Tag: SOFTWARE

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Listen in on an 'NBA Jam' pep talk. [From: Bygone Bureau] VLC, our go to video toolkit that accepts pretty much every file we throw at it, just got a big update with ...

We all actually expected MobileMe, Apple's $99 a year cloud services, to get an update at WWDC. Instead almost the entire event was focused on the iPhone 4 and the newly christened iOS. Then early on Friday, without much warning or fanfare, Apple gave the e-mail portion of the Web-based service a face-lift. The changes are nothing Earth-shattering. The interface is pretty, and has new compact ...

Before Microsoft Office 2010 even had a chance to hit shelves Tuesday, online retailers were already slashing prices on the suite. Amazon and Newegg lead the way by cutting the 'Home and Student' edition, which retails for $149.99, to $129.99. Amazon, in turn, marked down the 'Home and Business' and the 'Professional' versions by $40, offering them for $239.99 and $459.99, respectively. ...

Much of the attention at yesterday's WWDC 2010 keynote may have focused on the new iPhone 4, but Apple also quietly unveiled another less glamorous update yesterday: the new Safari 5. As many predicted, the latest version of the Web browser will feature Safari Reader, and, as Engadget reports, claims to run JavaScript 30-percent faster than Safari 4, twice as fast as Firefox 3.6 and 3-percent ...

Well, you can add one more thing to the long list of tasks that computers can complete better than a human: jigsaw puzzle solving. Taeg Sang Cho and his colleagues at the MIT aren't the first to write jigsaw puzzle-solving software; a Danish team wrote a program that was able to solve a 320-piece puzzle back in 2008. While the older program only worked on simple "cartoon-style" drawings with a ...

Microsoft veteran Chris Jones couldn't have been much more direct: while Hotmail is still a major player -- the top worldwide, in fact -- the mail client is underperforming in the U.S. and is "just behind on a bunch of features" compared to its competition. And so began our briefing today on a completely revamped Hotmail, the rollout of which hits around July or August this year. What we saw was ...

Today, Steve Jobs mounted one of his more blatant assaults on Adobe's Flash in a letter posted on the Apple Web site. The letter seeks to explain Apple's position against allowing Flash on the iPhone and iPad, painting the conflict as one of ideology and battery performance rather than a business dispute. Unfortunately, it's hard to take Jobs' argument in favor of open standards seriously since ...

Some musical prodigies can listen to a song once, then bang it out, note for note, on a piano. Others can pick out A-flats and C-sharps from the cacophony of rush hour traffic. These rare kinds of aural abilities, though, are no longer restricted to the domain of Mozarts and Mendelssohns, thanks to a new music-transcribing software developed by Spanish engineers. As PopSci explains, the ...

Rather than sit back and do nothing while his son struggled to communicate, one British father created a program to help his autistic child communicate. Autism is a difficult disease for both parents and children to manage. According to BBC News, Stephen Lodge's Speaks4Me program allows its user to form sentences by dragging and dropping onscreen images in a particular order. Stephen's ...

Any company worth its salt has a social-media policy these days. But a new piece of software released by Teneros called Social Sentry allows employers to keep an even closer eye on how much time their workers spend on Facebook and Twitter. According to The New York Times, the software costs a company between $2 and $8 per employee, depending on the size of the company and the level of scrutiny ...

As if the U.S. Census wasn't already flawed enough, a new report from a government watchdog organization suggests that the software behind the nationwide headcount may not be up to snuff -- and that Census Bureau officials better hurry up and take action. According to USA Today, an audit issued this week from the inspector general of the Commerce Department found that the software used to ...

Software Software When it comes to purchasing pre-loaded software with your computer, our advice is to avoid it at all costs. Most companies, like Dell and HP, will allow you to decline at least some of the crapware that comes loaded on a PC, but only Sony offers the option of getting an unmolested Windows 7 install. While it's tempting to have Microsoft Office and security software (a ...

After a video (after the break) that demonstrates a problem with Hewlett-Packard's (HP) webcams exploded on YouTube, the manufacturer is reexamining its software while handling a PR nightmare. In a video posted on December 10th, a black male and a white female show how an HP computer's facial-tracking software fails to recognize the black man's movements. Yeah, you know where this is headed. ...

We love reading and reporting about the latest technology unleashed on the world. Our favorite is the kind that truly changes the lives of people. But in a world that barely has the attention span to read a 140-character tweet, a lot of noble technology gets overlooked. That's why we want everybody to pause and recognize the importance of a recent medical breakthrough. According to Technology ...

Part of being a professional is knowing how to separate work and play. For example, if you're a network systems administrator that's interested in extraterrestrial life, you shouldn't search for signs of it while on the clock. Unfortunately for Brad Niesluchowski, common sense is illusive. According to the Arizona Republic, Niesluchowski resigned from his position with the Higley Unified School ...