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  • 12 August 2011

  • News: Firefox 8 to block unapproved add-ons

    Starting with Firefox 8, Mozilla will automatically block browser add-ons installed by other software until users approve them, a company product manager announced yesterday.

  • News: Twenty Third Century Systems launched in Kenya

    Kenya's Seven Seas Technologies, has unveiled a joint investment partnership with Zimbabwe's Twenty Third Century Systems (TTCS) to spearhead the rollout of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions in East Africa. Announcing their joint venture this morning at the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi, the two campanies stated that the joint firm will be trading under the brand name Twenty Third Century Systems Kenya (TTCSK).

  • News: Essex teen charged with using BBM to encourage rioting

    An Essex teenager has become one of the first to be charged for using BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) to encourage others to take part in the London riots.

  • News: Security researchers give BlackBerry PlayBook pass mark

    The QNX operating system that will power future BlackBerry devices has been given a cagey thumbs up by penetration testers commissioned to probe for weaknesses in its design.

  • Opinion: Leaked Android Ice Cream Sandwich OS Photos

    There is now slightly less mystery around the next version of Android for smartphones, Ice Cream Sandwich, which Google first announced in May. The update has been pictured in a few alleged screenshots leaked by RootzWiki and the Android Police blog this week.

  • News: Riot suspect photos posted online by police across the UK

    Police forces across the UK – including in Birmingham, Manchester and London – are shifting their riot investigation tactics, posting large numbers of images of suspected rioters online.

  • News: Altaro ships Hyper-V backup solution for SMBs

    Altaro Software has started shipping Hyper-V Backup, a product designed to make it easier for small and medium-size companies to protect the data on their virtual servers.

  • Photogram creates iPhone photo montages

    There must be a thousand ways you can send pictures from your iPhone to your friends and family, so I am always looking for new ways to do so. Hey, snapping a picture and uploading to Facebook is, well, so amateur.

  • 11 August 2011

  • News: Autodesk gives new tools to 3D and VFX tools subscribers

    Autodesk has released packs of new features for its 3D and VFX tools that are only available to customers on the company's Subscription plans.

  • News: Standard Life banks on online investment to drive growth

    Standard Life (LSE:SL) has said technology supporting its growing online presence is a “key enabler” in its bid to launch financial products faster, increase their scale and profitability.

  • News: Oracle to hire 1,700 staff in Europe

    Oracle is hiring 1,700 new staff across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, advertising many of the jobs on Twitter and Facebook.

  • News: DVD-streaming service Zediva pauses following court's ruling

    When Macworld first reviewed Zediva, we cheered its innovative approach—streaming actual DVDs via DVD players that the viewer controls—but worried about how the movie studios would react to Zediva’s clever but controversial take on the law. Unsurprisingly, the answer was “not well”: On Thursday, the company informed subscribers that the service will now take an unplanned, court-mandated hiatus.

  • News: Investors Believe Nintendo Should Develop for Smartphones

    Nintendo titles on iOS and Android devices? It might not be such a terrible idea -- and investors certainly seem to agree.

  • Opinion: Cleaning Malware: Slave Drive or Bootable CD?

    Kent knows that you can better scan and clean an infected PC's hard drive by not booting from it. He asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if it's better to boot from a Linux CD and run security software from that, or to remove the hard drive, and attach it as a secondary drive to another computer.

  • Opinion: Foxit Reader Opens Your PDFs Fast

    Foxit Reader is a fast, free, lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader for opening and displaying PDF files. It's also feature-packed, though it lacks the print-to-PDF and conversion capabilities of fellow freebie Nitro PDF Reader.

  • Opinion: Forget fancy formatting: Why plain text is best

    Looking back through my old files, I'm amazed to see how many word processors I’ve used over the years. I’ve got document files in formats ranging from MacWrite to Pages and everything in between. The problem is, a lot of those old files are useless to me now: None of my current word processors can read them. That’s a shame; some of those old words were pretty good.

  • News: Gartner: Smartphones boom, overall mobile sales drop

    Mobile phone sales floundered during the second quarter, in the wake of the earthquake in Japan. But smartphone sales continued to grow, as Android extended its lead in the operating system race, according to market research company Gartner.

  • Feature: PC Advisor's top five Tweets of the week – 11th August 2011

    The London riots may have been the main topic on conversation on Twitter this week, but even they had a tech angle that got web users voicing their opinions. Here's our five favourite tweets of the week.

  • News: CloudSwing allows you to assemble open-source cloud stacks

    Developers and enterprise IT shops will soon have another option for PaaS (platform as a service) in the form of CloudSwing, an upcoming offering from OpenLogic that builds on its core business of providing technical support for open-source software.

  • News: Verizon readying new VCast Apps store

    Verizon Wireless will introduce a new version of its VCast Apps store to developers at its Verizon Developer Conference in September, improving the experience for both app creators and consumers, an executive said Wednesday.

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