Vista SP1: Release Candidate test
build goes to 15,000 testers
Microsoft has delivered yet another test build of Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 to testers.
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New Yahoo Mail Exits Beta,
Rolls Out Improvements
Yahoo will close an almost two-year public test for its new version of Yahoo Mail on Monday with several new enhancements, as the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet giant boosts this webmail service that is key to both its usage and advertising growth..
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The 411 on Radio Frequency Interference
Your brand new Apple iPhone is sitting next to the PC on your desk at work as you're typing away, listening to some music from your computer's speakers, when all of a sudden you hear it...
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Review: Apple iPhone
Groundbreaking wireless communicator really lives up to the hype.
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Flash Memory Drives Now Available from Intel
Flash memory isn't just for cell phones anymore. Flash drives are moving up into PCs and servers, and Intel wants to get in on the action with a new drive.
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Pluggd: A Google for Podcasts
As far as most search engines are concerned, audio files are black boxes. Even with advancements in metadata tags and audio-recognition technology, it's still much more difficult for a search engine to catalog the content of an audio file than that of a web page. A new startup is hoping to change that..For entire article, click here

The Wired Test 300
You wanted the best. Here it is: Wired Test, the definitive guide to gear and gadgets for 2006. For the first time, we're making these reviews available online in their entirety -- that's more than 300 products for the clicking.
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How To Tweak Firefox 2
The release of Firefox 2 brought a fistful of cool, new features to the open-source browser...along with some interface changes that didn't please everyone. Learn how to take advantage of the new features in Firefox 2, or change your configuration and use extensions to make it look and work more like older versions.
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LEDs Could Start Replacing Lightbulbs Soon
Light-emitting diodes will become economically attractive as replacements for conventional lightbulbs in about two years, a shift that could pave the way for massive electricity conservation, according to a researcher.
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Intel to Launch Quad-Core Chips on Nov. 13
In a race with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel will bring its quad-core chips to market in a new line of Hewlett-Packard workstations due to be introduced on November 13.
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Google Makes Video Play with YouTube Buy
Google has agreed to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock, the companies announced Monday.
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Microsoft to Lock Pirates Out of Vista PCs
Windows Vista will have new antipiracy technology that locks people out of their PCs if the operating system isn't activated within 30 days after installation.
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ntel Develops Silicon Hybrid Laser Chip
High performance light-based computers in the horizon.
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Search Comes to Mobile Phones
Mobile phones offer plenty more than just voice these days. They can provide news, video clips, local weather and even restaurant recommendations.
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Vista RC1 Appears Stable
Microsoft seems to be on track to release the next version of Windows on schedule.
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Microsoft Announces
Vista Hardware Requirements
Microsoft announces requirements for Windows Vista Capable" and "Windows Vista Premium Ready" PCs.
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Gates to Demonstrate New Search Software
Microsoft is hoping that social networking techniques will help win a few friends for its enterprise search technology.
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XP and Vista to Get New Media Player
Microsoft plans to jazz up its music player in Windows Vista, the company's next operating system. But at least some of the new features will debut much sooner.
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Windows On Mac, Simultaneously
Apple Computer's surprise software release allowing the company's newest Intel-based Macs to run Windows has put "virtualization" -- an alternative, and arguably superior, method of achieving the same result -in the spotlight..
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The Secret of Phishers' Success
Three U.S. academics have published research into why phishing scams are still finding success, years after widespread public warnings first appeared.
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Networked Storage Heads for Homes
Storage companies are betting a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers dealing with large files shared by multiple PCs and a need for data protection.
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Google Deal Highlights Web 2.0 Boom
Google's acquisition of a tiny Web word processing maker turns the spotlight on a growing number of so-called Web 2.0 companies struggling to survive--or angling to be Google's next purchase.
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Faster Chips, Kill, Kill, Kill
PCs with blazing-fast 5-GHz CPUs are not only feasible, they should soon be on store shelves, according to chipmakers at a conference in Silicon Valley this week.
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Blazing Wi-Fi Zips Toward Reality
Blazing-fast Wi-Fi speeds with the kind of stability and range that will let audio and video (even HDTV signals) cut through the air like butter.
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iMac Core Duo: What you need to know
Do people really have burning questions about something as familiar as Apple’s iMac? They do when that iMac ships with an Intel-built processor inside.
