Storm brews over iCloud
Apple’s cloud-based back-up isn’t trustworthy, as one reader (and your columnist) found. Photo: Bloomberg Apple’s core promises aren’t always in sync with users’ experiences of its products. IF YOU spend too much time with Apple fans, you’re likely to catch the virus that leads many Apple owners to believe they…
What’s This? A Mac Virus? No Actually It’s a Weakness in Java.
When a computer incident happens on Apple’s Mac OS X, it’s a headline-making event. When it happens on Windows, it’s just another day. That remains the reality, even after a bunch of media reports on how a vulnerability in Java has led to the creation of a Mac botnet about…
Nokia’s Lumia 900: A New Deal For Smartphones
There’s a new Nokia smartphone that has many techies intrigued, and yet the year is not 2005, about the last time that Finnish manufacturer could claim supremacy in the business. Crazier still, this model runs Microsoft software, which also last saw is heyday around then. The subject of this interest, the…
Corsair Accelerator Series Caching SSD Review
GA_googleFillSlot("sr_160x600"); April 5th, 2012 by Kevin OBrien in CachingSSD At CES Corsair formally announced they had partnered with NVELO to launch a caching SSD for consumer use. The Corsair Accelerator Series Caching SSDs are shipping now and promise to give users up to a 5X performance boost over…
Send Big Ol’ Files With WinZip’s Free ZipSend Lite
WinZip is famous for its file compression software, and chances are good that you’ve used it to shrink files before attaching them to an outgoing email message. But even when compressed, some files can still take up plenty of space, slowing down your emails as they travel. Enter ZipSend Lite,…
Gmail ‘People Widget’ Gets New Photos
The Gmail team at Google announced in a Google+ post that the ‘people widget’ in Gmail would now display up to 3 recent photos that person has sent you. The photos will link back to the emails they were sent in. The ‘people widget’ is the box on the upper-right side…
In Prelude to General, Obama-Romney Messaging Battle Heats Up
The race for the White House is sounding more like a general-election campaign as President Barack Obama begins to take aim at Mitt Romney and the former Massachusetts governor turns some attention away from Rick Santorum to punch back. But these initial skirmishes, which will continue through the spring and…
‘Ms. Splosion Man’ Officially Coming to iOS This Summer
posted April 6th, 2012 1:03 AM EDT by Jared Nelson in News, Upcoming Games After suffering a bite from the clone bug back in January 2011 from Capcom’s MaXplosion, everyone was curious if developer Twisted Pixel would layeth the smack down by officially porting their critically acclaimed XBLA platformer ‘Splosion Man to That…
Hipmunk Adds Calendar Integration To Mobile Apps For Trip Planning Bliss
Hipmunk, the flight and hotel search startup known for its snazzy user interfaces, has done it again. The company today is rolling out a new integration for its mobile apps with popular calendar applications (right now it works with iCal, Google Calendar, and Microsoft Outlook.) Essentially, this makes the often…
Voyage Manager Goes Messaging
Travellers’ instant messaging statuses can now be automatically updated with their latest Voyage Manager travel status updates.Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 05, 2012 –(PR.com)– Voyage Manager has move travel tracking to a new level with the integration of the VM Travel Tracking Suite with the Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger. The instant…