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Advocates call for legal protections for copyright consumers
The U.S. Congress should consider a "safe harbor" from legal action for consumers using works protected by copyright as it launches a long-term effort to revamp copyright law, some advocates said Thursday. Consumers should be protected from lawsuits when they use digital works they've legally purchased, Jule Sigall,...
pcworld.com (5 days ago)
Jive Software adds integration tool for its enterprise social platform
Jive Software has released an add-on to its enterprise social networking (ESN) software that automates and simplifies the process of integrating Jive's suite with third-party systems. The add-on is based on technology Jive acquired when it bought a company called StreamOnce. At launch, the StreamOnce add-on links...
pcworld.com (5 days ago)
Swedish data center saves $1 million a year using seawater for cooling
A data center in Sweden has cut its energy bills by a million dollars a year using seawater to cool its servers, though jellyfish are an occasional hazard. Interxion, a collocation company in the Netherlands that rents data center space in 11 countries, uses water pumped from the Baltic Sea to cool the IT equipment...
pcworld.com (5 days ago)
New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8
We've seen several Linux tablets emerge over the past year or so, but examples with triple-boot capabilities are much less common. Enter the Python S3, a tablet released on Monday by Italian Ekoore that can boot three operating systems: Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8. “The Python series was born with the...
pcworld.com (5 days ago)
Samsung Link to replace AllShare Play multimedia-sharing app
Samsung's AllShare Play application, which allows file sharing among the company's mobile devices, has been renamed Link, and it has a new user interface and search features. The Link app will replace the existing AllShare Play app on Samsung smartphones and tablets. Users will get a pop-up on their Samsung device...
pcworld.com (5 days ago)
Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass
While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking companies including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr now want a piece of the action, by offering social applications on the device. Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr have...
pcworld.com (5 days ago)
Google eases Android app development with a new IDE
Google has introduced an IDE (integrated developer environment) aimed at easing development of Android apps. Android Studio made its debut Wednesday at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. Android developers could use the Android Development Tools (ADT) plug-in for the Eclipse IDE, but Android Studio will be...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Four former LulzSec members sentenced to prison in the UK
Four British men associated with the LulzSec hacker collective received prison sentences Thursday for their roles in cyberattacks launched by the group against corporate and government websites in 2011. Ryan Cleary, 21, Jake Davis, 20, Ryan Ackroyd, 26, and Mustafa Al-Bassam, 18, were sentenced Thursday in London's...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Intel's Krzanich pledges stronger mobile push in his first speech as CEO
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich admitted Thursday in his first speech in that role that the company has been weak in smartphones and tablets, but aims to improve by advancing chip and manufacturing technologies. Intel's main focus is to produce more power-efficient chips, as it also adds features for connectivity and...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Windows 8 won't hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says
Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft's operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company's history, will not achieve enough adoption in enterprises to be considered a standard, according to Forrester Research. By the time the next major Windows upgrade is...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Steam’s virtual trading cards award prizes for your time well wasted
Well, this is interesting. While the rest of the world was ogling over what’s coming down the pipe from Google, Steam introduced collectible virtual trading cards that you can earn by playing games, and trade in for bragging rights and prizes. Sound odd? Sure, but it’s also rather neat. Steam Trading Cards are...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Google Releasing a Samsung Galaxy S4 with Stock Android OS
Exciting news for Android and Google lovers came out of the annual Google I/O developers conference yesterday. The keynote speech from CEO Larry Page, which lasted more than 3 hours, announced a new variant on the Samsung Galaxy S4. The new Google version of the popular smartphone will run on a stock Android...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet
E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet. Topping NetChoice's latest iAWFUL (Internet Advocates' Watchlist for Ugly Laws) list are a number of California proposals aimed at...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Hands on: New Google Maps make maps interesting again
We may not have a new version of Android to drool over, but at least we've got more feature-filled, better-looking maps. At its Google I/O keynote Wednesday morning, Google announced an enhanced version of its popular Google Maps service. The demos shown on stage drew some applause out of the otherwise listless...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Swedish domain admin comes out against Piratebay.se seizure
Swedish top-level domain administrator .SE has to its surprise become directly involved in the local Prosecution Authority's court case to seize thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se, but it hopes to explain to the court that forcing domain names off the Internet does not help. The Swedish Prosecution Authority battle...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
First Trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins Released
Batman takes on Deathstroke for new trailer.
