A quick burst 7 links you to chew, as picked by technology-team
So a bar goes into an app. .. >> Twitter blog
"QuickBar was originally intended to help users to find out what's happening in the wider world without people they already follow. The line was also seen as a potential product-app notifications for new @ mentions, DMs, and other important activities. "
Instead it became the focus of hatred over what was seen as taducing of user-focused design. And so it has been taken out back and shot.
Acer should overhaul its operation: Stan Shih >> Taiwan economic news
"In view of the impact of smart phones and Tablet PCs on the market of PC, Acer Inc., Taiwan's leading PC supplier, should overhaul its operation to seek higher profit margin, rather than seeking championship in the global PC market, said Stan Shih, founder of Acer Group yesterday (29. March).
"...In recent years has become the world's largest striving Acer PC vendor in the belief that the goal can help it achieve economies of scale and gain greater margin. Shih noticed that Apple success underlines the traditional industrial mode undertaking a major change, as the volume may not have an absolute relationship with profit margin. In honor of the world's largest PC supplier can therefore be achieved at the expense of profit margin "
As the question of why the answer pretty Executive was started: he did not agree with Shih.
Do not anger Alpha Android >> BusinessWeek
"Playtime is over in Android land. In the last few months Google has reached for the large carriers and device makers backup its mobile operating system with a message: there will be no more countries tweaks to the software. No more partnerships formed outside Google's purview. From now on, the companies hope to receive early access to Google's most up-to-date software approval of their plans. And they will try to approval from Andy Rubin, head of Google's Android group.
Three thoughts: (1) game most definitely ON. Google becomes deadly serious about Androids future here; (2) you can ignore the PR about Android will be "open" in contrast to other mobile operating systems now; (3) since being taken over by Bloomberg BusinessWeek cracking stories, produced a remarkable rate.
Confirmed: Samsung is not Shipping key seekers >> F-Secure
"The whole saga was caused by a false alarm VIPRE antivirus product. Apparently discovers VIPRE StarLogger keylogger by searching for existance of the existence of a folder with the name "SL" in the root of the Windows-folder. This is a bad idea. "
Where by "bad" F-Secure means "reputation-destroying potentially leading to recommendation reports results".
Samsung notebooks are actually safe >> Samsung blog
"Opinions, Samsung install keylogger on R525 and R540 laptops is false. After examining this question, it was found that the software was actually installed VIPRE, not StarLogger called The commercial Keylogger. The confusion arose because Microsoft's Live application support folder "SL" folder was confused with StarLogger. "
This seems plausible.
Samsung Series 9 laptop shows no signs of Spyware > > PCWorld
"rootkit" plot thickens.
TMI: Fear, Fukushima and facts >> Anil Dash
Based on XKCD radiation diagram (which you should know already) and then get an expert to comment on it. In fact, even the XKCD overblown. Prepare to revise your figures for deaths caused by Chernobyl down by a few orders of magnitude, for example.
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