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Photoshop TV Launches to Immediate Success
Hosted by the “Photoshop Guys” (Scott Kelby, Dave Cross and Matt Kloskowski), Photoshop TV immediately began climbing the charts of Apple’s iTunes podcasts to hit number 2 on October 28, leaving heavyweights such as NPR, Al Franken and ESPN in their dust. The cast saw over 6,200 subscribers in its first 72 hours.
The free cast is a half-hour guide to Adobe® Photoshop®, digital photography and imaging. Photoshop TV offers viewers tutorials and quick tips for mastering Photoshop, presented as well as creative industry news and interviews.
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New Browser Gives Taste of Web 2.0
A small team of developers in California on Friday launched a cutting-edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed Flock, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing.
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Wireless industry comes together for faster Wi-Fi
802.11n would enable high-quality wireless video transmission.
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Google in San Francisco: 'Wireless overlord'?
While some people worried about privacy issues, others on Saturday praised Google's proposal to blanket San Francisco with free wireless high-speed Internet access, saying it will help bring fast Web connections to more people in more places for less money than they are paying now.
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Microsoft's Nightmare Inches Closer to Reality
As early as May 1995, three months before Netscape Communications' initial public offering sparked the dot-com boom, Microsoft executives were worried that the nascent World Wide Web could one day become a significant threat to the Windows franchise.
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Getting the Gulf Back on the Grid
During calmer times, the ad-hoc culture of open-source wireless, mesh networking and free municipal Wi-Fi is often seen as outside of the industry mainstream. But those alternative approaches are perfect in crises where conventional infrastructure is damaged...
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Business Notebooks to Offer a Wider View
Widescreen notebooks aren't just for watching Lord of the Rings on DVD anymore, PC makers say.
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Electronic U.S. passports Coming in December
The U.S. government plans to begin issuing electronic passports in December that feature a built-in chip that contains information about the passport holder and facial-recognition capabilities.
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Putting Vista in the Fast Lane
Microsoft hopes to tackle an age-old problem with the next version of Windows: How to keep PCs running like new.
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Faster Wi-Fi Approach Wins Broader Support
Vendors to merge rival proposals for 802.11n spec
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Microsoft's Longhorn Becomes Windows Vista
Microsoft Corp. has announced the official name for its upcoming operating system, previously known under the code name Longhorn. The operating system, now due out in 2006, will be called Windows Vista, with the tag line "Bringing clarity to your world."
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Intel, Studio Form Movie Download Venture
Intel and actor Morgan Freeman's movie production company, Revelations Entertainment, said Wednesday that they have formed a new venture aimed at distributing first-run movies over the Internet.
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Microsoft Confirms RSS Plans
The software maker said on Friday that it will build support for RSS into the next version of Internet Explorer, as well as into Longhorn, the Windows update scheduled to arrive next year.
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Sagging Radio Plays Digital Card 
High-definition radio -- touted as the most exciting thing to happen to the AM and FM dials since they were invented -- is finally gaining some traction in the United States..
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The New Chips on the Block
We have embarked upon a new era in x86 PC computing -- so say chip giants AMD and Intel following their launches of dual-core PC processors. So how will dual-core processing change your PC computing experience? Our FAQ should help you decide whether or when you should make the leap.
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Jobs Drops Da Intel Bomb 
As expected, Steve Jobs said today Apple is ending its 11-year partnership with IBM to standardize on a new generation of microprocessors from Intel.
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Longhorn Photo Support Comes Into Focus
The next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, will feature support for uncompressed digital camera images--which could change the way people view and edit photos.
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Apple May Use Intel Chips
Apple Computer has been in talks that could lead to a decision soon to use Intel chips in its Macintosh line, according to a report published Monday.
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Dashboard Leaves Macs Vulnerable
A security hole in Dashboard could expose users of Apple Computer's new Tiger operating system to attack, and may put personal information like passwords and credit card data at risk.
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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Field Guide
To help you navigate these interesting times, we’ve assembled this Tiger Field Guide, a collection of stories about the new features of Tiger. We’ve also got information for anyone who’s about to run the upgrade, so you can make sure you’re not bitten by this Tiger before you get a chance to really use it.
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Microsoft Launches 64-bit Windows
The software maker, which has been tooling around with the 64-bit version of Windows for the better part of two years, is announcing the general availability of the long-awaited product later on Monday. The company will start selling 64-bit editions of both Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional.
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In Apple, Microsoft OSes, Search is On
Do you have any idea where you saved your last file?
