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Choose a page number: 1 Software RSS FeedsWho says Google promotes piracy? - Perhaps the question should be: Who doesn't? Google search is a powerful tool for finding content of any kind, including copyrighted material posted without permission. Today Google sets the record straight, by releasing the URLs copyright holders request removed from search: 1,246,713 over the last month. These came from more than 1,000 copyright holders directed at about 24,000 domains. Apparently more details about other copyright areas will come later. For now, search is priority, with Google planning to update requests daily. The report available on Wednesday offers data through yesterday. "We?re starting with search because we remove more results in… [Continue Reading]...Feed Source: feeds.betanews.com In-app subscriptions come to Google Play, includes 'bundling' capabilities - Google announced on Thursday that Android developers can now use in-app Billing to sell monthly or annual subscriptions from inside of apps sold in Google Play. The feature brings Google Play up to speed with Apple's iTunes App Store, which rolled out this feature over one year ago. With the new feature, developers set the price and billing interval and Google Play manages the purchase transactions for both the seller and the subscriber. Users can view their subscriptions in the "My Apps" screen in the Play Store app, the same place they view their updates, or they can view them… [Continue Reading]... Google+ for Android catches up with iPhone - Well, perhaps I should qualify that with "almost", depending on what matters more to you as a user. On Wednesday, 15 days after releasing a major Google+ update for iPhone, the Android version arrived. Timing is interesting. According to NPD, considerably more Android users access Google+ from the browser than the app -- 16 percent to 10 percent overall reach, in March, respectively. My question for you quick downloaders, will that be true for you, or is the app now preferred? It's no idle question, because the web experience is now so vastly different from the app. Like its counterpart,… [Continue Reading]... Yahoo launches the first Pinterest-integrated mobile Web browser, Yahoo Axis - After a consistent stream of bad news from Yahoo's executive offices, the fading giant search company has finally launched a big new development that takes on its core business challenge: staying relevant. The company on Thursday launched its own Web browser called Yahoo Axis. Axis is centered around searching, bookmarking, and content syncing across multiple devices. While Yahoo says Axis is both a desktop and mobile browser, it is really just a mobile browser for the iPad and iPhone, and a plug-in for Safari/Chrome/IE/Firefox which amounts to a little more than a "next-gen Yahoo Toolbar." With that being said, Yahoo… [Continue Reading]... Box cozies up to large scale users, debuts new admin tools - Enterprise cloud-based file sharing service Box strengthened its offering on Thursday, announcing new features that will simplify management for IT administrators. The new functionality allows for greater control over security, and the ability to enable enterprise-wide search. The company also debuted new pricing structures that enable larger companies to adopt its services with more predictable pricing. This is a move away from the traditional per-seat model of the past, and makes cloud storage more cost-effective for large enterprises. Box counts 11 million users including 120,000 businesses -- 82 percent of the Fortune 500. Box's most recent changes are in direct… [Continue Reading]... Total Commander 8 goes 64-bit, but old plugins won't work - In beta since September 2011, Ghisler Software has finally announced the release of the plainly very thoroughly tested Total Commander 8.0, the company?s flagship file manager. The big news in this release is the availability of a native 64-bit version of the program, which has a very real impact on functionality. Total Commander has been able to compare files by their content for a very long time, for instance, but version 8.0 x64 is the first release to support this for files greater than 2GB in size. There?s a temporary disadvantage to the 64-bit option, though: Total Commander has built up… [Continue Reading]... Panic offers high-calorie Coda 2 for Mac, and low-cal Diet Coda for iPad - Oregon developer Panic has released a brand new version of its Mac web-coding tool, Coda 2, plus launched a streamlined iPad version, appropriately titled Diet Coda. Diet Coda is designed as a companion tool to Coda for use on the move. Coda 2 launches with over 100 new features -- many of which are based on user requests, adds 64-bit compatibility and provides a completely refreshed user interface. It?s billed as a one-stop shop for web developers, incorporating editor, terminal, CSS and files management within a single application. Coda 2 brings a revamped editor, introducing code folding, autocomplete support for variables and… [Continue Reading]... Symantec releases free iAntivirus for the Mac - While there are still Mac users who will proclaim that their systems are immune to viruses and malware, recent high-profile virus infections show that this is simply not the case. Even for anyone still convinced that their computer is immune to viruses, if a Mac is on the same network as a PC, it can easily be used to pass a virus to a Windows-based machine. This is just one of the reasons that Mac virus protection is much more important than many people believe, and Symantec?s newly released iAntivirus is a free tool that could help to bolster security. If you… [Continue Reading]... Rogue Applications Remover finds malware your security software misses - ESET has released Rogue Applications Remover, a stand-alone console tool that tries to remove rogue antivirus and similar unwanted malware which regular security tools might miss. The program is very basic, with minimal options. There?s no real-time protection here, no options beyond a few command line switches, it?s really just about running on-demand scans and watching as your system is checked for threats. Still, this simplicity does have its plus points. Rogue Applications Remover is very compact, for instance, a single executable under 3MB in size. And it?s most unlikely to conflict with any other security tool: whatever else you?re running, you… [Continue Reading]... HP reports better-than-expected quarter, but cuts 27,000 jobs amid restructuring - HP released better than expected results after the close of the markets Wednesday, and the company overall shows signs of a long-awaited turnaround. But the big story tonight surrounds the 27,000 workers who will lose their jobs as part of a "multi-year" restructuring plan announced by CEO Meg Whitman. The cuts amount to about eight percent of the workforce and are expected to save HP between $3 and $3.5 billion annually by 2015. It