The description for this week’s tech update should be read with the micro machines guys voice in your head for the following points: -Studio lights blew up so its dark. -Id Games get’s bought out. -Max Mosley steps down from FIA, viva F1! New Shazam iPhone app, is dope. -The more star tattoos tattoos a girl has on her face, the crazier she is. -Panasonic uses Tigers to test their Toughbooks. -Boxee for Windows FTW. -OCZ Sabre OLED Keyboard looks kinda cooool. -HTC Hero. -Office 2003 is greater than Office 2010. -Awesome video of a Bald Eagle chasing a small RC Bald Eag...... Read more
Brad Arkin, director of product security and privacy at Adobe, explains how sandboxing will protect Adobe Reader customers from attacks.
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James Martin/CNET)
Adobe Reader will soon have an additional layer of protection against the many attacks that target the popular PDF viewer.
Adobe Systems is borrowing a page from Microsoft’s and Google’s playbook by turning to sandboxing technology designed to isolate code from other parts of the computer.
Adobe is adding a “Protected Mode” to the next release of Adobe Reader for Windows due out some time this year,...... Read more
In a new survey released today, Fortune has chosen Apple CEO Steve Jobs as the smartest CEO in tech. The survey drew upon 100 advisers and experts for nominations in ten different categories, who were then evaluated based on their perceived intelligence as well as their impact over recent timeframes.
Fortune points to the incredible success of Apple since Jobs’ 1997 return to the company, seeing its market capitalization rise to $250 billion as the company changes industry after industry.
Rocking one industry could be luck, but upending four? That’s smart.
He...... Read more
By Katie Marsal
Published: 10:05 AM EST
Fortune magazine has compiled a list of what it believes are the smartest people in the technology industry, and topping the list of CEOs is Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, while designer Jony Ive was named smartest designer.
The magazine credited Jobs with bringing Apple from the brink of bankruptcy when he returned in 1997 to great heights. This year, Apple’s market cap surpassed Microsoft’s, making it the most valuable technology company in the world.
Fortune credited Jobs with reinventing music through iTunes, elevati...... Read more
I wish Apple would have the good sense to give us a choice of input schemes. Swype’s idea is a good one, particularly for commuting where coordinating on a bouncing train or bus isn’t easy. Unfortunately, it still requires looking down at tiny screen keyboard.
There’s an approach that doesn’t require looking at all and that should be quite fast. It uses swiping instead of tapping but doesn’t have a keyboard. All the meaning lies in the swipes themselves. And since the only requirements for text input are basic han...... Read more
by David Saetang, PC World
Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from the Geek Tech blog at PCWorld.com.
If you’re like me and the rest of the world, you’re probably watching the World Cup. And you’ve probably also noticed while watching that it sounds there’s either a massive swarm of bees, some type of air raid going on, or a bunch of pissed-off elephants in the background during every game.
That noise, my friends, comes from an air horn called a Vuvuzela. While it’s no ...... Read more
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(Editorial) Over the past few months, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has done the unthinkable: he has broken his company’s notorious silence and started responding to customer issues and complaints from his personal e-mail address. Admittedly, Jobs is deciding what he wants to respond to and what he doesn’t, always conscious of the impact his answers will have on his business, but he’s making Apple accessible....... Read more
By Neil Hughes
Published: 04:15 PM EST
Apple’s market capitalization hit $222 billion on Wednesday, leaving it ahead of rival Microsoft as the largest technology company in the world when the closing bell rang on Wall Street.
The dethroning of Microsoft now makes Apple — for now — the second largest American company, behind only Exxon-Mobil. Apple has a ways to go to catch the oil giant, which has a market capitalization of nearly $280 billion.
But Apple on Wednesday had the distinction of being the largest technology company in the world, surpassing i...... Read more
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