Both Microsoft and Apple Computer are betting the answer is no. And as a result their newest operating systems bear uncannily like-minded search tools.
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Intel to Release Dual Cores This Month
Intel plans to release dual-core desktop chips for computers later this month in a move that seems calculated to prevent rival Advanced Micro Devices from claiming a first.
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Amazon Knows Who You Are 
Amazon.com has one potentially big advantage over its rival online retailers: It knows things about you that you may not know yourself.
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Yahoo Bolsters E-mail Storage to 1GB
Yahoo on Tuesday said it plans to once again boost its free e-mail storage limit--this time to 1GB, the same amount offered by archrival Google.
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SanDisk Flashes Biometric Storage Gizmo
SanDisk on Thursday unveiled a tiny flash memory storage drive that deploys fingerprint identification for security.
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Library Shuffles Its Collection 
Checking out a new iPod now applies to more than shopping trips or web browsing. This week the South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles.
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Google Toolbar Move Raises Online Ire
Google's browser toolbar is raising eyebrows over a feature that inserts new hyperlinks in Web pages, giving the Internet search provider a powerful tool to funnel traffic to destinations of its choice.
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Cell Phones Get Surround Sound 
Are those tinny ring tones making you jumpy? How about a new kind of phone that can make it sound like you're literally in the middle of a soothing forest stream?
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Hold the Phone, VOIP Isn't Safe 
In recognition of the fact that new technologies are just as valuable to wrongdoers as to those in the right, a new industry group has formed to look at the security threats inherent in voice over internet protocol.
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The Firefox Explosion 
It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)
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Spyware: IT's public enemy No. 1
What's the biggest threat to business networks in 2005? Front-line IT managers and security firms increasingly peg spyware as public enemy No. 1.
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Photo Sites Share and Share Alike
These days, nearly everyone has a digital camera or camera phone. And many new online services offer varying features for people who want to share their pictures, post them to blogs, or tag or comment on others' photos. Here's a roundup of four of the best of these services.
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Products at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show Can Aid You
It's that time of year again. Early January means it is time for the annual tech-fest, the gathering of Gizmos, Gadgets and Geeks Galore!
Las Vegas is the only town that could host such an event, and it holds a lot of new innovative technologies that can help you in your business.
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TiVo Untethered and Ready to Go
TiVo pioneered digital video recording as a new way of watching television -- when you want it. Now it could be TV where you want it, too. The long-awaited service feature called TiVoToGo, set to launch Monday, will give users their first taste of TiVo untethered.
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Phones in Flight: The Story is Data, Not Chatter
Conventional wisdom has it that once federal authorities approve the use of cell phones on commercial flights, an airplane cabin will quickly resemble an Amtrak train car, simmering with hostility between those who want peace and quiet and those who bray their way from Penn Station in New York to Union Station in Washington.
Here are three little words to consider on the subject: not so fast.
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Google Adds Major Libraries to its Database
Google will expand its ability for searching books by working with Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, to digitize out-of-print and copyrighted works.
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Mozilla Previews e-Mail Program
Weeks after the successful launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released an e-mail application in another salvo on Microsoft's home turf.
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Search and Enjoy: 7 Search Toolbars Reviewed
Want to research something fast? Install a search engine toolbar within your browser. Some even block pop-ups and spam and can securely remember your credit card number for future purchases. Best of all, they're free.
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Google Treads on Microsoft's Turf
Not too long ago, Google seemed little more than a pesky insect to Microsoft's 800-pound gorilla. No more. As Google rapidly rolls out new products, the company best known for its wildly popular search engine is muscling into the software giant's turf, including its stronghold: the computer desktop.
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Free E-Mail Inboxes Get Fatter
Users of Microsoft's Hotmail, most of whom are accustomed to getting regular sales pitches for premium e-mail accounts, got a pleasant surprise in their inboxes this week: extra storage for free. The upgrade, extended to users in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Italy and Australia, increased inbox size from 2 MB to 250 MB.
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Big Brother's Passport to Pry
Privacy advocates are appalled by the ongoing plan to equip all U.S. passports with RFID chips that can be read surreptitiously from a distance.
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Smart Web Changes World
A smarter internet and a host of cheap, web-enabled mobile devices will allow access to a whole range of services on the move, research group Gartner Dataquest said on Sunday, ahead of its ITXpo symposium.
