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Another month, another batch of Microsoft security fixes. This month's Patch Tuesday distribution shows that even the newest offerings from Redmond contain holes that malicious yet savvy hackers can exploit. In fact, all of the seven advisories -- covering 19 flaws -- described in the latest Patch T...
Lenovo unveiled on Wednesday three new notebooks built around a new processor and chip set announced the same day by Intel. Lenovo engineered both the ThinkPad T61 and the ThinkPad R61 with its new Top Cover Roll Cage for enhanced durability, an improved thermal management cooling and efficiency sys...
Veteran users will barely recognize Microsoft Word 2007 as their venerable word processor of choice. That can be good or bad, depending on how you've used Word in the past. If you're a mechanic and loved tinkering with the host of customizable features in the older versions of Word, you'll very like...
Samsung Electronics has unveiled the second generation of an ultra mobile personal computer it introduced a year ago with partners Microsoft and Intel. The company unveiled the device, dubbed the "Q1 Ultra-V," at the Samsung Experience store in New York on Monday, touting it as a physical and functi...
For most newspapers, there's a clear line of demarcation between their print and Web operations. Although that line gets fuzzier and fuzzier every day, nowhere has it gotten fuzzier than at BostonNow, a free newspaper handed out around Boston to some 85,000 commuters five days a week. It publishes b...
A team of astronomers working with NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory has witnessed the brightest supernova ever seen, leading them to suggest that a similar explosion may be imminent in a star in our own galaxy. "This supernova was not only bright, but also rather slow in its development, which means...
The Transportation Security Administration is attempting to provide some solace to current and former employees whose personal information is on a computer hard drive that was "discovered missing" late last week. The TSA said it will give the employees free credit monitoring for up to one year, ID t...
There are two main camps of software developers that dominate the world today: those that work primarily in a Microsoft .Net framework and those that work primarily in a J2EE framework. However, even this one-two punch of heavy-hitting frameworks comes with a caveat: "One of the things that has beco...
Parents are becoming more restrictive when it comes to regulating the video games their children play, according to a recent study commissioned by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Sixty percent of parents with children under the age of 17 never allow their kids to play M-rated titles, the st...
Nearly half of American adults have a "distant or nonexistent relationship" with information and communication technology such as the Internet, mobile phones and other gadgets, according to a new report by the Pew Internet Project. The study examined the sort of technology used by adults, how they u...
After more than two years of testing, Microsoft is launching Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, making it available in 36 languages across the world. The software giant has closed the public testing period and has started the process of migrating users to this major upgrade of its W...
Wal-Mart Stores has launched a 10-year pilot project to use solar power at 22 Wal-Mart sites in California and Hawaii, the company announced Monday. SunEdison, PowerLight and BP Solar will supply an estimated 20 million kilowatt-hours per year across the Wal-Mart locations, making this one of the la...
Cable providers keep piling on the goodies in their quest to sell TV. Comcast's newest enticement is a Web-based dashboard that will allow its triple play customers to easily manage their communication tasks. The new service will be called the "SmartZone" communications center, said Comcast, the nat...
Looking back at last week, I had a lot to choose from, but the two things that I thought were the most interesting were Sony's dropping the PSP price to a very attractive $169, and the resignation of PC World's editor in chief over a throwaway Apple piece. The first item got me thinking about why th...
More than half of "Second Life" users are from Europe, according to a study announced Friday that analyzed active users of the virtual online world. A full 61 percent of the 1.3 million users who ran the official "Second Life" software and logged in in March were based in Europe, compared with 19 pe...
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