": the 11.6" LT3100 series, one of these in-between devices.
The first 15 days: Is the Palm Pre better than Sprint is bad?
If there was a more remarkable idea circulating in the gadget-head community back in January than Palm's got a scorching-hot new phone on the way, it was, "And they chose Sprint as the launch partner".
Seriously, Sprint? Necessary only-major-mobile-provider-in-the-heartland evil to tens of thousands of mobile-phone users? Whatever Dan Hesse was saying about customer service in those moodily lit black-and-white commercials, the prospect of putting Sprint in charge of selling the odd, pretty, pricey little Palm Pre was wince-inducing.
Up Front: DHS shelves domestic spy satellite program
Privacy advocates on Monday applauded plans by the Obama administration to kill a spy satellite program that would have pointed the cameras at domestic targets. Meanwhile, the company running the nation's biggest "Registered Traveler" program, intended to whisk customers through TSA lines, is out of business.
DHS shelves domestic spy satellite program
Apple either upgrades or downgrades its MacBook Pro SATA
Viewpoint certainly depends on where you stand; and in some quarters this morning, Apple MacBook Pro users are reading that a firmware upgrade to MacBook Pro may double their throughput from the SATA interface to their internal hard drives.
Well, sure, after the manufacturer slowed down the transfer rate by half for unexplained reasons. That fact was uncovered by readers of MacRumors.com two weeks ago, and formally reported a week ago Sunday: Customers who purchased MacBook Pros just this month are reporting slower throughput.
Intel may finally get Atom into mobile phones
A press conference call slated for 11:30 am ET with Anand Chandrasekher, who heads Intel's Atom business unit, is expected to announce a deal with Nokia to get its chips into the Finnish manufacturer's phones.
Early reports of the deal came from Bloomberg News, which in turn cited a source "close to the matter" describing what to expect from the conference call, which was scheduled just yesterday.
Congress: Should cell phone exclusivity contracts be illegal?
Exclusive cell phone sales and distribution contracts, such as the one between AT&T and Apple Inc. for all models of iPhone, are solely responsible for the quickening pace of innovation in the American handset market, or solely responsible for its imminent demise -- solely. That's the black-and-white nature of the arguments raised before the Senate Commerce Committee last Wednesday, as executives from the nation's second largest carrier and two smaller ones joined industry advocates in debating whether locking out carriers' access to popular phones is good for competition and good for the consumer.
"Today, when you sit down at a computer and you access a broadband connection, you're not told by your broadband provider that you have to have a Dell or an HP or an Apple in order to access the network," stated Sen. John Kerry (D - Mass.), the former presidential candidate who chaired a portion of Wednesday's hearing. "And when you purchase a wireless phone in Asia or Europe, you typically don't buy it through a wireless carrier. You purchase it separately from the manufacturer or from an outlet."
Leave Steve's liver alone
It's a question friends and family have been asking me ever since The Wall Street Journal reported last Saturday that Apple Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs had undergone a liver transplant two months ago: Should our health records be made public?
I admit I'm of two minds on the issue. On the one hand, Apple shareholders have the right to know how the company they essentially own plans to manage itself both today and in the future. They deserve enough information to make informed decisions about whether they wish to retain their ownership stake and how they wish to remain involved, as shareholders, in the evolution of the company. It's a fundamental pillar of our economic system that publicly traded companies provide enough transparency to keep shareholders informed -- not to mention senior leaders honest.
Now official, it's up to the public to test Firefox 3.5 RC2
Download Mozilla Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate 2 for Windows from Fileforum now.
Although two (2) "candidates for release candidates" for the next Mozilla Web browser have been released in the past week (with the first being given the weird title "Beta 99"), the official notice of what it's calling "the Firefox 3.5 Release Candidate" was posted this morning.
'The Android Family' grows with myTouch 3G
We first began to see this device only four months after the G1's launch, as the HTC Magic for European Markets, and then again as
1M iPhone 3G S sold over weekend, Jobs claims lead
According a statement from Apple today, between Friday's launch of the iPhone 3GS and Sunday evening, its third full day on the market, more than one million units were sold, and six million customers downloaded the iPhone 3.0 software.
Apple's ailing but soon-to-be-returning CEO Steve Jobs said, "Customers are voting, and the iPhone is winning. With over 50,000 applications available from Apple's revolutionary App Store, iPhone momentum is stronger than ever."
Collecta vs. Google in real-time search matchup
If you have a completely new search engine -- in other words, one that's not a renamed version of Windows Live Search -- you need to give it a niche that somehow emphasizes the quality of its results compared to those from Google. Wolfram Alpha's niche of choice is the intelligence of its results, in an effort to wring the educational power out of the verbal sponge that is the Internet. So that slot's taken for now.
Enter Collecta, the product of former AOL search chief Gerry Campbell, and an indicator of what AOL could have accomplished had its previous leadership chosen to invest in ingenuity. Launched last Thursday in public beta, the ideal of Collecta is that it searches content that tends to be updated quickly and frequently, and that it conducts those searches on the fly -- it's truly searching for what you've asked it to search for, rather than look up results from a massive index.
Up Front: Jammie's still not sure what the 'Z' in 'KaZaa' stood for
Perhaps you've noticed that the world is becoming more global? It seems that everywhere you go these days, you're reminded that America is no longer necessarily the center of the universe. This morning's WN|WN takes you through Taiwan where Acer may become the world's #2 PC supplier, through mainland China where our emissaries would like a word with the government about filtering, through Iran where a lady named Neda has instantly become the symbol of a revolution thanks to technology (though we may have to revoke our thanks from Nokia), and back to a little out-of-the-way part of the planet called Bozeman, Montana.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset: The aftermath
Steve Jobs recovers from liver transplant
Now that the next iPhone launch is at least a solid year away, the truth behind CEO Steve Jobs' six-month medical leave has finally been released to the Wall Street Journal.
In January, Jobs said he had been diagnosed with a hormone imbalance, and the public speculated it was actually intestinal cancer. Tonight, it was revealed that the "hormone imbalance" was an issue with his liver. According to the WSJ report, Jobs underwent a liver transplant two months ago in Tennessee, and has been in recovery since that time. A statement from Apple to the paper said the CEO is still looking forward to a return to work at the end of the month.
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