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Apple made some progress on the iPhone security/management front, but it has a looooooong way to go before truly satisfying enterprise concerns - or becoming a suitable alternative to BlackBerry or Windows Mobile, for that matter.After months of speculation, Apple unveiled its next-generation smartphone, the iPhone 3G and solidified its push into the enterprise mobile space with a spattering of business-specific announcements. But how well did these enhancements to the uber-popular device and its software measure up to enterprise users' expectations? Last week, in anticipation of the iPhone 3G's arrival in stores —which, by the way, won't be for another...

Here’s an unexpected Independence Day gift for Apple.Axel Springer AG, one of Europe’s largest newspaper publishers, with 10,000 employees and more than 150 papers in 30 countries, including its flagship Die Welt, announced on Friday that it is switching its entire operation from PCs to Macs. In a YouTube video, posted below the fold, CEO Mathias Döpfner lists four reasons for the change: Most of the company’s layout work was already being done on Macs Macs are more user friendly than other computers Apple creates the most elegant computers Macs are cheaper to buy and easier to maintain than they...

Chemists claim to have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts. The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, the Japanese researchers say.

there is money to be made in the business of "fighting crime"From nailing seat belt offenders to grabbing druggies to arresting thugs there is money to be made in the buisinessand selling protection in every from insurance to anti-virus software feeds off the mal-activity in our societyso let's don't put a lot of good folks out of business by reducing or eliminating mal-activity. good jobs are scarce these days

Excerpt - Nvidia has uncovered a problem with some older graphics chips that shipped in "significant quantities" of laptop PCs, the company said Wednesday. Nvidia hasn't determined the exact cause of the problem but said it relates to a packaging material used with some of its chips, as well as the thermal design of some laptops. Modern processors generate considerable amounts of heat. To tackle the problem, the company is releasing a software driver that will cause system fans to start operating sooner and reduce the "thermal stress" on the chips. The driver has been provided to laptop makers directly,...

Microsoft has given its new Office-based software-plus-service bundle a new name — “Equipt” — and a due date (mid-July), company officials said on July 2. Equipt is the product/service that was formerly codenamed “Albany” (and inside Microsoft, known as “ValueBox”). Equipt, which Microsoft describes as its “essential set of software and services for consumers,” includes a version of Office Home and Student 2007; Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft’s PC management/security bundle; a few Windows Live communication/collaboration services; and Office Live Workspace, Microsoft’s online-collaboration add-on to Office. Equipt will cost $69.99 annually (for a license that can be installed on three PCs...

because we have to have SOMETHING to do while we wait for out computers to do somethingI read last night Intel is going to make chips with thousands of cores. as we all know they probably will and the software will take it all up and run worse than ever

Net Applications' Operating System stats for June 2008 show Apple's Mac hit a new all-time high with 7.94% share of the operating systems visiting Net Applications' network of websites worldwide. The stats also show Apple iPhone with 0.16% share and Apple iPod with 0.04%. Net Applications noted last month, "Apple has confirmed that its online inventories for the original version of the iPhone are sold out in the U.S. and U.K. Apple appears to be clearing out its inventories in preparation for the iPhone 2.0 release. This, in conjunction with customers holding off purchasing until 2.0 is released has temporarily...

A strange thing just happened. Several minutes ago I opened up my Bloglines and several conservative sites show the max number of posts---200. These sites include NewsBusters, Hot Air, and National Review. I read all these sites earlier today so no way they could reach 200 at this time. Also this makes it so the posts listed on their are outdated. NONE of my non-political nor non-conservative sites have had this problem. What's up? If you have Bloglines, check this out for yourself.

Apple on Monday evening released Mac OS X 10.5.4, the latest significant revision to Leopard and a key part of its online strategy. Also, Security Update 2008-004 and Safari 3.1.2 for Tiger address security issues for earlier Mac OS X versions. The update (59MB for 10.5.3 users) is considered an important precursor to Mac support for MobileMe, Apple's imminent sync and hosting service. In addition to laying the groundwork for the future replacement for .Mac, the update is also key to fixing a number of major bugs identified since the release of Mac OS X 10.5.3, including an Adobe CS3...

