Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Monday, April 16, 2012
HP ZR2740w: My Love For Pivoting Displays

I tend to favor different display sizes and configurations depending on the task at hand. If I’m gaming at home, it’s usually on a 23- or 24-inch monitor running at 1920x1080. If I’m working at the office, I want more desktop real estate, so I flank my AMD Eyefinity-enabled HP Envy 14 laptop with two 24-inch displays. HP recently sent a 27-inch ZR2740w monitor to the office, so I replaced one of those 24-inch displays with this 2560x1440 IPS beast.
New Mac OS X Trojan unearthed. Call it SabPub
Here we go again.
Kaspersky Lab security researcher Costin Raiu has discovered another Mac OS X Trojan. Dubbed Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a (or just SabPub, for short), the malware uses Java exploits to infect a Mac, connect to a remote Web site, and wait for instructions that include taking screenshots of the user's Mac and executing commands.
Kaspersky Lab security researcher Costin Raiu has discovered another Mac OS X Trojan. Dubbed Backdoor.OSX.SabPub.a (or just SabPub, for short), the malware uses Java exploits to infect a Mac, connect to a remote Web site, and wait for instructions that include taking screenshots of the user's Mac and executing commands.
Friday, April 13, 2012
Life after Firefox: Can Mozilla regain its mojo?
Mozilla Foundation president Mitchell Baker is sitting on a ticking time bomb.
The survival of her company, which pledges to make the web a better place, is at the mercy of one of its main competitors, Google.
If you haven't heard of Mozilla, you almost certainly know - and perhaps use - its most famous product: the Firefox browser.
Icann's internet suffix application deadline looms
Organisations wishing to buy web addresses ending in their brand names have until the end of Thursday to submit applications.
For example, drinks giant Pepsi can apply for .pepsi, .gatorade or .tropicana as an alternative to existing suffixes such as .org or .com.
Parties are able to request up to 50 web address endings.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Apple Investigating Wi-Fi Issues with the New iPad
Apple has reportedly acknowledged the Wi-Fi problems with its new iPad (3rd gen), and is investigating the problem.
When the third-generation iPad first hit store shelves, users began to complain about charging and overheating issues. Now Apple is receiving reports that its coveted tablet sporting the spiffy new Retina display is also suffering Wi-Fi problems.
When the third-generation iPad first hit store shelves, users began to complain about charging and overheating issues. Now Apple is receiving reports that its coveted tablet sporting the spiffy new Retina display is also suffering Wi-Fi problems.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Mike Daisey took aim at Apple, now challenges Chinese translator
NEW YORK--Mike Daisey made a name for himself by taking on mighty
Apple but is now challenging the credibility of a little-known Chinese
translator.
The actor and Apple critic is putting his word against hers. The woman
who assisted him during a trip to China in 2010 disputes many of his
claims about witnessing inhumane working conditions at factories where
iPads and iPhones are assembled.
Opinion: Imagining Nokia’s iPad-destroying Windows 8 tablet
It’s
possible for Nokia to dethrone Apple’s market-leading iPad with its
upcoming Windows 8 tablet, but a watered-down iClone won’t do it. Here’s
what the company will have to improve to have a shot at success.
How Apple keeps them lining up
What does the iPad have in common with Harry Potter? Quite a lot it turns out.
It's got legions of fans eager to line up for it, lose sleep over it,
and even skip work to be the first to get their hands on it. And of
course there are those that detest it entirely.
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Does Google feel pain from its PR blunders? Yes and no
Google's weighted search results and revamped
privacy policy have rankled Internet users, but is Google feeling any
pain? Or do we just keep using it anyway?
Apple's new iPad gets unboxed, benchmarked early
Apple's new iPad doesn't hit stores until Friday, but that hasn't kept it from ending up out in the wild first.
Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn today posted photos and a video
of the new iPad for the first time outside of Apple's unveiling event
last week, and ahead of reviews from CNET and other news outlets.
New super-cheap, ultra-thin solar cells could threaten fossil fuel dominance
Twin Creeks Technologies has created a new
way to make silicon solar wafers that creates far less waste than
traditional methods, and cuts the cost of production in half.
The march toward viable alternative energies may have just taken a crucial step forward. Twin Creeks Technologies,
a US-based solar energy startup, unveiled this week a new type of
ultra-thin solar cell that cost half as much to produce as comparable
cells. The drop in price could allow solar to serve as a practical
alternative to fossil fuels.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich Upgrade Melts
News of the upgrade stemmed from a Thursday posting on a Samsung FAQ page. The page, titled "Galaxy S2 ICS Upgrade," described how owners of the mobile could upgrade it to Android 4.0.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Mercedes-Benz creates “invisible car” using LEDs and Canon DSLR (Video)
Designed to capture the attention of
consumers and bring attention to cars that don't significantly impact
the environment, Mercedes has launched an inventive advertising campaign
regarding hydrogen-powered cars.
Small Apple tablet chatter gets louder from suppliers

AU Optronics and LG Display will supply the 7.85-inch screen for the
Apple device, according to Taipei-based Economic Daily News--that report
was cited in the Macotakara blog in a post dated March 6.
Next iPad will be the iPad HD, not the iPad 3
CNET has learned that Apple's next
tablet will be called the iPad HD instead of the iPad 3.
A developer who's previously provided reliable information with
respect to things Apple and otherwise tells us the next iPad uses the HD
moniker instead of going with "iPad 3."
Sunday, March 4, 2012
In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books
RICHMOND, Calif. — In a wooden warehouse in this industrial suburb, the
20th century is being stored in case of digital disaster.
Forty-foot shipping containers stacked two by two are stuffed with the
most enduring, as well as some of the most forgettable, books of the
era. Every week, 20,000 new volumes arrive, many of them donations from
libraries and universities thrilled to unload material that has no place
in the Internet Age.
It's not the iPad 3, but it would be sweet if it was (video)
Gadget geeks everywhere are, of course, beside themselves with anticipation over next week's iPad announcement from Apple. And, of course, the rumors have been flying.
But it seems unlikely we'll see too much of a departure from the
current model--except when it comes to the high-res display. As CNET's
Donald Bell puts it, "the most likely scenario we'll see from Apple is an incrementally improved device that will stun users (and disrupt an industry) with a unique high-resolution display."
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