Bill to make P2P file sharing safer passes House Committee
The House Energy and Commerce Committee this week passed passed the Informed P2P User Act, which is designed to make it safer for consumers to use peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing software.
Read More ...
Verizon router glitch slams parts of U.S.
A Verizon router failure in the northeastern U.S. caused an outage that Internet engineers and Twitter users reported on Friday afternoon.
Read More ...
Verizon router glitch slams parts of U.S.
A Verizon router failure in the northeastern U.S. caused an outage that Internet engineers and Twitter users reported on Friday afternoon.
Read More ...
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac, Hands On
More than a year ago, I brought you the first official confirmation from Research In Motion (RIM) that it would release a long-awaited Macintosh-compatible version of its BlackBerry Desktop Manager software in 2009.
Read More ...
Six more Snow Leopard tips
In this week's video, I delve into six more Snow Leopard tips that you may or may not be familiar with (some have been covered here in blog entries). Note that this is my second video of six Snow Leopard tips; here's the first video. Why six? Consider it a tribute to the ".6" in Snow Leopard's version number, though yes, we're technically now up to 12 total.
Read More ...
Make it even easier to add media to iTunes
While the new Tunes 9 feature that automatically adds media to iTunes is pretty easy to use already--just drop an iTunes-compatible media folder on the Automatically Add to iTunes folder in your iTunes folder, and you're done. But in case you're looking to make it even easier, here are a couple of hints that do just that.
Read More ...
Bugs & Fixes: Font problems in Snow Leopard
Did the spacing between characters of certain fonts in at least some of your documents change after updating to Snow Leopard? If so, you're not alone. A thread on this topic in Apple's Discussions Boards currently has more than 8,000 views and 135 replies, all more or less confirming the problem. Other Apple Discussions threads report similar findings.
Read More ...
ICANN goes global, Xerox to offer more services
Independent business service companies have become a rare breed after Monday's news that Xerox is buying Affiliated Computer Services. Xerox follows Dell and Hewlett-Packard, fellow hardware companies that see revenue in selling machines as well as services. In Internet news, a more diverse management body will run the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), ending the U.S. government's close oversight of the organization. Finally, two of Microsoft's latest software products, Windows 7 and a rudimentary version of its online collaboration applications, are reviewed.
Read More ...
House members seek stronger health care data breach notifications
A House committee is voicing concern over a controversial provision in a recently passed health care breach notification bill that gives health care companies considerable discretion on whether to disclose a data breach.
Read More ...
Why you'll love your on-screen keyboard
Soon, just about everything will work like an iPhone, with software-based multitouch, gestures as the interface for PCs and gadgets of every description, writes columnist Mike Elgan.
Read More ...
No comments:
Post a Comment