Archive for April, 2007

Samsung releases new laptop with hybrid HDD

Monday, April 23rd, 2007 Posted in Blog Post, News | No Comments »

Samsung appears to be the first laptop maker out of the gate with the new hybrid HDD: Samsung has announced it’s first laptops with new Hybrid HDD built in. The first to get this Hybrid HDD upgrade is 15.4″ Samsung R55 ...

RIM plans to expand to Windows Mobile devices

Monday, April 23rd, 2007 Posted in Blog Post, Mobile Devices, News | No Comments »

Think the recent Blackberry outage will slow RIM's progress? Think again... Research In Motion is set to roll out new software that will let users turn smart phones running on Microsoft's Windows Mobile platform into virtual BlackBerrys. Wow. Now instead ...

MacBook compromised via Safari browser

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 Posted in Blog Post, News | No Comments »

Mac users beware, there is a zero-day exploit that can potentially lead to OSX being compromised if you surf to a "bad" website. The successful attack on the second and final day of the contest required a conference organizer to surf ...

Dell reverses it’s position on offering Windows XP

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 Posted in Blog Post, News | 2 Comments »

PC World reports Dell bowed to pressure from customers and dumped its Vista-only policy for consumer PCs by adding Windows XP as operating option on half-a-dozen machines. Dell now offers Windows XP Home and Windows XP Professional on two Dimension desktops -- ...

Top 10 Free Computer System Recovery Tools

Friday, April 20th, 2007 Posted in Blog Post | No Comments »

Via Lifehacker, a top-10 list of must have tools for recovering your system. I use some of these tools and they are invaluable. Check them out, burn some CDs and never worry about recovering data again. Well, that is ...