Android Phone Hacking Scare Alert

A flaw on a number of HTC smartphones available in Australia means a hacker can find out where you are, who you have called and sent text messages to and disable your phone remotely, security experts say.To be exploited the flaw requires a rogue app to be granted access to the internet, which most apps require. Once granted access the app can then gain access to data that has been shown to be

Kindle Versus iPad

Kindle has become one hot brand in Amazon! Amazon has unveiled a touchscreen tablet com-puter in an attempt to pull the rug from beneath Apple and its iPad. The Kindle Fire, which has many similar functions, will be sold in the U.S. for $199 (£128), less than half the price of the cheapest iPad available.The low cost stunned technology industry watchers, who suggested that Apple and other tablet

Jobs at Apple: Master inventor, master marketer

Steve Jobs started Apple Computer with a high school friend in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976, was forced out a decade later, then returned to rescue the company. During his second stint, Apple grew into the most valuable technology company in the world.

Jobs invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets that transformed everyday technology, from the personal computer to the iPod and

Google Chrome 7 Gets GPU Acceleration for 2D and 3D Content

One of the big features in the upcoming Internet Explorer 9, that Microsoft has been touting for months is hardware acceleration. But it now looks like Google Chrome may be getting GPU acceleration before IE 9 lands, even if it only announced the feature yesterday.The latest Chromium builds can now send some of the rendering directly to the GPU resulting in better performance and less CPU strain.

Windows 7 Ready to exceed Vista, XP Still the Most Popular

Performance of Microsoft Windows 7 operating system on the market so far kept rocketing. According to statistics news from Net Applications, Windows 7 now has scooped 10 per cent share of the operating system market.The achievement was made more quickly than its predecessor, Windows Vista which took 16 months to do the same.Overall, the Windows operating system in various versions are still very

Microsoft Online Services Go Global

Microsoft Online Services are now live at a global scale. The move comes simultaneously with Microsoft wrapping up the upgrade to the Microsoft Online Customer Portal (MOCP). Technical product manager for Microsoft Online Services, Paul Englis indicated that with the latest refresh MOCP was up to version 9.1. The worldwide availability of the Microsoft Online Services means that the Redmond

Optical Technique Tells Fake CDs from the Originals

Pirated CDs and DVDs are a major dent in profits for large companies, considering the fact that some countries use stolen software on 70 to 80 percent of its market. This means that no revenues enter the pockets of the manufacturer, while its products are widely used. Now, scientists at the University of Granada (UG) came up with an ingenious way of detecting which CDs were fake, and which were

Windows 7 Will Consume Less Disk Space than Vista

Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista. Essentially, the Redmond company is laboring to decrease the installation footprint of the operating system with the next iteration of the Windows client. While the software giant failed to indicate just how much occupied disk space it was going to shave off in Windows 7, it did

Add Laptop Location Tracking Security

A new open source project allows computer users to add surreptitious location tracking to their systems. Windows, Mac and Linux versions are available.Adeona, from researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California, San Diego, anonymously sends data to servers on a free storage system called OpenDHT. The data, which is encrypted, includes IP addresses, information about

Firefox 3.0 - Over 8.3 Million Downloads on Day One

While Microsoft was busy baking congratulatory IE cakes and cooking Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 due in August, Firefox 3.0 went over the 8.3 million downloads milestone worldwide on just the first day ofavailability. According to Chief Executive Officer John Lilly, Mozilla has served over 83 Terabytes of Firefox 3.0 in the first 24 hours since the release. Asa Dotzler, Mozilla's community

Free M4a to MP3 Converter 5.9

Convert AAC to MP3 and M4a to MP3 Do you need to convert AAC to MP3? M4a to MP3? MP4 audio to MP3? Your favorite player doesn't support M4a audio? Then take a look at the new tool from ManiacTools, Free M4a to MP3 Converter. The program supports a number of input formats, like the above mentioned AAC, M4a, MP4 audio, M4b (audiobooks), and some other MPEG-4 based audio formats. You can

Free Acrobat Online Service Suite

The free Acrobat online service suite provides web based applications and tools to manage and share documents and files. There are web conferences (communication in real time) and storage solutions available, as well as a word processor and an online PDF converter.The applications and tools contained in the suite are: Share, Create PDF, Adobe Buzzword, Adobe ConnectNow and My Files. They make the