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Mozilla Burns to Prove Firefox Worthy 
The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox Web browser, an open-source alternative to Microsoft's market-dominating Internet Explorer, has been attracting new users at a breakneck pace. Even before reaching its 1.0 milestone, it has doubled its downloads every four months for the past eight. The last two months alone saw nearly 5 million downloads of software
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Homeland Security---
Throwing Money at Technology 
As part of California's effort in the war on terror, state legislators this year proposed that trucks hauling hazardous materials be fitted with technologies that would allow authorities to seize control of hijacked vehicles--a law that supporters said should be passed "on an emergency basis."
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Mobile-Phone Ban May Be Near End 
You're on the red-eye from Los Angeles to New York, soaring over the Nevada desert and preparing for an uncomfortable, partial night's sleep in your aisle seat. All of a sudden, the passenger on the other side of the armrest whips out her cell phone and begins yakking away. According to purveyors of wireless communications technology for the airplane industry, such a scenario is probably less than two years away, as airlines and telecom service providers press federal regulators to lift a 13-year-old ban on the use of most personal wireless devices during flights.
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Major Graphics Flaw Threatens Windows PCs
Microsoft published on Tuesday a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable.
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Tweak Windows XP SP2 Security
to Your Advantage
Fine-tune the settings in Microsoft's recently released Windows XP Service Pack 2.
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Tech Boosts the Fraudsters
If the newly released 32-year-old National Guard memos regarding George W. Bush were written on a computer with Microsoft Word, as experts suspect, they're some of the most inept high-profile forgeries in modern history. This week, document examiners quickly uncovered a variety of seeming anachronisms, from an apparent Times New Roman font to superscript characters. But it might be a very different story if the documents were supposed to be products of the 21st century instead of the early 1970s.
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Great Expectations
Think your business technology is all that and a bag of microchips? Well, it's not. Chances are, you need an upgrade. Here's a preview of the technologies that will change the way your company works.
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Trade Your Wallet for Wireless
People fed up with the proliferation of credit cards, IDs and key cards that fill their wallets to bulging may soon have an alternative. New technology could bundle such functions into just one item: your cell phone.
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Reporting to Work Mid-Flight
Business travelers will be able to surf the web securely on long-distance flights by combining services from Boeing and iPass, the companies plan to announce on Monday. California company iPass, based in Redwood Shores, makes software that connects travelers to their offices from remote locations. It said corporate customers will be able to connect to the web on planes within six months using wireless links from Boeing.
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When Free Software Isn't
There's an old proverb that says you can't get anything for free, and more often than not, it's true.
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Mac Keeps Lead on Linux
With the release of its first Linux laptop last week, Hewlett-Packard predicts this year the free operating system will unseat the Mac as the No. 2 desktop operating system behind Windows.
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Movie, TV Fans Ogle Video to Go
The wait at the airport or the train ride downtown may soon seem a whole lot shorter. New portable video players that let you watch TV shows, movies or ballgames anywhere aspire to be digital entertainment's next big thing. Experts predict a rosy future for the devices -- provided worthwhile content is available.
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Attention, Shoppers:
You Can Now Speed Straight Through Checkout Lines! 
Radio-frequency chips are retail nirvana. They're the end of privacy. They're the mark of the beast. Inside the tag-and-track supermarket of the future.
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Forget Radio, Tune In to Net
Web music broadcasting is the best thing to happen to radio since FM.The concept has many names: Web radio, webcasting, streaming jukeboxes, Internet broadcasts. But the idea is much the same. Music fans "tune in" to various services through their Net-connected PC, where they can hear music from a huge range of genres. And not just the same 20 songs over and over again, like commercial radio. With Internet radio, listeners can tap libraries of millions of songs that would never be broadcast on the airwaves.
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House Panel Passes Spyware Permission Bill
A U.S. House subcommittee approved a bill on Thursday that would regulate computer "spyware," forcing software makers to notify consumers before installing some kinds of monitoring programs on their PCs.
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SBC Told to Unhook Phone from Broadband
SBC Communications must sell local phone and broadband services separately in California, state regulators have ruled, forcing a showdown with the telecom giant over forced bundling practices in its largest market.
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Little Brothers Like IP Cameras
Big Brother is getting a whole lot of little siblings. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything from anywhere.
Want to monitor your house from the office? Connect one of the cameras to an Ethernet or wireless computer network at home, then navigate your browser to a website linked to an internet address assigned to the camera.
