Microsoft Slashes Bing Data Retention to Six Months

The European Commission has pressured Microsoft into discarding user data after six months, a third of the time Bing currently keeps information. The change will be implemented over the next 18 months.

Posted on: January 19, 2010 9:00 am

Computer scammers solicit ‘donations’ for Haitian relief

People sending money intended for victims of the Haitian earthquake are instead sending money to scammers. One scam uses the name of the British Red Cross, while providing an “incorrect” address.

Posted on: January 19, 2010 9:00 am

ASUS Color E-Reader Moves Closer To Tablet Market

A color, touchscreen, tablet with a 122-hour battery life sounds like a dream, but that’s what ASUS is advertising for their DR-570 e-reader.

Posted on: January 18, 2010 9:00 am

Lenovo ThinkPad Edge

With a 13-inch screen, 1.3 GHz Core 2 Duo CPU and 4 GB of RAM, this machine has some respectable power. At under 4 pounds it’s easier to tote around. And the price is down there too.

Posted on: January 18, 2010 9:00 am

Skype Fixes Bugs in Upgraded iPhone Application

The bug that disconnected your calls when you got an SMS message or the low-battery notification on your iPhone has been fixed. Version 1.3 of Skype for the iPhone has been released to fix these problems and add some enhancements.

Posted on: January 18, 2010 9:00 am

SarcMark Seeks to End Email, Texting Confusion

Ever send a sarcastic message only to have it mis-understood? Now you can buy SarcMark to enable the addition of a special character to your texts.

Posted on: January 18, 2010 9:00 am

Facebook’s Automated Security Fails to Impress

Facebook has initiated a process they say will increase security on their site. However. In this article the author explains what he thinks is good, and not so good, about the security enhancement.

Posted on: January 15, 2010 9:00 am

Acer Ferrari One

Painted an appropriate shade of red, with the prancing horse logo on the top, this new notebook offers an 11.6-inch screen with a 1.2-GHz Athlon X2, 4 gigs of RAM and a ATI’s Radeon 3200 video card.

Posted on: January 15, 2010 9:00 am

Memeo connects Google Docs to the desktop

If an unreliable internet connection has you wondering whether Google Docs would be useful, Memeo has developed a tool to let Google Apps Premier customers synchronize their files between the desktop and the cloud.

Posted on: January 15, 2010 9:00 am

JavaScript Hack Enables Flash on iPhone

Gordon, a JavaScript runtime, will allow you to run .SWF files on your iPhone. And, because it works inside Safari, it isn’t subject to the rules of the App Store.

Posted on: January 15, 2010 9:00 am