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Android 2.2, code-named "Froyo," will fully support Adobe's Flash platform, Andy Rubin, Google's vice president of engineering, told The New York Times' Bits blog Tuesday. Google's show of Flash support came weeks after Apple, Android's rival, announced changes that made it more difficult for Flash ...

Newer versions of Microsoft's operating systems and software products are better at fighting cybercrime than older versions, according to new research. Windows 7 and Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 had the lowest infection rates of any Microsoft OS, found the "Microsoft Security Intelligence Repor...

The PDF format is now the standard for publishing and print-based industries. As you would expect, numerous free and inexpensive PDF readers are available, but relatively few inexpensive PDF creator apps exist. Word-processing programs such as Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Writer have features that ...

Microsoft announced a new revision of its SQL server software Wednesday, a version that the software maker is hailing as the "most complete information platform for managing, accessing and delivering information" in the corporate environment. "It's definitely a complete platform because it gets them...

In a perfect world -- albeit one that's more than a little tech-centric -- Monday's release of the Creative Suite 5 update from Adobe would have commanded a lot of attention. Bristling with advances that help both consumers and developers create multimedia content on their computers and on the Web, ...

Google is rolling out an update to users of its Docs service allowing them to do more real-time collaborating and making a variety of speed and service enhancements. Elements of the update began rolling out Monday, with others scheduled to filter out to users over the next few days, according to Goo...

Spend a few minutes at Microsoft's Hohm Web site, enter a few details about your house, and it will spit out a series of recommendations about how best you can reduce your energy consumption, and maybe save some money in the process. Next year, it will be able to help some car owners to manage the p...

IUGO Mobile has used Apple's iPhone to dial up a measure of success with its smartphone-based games. The development company was the first gaming outlet to get its own featured section on the iTunes for PC Store. IUGO's games are used for demo purposes in Apple Stores, and "Toy Bot Diaries" was part...

Technologists tend to think of so-called smart cities as being tied together by technology. Their focus is on using technology to change our lives and make cities more efficient and smarter. The problem with this approach is that it only focuses on making application management more efficient and ty...

Homo sapiens are a fast-growing species: The world's population is expected to double in 61 years, putting further pressure on our resources and, as countries become increasingly urbanized, on our cities. The infrastructure of today's cities won't be able to cope, and governments, scientists, archit...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Series emulator has been cracked. Windows Mobile Developer Dan Ardelean, who works out of Italy, announced Friday that he had hacked into the emulator, which allows users to run the WinPho7 platform on a full-sized computer. Microsoft had unveiled the emulator and other p...

Toyota's recent fiascoes with runaway acceleration illuminate the sorry lack of software standards to establish minimum quality levels for technologies crucial to the operation of transportation systems.

What WinPho7 Won't Have

A few features will be conspicuously absent from Microsoft's upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series platform. These include copy and paste functions, full multitasking, and support for user-replaceable memory cards. WinPho7 will also require that all apps be installed from the Windows Phone marketplace. In...

Everyone seems to be getting into the mobile app game -- but is anyone actually making any money doing it? The consensus is yes -- but there is more than one way to make money. Alexander Bartfeld took a hard look at the market before launching his software development company six months ago. Everyon...

PRODUCT REVIEW

Corel's X3 Photo Editor Paints a Pretty Picture

In the Windows world, photographers looking for an alternative to Adobe Photoshop that will save them cash without skimping on power typically have turned to Corel's PaintShop Photo Pro. The program has consistently kept pace with the evolving needs of shutterbugs over the years and the latest "X3" ...

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