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Continuing to expand its portfolio of services under the Windows Live roof, Microsoft's newest beta offerings allow users to store and share photos and files online. The Windows Live Photo Gallery, Microsoft said, is an upgrade of the Windows Photo Gallery that comes with the Windows Vista operating...
If there's one prospect that sends shivers down the spines of shutterbugs everywhere, it's the expectation that some day, some way, all their photos will disappear in a computer mishap. There are several ways to guard against such disasters, but a neat, mobile way to do it is with the Polaroid Media...
Microsoft will tweak Windows Vista to enable the easy use of other vendors' desktop search applications, a response to a complaint by search giant Google. News of the agreement was included in an U.S. Department of Justice report on Microsoft's compliance with final judgments to the U.S. versus Micr...
There are lots of disk defraggers in the market, but Raxco PerfectDisk is one of the best that I've seen to date. Now the Gaithersburg, Md., company is expanding the scope of its flagship product to further improve computer performance and security. Raxco's new product, PerfectDisk Rx Suite, is buil...
Last week was kind of a disappointment, because I think most of us expected more from the Apple developer conference than it delivered. This is particularly true of the iPhone, which is way overhyped for a generation one product. Most tech companies -- and particularly Apple -- suck at generation ...
Microsoft has released its latest batch of fixes in this month's Patch Tuesday announcement, employing a new format that makes it easier for IT administers to single out areas of risk, according to Amol Sarwate, research manager of the vulnerability research lab at Qualys. The new format doesn't giv...
A bane of shutterbugs everywhere is the question of what to do with their photos after shooting them. In the days when film was king, it wasn't unusual to find closets with shoeboxes stuffed with prints or boxes of slides. Today, computer hard drives have become the photo shoeboxes of yesterday. Dig...
YouTube is planning to test new technology that will help it identify copyrighted video content that has been uploaded onto the site illegally, according to reports. In tests with Time Warner and the Walt Disney Co., the video-sharing site will assess software developed by engineers at its parent co...
Google Friday unveiled Google Calendar Gallery, a platform that allows one-click importing to Google Calendars of event and listing content found on other Web sites. Google has always envisioned Google Calendar to be capable of easing the hassle normally associated with calendar management, the comp...
If there's one thing Windows users share -- other than their conflicted emotions toward Microsoft -- it's an insatiable yearning to boost the performance of their computers. Windows, despite all its warts, gives them a dizzying number of ways to to do that -- with the right tools. Such a tool is Cac...
Last week, history was made. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were physically on stage together -- for just the second time ever -- in what many have described as something of a love fest, with Bill repeatedly praising the Mac. Kind of makes you wonder what the two of them could have done as close partners...
A new installment of Mozilla's sterling e-mail program, Thunderbird, has been released, and while this new variant doesn't blow the doors off its predecessor, version 1.5, it has some tantalizing enhancements that spurred me to upgrade to the new edition without hesitation. A major change in the app...
Barracuda Networks has added advanced reporting capabilities to its Barracuda Web Filter appliance, the company announced Wednesday. The new in-depth reports provide network administrators deeper visibility into corporate Web usage, enabling better management and assignment of bandwidth. "The applia...
Windows Vista is selling faster than any of its predecessors and exceeding Microsoft's own expectations, Chairman Bill Gates said as he kicked off the annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday. One hundred days after Vista launched in January, the latest version of Win...
Microsoft will literally place its stamp on a new wave of qualified mobile phones that are designed to be compatible with its main communications products. The software giant unveiled 15 phones made by a variety of vendors including Samsung, LG-Nortel, NEC, Plantronics, Asus, GN, Polycon, Tatung and...