pastemagazine.com (6 days ago)
Review: MarkdownPad makes composing Markdown even easier than usual
HTML is the lingua franca of the Web. If you publish anything online, that's the format your text will end up in. But while easy for browsers to render, HTML isn't always easy (or fun) to compose. Some content management systems, like Wordpress, solve this problem by offering a WYSIWYG editor that lets you edit...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Pushdo botnet is evolving, becomes more resilient to takedown attempts
Security researchers from Damballa have found a new variant of the Pushdo malware that's better at hiding its malicious network traffic and is more resilient to coordinated takedown efforts. The Pushdo Trojan program dates back to early 2007 and is used to distribute other malware threats, like Zeus and SpyEye. It...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Why some Web sites are much slower than others
John asked why one Web page "comes up right away, while another takes quite a long time to load." You can't set a clock by your Internet download speed. A great many factors make one page faster than another. And a great many other factors can make the same page fast one day (or hour) and slow the next. Most of...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
How to make the power button shut down your Windows 8 system
A few days ago I showed you how to create a Windows 8 shutdown tile, the idea being to circumvent the ridiculous hoops Microsoft makes you jump through just to turn off your computer. Some would argue that doing so is an antiquated idea. After all, Windows 7 and 8 don't need regular reboots to continue running...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
German case on embedding YouTube videos referred to EU court
Embedded YouTube videos don't infringe copyright under current German law, but they could violate European rules, the German Federal Court of Justice said on Thursday. The court said that it has referred a case about YouTube embeds to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg for an opinion,...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Spiceworks' free management software gets integrated MDM
Spiceworks has teamed up with Fiberlink to add mobile device management functionality to the next version of its free network and IT management software. As the BYOD (bring-your-own-device) trend accelerates, IT departments are seeking ways to remain in control while letting employees use their own smartphones or...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Japan warns solar flares could harm GPS, satellites, power lines
A Japanese government institute has warned that satellite transmissions, GPS readings, and power lines could be affected over the next two weeks if a recent spate of solar flares continues. Four large solar flares have been detected over the last few days, including one on Tuesday that was the largest of the year....
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost
Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables. DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that, like Amazon’s other cloud services, promises to offload administration tasks while allowing enterprises to scale easily...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Dell aims to cut desktop reliance with workstation for data centers
Dell intends to move workstations into the data center and then serve up intense multimedia and engineering applications to remote users over the cloud or in virtualized environments via thin clients. To that end, the PC maker Thursday introduced the Precision R7610 workstation, which is designed like a 2U rack...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Toshiba Kirabook review: The first Ultrabook with a higher-than-HD touchscreen
Toshiba's luxurious Kirabook is the first Windows laptop to feature a display rivaling Apple’s Retina technology. The Kirabook is also thinner and much lighter than Apple’s MacBook Pro, and it’s outfitted with a touchscreen. But although I wish I could report that Toshiba has crafted a masterpiece that fully...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine Review (Multi-Platform)
The problem with collapsing a genre and then writing a game around the tropes is that you end up with a game that is solely tropes.
pastemagazine.com (6 days ago)
German online copyright law to take effect in August
A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into effect on Aug. 1. The law was published in Germany's Federal Law Gazette (Bundesgesetzblatt) on Tuesday. After a law is published in the gazette, it will come into...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
Copyright owners denied class status in YouTube suit
A federal court in New York has denied class certification to copyright owners in an infringement lawsuit against YouTube over unauthorized hosting of content, stating that copyright claims have only superficial similarities. Judge Louis L. Stanton of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York had...
pcworld.com (6 days ago)
