Monthly Archives: February 2012
Identity-Fraud Victims Are Smartphone, Social Media Users: Report
Social media and mobile devices may be putting consumers at greater risk for identity fraud, according to a Feb. 22 report on identity fraud.More...
HP CEO Whitman Faces a Daunting Rebuilding Task
Hewlett-Packard's new CEO, Meg Whitman, has had exactly five months to survey the damage her venerable 73-year-old IT company has sustained in the last...
Microsoft’s Bing Introduces Linked Pages for Users
Microsoft has introduced a way to make people stand out more clearly on Bing, its search engine.A new Linked Pages feature lets users associate...
Obama Weighs In on Privacy
Obama Weighs In on Privacy
The Obama Administration introduced a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which provides a "baseline of clear protections for consumers and...
White House Releases Online Privacy Bill of Rights
The White House has proposed a "bill of rights" to protect consumer privacy online. The framework that President Obama is advocating allows users to...
T-Mobile LTE Rollout Benefits from Failed ATandT Deal
T-Mobile is about to get an LTE makeover.T-Mobile USA CEO Philipp Humm says there are plans to spend $4 billion on a "network modernization"...
Apple iPad 2 ($499)
Apple iPad 2 ($499)
Still the best tablet out there (until the iPad 3's likely March debut), the iPad 2 keeps you stylishly connected to...
Microsoft ‘Visual Studio 11’ and .NET 4.5 Betas Set for Feb. 29
Microsoft announced that it will deliver beta versions of Visual Studio 11 and the .NET Framework 4.5 on Feb. 29.In a sneak peek with...
Google Policy Changes Flout Consumer Privacy, Say AGs
Roughly three dozen state attorneys general have written a letter to Google expressing concern over the search engine company's plans to distill 60 product...
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Hands-On: Same Experience on Steroids
Research In Motions BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 is a fairly extensive upgrade to the PlayBooks software, but the resulting user experience isnt radically different...