'Unprecedented Pent-Up Demand' For Apple iPhone 3G, RBC Says Dan Frommer | June 30, 2008 10:00 AM More good news for Apple (AAPL) ahead of the 3G iPhone launch, scheduled for next Friday, July 11. Consumers have "unprecedented" demand for Apple's phone, according to new data from RBC's Technology Adoption Panel. From RBC analyst Mike Abramsky's note: 56% of those planning to buy a smartphone in the next 90 days plan to purchase an iPhone, up from 35% in March. 25% may buy the 3G iPhone "sometime in the future," more than twice the interest shown by the panel...

In the PC world, it isn't too tough to get overclocking tools. They have existed for years and can, with cooling apparatus and other neat tricks, double the speed of a typical Intel CPU. The Macintosh world and Apple's EFI BIOS replacement make overclocking more difficult - well at least more rarely attempted. A few products have popped up over the last few years, but they have been very limited. Earlier today, ZDNet.de released a tool that looks very promising in this regard. According to their website, the tool can currently overclock Mac Pros and XServes with Intel Xeon processors....

In an interview with The Financial Times yesterday, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg had this to say when asked about the competition posed by Apple’s iPhone: “It’s very cool. And Steve Jobs eventually will get old… I like our chances.” That’s got to be one of the most indelicate utterances by one CEO regarding another. Mr. Seidenberg is about a decade older than Mr. Jobs, so he can’t possibly be referring to his age with the most unfortunate “Steve Jobs eventually will get old” phrase. He must be referring to Mr. Job’s frail appearance at the Apple WWDC in June. Apple...

My daughter has a 4 year old Sprint phone, Samsung A620. It has died with 300+ of her contacts in it, which of course she never backed up. The Sprint people says there's nothing they can do to recover the data. Can anybody help? I doubt the guys on CSI would throw in the towel at this point. Thanks, Sherman.

My wife is in the caribbean and was working on a document all day in her f:\ flash drive, that had she saved it recently within the past few minutes, and sudenly it totally disappeard for no reason? and now it is not even on the flash drove nor on any c:\ drive nor in any retrieval any search or recovery method? She's lost about 6 hours of work. I'm in North Carolina and so can't help her. I'm no good at trying to help over the telephone; plus there are no phones; I'm worse trying to e-mail suggestions. My...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — This city near the top of the world has a distinguished history of hosting summit meetings. Presidents, prime ministers and premiers have come here to discuss their differences and chart earth’s future. Yet mere planets were beneath the concern of the nine leaders — warlords, religious crusaders, industrial tycoons, freedom fighters, university dons and banking moguls — who temporarily set aside their differences last week and gathered here under a banner of peace. After all, they had an entire galaxy to consider. Of course that galaxy does not really exist. Yet for the more than 200,000 players...

Enterprises love the Mac's reliability, rely on virtualization, reports Yankee GroupJune 26, 2008 (Computerworld) Nearly 80% of businesses have Macs in-house, nearly double the percentage that said they had users running Mac OS X two years ago, a research firm said today. "Then, we were talking about onesies and twosies," said Laura DiDio, a research fellow at Yankee Group Research Inc. who conducted a survey of more than 700 senior IT administrators and C-level executives. "Now the number of actual users is very significant. A number of the businesses said that they had 50 or 100 or even several thousand...

Excerpt - Redmond, WA (AHN) - Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) is pulling the XP operating system from its product line come Monday. The move comes 18 months after the company launched the Vista operating system. Although Microsoft will not sell the XP program any longer, they will still generate revenue from providing support for the software as it will no longer be free. Microsoft will offer extended support packages for XP until at least 2014. ~ snip ~

I have an older computer that I have cleaned out of W2000 Pro. I tried loading a version of XP Pro that I have on this machine. MS wants $269 for an additional key. I am not willing to pay that. I am currently downloading Ubuntu and would like to put Linux on this box. It has an Athlon XP with a gig of memory and no video card. I don't plan on any gaming or high end computing. Just photo editing, video editing and web surfing. Do I need Ubuntu or is there something else smaller and simpler I...