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Microsoft Pledges Longer Support for Products
SAN DIEGO--Microsoft revealed a new long-term support policy on Tuesday, along with upcoming technologies to boost security and reduce spam. Speaking at TechEd, the software giant's annual conference for information technology administrators, Andy Lees, vice president of the company's server and tools business, said Microsoft will now guarantee a minimum of 10 years of support for all business and developer products.
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Internet Phones
Your next telephone may not actually be a telephone. It may look and work like a phone, but it will connect to the Internet, not a telephone line, and it will cost less than today's phones. You’ll also get better features and ease of use. Over the next few years, more products using Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, will be coming online. But there's no need to wait--today's batch of Internet phone products have useful features and can save you money, starting now.
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Stop Direct Marketers From Spying On You
If spam is your personal nightmare, consider the havoc adware or spyware may wreak. These tiny applications either feed advertising to software already running on your computer or, worse, collect data about your Internet surfing habits, then broadcast that data to marketers worldwide. Often, you don't even realize that you've installed these apps because they either piggyback on free software that serves another purpose (say, the ad-serving app Cydoor, which is included with the Kazaa file-sharing program) or, often, download and install via nefarious Web sites (notice a new default home page or search engine for your Internet Explorer?). The end result is that your browser may default to unusual search-engine sites or produce odd search results, and you may see exponential growth in the number of pop-up ads that litter your desktop while you surf. How can you find out whether your machine is infected? We look at five antispyware apps that will scan your PC and remove these pests.
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Intel's Dothan Sets Sail
Intel on Monday formally launched three new laptop chips and outlined a push to equip more consumer-oriented notebooks with wireless networking.
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Worm Warning Intensifies
Security companies urged clients to patch their Windows systems, as concerns heightened that an MSBlast-like worm would be released soon--perhaps even as early as this weekend, according to one firm.
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Netflix Plans to Deliver Films Via Web in 2005
Movie rental service Netflix plans to do next year what its name has always promised: deliver a movie via the Internet.
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Sensors Everywhere, Computers Invisible
Ten years from now, the computer as we know it today will be an anachronism, a device consigned to museums, dumpsters and garages. Instead, according to Gartner analysts, the digital information and services once delivered via conventional computers will be available through almost everything we touch-kiosks, airplane seats, newspapers and a broad array of new devices.
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Answering Call for Phone Tickets 
Can you hear me now? RepeatSeat hopes so, as it introduces cell-phone tickets to U.S. event-goers this year.
Teaming up with fellow ticketing firm U.K.-based Mobiqa, RepeatSeat will be the first company to offer the service to North American patrons, as early as May. The 4-year-old, Alberta, Canada-based RepeatSeat is hoping the alliance will attract more venues to its ticketing services.
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Gates: Hardware Will Be Free
Hardware costs will fall sharply within a decade to the point where widespread computing with speech and handwriting won't be limited by expensive technology, Bill Gates said Monday.
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Next Net Moves Forward
The next generation of the Internet, known as Internet Protocol version 6, took another big step toward commercialization, as its second phase of testing in North America wrapped up last week.
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In-Flight Net Set to Take Off
The days of boring airline flights are about to come to an end. Boeing is set to launch what it says is the world's first broadband in-flight Internet service, said Connexion by Boeing President Scott Carson. The service will start sometime during the last two weeks of April.
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Intel Chips Take a New Number
Intel plans to assign a new numbering system to its Pentium and Celeron processors in order to better illustrate their performance to consumers, according to a source familiar with the company's plans.
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LCD Panel Shortage Easing Up
A long-standing supply crunch for liquid-crystal display panels is starting to lift, providing hope that prices for flat-panel monitors will begin falling again later this year.
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Store Anything: Hard Facts on Hard Drives
With music, photos, and home videos now digital, you can't afford to scrimp on PC disk capacity. Here's how to keep ahead of the tidal wave.
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Adware Spreads Quickly on AOL IM 
A surreptitious program spreading Wednesday morning is turning AOL Instant Messenger users into advertising spammers.
The problem starts when users receive an instant message that appears to come from someone on their Buddy List (a list of friends and co-workers who also use the AOL Instant Messenger service). The message reads "check this out" and includes a link that contains a reference to "osama capture.php."
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Search Wars Are About to Get Personal
Web surfers are anything but loyal when it comes to their favorite search engines, according to new research that could give hope to Net titans Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN as they seek to wrest the search crown from Google.
