Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
Q. My computer has gotten slower and slower at doing basic things like booting up and running multiple programs at once. How do I improve its performance without spending any money?
Ans: You're wise to try to fix this problem yourself, for free. There are a few things you can do ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Passwords used to access Yahoo mail through the Zimbra client are sent over the Internet in clear text, a Canadian programmer says.
"The Yahoo imap server's used by the Yahoo Desktop don't support SSL and the password was being transmitted in plain text," Karau wrote in a blog post on Friday.
"What ...
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Chip Reaves, national director of Australia-based Computer Troubleshooters, maintains that whether we are part of a small business, a multinational, or are just trying to find a recipe online at home, we spend just as much time fixing "issues" and "conflicts" on our computers as we do working on them. ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Hewlett-Packard has announced the launch of its first consumer desktop PCs with Intel Core 2 Quad processors. The HP Pavilion Media Center m8190a PC and HP Pavilion a6160a Home PC are multimedia powerhouses that deliver rich entertainment experiences at impressive speeds, the company claims.
Australia's Market Development Manager for Consumer PCs, ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
If you own a PC, chances are high that you've already reached deeply into your pockets and parted with sizeable sums of cash for applications that can be downloaded for free.
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
According to a number of reports, global PC manufacturers have still not figured out how to make a computer without using PVC (polyvinyl chloride) insulation and the far more toxic brominated flame retardants (BFRs), although there are some electronics manufacturers out there producing IT peripherals without having to use those ...
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Does using a web browser by a company which tracks user web behavior, archives emails & messenger communications and also serves advertising based upon search and browsing behavior scare you a little about what your total browsing experience will be used for?
The notion has some privacy advocates looking for answers, ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
It is essential small business are able to work while on the move, according to a mobile media company.
Renato Bottini, head of business at 3 UK, said such firms need to be constantly on call and able to talk to customers 24 hours-a-day.
"When you talk to small businesses and you ...
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Friday, September 5th, 2008
Leading American retail chain Walmart has this week named Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the winner of its ‘Home Entertainment Design Challenge,’ after the consumer electronics giant created a environmentally-friendly packaging solution for its computer hardware line.
Specifically, the HP Pavilion dv6929 notebook comes complete with an innovative design that reduces wasteful ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Google Inc.'s new Chrome Web browser may get a boost from the efforts of states to bar Microsoft Corp. from abusing its dominance in the market.
Under the terms of its settlement of a U.S. antitrust case, Microsoft can't pay personal-computer makers to keep competing browsers off their machines. While those ...
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