Exclusive AVG has rejiggered the fake traffic it's spewing across the internet, causing new headaches for the world's webmasters. In late February, AVG paired its updated anti-virus engine with a real-time malware scanner that vets search engine results before you click on them. If you search Google, for instance, this LinkScanner automatically visits each address that turns up on Google's results page. According to the company, more than 20 million people have downloaded the new AVG 8, and this has caused a huge up-tick in traffic on sites across the web, including The Register. Because the scanner attempts to disguise...

A Washington woman was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison and five years of supervised release for her role in an Internet counterfeit check scheme. Edna Fiedler pleaded guilty in March to attempting to defraud U.S. citizens in a scheme known as a Nigerian check scam. Fiedler helped her accomplices in Nigeria send fake checks to people who had agreed to cash the checks on behalf of the sender, keeping some of the proceeds and sending the rest back. The Nigerians found people willing to cash the fake checks via e-mail. They would send their names as well...

London, UK (AHN) - The resident of a small island off the coast of Scotland has declared its independence from the United Kingdom. Stuart Hill, the owner of the island, wants it to be a crown dependency, similar to the Channel Islands. According to a statement on his Web site, Hill, who owns Forvik, a 2.5-acre island in the Shetland Islands, declared that he no longer recognized the authority of the British government or the European Union. Hill, 65, landed on the small island in 2001 when his boat capsized there during an attempt to circumnavigate Britain. As the island's...

AMD Expands The Ultimate Visual Experience AMD today expanded The Ultimate Visual Experience™ for North America with the ATI All-In-Wonder™ HD, combining award-winning ATI Radeon™ Premium graphics and ATI TV Wonder™ HD tuner technology card in one PCI Express® 2.0 solution. As the newest multimedia powerhouse to join the long line of All-In-Wonder offerings, ATI All-in-Wonder HD transforms the PC into a highly immersive digital video recorder for HDTV1 and analog TV, plus expands the realm of exceptional gaming with cinematic HD graphics for mainstream PCs. Blu-ray™ disc playback can be enjoyed in full HD glory (1080p) thanks to ATI...

I'm really thinking about using some sort of identity theft service, especially since I got married and my credit card usage went up. Questions to anyone using these services: Can Lifelock be trusted and does it work? How does it work?

I want to change to an IMAC will I be able to use any of my Games I was running on my PC?

Excerpt - The organization that oversees Internet addresses is expected Thursday to approve a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called top-level domains -- the familiar suffixes like ".com" at the end of Web addresses. Under the plan, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers will allow organizations to apply for any top-level domain. Businesses, for example, could use brand names such as ".ibm" or ".ebay" in their Web addresses. Cities could sign up for names like ".nyc" or ".berlin." It will also be possible to apply to use more general terms, such as ".news" or ".sports," to...

Et Tu, Intel? Chip Giant Won’t Embrace Microsoft’s Windows Vista By Steve Lohr Intel, the giant chip maker and longtime partner of Microsoft, has decided against upgrading the computers of its own 80,000 employees to Microsoft’s Vista operating system, a person with direct knowledge of the company’s plans said. The person, who has been briefed on the situation but requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of Intel’s relationship with Microsoft, said the company made its decision after a lengthy analysis by its internal technology staff of the costs and potential benefits of moving to Windows Vista, which has drawn fire...

"For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have," Todd Bishop writes for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Microsoft Blog. "As part of that, I went back through the internal e-mails turned over in the antitrust suits against the company, looking for new insights into his personality." Bishop found a doozy, which also happens to illustrate perfectly why Mac users have such disdain for the "Windows experience." If you've ever...

I haven't been sleeping much lately, my husband is somewhere on the other side of the world and I haven't spoken to him or received an email from him all month! Anyway, I was just doing some surfing and I thought I'd ask my FRiends for some of their favorite web sites (other than FR of course) so that I can get some new surfing ideas. So what are your favorite web sites that you regularly visit or have found recently? My top ten can't miss sites are: 1) FR (of course) 2) Weather.com (Don't know why) 3) ebay.com (what's...

