Toshiba will soon unveil its first television based on the Cell processor, the same multimedia chip that sits at the heart of the PlayStation 3 games console. Toshiba has been showing prototypes of the television and Cell technology for the last couple of years and its unveiling on Oct. 5 will come just before its [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Russian cybergangs make the Web a dangerous place
Russian cybergangs have established a robust system for promoting Web sites that sell fake antivirus software, pharmaceuticals and counterfeit luxury products, according to a new report from security vendor Sophos. To sell bogus goods, many of those sites rely on hundreds of “affiliate networks,” which are essentially contractors that find ways to direct Web users [...]
Google barks back at Microsoft over Chrome Frame security
Google has hit back at Microsoft, defending the security of its new Chrome Frame plug-in and claiming that the software actually makes Internet Explorer (IE) safer and more secure. “Accessing sites using Google Chrome Frame brings Google Chrome’s security features to Internet Explorer users,” said a Google spokesman today. “It provides strong phishing and malware [...]
New Vegemite spread named iSnack2.0 – So stupid
IT’S unlikely there’ll be too many happy little Vegemites, given the obscure name attached to the new cheesy version of the Aussie spread. IT’S unlikely there’ll be too many happy little Vegemites, given the obscure name attached to the new cheesy version of the Aussie spread. iSnack 2.0 is the name Kraft Foods chose for [...]
Gran Turismo 5 coming in March next year
The latest installation in the hit “Gran Turismo” driving simulation series for the PlayStation 3 will be coming in the first quarter of next year, Sony announced Thursday at the Tokyo Game Show. The game had been rumored to hit store shelves this year but won’t be available until March 2010 in Japan, said Kazunori [...]
Microsoft blasts Google over Chrome Frame plug-in
Microsoft today warned Internet Explorer (IE) users that they could double their security woes if they installed and used Google Chrome Frame, the plug-in that provides better JavaScript performance and adds support for HTML 5 to Microsoft’s browser. “It’s not necessarily that plug-ins aren’t or can’t be secure, but that running a browser within a [...]
IE8 runs 10 times faster with Google plug-in
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer zips through JavaScript nearly ten times faster than usual when Google’s new Chrome Frame plug-in is partnered with the browser, benchmark tests show. According to tests run by Computerworld , Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) was 9.6 times faster than IE8 on its own. Computerworld ran the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite three times [...]
Microsoft aims to spark new business for Web developers
Microsoft has launched a program that gives Web development professionals the chance to get free software and technical support to help them get new businesses off the ground. Web development companies with less than 10 employees can apply for the new WebsiteSpark program, which was unveiled at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam Thursday. The program [...]
Flash reality sinks in at Diskcon
Solid-state storage earned a hot technology’s badge of honor — a backlash — on Wednesday at the Diskcon conference in Santa Clara, California. Storage components based on NAND flash chips have recently been promoted as an alternative to spinning HDDs (hard disk drives) in netbooks, laptops, servers and enterprise storage platforms. Flash advocates claim they [...]