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TiVo Watchers Uneasy
After Post-Super Bowl Reports
Janet Jackson's Super Bowl flash dance was shocking in more ways than one: Some TiVo users say the event brought home the realization that their beloved digital video recorders are watching them, too
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Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware 
The CueCat -- that pesky bar-code scanner from Digital Convergence -- may be dead, but its spirit is finding new life in the form of a camera phone. During the past six months, no fewer than four software firms have released applications to help consumers turn their camera-equipped mobile phones into personal bar-code scanners.
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The Mac Turns 20
Despite Apple's marketing of the G4 "supercomputer on a chip" and Virginia Tech's supercomputer built from 1,100 Power Mac G5s, the Mac will always be remembered for its influence on communication, not on number crunching.
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Wireless in San Diego
For a view of how wireless telecom will change the way we work and live, head to San Diego--where everyone from pharmacists to real-estate brokers is now coming unplugged.
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Kazaa Delivers More Than Tunes
Forty-five percent of the executable files downloaded through Kazaa, the most popular file-sharing program, contain malicious code like viruses and Trojan horses, according to a new study.
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Beyond Google: Narrow the Search 
As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn't quite what we're looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates?

Some intriguing technologies are getting better at bringing order to all that chaos, and could revolutionize how people mine the Internet for information.
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Can Spam? Or New Can of Worms?
On New Year's Day, Americans will wake up to more than a crushing hangover; they will have a new federal antispam law and, according to one commercial group, a new definition of spam.

Representatives of the Direct Marketing Association said the CAN-SPAM Act, which President Bush signed into law Tuesday, settles any argument about the difference between spammers and legitimate e-mail marketers.
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How Mac OS X Can Shed Its Skin
A small community of desktop "skinners" has sprung up around Unsanity's ShapeShifter, a utility for Mac OS X that allows the desktop interface to be customized in highly personal and sometimes strikingly beautiful ways.

ShapeShifter, released earlier this month, is a $20 utility that can alter all the elements of the Mac OS X interface, including menus, windows, buttons and boxes.
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BlackBerry Aims to go Wi-Fi
Research In Motion is working to allow its BlackBerry devices to connect to Wi-Fi wireless networks, anticipating demand for the feature from its target corporate customers.
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Decades After Creation, Viruses Defy Cure
Of all the accomplishments in the annals of technology, Fred Cohen's contribution is undeniably unique: He introduced the term "virus" to the lexicon of computers.
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Moving Cell Numbers: Wait a Sec
Despite having already waited years for the freedom to switch mobile phone companies without losing their numbers, cell users might want to wait a bit longer before lining up for "wireless emancipation" when it takes effect on Monday.
Critics say wireless companies spent so much time and effort fighting to delay the new rules that their preparations may prove inadequate for the expected torrent of customers wanting to bring their cell numbers to a different carrier.
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Microsoft Windows Longhorn
By all accounts, the next version of Windows will be a long time coming. Code-named Longhorn, the OS isn't due until sometime in 2006. Bits and pieces of the embryonic operating system have been leaking onto the Internet since the beginning of the year, however, and recently, Microsoft has started to divulge details of its "biggest bet" since Windows 95.
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Panther by the Numbers
40 Mac OS X 10.3 Features, Tips, and Tricks
Trying to add up the new features and enhancements you'll find in Panther? Prepare for a long count. For every feature Apple has highlighted since it unveiled OS X 10.3 this summer, there are even more additions and improvements that have escaped much attention.
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Digital Networks: PC to Stereo
Home-burned CDs and portable players like Apple Computer's iPod, costing $300 to $500, offer one way out. But electronics makers are coming out with a new class of device that can pipe digital music through the living-room stereo or other speakers throughout the house. Linked to the computer through a wireless connection, Ethernet computer-networking cable or a power line network, many of these "digital audio receivers" can also stream Internet radio and display video or digital photos on the living-room TV.
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Take a Peek at Panther
See What Apple's Latest OS Can Do For You
Panther's many additions and enhancements include a brand-new Finder, which has improved save dialog boxes and search features, and new contextual menus. Apple has given more power to its Mail application, integrated faxing into the OS, and added font management. And that's just the start.
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Apple Unveils iTunes, Music Store for Windows
At a special event held on October 16th at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the long-awaited iTunes software for Windows. The service provides not only digital music playback features for Windows users, but also offers them access to the iTunes Music Store. Both iTunes and the iTunes Music Store have hitherto been limited for use by Macintosh users.