The OSX/Hovdy-A Trojan horse, which relies on the user giving it permission to install itself, is an attempt to steal passwords, open firewall to give access to hackers, and disable security settings. The Hovdy-A Trojan horse takes advantage of a vulnerability in Apple's Mac OS X operating system, affecting the Apple Remote Desktop Agent (ARDAgent), to gain root access. Once the user has given permission and installed the OSX/Hovdy-A Trojan horse, the hacker can gain complete control of the compromised Macintosh - covering its tracks by disabling system logging. This Trojan horse relies on the user giving it permission to...

That photo of 11 weirdos in '70s clothes you may have seen on the Internet really is the original Microsoft team, snapped Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle. Almost 30 years later, a few weeks before Bill Gates's departure from Microsoft, the group (looking better) reconvened. Bob Greenberg (center of old photo, in red sweater), then a programmer and now a tech and financial consultant, had won a photo portrait in a contest and used it to commemorate the soon-to-be disrupted group. The picture was shot in a shopping mall. ...

EFiX dongle promises easy Mac OS installs on PC A developer is promising an easy, hardware-assisted means of installing Mac OS X onto PCs, accounts say. The creators of the EFiX USB dongle claim that by attaching their device to a PC, users can then simply boot from a Mac OS X disc, and continue with installation as if the system were a native Apple product. Typically, the creation of "Hackintoshes" requires a number of complex steps, as Apple does not allow the Mac OS on third-party hardware. The dongle is said to have been in development for some time,...

hello i just try to log in to my firefox and didn't have no results can u help me with that theres no way i can opend my firefox and before i could opend and now i can't is there any way u can help

Freepers: I work at a university which is just about as left as you can get. Of course, in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, what do you expect? But there are about twenty conservative faculty (most under "deep cover") and at least 100 conservative students. We have been meeting off-campus under a variety of guises, but if we go formal: 1.) the University will find some reason to deny us recognition; 2.) those conservative faculty members who are not tenured will be in trouble; 3.) the students who openly belong will not be flunked--but they will be denigrated. Until such...

Sonic the Hedgehog is a platform game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis system. It is the inaugural game in Sega's flagship Sonic the Hedgehog video game series, and was the first title developed by Sonic Team. It was first released on June 23 1991 in North America, and the next day in Europe. The Japanese Mega Drive version was released on July 26 1991. This game propelled the Genesis into mass popularity in North America. After it was released, it eventually replaced Altered Beast as the game bundled with the console, and...

Steve Ballmer must be on crack. Or something. In a fascinating interview with the Financial Times, Ballmer has the cheek to call Google a one-trick pony (this from the company that has only managed two break-out successes so far), can't seem to come to grips with the fact that he hasn't budged his stock price in eight years, and takes solace in the fact that the company only has "one way to go, and it's up, baby, up, up, up, up, up!" Please pass the vial, Ballmer. One place where he comes down to earth is in his admission that...

Old school Freeper needs tech help in downloading music. I've searched the net and can't find my answers.

Hello. I'm looking for a good backup utility for doing a sector by sector backup onto DVDs.I've used Ghost 2003 for ages, but I'm trying to find something more reliable. Ghost 10.0 is terrible.Any suggestions are very welcome, thank you.

I just found this website: http://www.kiva.org/ The company screens entrepreneurs in developing areas who are looking for microloans, then posts their loan applications online. Anyone who wants to can lend them money in increment as small as $25. For instance, if a potato farmer in Peru loses their seed crop to blight, they can apply for the loan needed to buy new seed to restart their farm. Microloans have gotten a lot of attention from lending institutions because, even though it involves lending to people who seem high-risk, the default rates have turned out to be very low. Kiva's default...

The decades-long Mac versus PC battle recalls those video games in which the Big Boss Bad Guy just can’t seem to squash our nim ble little hero. Clever marketing and product development vie against massive market share. And with each round, the question grows: Is there a reason to switch to Apple, and is now the time? This year the ABA Journal is letting some real advocates argue the case. Ben Stevens and Rick Georges are not only lawyers using opposing systems; they are proponents who advise on the use of technology in the law office. They have strong opinions,...

