Google turns 10, what next?

Most computer industry companies would feel satisfied with ruling the highly lucrative and technically complex search engine advertising market — but not Google.

As the search giant celebrates its 10th anniversary of incorporation this month, riding a years-long bonanza from its search business, it is also a scrappy underdog with lofty aspirations in the world of software for workplaces.

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Google launches internet browser - chrome

Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.

Called Chrome, it will launch as a beta for Windows machines in 100 countries, with Mac and Linux versions to come. Read more

PayPal users lose their money

PAYPAL Australia has been accused of reneging on a public commitment to repay all customers affected by the collapse of a major eBay seller.

Thousands of people were caught when EBS International, which traded on eBay as Ebusiness Supplies, went into liquidation in late July. Read more

Saving yourself from Identity Theft

Identity theft has been a federal offense since 1998. But are we getting any better at dealing with it? Actually, we are. The number of victims and the amount defrauded is down and, most important, it takes less time to clean up the mess. According to a Javelin Strategy & Research survey, as reported by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the number of identity theft victims per year in the U.S. fell by nearly 2 million from 2003 (10.1 million) to 2007 (8.4 million); and the mean time required to undo the damage in each instance was down from 40 hours in 2006 to 25 in 2007. Read more

How to Build an all-in-one Media Center PC for your personal home theater.

Most home entertainment setups consist of a bunch of devices that let you view (LCD, plasma TV), play (Blu-ray), store (TiVo, DVR), stream (Apple TV), and interact (Xbox 360, PS3) with rich HD content, but none of them on their own can match the sheer feature power of a home-theater PC (HTPC). An HTPC can do all these things, and more. It’s your home’s central hub for storing, distributing, and enjoying all types of digital content including pictures, videos, music, and movies. Read more

BlackBerry Bold 900 Review

At 4.5 by 2.6 by 0.6 inches (HWD), the 4.8-ounce device with metal accents and a leather back feels thick and solid in your hand. It’s longer and wider than the BlackBerry Curve, and a little broader than the iPhone 3G. The Bold feels a full pay grade above the Curve, and if the iPhone is a sporty Mini Cooper, this device is a Rolls-Royce. Read more

HP Compaq Presario SR5610F Review

The HP Compaq Presario SR5610F is part of the HP’s Compaq Presario SR line of budget-price PCs. Like most SR models, the SR5610F is a no-frills model that costs less than $500. Its capable handling of basic daily computing tasks (Web browsing, archiving CDs, e-mailing, standard office productivity) can make for a decent student PC or second home computer. Read more

Warez software pirate sentenced to probation

U.S. federal authorities sentenced a prolific illegal trader of software to three years of probation on Thursday, according to the Department of Justice.

Robert Hardick of Gretzville, New York, could have faced up to five years in prison had he gone to trial. Instead, he agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy in U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in exchange for a lighter sentence.

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IBM flash memory breaks 1 million IOPS barrier

IBM research project delivers flash storage data transfer speeds that are two and a half times faster than the industry’s fastest disk storage

IBM has claimed a major breakthrough in flash storage, with a research project that’s delivering data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second, two and a half times faster than the industry’s fastest disk storage. Read more

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