NEW YORK — McAfee top executives went on the offensive Monday against Microsoft , saying Vista will be even less inviolable for customers than former versions of Windows . “ We are disturb by the fact that with Vista , end customer will be less untroubled , ” Samenuk said . “ Customers trust us … To erode that trust would hurt all Internet drug user , all microcomputer users ....
A smart phone pass Microsoft ’s Windows Mobile operating organization can put up feature lay out from edit Microsoft Office document to observe tv set . But when it comes to managing your calendar and store inter-group communication , the smart speech sound turns out to be pretty dumb : you ’re stuck with entering data on the earpiece ’s computer keyboard , because Windows Mobile wo n’t utter to your Mac ....
Wireless networking has been in the news a flake lately — as in , how secure is it on the Mac , and how will I be capable to apply it to pelt multimedia system in the near future ? So there ’s no better prison term than to turn the Macworld Podcast over to Glenn Fleishman , a frequent Macworld contributor and wireless networking expert . Glenn and I begin with a discussion of the recent uproar over alleged security vulnerability in Apple ’s MacBook wireless security driver ....
Although the U.S. Congress adjourned on Saturday without acting on lawmaking to censor pretexting in the wake of the scandal involve Hewlett - Packard ( HP ) , California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger sign a bill last Friday that forbids the pattern in the state . The California anti - pretexting natural law , Senate Bill 202 , goes into effect on Jan. 1 and will disallow telephone society from make personal telephone career records available to anyone other than the original caller ....
Many of the editor program around here have been less than enthusiastic about “ subscription ” music overhaul such asRhapsody . Our reasons let in , but are not limited to , the followers : once you discontinue pay the monthly fee , you lose the utilisation of any medicine you ’ve downloaded from the service ; you ’re limited in what you could do with that music ( for example , you ca n’t cut it to CD with most service ) ; many such services are n’t cross - weapons platform ; and because most of these service use Microsoft ’s DRM , you ’re trammel to using particular music - management software and a limited selection of portable media musician ....
In one telling import during the late Congressional hearings on the Hewlett - Packard board outrage , ousted chairwoman Patricia Dunn offered the “ everybody does it ” defence . Asked by one legislator about HP ’s hiring secret investigators who obtain phone records under sham make-believe , a pattern called pretexting , to identify who ’d leak confidential information , Dunn replied , “ I think these [ pretexting ] methods may be quite common at companies around the country ....
I ’m a geek , I let in it . I have an Xserve in my basement that I practice to screen out Mac OS X Server and other initiative - type software program . Sometimes , I say server manuals for fun . I ’ll fag for calendar week to get something to work , just to see if I can do it and then never utilize it again ....
If scriptwriting programs were cars , Mariner Software ’s Montage 1.0.2 would be a turbo Mercedes with GPS and a six - DVD changer — but no rearward power train . As decent as they ’ve made the interface — particularly how nonrational it is to voyage — in its current version Mariner has missed the bedrock of screenwriting , make this software an impractical option for master , and only marginally utile to wannabes ....
Media Center software package - maker SageTV says it is fetch two of its product to the Macintosh . The ship’s company ’s flagship medium shopping mall package , SageTV , will come early in the new class , while the distant take in computer software , Placeshifter , is expect sometime in the next calendar month or so . “ We ’ve received a lot of interest from Macintosh user asking us to contribute SageTV to the Mac , ” Mike Machado , SageTV CEO , enjoin Macworld ....
Dell has increased by 100,000 the number of laptop batteries it is recalling due to a potential fire hazard , while Toshiba order it would take part in Sony ’s voluntary barrage fire replacement program complain off Thursday . Fujitsu point that it was also considering a voluntary recall . Dell enjoin it received unexampled info that make it to increase its reminiscence to 4.2 million batteries from 4.1 million ....
Some thing in the Mac world are predictable , others not so much . Take the August result ofMacworld . Dan Frakes ’s monthlyMac Gemscolumn is one of our most popular regular features . So you did n’t have to be Jeane Dixon to predict that our August lineament , in which Frakes collected 82 of his all - clip preferent muffin , would be a big hit with reader ....
Kavasoft ’s Shoebox 1.6.1 is an excellent tool for cataloging heavy digital photo collecting . Its Pro version ( the one I critique ) seems a bit pricey , but Shoebox ’s ability to organise , lookup , and back up thousands of snapshots is truly impressive . Shoebox can incorporate picture from hard drives , tv camera retention card game , compact disc or DVDs , or from Canto Software’sCumulus , a digital asset direction service ....
FormerHewlett - PackardChairwoman Patricia Dunn was control that methods used by investigators to find the reservoir of leaks from the party ’s board of directors were sound , she told a U.S. Congress subcommittee Thursday . Dunn also say lawgiver she believed any investigative techniques used during the 2006 portion of the probe had to be approved by HP President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd . Hurd differentiate lawgiver he did not eff the methods of an inner HP squad investigating the plug-in leaks ....
