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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 of all adult computer users in the United States a...
More and more mortgage shoppers are going online to find loans, but when it's time to seal the deal, most prefer to take their business offline, according to a study scheduled to be released Tuesday by Forrester Research and Compete Inc., both based in Boston Over the past two years, consumers researching mortgages online have increased 17 percent,...
If retail marketers are going to capture the loyalty of the next generation of spenders, they're going to have to get hip to the new Web, according to a report from Forrester Research "The 73 million people under the age of 18 in the U.S. represent one thing to marketers and sellers: the next generation of spenders," wrote Forrester analyst Carrie ...
Provisions in a proposed international treaty that civil liberties groups, developing nations and technology organizations claim will threaten the free flow of information on the Internet have been sidetracked by the pact's writers in Geneva The U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Right...
A bill before Congress to revamp how franchises are awarded for delivering television to communities will save consumers US$22 million a day, a panel of telecommunication experts said Wednesday at a press conference in Washington, D.C "Twenty-two million dollars a day," declared panel member Robert Johnson, president of Consumers for Cable Choice....
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, SANS experts agree that Apple's operating system, OS...
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 Web site....
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 Adobe Photoshop Elements -- aren't excellent program...
A coalition of both right- and left-wing groups called on Congress Monday to "save" the Internet by requiring network neutrality through law "Whenever you see people on the far left and far right joining together about something Congress is getting ready to do, it's been my experience that what Congress is getting ready to do is basically un-Americ...
Popularity may be a menace as well as a benefit for the open source software movement, according to an analyst at Forrester Research in Boston, Mass In a report titled "Vendors Refine Their Open Source Strategies/The Risk of Subverting Open Source Freedoms Mounts," Senior Analyst Michael Goulde cautions the open source community about the corruptin...
A malware-for-sale ring used to distribute customized copies of a data-pilfering Trojan has been cracked by two computersecurity firms ...
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 showing signs of improved health: supply equilibrium, pri...
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....
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....
For anglers, spring is a time for removing the rod and reel from storage and heading to a lake or stream. For phishers of another kind, however, spring is the season for tax scams Phishing -- the use of phony e-mails and Web sites to obtain personal information about people -- has become such a problem for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) th...
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 Ulead, but I've always found its offering up to the ...
Marketers will need to tweak their selling strategies if they want to collar new broadband customers, according to industry experts Although broadband growth has been strong for the last three years -- nearly doubling from 23.7 million subscribers in 2003 to 40.9 million in 2005 -- the "big pitch" by marketers during that time has been the superior...
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 (Light Emitting Diodes) and electronic inks and papers....
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 hefty price for it VitalStream, a video streaming play...
Popularity may be a menace as well as a benefit for the open source software movement, according to an analyst at Forrester Research in Boston, Mass In a report titled "Vendors Refine Their Open Source Strategies/The Risk of Subverting Open Source Freedoms Mounts," Senior Analyst Michael Goulde cautions the open source community about the corruptin...
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