The results are out from the latest Net Applications survey of Web browser market share, and Google continues to capture market share and headlines with its Chrome Web browser. Drilling down into the stats, though, and looking behind the curtain reveals that real winner in the market share department is Internet Explorer 8.
3D craze hits PCs
June 1st, 2010
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The growing 3D trend has spread from cinemas to TVs and now to computers, with PC makers including MSI and Asus showing off systems at Taiwan’s Computex show this week that can play back 3D movies, games and Internet content.
Report: Google Ditches Windows Over Security Issues
June 1st, 2010
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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 ditch the internal use of Windows in exchange for alternative operating systems including the Mac OS, Linux, and Google’s own forthcoming Chrome OS operating system.
Intel talks technology concepts, plans Atom update
June 1st, 2010
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Intel plans to talk about its future technology and product plans at Computex, but doesn’t have any big surprises lined up for the Taiwanese hardware show, which opened Tuesday.
Skype 2.0 for iPhone enables free calls over 3G — for now
May 31st, 2010
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Several months after AT&TÂ relaxed its restrictions on the ability of voice-over-IP apps to make calls over the company’s 3G network, Skype has released version 2.0 of its client software for the iPhone.
MSI shows prototype laptop with convertible keyboard
May 31st, 2010
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Taiwan’s Micro-Star International showed for the first time on Monday a laptop computer with a keyboard that flips over to reveal a sensor pad for pen input. The Sketch Pad, which is still a prototype, was unveiled at the same time it launched a Windows 7-based tablet PC.
Microsoft admits Windows Phone 7 slide was wrong
May 30th, 2010
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Microsoft acknowledged on Friday that it used an inaccurate number to represent research company IDC’s sales forecast for the upcoming Windows Phone 7 platform.
$100 million ’scareware’ CEO was already a fugitive
May 30th, 2010
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The CEO of a company accused of making more than US$100 million selling harmful “scareware” antivirus products was already a fugitive from U.S. authorities, following his arrest in 2008 on criminal counterfeiting charges.
Shaileshkumar “Sam” Jain is one of three men who were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday for allegedly operating a massive scareware distribution ring.