will be phased in gradually though 2014, and involves an early retirement package to be offered by the company. In a conference call with analysts, Whitman… [Continue Reading]... Create HTML 5 photo galleries with Juicebox - Looking for an impressive way to show off your digital photos? Juicebox may be just what the doctor ordered. This free Adobe AIR app can be used on Macs as well as PCs running Windows or Linux and whatever platform you use to create your gallery, you can be sure that it?ll look great on both desktop and mobile platforms. The app has been designed specifically with online photo galleries in mind, and despite the fact that stunning HTML5 galleries can be created, you do not need to know a single line of coding. One of the problems that faces anyone looking… [Continue Reading]... Geeks rejoice at Google's legal triumph over Oracle - Google couldn't have asked for better in its intellectual property dispute with Oracle. The judge turned out to be a programmer, and his ongoing guidance to the jury tempered deliberations. Then there were a couple of lucky breaks, the biggest perhaps from former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who volunteered on the witness stand the company saw no grounds to sue Google. Wherever the luck, and perhaps a tenable defense, Google won big today with the jury finding that Android doesn't violate Oracle patents acquired from Sun. The reaction, as measured by Google+ posts, is magnanimous for the search giant --… [Continue Reading]... Jury says Android does not violate Oracle's patents, APIs up next in landmark case - The fight between Oracle and Google over Android's use of Java took a turn in Google's favor, filings from the District Court for the Norther District of California showed on Wednesday. The jury in the patent phase of the case unanimously voted that Oracle did not prove Android had infringed on Oracle's Java patents. This decision settles only part of the lawsuit, which Groklaw remarked has been the "longest civil trial" they have ever covered. However, it is a big part. Oracle was calling for an injunction on Android plus damages in its suit, and now that the jury has… [Continue Reading]... Free USB Guard leaves no drives behind - It?s easily done. You?ve finished working on a friend?s PC, close it down and walk away, completely forgetting about the USB key you plugged in a little earlier. Or maybe you?re at home, closing down your own PC, even though there?s a CD or DVD in the drive that you?ll need later. And then, once you realize, you?re perhaps forced to restart the system before you can eject it. They?re both common problems, but easy to address with a little help from Free USB Guard. Just launch the program, and if you log off or shut down later then it checks for… [Continue Reading]... Who will buy Samsung Galaxy S III? - Samsung starts selling its third-generation S Series smartphone next week -- May 29, although some locales are expected to get it a day earlier (if not sooner). Our BetaNews poll, "Will you buy Samsung Galaxy S III", has enough responses -- 2,361, as I write -- to report results. Cut to the point: 36.59 percent of you won't buy the S3. At least among our tech community, there is huge interest in the smartphone, which is now available for preorders here, including Amazon. Some of you have preordered, or will do so: 15.37 percent. Another 32.57 percent plan to order… [Continue Reading]... Seagate begins its next big takeover: LaCie - American storage company Seagate announced on Wednesday its intention to become majority owner of French storage company LaCie by buying 64.5% of the company's shares from chairman and CEO Phillippe Spruch. Pending government approval of this transaction, Seagate will then buy up the rest of the outstanding stock in cash or commence a squeeze out maneuver of any minority stakeholders. After he sells his stake, Spruch will become the head of Seagate's consumer storage products organization, above Patrick Connolly, who is currently Seagate's vice president and general manager of retail. Deputy general manager of LaCie Pierre van der Elst will… [Continue Reading]... Do you use Gmail and want to know more about your contacts? Try Rapportive - We all now communicate with people through so many channels that it is often difficult to put names to faces. You may know someone on Twitter and Facebook but when you receive an email from them you do not necessary make a connection between the two. This is where Rapportive can help, by providing you with extended information about the contacts you receive emails from in your Gmail inbox. Rapportive is available as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox and Safari and appears as a right-hand side panel whenever you look at individual emails. The extension pulls in information from social networks such as Twitter,… [Continue Reading]... Secure your data with US military-developed Encryption Wizard - When you need to carry sensitive data on a USB key then it?s easy to find an encryption tool which will help to keep it safe. But life gets a little more complicated when you need to transfer your files from a PC to a Mac, or maybe a Linux system: now you?ll need a cross-platform solution, and we have the perfect candidate in mind. Encryption Wizard is an easy-to-use, yet surprisingly powerful Java-based encryption tool. Developed by the US military (a plus point or a problem, depending on your point of view) but available for all, the program provides a… [Continue Reading]... Oracle gains stake in social CRM with $300 million Vitrue buy - A day after competitor SAP acquired Ariba to bolster its cloud portfolio, Oracle announced a significant buy of its own, acquiring cloud-based social, marketing company Vitrue on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although TechCrunch reports it was worth some $300 million. Oracle's purchase of Vitrue gives the Redwood Shores, Calif. company a foothold in the social CRM segment, an initiative Gartner says companies will spend some $2.1 billion on this year alone. With the rise of social networks, companies need methods to quantify the results of their social marketing. Virtue's platform allows customers to "centrally create, publish,… [Continue Reading]... System Security Guard warns but doesn't protect - When you?re manually hunting for malware on a PC then you might start by launching Task Manager, Process Explorer, Process Hacker or a similar tool to see exactly what?s running. But these programs generally won?t directly tell you which processes are safe, and which might be dubious: you?ll have to look at what they?re doing and try to figure this out for yourself. If this seems a little too much like hard work, though (or you?d just like some pointers to tell you where to look first), then you might be interested in System Security Guard, a very simple tool which can check your… [Continue Reading]... Copyright © 2012, Golf Information 4 U. All Rights Reserved. |
