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Browzar: a first look review
Reviews But it's not the only one: there's Heatseek (designed for adult content and definitely not safe for work), for example; and if you use Firefox, don't forget the 'clear private data' keyboard shortcut -- Ctrl+Shift+Delete.
[September 1, 2006, 14:25]
Comdex Fall, Las Vegas: Iomega takes on Flash with tiny 20Mb disk
News At about $10 per disk, the technology has the capacity to shift the market away from the still pricey Flash, and small format implementations of Flash such as Miniature Card and CompactFlash. Not content with wreaking havoc in the removable...
[November 20, 1996, 9:30]
Google tipped to buy AOL stake
News AOL recently had a makeover and a huge shift in its business model, launching a new AOL.com portal and opening up its formerly walled-off content to the Internet at large. The deal also would have included joint promotions and content-sharing...
[December 19, 2005, 9:20]
Chipmakers face massive consolidation
News Another trend that Gartner forecasts is the shift toward consumer markets from the current focus on business markets. Besides increasing costs and complexity of design, increased system content and greater flexibility will drive manufacturers out...
[September 16, 2004, 9:40]
Deepnet Explorer review
Reviews Deepnet Explorer stops pop-up ad windows by default, though you can still view blocked windows by holding down the Shift key. In a departure from Internet Explorer, which makes you dig deep into its setting options, Deepnet Explorer's content...
[May 24, 2005, 8:45]
Ubiquitous Software: When Worlds Collide
Blog I know that despite magnificent strides in mobile device specifications that the mobile environment is not quite ready to handle such a robust paradigm shift throughout the wireless industry. Imagine a world of application content where the...
[August 12, 2009, 23:59]
.Mac numbers grow
News Apple isn't the only company making a shift to paid services. According to an Online Publishers Association and ComScore Media Metrix study, consumer spending for online content, mainly in the form of subscriptions, rose 155 percent during the...
[October 2, 2002, 13:03]
Gartner: Enterprise-software sales to drop in Europe
News This will benefit alternative software acquisition models, as organisations will look for ways to shift spending from capital expenditures to operating expenditures," Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner, said in a statement.
[March 30, 2009, 15:30]
Mobile Open Source: A Torrent of Implication
Blog A paradigm shift of open source MOPS threatens the pMOP tradition of extensive licensing fees against developer while it stands to create a free market seasoned for innovation. A move to open source within the wireless industry could take us from a...
[July 8, 2008, 17:43]
DoJ to seek charges against Microsoft
News He goes on to say, though, that "evidence reveals an intent" to protect Windows from the shift of a growing number of software programs to the Web. Although the suspicion lingers, the evidence is insufficient to find that Microsoft's ambition is a...
[December 6, 1999, 14:35]
ISP to hand over file-trader names
News Internet trade groups worry that it could shift the burden of copyright enforcement toward ISPs. At stake are subpoena powers granted under a controversial copyright law that aims to make it easier for content owners to combat Internet piracy.
[June 5, 2003, 8:34]
Spammers scaring users into replying
News This shift toward a calculated attempt to frighten consumers into making purchases is very well timed," said Alyn Hockey, Clearswift's director of research, in a statement. Spam is taking a nasty turn as cybercriminals try to capitalise on computer...
[August 15, 2005, 16:45]
SGI unwraps the Wintels
News Although the systems themselves were the centrepiece of the announcement, Belluzzo and other SGI executives said that the day represented a fundamental shift in the company's business -- one that's more PC-centric, focused on manufacturing and...
[January 12, 1999, 16:45]
Office 12 to 'bring XML to the masses'
News Microsoft pledged that the shift to XML will decrease the size of many individual files and make documents created in its Office products more resistant to corruption. This is a situation where the line between content and data becomes blurred.
[June 2, 2005, 9:15]
EC rubberstamps data retention directive
News The letter said: "Adopting this directive would cause an irreversible shift in civil liberties within the European Union. Information including the date, destination and duration of communications will be stored and made available to law...
[February 23, 2006, 9:05]
Public-sector 'laggards' resisting Web 2.0
News More importantly, the defensive approach amongst teams, and a culture of maintaining the status quo that seems to go with it, is difficult to shift. Laggards" in local government are doggedly resisting user-generated content, blogging, mashups and...
[September 16, 2008, 8:14]
Monthly MP3 subscriptions hit the Web
News Since the advent of online audio formats such as MP3, analysts and industry observers have been predicting that we are in line for seismic shift in the way we listen to and purchase music. The strength of our subscription model lies in our ability...
[April 3, 2000, 14:03]
AMD and Intel war over benchmarks
News AMD launched its "True Performance Initiative" with the Athlon XP processor last autumn, in order to shift consumers away from the perception that a chip with a faster clock speed offers better performance.
[April 3, 2002, 14:07]
Google's search for mobile goes east
News The adoption is expected to significantly shift the numbers of mobile phone users among providers. Google's search engine will provide the content for mobile phones on KDDI's EZweb internet service, as well as for PCs in general.
[May 19, 2006, 9:35]
Napster's loss could be Gnutella's gain
News It is going to require a radical shift," says Kiran Sandford, partner of the IT group at law firm Taylor Joynson Garrett. They should continue to offer a free service but must make it less appealing, perhaps with lower quality audit, limited...
[March 2, 2001, 11:28]
