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Cisco Systems has guide a footstep back from its Cisco Connect Cloud service , removing it as the default option setting for management of its Linksys EA Series Wi - Fi routers aftera firestorm of complaintsfrom customers about automatic firmware update and the avail ’s terms of service of process . The default method acting for managing the high - ending Linksys routers has been changed to traditional apparatus and management over the local web , Cisco say in ablog entryposted on Thursday ....

With this week ’s quiet annunciation thatiGoogle will be retired next year , one matter has become clear : How Google perceive its products and how I use them are sometimes two entirely unlike thing . For Google , it ’s clear that iGoogle — a individualized dashboard , and confessedly a end of the years of Internet portal vein — is little more than an app manner of speaking system , one that ’s been give the sack over clock time by the rise of theChrome Web Storefor screen background computers and theGoogle Playservice for mobile user ....

In this corner , weigh in at 50 million users , and five years ’ development under its whang , the filer from Manila - er , the forest that calculate all its tree , the synchronized , syncopated master of all it shares , Droooooopbox ! And , in this corner , the Mountain Viewmaster , the original 800 - pound gorilla , the only thing that frighten away Steve Ballmer while he sleeps , a goliath among search locomotive engine , Goooooooglllleee !...

Our Verdict Apple’snewPodcastsapp is a welcome step to contribute attention to audio and TV podcasts that were antecedently swallow in the Music app . But while it has some good thing going for it , it ’s a step that ’s not yet fully realized . Procuring podcasts My colleague , Dan Moren , has written an admirablefirst look at the Podcasts app , so I need n’t go into extensive detail on how it works ....

The sun is setting on the MobileMe era . By the time Sunday rolls around — on June 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time to be precise — the cloud entrepot and syncing service that Apple debuted in 2008 will fade forth . You ’ve been warned — and if you ’re a MobileMe endorser , you ’ve been admonish repeatedly over the past month — that whatever preparations you want to make for this outcome have now come due ....

One of the in force things about Apple ’s annual developer league is the chance to contact up with software makers doing interesting things on the Mac and iOS platforms . We verbalise with one of those developers , Jochem Wijnands , in this episode of the Macworld Podcast . Wijnands is the co - founding publisher of TRVL , an iPad - only travel cartridge that ’s grown impressively since its entry on the App Store in 2010 ....

As Google ramps up for its large I / O group discussion in San Francisco this calendar week , analyst say the company must go on to prove the value of its Android operating system to developers . Google necessitate to make Android more sympathetic to developer and stickier for consumer , analysts said . As part of that challenge , it will have to exhibit that the OS can be successful on pad of paper , which it has not been to date ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict As I do work on this recap and reacquaint myself withNisus Writer Pro , again and again I write a eminence about something I think Nisus Writer Pro could n’t do , and again and again I discover that I was wrong . Here ’s the executive summary : Nisus Writer Pro is a word processing power putz . This power does want a bit of effort to master , but compared toMicrosoft Word ( ) , Nisus Writer Pro is remarkably user friendly ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons The redesign 2012 model of theAirPort ExpressWi - Fi base station has become the mouse that roar . The revisions transform this simulation into a tiny powerhouse by adding to its previous small attributes a second ethernet embrasure , simultaneous dual - band Wi - Fi , and a guest net option all in a form constituent indistinguishable to the Apple TV ( except white-hot and an apothecaries' ounce lighter ) ....

Welcome , Microsoft Surface ! Well , not reallywelcome , since it does n’t come out for months . More like “ Please take on this promise of being welcome some time in the future ! ” for sure this will bring nothing but disaster for Apple product , from the iPad to the MacBook Air to iPod Socks . But competition is good ! So is option ! What ’s not good is some of this analysis ....

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict With all the excitement surrounding the debut of Apple ’s pioneeringRetina MacBook Pros , it ’s well-fixed to overlook that the company also upgraded the rest period of itspro laptop computer lineup . In addition to the Retina MacBook Pro — the justifiable new criterion against which Apple ’s other laptops ( indeed all laptops ) will now be judge — the company has also updated a pair of 13 - in and a distich of 15 - inch non - RetinaMacBook Pros ....

Listen up , iPad owners ! Katherine Noyes state your favorite pad of paper is getting a pink miscue ! “ Android Tablets Beating Out iPad in Business and IT : Report ” Oh , no ! Our iGod has iFailed us ! Once again we see that there is nothing we can possess that Open Source software can not take out ! curse YOU , ANDROOOOOOOOOID ! Well … uh … should we bother clicking through to the survey to see what it really says ?...

Many of us are doing more and more of our Internet white plague — read websites , RSS feeds , Twitter , Facebook , and more — on wandering devices . It ’s often more convenient than using your desktop computer , because you have your iPhone , iPad , iPod contact , or laptop with you when you ’re out and about ( or even just when sitting on the lounge ) ....