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Four hundred to zero in ten years Perhaps unbeknownst to most of humanity, a paid version of Google Earth has been available for the last ten years to anyone willing to fork out $399 per year. We say “unbeknownst to most of humanity” because that is one of the few possible reasons we can think…
The company has paid out over $4 million in bug bounties since the program’s inception Now into its fifth year, Google’s bug bounty program has already seen the search engine giant pay security researchers in excess of $4 million for identifying security vulnerabilities in its various products. And according to a recent post on the…
Built for small groups Logitech today announced its new ConferenceCam Connect, a portable all-in-one videoconferencing solution with a cylindrical design and flexible compatibility that slips in between the company’s entry-level BCC950 ($250) and high-end ConferenceCam CC3000e ($1,000). It works with any computing device with a USB port (PC, Mac, Chromebook) and plays nice with just…
Two batteries are better than one We love that laptops are getting slimmer, lighter, and overall more portable than ever before (have a look at Michael Dell introducing a new notebook 25 years ago), but if your work (or pleasure) takes you off the beaten path into some extreme environments, a thin and light machine…
Don’t expect a patch for WebView in pre-KitKat Android devices If you own an Android handset running a version of the open source operating system that predates Android 4.3 KitKat, you won’t be the recipient of a patch for WebView, a component of Android that developers use to display web content in their apps. WebView…
Top Deal: If you’re building a rig for Aunt Mabel for surfing the web and poking around Facebook, you’re probably not going to select a top end processor and multiple graphics cards. On the flip side, you don’t want to stick her with your 10-year old system that’s collecting dust in the basement — you…
Fast and slow rings receive January build simultaneously A couple of days after its much talked about “Windows 10: The Next Chapter” event and over two months after the last official preview release, Microsoft on Friday rolled out a new Windows 10 Technical Preview build to the Windows Insider Program. A lot has changed from…
Apple remains silent Having recently ruffled Microsoft’s feathers by (responsibly) disclosing three unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows to the general public, Google’s Project Zero team has now turned its attention to the other side of the PC-Mac divide. The outfit recently spilled the beans on three zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s OS X operating system. It is…
Tablets and laptops powered by 5th generation Intel Core processors Earlier this week, Fujitsu joined many other PC vendors around the world in announcing new mobile PC models built around 5th generation Intel Core processors. The Broadwell-powered models announced by the Japanese company include both tablets and notebooks, and they all mean business. These new…
A formal announcement is said to be imminent In February 2014, Google invited 34 cities across nine U.S. metro areas to work with it to “explore what it would take to bring them Google Fiber”. It was originally supposed to announce the names of the cities next in line for its Gigabit Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) service…