NEWS ARTICLES
Seagate's Replica makes backup copy of entire PC
Apr 27, 2009
Seagate's new Replica drives are designed to do one thing and do it simply: back up your entire Windows PC. They literally make a replica of your system, operating system and all.
The Replica comes in two configurations. The entry-level 0 Replica (250GB) is geared to single PC backup, while the...
Film Review: Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Apr 26, 2009
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has been subjected to many indignities, from high school pageants to tired Hollywood remakes. But "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" makes you wish you do believe in ghosts so the old man can come back and sue somebody over the lamest and easily the worst revisionist...
Movie review: 'The Soloist'
Apr 24, 2009
Drama. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx and Catherine Keener. Directed by Joe Wright. (PG-13. 110 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
For all its sensitivity to the horrors of mental illness, "The Soloist" ends up as a fairly canned piece of work. In grand style, it tells the story of a schizophrenic...
Yahoo's Cuts Fall on GeoCities; Service Will Shut Down
Apr 23, 2009
It's the end of an era.
Yahoo announced Thursday that it will shut down GeoCities, the Web site building business it acquired a decade ago.
"We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build...
Searching for the Ideal Chocolate
Apr 22, 2009
I actually wrote about this back in November. But then, in the way that these things can sometimes slide, what we thought was a "done deal" turned out to be a bit...underdone. We were ready, but the chocolate bar wasn't. It's actually a good story in terms of what it takes to hit the quality levels...
Google rolls out search changes
Apr 21, 2009
Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news.
A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images.
Timeline presents information already available in Google News but organised and displayed...
10 things you should look for in a netbook
Apr 19, 2009
Who saw this coming? In the day and age of quad-core CPUs, 17-inch laptop displays, and terabyte hard disks, who’d have thought small laptops with slow CPUs and little storage would set the world afire. But that’s just what’s happened.
Wired magazine took note in its February article, in which it said...
How Carbon Dioxide Became a 'Pollutant'
Apr 18, 2009
The Environmental Protection Agency's decision to classify rising carbon-dioxide emissions as a hazard to human health is the latest twist in a debate that has raged for decades among politicians, scientists and industry: whether a natural component of the earth's atmosphere should be considered a pollutant....
Film Review: Crank: High Voltage
Apr 17, 2009
Bottom Line: Don't watch it on Red Bull.
The most dubiously premised attempt at a movie franchise since "Speed 2" hit screens Friday in the form of "Crank: High Voltage," with British action star Jason Statham repeating his role as Chev Chelios, the guy who just can't get a break. After spending...
Review: 17 Again
Apr 16, 2009
Zac Efron, looking cool, is movie enough for the makers of "17 Again," a halfhearted fantasy that stars Efron in a role cryogenically frozen around the time of C. Thomas Howell's '80s heyday. He plays a high school basketball star who has everything going for him. His college sports career gets derailed...
Buy A Spam Filter, Save The Environment
Apr 15, 2009
Spam has a destructive impact to the environment that can be seen in significant energy consumption and the output of carbon emissions, according to a McAfee study released Wednesday.
The McAfee study, "Carbon Footprint of Spam," conducted in tandem with climate-change consultant ICF International,...
Microsoft to start pushing IE 8 browser
Apr 13, 2009
Microsoft said it plans next week to start pushing its Internet Explorer 8 browser to consumers who have Windows' automatic-update feature turned on.
The software maker released the browser for download at last month's Mix conference and had said it planned to start pushing the browser out in the...
Microsoft resurects Yahoo deal from the dead
Apr 12, 2009
TIS EASTER SUNDAY and it seems Microsoft is commemorating the resurrection with a little resurrecting of its own, dragging us away from our chocolate egg hunt with snooze, er, news that its talks with Yahoo are back on again.
After restraining himself from any talk of MicroHoo!! for the duration...
Microsoft and Yahoo back at the table?
Apr 11, 2009
Since Carol Bartz took over last year as the head of Yahoo, Microsoft has kept its distance. According to a New York Times source, the talks have started up again. At this point they are very preliminary, but what is being discussed again is advertising.
The common enemy is obviously Google and their...
Conficker E Variant Linked To Fake Antivirus Scams
Apr 10, 2009
The Conficker worm is stirring with renewed vigor, touting an update that connects it to a malicious botnet and a rising tide of rogue antivirus software.
Security researchers say that the latest Conficker variant, Conficker E, is suspected of communicating with a known Waledac domain behind a growing...