HTC Nexus One

I've finally jumped and ordered an Android smartphone. After all the comparisons, the Nexus One is still the best-suited for me as a developer phone, because it is effectively the most open and most well-known of the bunch.

Five Reasons It's Time to Switch to Windows 7
PC World
Windows 7 is not the only solution, though. As I stated up top--companies can simply upgrade from Windows XP SP2 to Windows XP SP3 and still have Microsoft ...

By Nate Anderson

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Slow-to-loads get the drop

By Cade Metz in San Francisco
Posted in Music and Media, 9th April 2010 22:37 GMT

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Google is now using site speed—"how quickly a site responds to web requests"—as part of the criteria for ranking links on its world-dominating search engine.

Humans are like rats. If you offer them a perfect problem solution on a silver platter, but there is a garbage heap nearby, they instantly—rat-like—dive for the garbage.

Perhaps in today's world of unfulfilled promises and widespread low quality people have developed a general mistrust of the silver platter. They have stopped to believe that it exists.

Nowhere is this more true than in computer software. I'm not sure why. Perhaps there just is more garbage or perhaps the difference between perfection and garbage is, for many, not easy enough to see.

By Ryan Singel March 24, 2010 | 1:55 pm | Categories: Surveillance, Threats

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That little lock on your browser window indicating you are communicating securely with your bank or e-mail account may not always mean what you think its means.

… The solution: Windows Live Sync. You designate one folder on Computer A, and another folder on Computer B. Then Sync keeps them synced with each other, magically, over the Internet, with no effort on your part. Add, change, or delete a file on your laptop; you'll find it added, changed, or deleted on your desktop. Edit some chapters or spreadsheets on your Mac at home; you'll find them edited the same way at work.

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CNET	With legal nod, Microsoft ambushes Waledac botnet CNET Admittedly, from XP and earlier I always ran ZoneAlarm, but on Vista and up, I've only used Microsoft products (MS Security essentials + Windows Firewall), ... and more »