Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 All-Purpose Laptop
Though Lenovo's ThinkPad business laptops have a reputation for no-nonsense design, the company also produces low-priced, consumer all-purpose laptops that look as good as they feel. Just take a look at the IdeaPad Y450, a 14-inch multimedia laptop that's visually striking yet carries a price tag of just $800 (price as of 7/13/09). In some respects the Y450 is a leaner, meaner version of the IdeaPad Y530, which we reviewed a few months back.
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Firefox 3.5's first vulnerability 'self-inflicted,' says scientist
Mozilla has confirmed the first bug in the Firefox 3.5 browser that was launched about two weeks ago.
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Cisco, UnitedHealth team up to build a national network for virtual doctor visits
Cisco and health insurer UnitedHealth Group are piloting a network that connects patients and health care providers through video conferencing technology, which would allow patients to be diagnosed through the use of biomedical imaging technology from remote locations.
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PercepTool 1.5.5
Can a single click really represent 30 years of research and hard work? Professional photographer George DeWolfe certainly thinks so--his PercepTool plug-in for Photoshop CS3 ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) and CS4 ( Macworld rated 4 out of 5 mice ) attempts to mimic your visual cortex in order to make an image look the way your brain thinks it should. In one fell swoop, this plug-in alters the brightness, edges, and contrast of your images.
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Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China
The uphill battle that open-source programs face to steal ground from proprietary software comes with added pitfalls in China, where problems like software piracy take away strengths that open source has elsewhere.
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Nokia looks to improved software to boost U.S. business
Nokia is continuing on its long term plan to boost sales in the U.S., virtually the only region in the world where its business is weak.
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Timeline: The evolution of online communities
Think Facebook is the ne plus ultra of online communities? Let's not forget about e-mail discussion lists, chat rooms, BBSs, Usenet groups, MUDs and all the other types of online communities that helped us get where we are today.
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CompuServe, Prodigy et al.: What Web 2.0 can learn from Online 1.0
GEnie, Delphi, AOL and other commercial networks once ruled the online roost. Where are they now, and what can their ghosts teach today's online communities?
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Microsoft customers face license hurdle to online apps
Microsoft promoted more of its Web-based software offerings at its Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans this week, but some analysts say the company's enterprise licensing terms provide little incentive for large customers to move away from its on-premise products.
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China, Indonesia led Asian PC sales higher in Q2, Intel says
Stronger PC demand from consumers in China and Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, gave Intel's Asian business a boost during the second quarter, the company said Wednesday.
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