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- What's in the air on Apple's MacBook Air?
- At the Macworld Keynote address, Steve Jobs held the world in awe as he unveiled the world's thinnest notebook. But it turns out that opinion on the ultra-thin MacBook Air is mixed. Images of the MacBook Air are available from Crave. The notebook measures...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., MacBook Air, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-17
- Error in McAfee virus definition causes popular sites to be flagged as a threat
- An erroneous McAfee update definition file causes the antivirus software to mistakenly report that certain sites are running malicious code when they are not. It caused a stir over at Ars Technica, where readers wrote in en masses about their antivirus software setting off an alert upon...
- Tags: McAfee Inc., Ars Technica, Virus Definition, Web Site Development, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-02
- Samsung spearheads new flash memory standard
- According to the Korea Times, Samsung Electronics and six other memory makers have agreed to create a new industry standard for flash memory cards by 2009. Dubbed Universal Flash Storage UFS, they are backed by Micron Technology, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Spansion, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments. ...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Memory Card, Nokia Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Flash Memory, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- Outrage over Germany's plan for "policeware"
- You might recall that we ran a story about two months ago on a CNET News.com survey. In Warning: Police spyware detected!, News.com approached various antispyware vendors on their willingness to hide police-sanctioned spyware, or "policeware." As noted in the article, the impromptus for the...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Germany, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-03
- Another Windows Vista patch now available
- Yesterday, we announced here a Vista 'performance and reliability ' patch from Microsoft , and that's been quickly followed by a 'compatibility and reliability' download. Both, as per Ars Technica, will require WGA validation and are designed to provide fixes for: Video driver...
- Tags: Ars Technica, PC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Computer, Productivity, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Games, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Hardware, Lea Rush
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Anti-spyware bill sent to Senate, passes House
- Ars Technica reports the U. S. House of Representatives today passed legislation by voice vote to criminalize spyware and other scams stealing personal information from users. If the Senate and President concur with the bill (first reported here on May 2), spyware creation and distribution becomes...
- Tags: Ars Technica, U.S. Senate, Anti-spyware, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, John Bartley K7AAY
- Blog posts 2007-05-23
- Handy links for staying up-to-date on hardware developments
- In this Daily Feature, James McPherson gives you the specs on several of his favorite hardware-oriented Web sites.It isn’t easy for IT workers to maintain the level of omniscience their clients and bosses expect of them. Fortunately for us, we can reserve our mental powers for real emergencies by hitting...
- Tags: James McPherson, hardware, Tech Report, Anand Lal Shimpi, Tom, Ars Technica
- Technical articles 2000-11-01
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- Apple firmware updates could brick unlocked iPhones
- An upcoming firmware update to the iPhone could result in SIM-unlocked iPhones bring rendered inoperable or 'bricked.' In an issued statement this afternoon: Apple has discovered that many of the unauthorized iPhone unlocking programs available on the Internet cause irreparable damage to the iPhone's software, which...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Firmware Update, Apple Inc., Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-24
- Mozilla and Microsoft fight over the next version of JavaScript
- Web Scripting StandardsAs elicited in the Ars Technica article, do we need a new standard for Web Scripting or a refinement of present day languages like Python and Ruby?
- Tags: Scripting languages, Channel management, Programming languages, pr.arun@..., Mozilla Corp., JavaScript, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Mozilla and Microsoft fight over the next version of JavaScript
- Mozilla's CTO and JavaScript creator Brendan Eich and Microsoft's Chris Wilson engaged in a war of words through their blogs about the next version of the JavaScript language. An excerpt from Ars Technica: Wilson and other critics have complained that their concerns are being suppressed and ignored...
- Tags: JavaScript, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Electronic Arts to donate SimCity to the OLPC project
- Electronic Arts plans to donate the original version of the popular SimCity computer game to the OLPC One Laptop Per Child project for inclusion on the XO laptop. The idea is that the game will be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries not only to entertain but...
- Tags: Electronic Arts Inc., Idea, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Don Hopkins, Games, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-11
- Safari 3.1 brings the Apple experience to Windows
- The good folks over at Ars Technica decided to check out Safari 3.1 for new goodness fresh out from Mac-land. Their verdict? They were blown away with the improvements since Safari 3.0. The chief kudos here appears to be with that Safari 3.1 brings in support...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Safari 3.1, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, CSS, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Law that compels the surrender of encryption keys goes into effect in the United Kingdom
- According to Ars Technica, new laws go into effect in the United Kingdom that make it a crime to refuse to decrypt almost any encrypted data that's requested as part of a police investigation. Individuals who refuse to comply with orders to hand over either cryptographic keys...
- Tags: Law, U.K., Encryption Key, Government, Security, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Productivity Increases 30 Percent With EMC Captiva QuickScan Pro
- Associated Reproduction Services ARS provides discovery and document reproduction to medical and legal organizations in southern California. ARS employees faced a significant learning curve with the previous application. It was not user-friendly and progressively raised training costs. As the shortcomings of the document capture system continued to compound, ARS wanted...
- Tags: EMC Corp., EMC Captiva QuickScan Pro, Associated Reproduction Services, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies 2006-06-05
- Capacitor-based technology offers great battery densities in near future
- Texas-based EEStor is planning to bring batteries to the market that are based on capacitors rather than chemical reactions. The technology may not only provide greater charge density in smaller packages, but it will also be a 'greener' solution than present day batteries. ...
- Tags: Battery, Capacitor, Conversion Calculation, Engineering, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-07
- iPhone unlocking software to be sold exclusively through resellers
- Just two weeks ago, we reported about iPhoneSIMfree's first verified software unlocking of the iPhone. If you recall, we subsequently raised concern about the legality of the entire affair. Well, it appears that iPhoneSIMfree must have shared some of this concern as well. In a...
- Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Phone, Reseller, Cell Phone, iPhoneSIMfree, Telecom & Utilities, Tools & Techniques, Management, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-09-03
- BMG's chief lawyer declares that making a copy of your own CD is stealing
- Ars Technica, which is covering the first actual trial pitting the RIAA against a supposed file-sharing, has a report on the opinion of Jennifer Pariser pertaining to the topic of fair use. Pariser is the head of litigation for Sony BMG and was called to the stand to testify....
- Tags: Song, Bertelsmann Music Group, CD, Copy, Pariser, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Microsoft planning its mobile device?
- Microsoft has been into the mobile industry for a long time. The Windows Mobile OS is well established among several smartphone makers, but with the immense success of the Apple iPhone and the wafting rumors of a GPhone, will Microsoft be taking the plunge? ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Mobile, Microsoft Corp., Mobile Device, Windows Mobile OS, GPhone, Advertising & Promotion, Smart Phones, Microsoft Windows, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-09-05
- Legal applications of BitTorrent
- BitTorrent, the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, and its implementation software have received much ire from the content creation industries. However, there are certain fundamental aspects underlying this technology that could solve many issues relating to computing on a wide scale. The IT department at INHOLLAND University used...
- Tags: BitTorrent, P2P, Legal Application, Peer To Peer (P2P), Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Malware variants giving anti-virus firms a tough time
- Anti-virus companies are finding it hard to keep up with the new variant of malicious applications springing up over the Web. An excerpt from Ars Technica: The explosive growth in variant detection is another example of how the Storm worm and other copycat viruses wreaked havoc...
- Tags: Antivirus, Malware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2008-01-12
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