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Cloud

Zoho’s office-like Web software service adds offline use

Challenger Zoho has now taken the software-as-a-service lead, becoming the first Web-based office suite to offer offline capability, as TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner previously discussed. Software-as-a-service has been touted as an Microsoft Office replacement, and several competitors have been developing alternatives to Office that work through a Web browser. Surprisingly, not Google’s service, but the Zoho ...

Mobility

The illogic of two-year cellular contracts

Cellular data is getting faster again, with the debut of HSUPA. A year ago, EV-DO Rev. A was hot stuff, giving CDMA companies (Verizon and Sprint) the lead in North American mobile data, with nothing on the horizon that would give an advantage, or even parity, for the GSM cellular carriers (such as Cingular-AT&T and ...

Microsoft

Patches not a solution for Vista design problem

Patch Tuesday is just around the corner, that monthly ritual when Microsoft absorbs a not-inconsiderable chunk of Web bandwidth to fix the design problems it’s been sitting on for one to thirty days. One of those problems just might be the security breach created by ATI video card drivers. But one design flaw is not ...

Microsoft

Another Windows Vista patch now available

Yesterday, we announced here a Vista ‘performance and reliability ‘ patch from Microsoft , and that’s been quickly followed by a ‘compatibility and reliability‘ download. Both, as per Ars Technica, will require WGA validation and are designed to provide fixes for: Video driver blanks the screen A “Display driver stopped responding and has recovered” error ...

Microsoft

Windows Vista patch ready for download

A rumored patch for Vista reliability, said to be slated for Patch Tuesday, is available now to download from Microsoft. A leak last week suggested the software giant was almost ready to ship a patch for numerous Vista problems, and the release timing would be tied to Patch Tuesday. Instead, it appeared a week early. ...

After Hours

Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices after billion-dollar-plus chargeback

After a billion-dollar chargeback for defective Xbox consoles with the ‘three flashing red lights of death’ defect, Microsoft has decided the Xbox 360 is worth less than before and slashed prices starting tomorrow by $20 to $50 on the gaming system. The 20-Gbyte version will retail at $350, the basic Core system lists for $280, ...

Open source

Flying the very friendly open-source skies on America’s newest airline

Virgin Atlantic, America’s newest air carrier and possibly the geekiest, launches Wednesday with flights from Los Angeles (LAX) to San Francisco (SFO) and SFO to New York (JFK) on new and uniquely equipped Airbus aircraft. JFK-LAX flights begin later this month, SFO-Washington-Dulles (IAD) next month, and SFO-Las Vegas (LAS) and LAX-IAD follow in October. Its ...

Hardware

Apples easier to crack, says Black Hat expert

The Black Hat conference underway in Las Vegas has revealed many interesting things, none the least of which is Mac OS insecurity. Charlie Miller, researcher with Independent Security Evaluators (who found the first iPhone crack, first reported here on July 23), likes looking in Macs for bad security, because it’s easier to find vulnerabilities in ...

Innovation

Geekend: Scandinavian summer lures geeks to cell phone doom

If you’ve been wondering what to do with all that comp time now that summer is nearing an end, have you considered the Mobile-Phone Throwing World Championships in Savonlinna, Finland? Version 7.0 is nearing its official release at the end of the month, and its popularity is surely growing; over 3,000 spectators dialed in to ...

Open source

Microsoft tests free Works software with embedded advertising

Software giant Microsoft pledged yesterday a test of its low-end Works suite, to arrive preloaded on some new PCs, with embedded advertising paying the bills, per a Reuters report. The idea of large-scale software-as-a-service has been batted around for years. Recently, mainstream giant Google and upstart Zoho have led the way with free on-line suites ...

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Lea Rush

Zoho’s office-like Web software service adds offline use

The illogic of two-year cellular contracts

Patches not a solution for Vista design problem

Another Windows Vista patch now available

Windows Vista patch ready for download

Microsoft cuts Xbox 360 prices after billion-dollar-plus chargeback

Flying the very friendly open-source skies on America’s newest airline

Apples easier to crack, says Black Hat expert

Geekend: Scandinavian summer lures geeks to cell phone doom

Microsoft tests free Works software with embedded advertising

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