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Waiting for DVDs, the Sequel
Now that DVDs have become fully accepted by the masses, and even progressive-scan players can be found for under $70, what's a videophile got to do to stay ahead of the pack? Or perhaps the better question is: Now that DVDs are almost 7 years old, which is an eternity in the consumer electronics world, what comes next?
The answer is high-definition DVD.
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Broadband: Pick Cheap or Speedy
Millions of broadband subscribers are getting a boost in speed -- without a concurrent rate increase -- as cable operators contend with intensified DSL competition from local phone companies by increasing service instead of decreasing price.
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Adobe Announces Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe today unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite, a new software product that combines new full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS, incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and introduces its new innovative Version Cue file version manager.
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Can Microsoft Finally Kill All The Bugs?
Viruses, flaws, and worms, oh my! With PCs crashing and the Internet wheezing, Gates & Co. are on the quality hot seat. We'll take you inside Microsoft's effort to get its software right, right from the start.
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Adobe to Drop OS 9 in Next Photoshop Release
Adobe's flagship product, Photoshop, will abandon Mac OS 9 support in its next major version, sources close to Adobe told MacCentral. While no final date has been set for the release of the next revision of Photoshop, Adobe is expected to introduce the product this fall."
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Adobe Preps New Graphics Suites
Adobe Systems Inc. this fall will roll out a Creative Suite collection that integrates a slew of upgrades to its professional graphics applications. Sources said the Creative Suite will ship in two versions, both comprising a number of major application upgrades. The Standard version will include Photoshop 8, Illustrator 11 and InDesign 3; the Premium edition will also feature Acrobat 6 Professional and GoLive 7. Both versions will ship with the initial release of an Adobe technology code-named Bauhaus that will provide cross-application integration and other services ."
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Will Microsoft Tweak IE?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) issued a statement Thursday that indicates that Microsoft is mulling its options after a federal court earlier this month found that plug-ins and applets in Internet Explorer (IE) infringed on patents held by Eolas Technologies and the University of California. The software giant was ordered to pay $521 million to the Web technology company and the university.
"In the near term, Microsoft has indicated to the W3C that they will very soon be making changes to its Internet Explorer browser software in response to this ruling," Steven R. Bratt, chief operating officer of the W3C, said in a statement. "These changes may affect a large number of existing Web pages."
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PC Protection for Procrastinators
Congratulations if you're among the 99 percent of personal computer users who weren't hit with the Blaster worm last week or the SoBig virus this week. You now have a chance to make your PC safe before the next threat emerges.
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Looking at the Next Generation of Macintosh
There's plenty of hubbub surrounding the performance claims of the forthcoming Power Macintosh G5 models. David Morgenstern considers the current state of knowledge and runs down the technologies in Apple's new workstations.
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Want To Get Into Wi-Fi?
Some say the wireless technology is doomed; others swear by it. Before you jump into this market, know what you're getting into--and where we're headed.
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Mozilla Wants to Rumble With IE
Microsoft's Internet Explorer might have trounced the likes of Netscape Navigator, but the folks at Mozilla.org insist the browser wars aren't over.
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Why do-not-spam lists are a bad idea
Following the success of do-not-call anti-telemarketing lists, the idea of do-not-spam lists has suddenly caught on with politicians.
Big mistake...."
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Under the Desktop: Finding the Feline,
Apple's Forthcoming Panther OS X
Attendees at this month's Macworld CreativePro conference and expo will get the first public look at the forthcoming Power Macintosh G5 workstation. Version 10.3 of Mac OS X, aka Panther, may be given somewhat less exposure to the public, on the other hand. Yet with a powerful imaging technology under the hood, along with a variety of new interface elements, Panther may tip the balance for creative professionals still debating about Generation X...."
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New Memory That Doesn't Forget
With both Motorola and IBM firmly lined up behind a single contender, the five-year search for a "universal RAM" technology offering a combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access appears to be all but over. According to Motorola, samples of the new magnetoresistive random access memory, or MRAM, chips will be distributed to developers by the end of 2003, and cell phones and PDAs incorporating MRAM should be on sale by mid-2004.
Unlike conventional high-speed memory devices, MRAM uses magnetism instead of electrical charges to store data -- making it, in a sense, a back-to-the-future technology based on the same laws of physics that enabled the creation of audio and videotape recorders as well as hard drives...."
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