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By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
The question over whether Secure Sockets Later, and later Transport Layer Security, was ever sufficiently impregnable never rose to such a crescendo for malicious users to become inspired to exploit it. In the end, the discovery that TLS had a weak spot was ...
Computing
By Carmi Levy , Betanews
December never fails to make me cringe. I know full well that journalists will be filling my inbox all month long with countless requests to guess what next year's hot technologies will be. I can understand why they would. Trying to predict what comes next in tech has ...
Phones
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Should businesses let employees use their personal laptops at work? For 10 percent of mid-size businesses and enterprises, the answer is more than yes; they have employees using personal portables as primary work PCs. Today, Gartner released survey results from second ...
Other
By Jacqueline Emigh , Betanews
After stirring up privacy concerns with a personalized search announcement, industry search engine leader Google threw a press conference today to launch a slate of other new search offerings for PCs and mobile phones, including a possibly equally controversial ...
Phones
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
As an Android fan, I've been looking forward to Google Goggles since the second I heard about it, and today it has officially been made available. It is a new lab from Google which turns your Android device's camera into a search input device. Similar to the way ...
Phones
Android
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
In response to a Saturday story from Betanews contributor Joe Wilcox , a Microsoft spokesperson told Betanews this afternoon that "the offer has not been 'pulled'" -- specifically, that it did not revoke anything with regard to its three-license Windows 7 ...
Computing
Windows 7
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
For years, analysts have opined about the iPod "halo effect" on Mac sales -- the idea being that people buying iPods who enjoy the experience and exposure to the Apple brand will be more likely to buy Macs. Analyst firm Flurry, which data I am using for the first ...
Phones
iPod touch
iPhone
By Paul Hartsock, MacNewsWorld
The story of "Edgy" sounds like an iPhone developer's worst nightmare. You create a game that includes a lot of intricate puzzles and levels. Lots of time goes into it, so you think it's appropriate to charge a moderate amount, as iPhone games go. There seems to ...
Phones
iPhone
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
A spokesperson for Intel confirmed to Betanews this morning that the company's highly anticipated initial release of a commercial processor product based on its CPU+GPU architecture, code-named "Larrabee," will not come within early 2010 after all. This ...
Other
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
Hardly a day goes by when our inboxes and feeds aren't flooded with messages from companies announcing that they have created a new iPhone application. They range from the disappointingly simple to the disconcertingly arcane, but as a whole skew more toward the ...
Phones
Research In Motion
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Microsoft advertising has people claiming that "Windows 7 was my idea." I'd like to make "my idea" more real for Betanews readers, by offering a soapbox to give Microsoft a piece of your mind (be polite, but firm); first some context on why do it now. For Microsoft, ...
Computing
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Apple's apparent acquisition of music streaming service Lala is about improving iTunes music discovery and competitively combating Google search as a music discovery tool tied to free music streaming services. I say apparent acquisition because there is no official ...
Audio
iTunes
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
I've got a new spelling for "Scrooge." M-i-c-r-o-s-o-f-t. The company has ended the Windows 7 Family Pack promotion, which is a nice Ba Humbug to you and yours for the holidays. Sure, it could be good for Microsoft's bottom line and perhaps partners' PC sales. But for ...
Computing
Windows 7
By Jacqueline Emigh , Betanews
With iPhone and Android picking up more popularity every day, it's urgent for rival smartphones to enhance their mobile software environments, some analysts say. But while Microsoft, RIM, and Nokia are working on better user experiences, phones outfitted with ...
Phones
Windows Mobile
BlackBerry
Symbian
Nokia
RIM
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
As the holidays approach and New Years not long beyond, analysts turn ESPers as they try to predict the future. Sometimes, the predictions are so crazed, they're somewhere between alcoholically induced and reaching into an alternative universe where reality beats to ...
Gaming
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews
Some Betanews readers made such excellent comments to yesterday's post, " Can there be a free Web if no one makes money? ," I will respond to some of them with another post rather than piecemeal in comments. The current advertising model isn't sufficient to handle all ...
Other
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
The New York Times has cited an unidentified source said to have knowledge of Microsoft's ongoing negotiations with the European Commission, as saying that the company will comply with a suggestion made by three of its chief rivals in the Web browser ...
Computing
By Tim Conneally , Betanews
The world of mobile communications has changed considerably since Nokia reached market dominance in the late '90s, and the Finnish telecommunications leader is shifting its strategies to keep ahead as mobile behavior continues to change. This week, the company ...
Phones
Nokia
Symbian
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews
For about 40 minutes starting at approximately 9:30 pm EST Thursday evening, by Betanews estimates, the main page of Microsoft's Bing Web site was inaccessible to users. In its place was a message filled with hexadecimal code, leading off with the message, ...
Other
By Denis Pombriant, CRM Buyer
This just in: Females outnumber males on social networking sites. The site Pingdom did a survey , and concluded that 16 out of 19 (84%) of the most popular social sites have more women populating them than men. The super geek sites Digg, Reddit, and Slashdot have ...
