All my PCs run XP Home. I had to upgrade the wireless adapter on one of the PCs in order to implement WPA-PSK security on it like my other computers (a laptop with built-in wireless card and a desktop PC wired to a Belkin 54G wireless router). Instead of replacing the USB adapter on the […]

Firefox is not a secure alternative browser but also has many extensions which makes browsing all the more exciting, says R Prathap.
As a fast and versatile browser, Firefox has been slowly gaining ground in the internet arena. More than the performance, it has been used more as a secure alternative browser, if your primary operating […]

Sun Microsystems is getting support for its Sparc-based servers from Canonical, the Linux distributor of Ubuntu, the companies said Tuesday.
The free Debian-based Ubuntu distribution of Linux, launched in 2004 by South African dot-com billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, has already attracted millions of individual desktop users. But with the “Dapper Drake” release of Ubuntu set to ship […]

In a Xinhau News Agency report published May 29, the Chinese Broadband Wireless IP Standard Group (BWIPS) accused American computer chipmaker Intel of unfairly dominating the market with its encryption standard for wireless local area networks (WLANs).
BWIPS said that the standard in question, IEEE802.11, was developed by Intel (News - Alert), and as such its […]

Continuing a strategy by the game maker to expand the video gaming market, Nintendo said Tuesday that it was introducing a new brand to highlight games that are easy to play. Called Touch Generations, the label would be placed on any game that customers can play with little experience.
Nintendo made its first indications that it […]

This summer, security vendor McAfee will release a completely redesigned version of its subscription-based security suite, code-named “Falcon,” the company said Monday.
The Falcon project has been in the works for a year, according to Marc Solomon, McAfee’s director of product management for consumer products. The service will enter beta in a few weeks’ time.
Although […]

Microsoft on Tuesday released its first Mac-specific desktop, the shiny-silver Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac, which features its Comfort Curve Keyboard and a wire-free high-definition (HD) laser mouse, according to a May 30 company press release posted on Yahoo Finance.
The Comfort Curve, the only keyboard Microsoft produces without its Windows start button, works with the […]

There are a lot of polls flying around lately since the end of E3, each of them trying to gauge which console gamers are going to buy. The poll frenzy has really picked up ever since Microsoft’s Peter Moore said that people “are going to buy two (machines.) They’re going to buy an Xbox and […]

Test versions of Windows Vista, Longhorn server, and Office 2007 are signs of progress, but .4 billion in additional spending has yet to be explained.
Microsoft reached development milestones for its three flagship products last week, releasing test versions of Windows Vista, Windows Longhorn server, and Office 2007. But a few big questions are unanswered, […]

Apple has launched a new 17-inch MacBook Pro notebook computer featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and an all-new system architecture that delivers up to five times the performance of the PowerBook G4.
The new MacBook Pro features an aluminium enclosure just one inch thin, weighs only 6.8 pounds, includes a built-in iSight video camera for […]