We already told you that Windows 7 Service Pack 1 had hit closed beta, but now Microsoft has made it available to everyone. Announced on Monday at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference, SP1 reflects Microsoft’s increased focus on cloud computing. As we’ve mentioned before, SP1 includes RemoteFX, which allows for host-based rendering of 3D graphics....
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With yesterday’s major update to iOS comes a major new source of revenue for both Cupertino and app developers: iAd, Apple’s new mobile advertising service. In a best case scenario, iAd will result in cheaper apps that deliver interesting, interactive advertisements finely targeted enough that you’ll actually want to play around in them. The...
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – – US coffee giant Starbucks will begin offering free wireless Internet service at its 6,700 US stores next month and free digital content through a partnership with Yahoo! Starbucks said the free Wi-Fi service would be available from July 1 through US telecom giant AT&T. Starbucks currently offers two hours of...
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Online criminals are scanning the internet and attacking Windows 2000 machines that haven’t had a recent Windows Media Service patch installed, according to Symantec. Symantec first spotted the attacks on Monday, saying that they are extremely limited. Symantec’s detection network picked up just a handful of attempts, but the code used in the attacks...
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Janus Friis with Niklas Zennström, who disrupted music distribution with the Kazaa file sharing service and phone companies with Skype, unveiled their Twitter-like version of a digital music service at the crack of midnight Thursday morning. Rdio offers instant access to more than 5 million tracks from all the major labels and several indies...
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Well, Apple has shuttered LaLa, its streaming music service. The sign appeared early Tuesday morning, but while the closure comes as no surprise, what is unsettling is the dead air that replaces the web-based music application. What’s more, don’t bet the farm LaLa will be reborn as some streaming version of iTunes. “I have...
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Authentication firm VeriSign has warned that botnets could become more widespread and dangerous as the services become easier to find and cheaper to hire. VeriSign’s iDefence arm said that criminals are advertising botnet services on online forums for just £5.99 an hour, which could be used to launch hacking attacks. The company warned that...
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Aiming to expand its presence in the emerging markets, Internet giant Yahoo announced Tuesday that it has acquired Indonesia’s location-based services startup Koprol. In a statement, Yahoo said it will be leveraging the Jakarta-based startup’s user-generated community information to further localize its content for its products. Rose Tsou, senior vice president, Asia Region at...
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By now, all but the most geriatric Web users know about phishing. Usually it takes the form of a seemingly-official email from a bank or other money-related Web service. Most of the time these attacks are painfully obvious — but what if you removed the email attack vector? What if you removed those daft...
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Apple has updated its MobileMe Web service with several improvements to the Gallery, iDisk, Sync, and Find My iPhone features. Apple has also released the MobileMe Mail beta program as described in this article earlier this week. These improvements to MobileMe are definitely welcomed as many users would like to see Apple step up...
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