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Small may be snazzy when it comes to gadgets, but for displays, bigger is better, especially when it comes to digital cameras. Those two-inch LCDs that used to be considered spacious now seem like postage stamps compared to the three- and 3.5-inch murals adorning the latest gallery of byte shooters ...
Consumers may have priceless photo, music and video files on their computers these days, but they continue to ignore safeguarding them by backing them up on scheduled basis. According to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive and sponsored by storage notable Maxtor, of Milpitas Calif., nearly half...
Apple computer users have long been immune from the Internet nasties that infect users of Microsoft Windows PCs, but that's beginning to change, according to a report released Monday by the SANS Institute. The institute said in a statement that in light of recent attacks on Apple's Safari browser, S...
Some 97 percent of Web surfers are just a click away from infecting their computers with adware and spyware, according to anti-malware software maker McAfee, of Santa Clara, Calif. McAfee came to that conclusion after analyzing 14,464 responses to a spyware quiz taken by consumers at its SiteAdvisor...
For heavy duty imaging work on a PC, there are some very powerful programs on the market. My application of choice is Corel Paint Shop Pro, primarily because I've been using it for years and have become comfortable with its interface. That's not to say its competitors -- like Ulead PhotoImpact and A...
A malware-for-sale ring used to distribute customized copies of a data-pilfering Trojan has been cracked by two computer security firms. Panda Software of Glendale, Calif., and RSA Security of Bedford, Mass., "neutralized" several Web sites that were providing information thieves with customized ver...
The global bandwidth glut that resulted when the telecom bubble burst in the late 1990s finally appears to be abating. Signs of the glut's demise are evident in the industry, according to TeleGeography Research in Washington, D.C. "Following several rough years, the global bandwidth market is showin...
There's a good reason why Hewlett-Packard notebook computers have become so popular with consumers. They give you a lot for your money. Consider HP's latest media center locomotive, the dv8000. For around US$1200, you get a monster notebook with a 17-inch display, a state-of-the-art AMD Turion 64 pr...
If there's one software category that program makers never tire of taking a crack at it's registry cleaners. As many Microsoft Windows users know, the registry is a database of all the settings on a PC. It's one of the most crucial components of the operating system, and it's always a mess. Any time...
CyberLink may not be a household name among PC users, but the feisty company makes some robust entertainment software for producing and watching DVDs as well as editing video. Certainly, the Taiwanese enterprise has a tough row to hoe, pitted as it is against the likes of Sonic/Roxio, Pinnacle and U...
From billboards to clothing racks, electronic sign makers have paper products in their crosshairs. Among the technologies threatening paper's signage dominion are super juiced LEDs and electronic inks and papers. Billboards have long been ripe for electronic alternatives, but nature, in the form of ...
So you say you want to share slideshows and videos on the Internet without a lot of rigmarole. Problem is, there's just so much noise in the media sharing space, you just don't know where to turn. Well, two well-known Net players have an end-to-end solution for you -- if you're willing to pay a heft...
As a legendary poet-songster once insightfully intoned, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, but it helps if you have an Oregon Scientific regional weather station. The Tualatin, Oregon-based company pulled the wraps off its latest meteorological information center in Januar...
Some 25 million households in the nation have a wireless network, and that number is growing. So, too, is the number of home networks without a lick of security on them, according to a report released last week by ABI Research in Oyster Bay, N.Y. That's because, for most consumers, activating the se...
Concern that a dearth of external e-mail accounts at the FBI will effect the agency's ability to fight crime and terrorism is "overblown," according to Coleen Rowley. Rowley is a former principal legal advisor with the bureau known for blowing the whistle on oversights it made prior to the World Tra...
At the risk of revealing my age, I can remember when a 10 gigabyte hard drive seemed enormous. Of course those were the days before PCs became vaults for music collections, family photo albums and home video libraries. Now, it seems, no matter how much hard disk space we have, we always need more, w...
A coalition of some 600 organizations opposed to a scheme by America Online and Goodmail Systems to "tax" e-mail claimed on Monday that supporters of the plan have a long-term agenda to make everyone pay for exchanging electronic missives over the Net. Under the proposed plan, bulk senders of e-mail...
Let me set the record straight. I've never been a fan of tablet computers. If the urge to write on an LCD strikes me, I've always found my Palm Tungsten handheld sufficient for that desire. Nevertheless, when Motion Computing of Austin, Texas, introduced the LS800 tablet, it tantalized me. For one t...
The Amazons and Wal-Marts of the Web understand the importance of a good on-site search engine, but for smaller concerns the technology can be problematic. Oftentimes those businesses don't make the connection between site search and customer satisfaction and even if they do, they don't have the mon...
A majority of Web sites fail to meet the search desires of their visitors, according to a report prepared by Cambridge, Mass.-based research firm Forrester Research. "Although consumers value search as a standalone function, search functionalities within company Web sites are not delivering satisfac...
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