CR’s June Computer Package Also Features Ratings of Desktops and LaptopsYonkers, NY — Computers are one of the most trouble-prone products Consumer Reports tracks in its annual product-reliability surveys. When it came to solving problems, wait time on the phone and the knowledge of support staff, Apple’s tech support received high scores across the board for both laptop and desktop systems in Consumer Reports’ latest survey featured in the June issue. Consumers looking for stellar tech support should consider a Mac since Apple’s topped Consumer Reports’ latest Ratings of tech support services. The latest annual tech-support survey, conducted by the...

Anyone else experiencing problems in the last week using Internet Explorer version 6, Windows XP? I am using the "old" Yahoo email as opposed to their new email layout due to the configuration. When I attempt to click on any email to open it, it freezes and I get the gray box that says an error has ocurred from MSFT asking if I want to report the error. At first, I submitted the info. and saw that there is no fix for the problem and never gave the type of error. However, if I access Yahoo email using Firefox, all...

I was asked to take over the diabetes list after Island Jeff, who had the original list, left the forum late last winter. Ever since, my Microsft Word and the file "fourdeuce82d" bombed out. I can recover older iterations of fourdeuce82d.doc from the hard drive using "AbiWord." But it's replacement with AbiWord has been no end of grief, after trying unsuccesfully to restore the original Microsft Word file. I had added the diabetes ping list to a section of fourdeuce82d.doc which started originally just as my health and science ping list. I have added other lists, HTML commands, URLs, text,...

Earlier this year, Apple and its iTunes Store were on the receiving end of a patent infringement lawsuit alleging (. . . ) iTunes Allowances. Of course, with Apple, it's never just one lawsuit; the company was then hit with another iTunes-related patent suit covering Digital Release Albums. This week, Apple's lawyers got handed yet another lawsuit, but this one is related to the online Apple Store rather than the iTunes Store. Specifically, a Texas company called Clear With Computers is suing Apple and HP over their configuration system for custom orders, as well as the companies' parts inventory systems....

Security researchers are warning users of a crop of new malware threats that have appeared for the MacOS in recent days.The outbreak includes two Trojan applications and a publically disclosed remote code execution vulnerability. Security firm Intego, which last fall uncovered the Mac 'DNS Changer' trojan, told vnunet.com that it had discovered a new malware threat posing as a poker game. According to Intego, when the user attempts to launch the application, simply titled 'PokerGame', a dialog box appears asking for the machine's administrator password. When the password is entered, the application executes a script that logs the user's name,...

Two of the four major browsers have undergone some big changes in the past two weeks. Firefox 3 is, of course, the big news of the week, pulling down eight million or so downloads in its first 24 hours in the wild. However, the Opera browser updated to its much-awaited version 9.5 last week. Since both of them have got game but for different reasons, let's take a look at how they match up. Empirically, the two most-cited complaints about browsers are speed and memory. Now, I'm a big fan of Firefox because it's so easy to customize, so...

Handset giants are playing catch-up to Apple's design, but their software still lags badlyApple's influence on high-tech markets has long exceeded the company's relatively small market share, and nowhere is that more obvious than in the wireless phone market. Barely a year after it introduced the original iPhone, Apple (AAPL) has redefined the wireless handset. And with the impending shipment of a new version that should put the iPhone in the mainstream of consumer and business markets worldwide, Apple is extending its sway over much larger players such as Nokia (NOK) and Samsung. The most immediate impact of the iPhone...

PriceGrabber.com's survey reveals 41 percent deterred by high cost; new iPhone 3G may be the right priceLOS ANGELES, June 19 /PRNewswire/ -- PriceGrabber.com(R), a part of Experian, explores iPhone purchasing trends and smartphone pricing history through its latest Consumer Behavior Report. Results are based on a survey of 3,066 online consumers conducted from May 20 to June 5, 2008. The iPhone is undoubtedly the most talked-about mobile device in the market and has raised customers' expectations of other vendors. While only 4 percent of survey respondents currently own an iPhone, 42 percent are considering purchasing one. Of the remaining...

I plan to buy my wife a GPS in the $400 to $500 range. Any suggestions?

In an act of mind-boggling pointlessness, I have decided to post all the fortunes from my Chinese fortune cookies (including the lucky numbers) to a Twitter page. If you want to see what fate has in store for me, click the link. In any case, pray for my sad soul.