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Malibal Nine X7200
What can you say about a laptop that ships with a 300W power supply and weighs more than 14 pounds? The Malibal Nine X7200 is an exercise in extremes: it's big, heavy, and gets loud under heavy use, but it's very, very fast on games...
Security vendors push intrusion-detection, professional services
Established vendors and startups last week announced products and services for network intrusion-detection and outsourced security management.
140 Characters Twitter conference highlights
Intriguing nuggets from the conference that bills itself as "The State of Now."
Report: Google Ditches Windows Over Security Issues
Google employees are slamming Microsoft's Windows operating system, claiming security vulnerabilities in the OS left the company open to Chinese hackers in January 2010, a new report says. According to the Financial Times, Google will...
Developer finds major coding errors in Facebook, MySpace
Social-networking sites MySpace and Facebook have apparently fixed coding errors that could have allowed an attacker access to all of their users' data and photos.
Cisco 'doubles down' on collaboration with 61 new products
Cisco Systems massively expanded its collaboration technologies portfolio on Monday with the announcement of 61 products, including a corporate-grade hosted e-mail system called Cisco WebEx Mail, a social networking application, and a...
TEST: How to switch from Android to iPhone
This step-by-step guide will help you get all your Android content onto your new iPhone easily.
Generative AI comes to Office: What it means (and who’s at risk)
Microsoft's AI efforts took a big step forward this week with the unveiling of Microsoft 365 Copilot. It promises to be a big productivity boost, if users know what they're doing.
REFRESH TEST STORY: Understanding the Windows Unified Update Platform
The platform that drives Windows Update, UUP enables client devices to find, download, install, and roll back Windows updates. Here’s how it works and how to use the UUP Dump website to create custom Windows images for enterprise...
Microsoft: 365 Copilot chatbot is the AI-based future of work
Microsoft today demonstrated the many uses of its new 365 Copilot chatbot based on GPT-4, and the company introduced a new generative AI-based feature called Business Chat.
Will Apple switch the iPhone to eSIM-only everywhere by ’24?
Since the iPhone 14, Apple only sells smartphones with eSIM support in the US. At least one analyst now thinks Apple will extend this to Europe and developed Asian markets by 2024.
Apple's Clean Energy Charging is the future of electronics
Clean Energy Charging is not a conspiracy to reduce the speed or efficiency of charging when you plug your iPhone in. It is how most future electronics will consume power — frugally where possible, and off-peak when available.
Feds to Microsoft: Clean up your security act — or else
The US government, worried about the increasing role of rival nations in cyberattacks and cybercrime, looks poised to force tech companies to do more about security.
Windows 10: A guide to the updates
Here's what you need to know about each update to the current version of Windows 10 as it's released from Microsoft. Now updated for KB5023696, released on March 14, 2023.
Apple's M3 chip is a bigger deal than you might think
The expected move to 3nm chips with Apple's upcoming M3 processor promises to turbo boost the company's hardware line-up.
With ChromeOS in 2023, Google's got its eye on the enterprise
Google gives us a glimpse at the next steps for its ChromeOS platform and how Chromebooks are gearing up to get down to business.
The ever-evolving software subscription model
Microsoft has been moving to a subscription model for its software for years, and other companies are following suit. Here’s what to keep in mind if you’re making a move from perpetual software to an online version.
