Software

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    TrustPort Antivirus 2013 Review

    TrustPort Antivirus 2013 installed easily even on malware-infested systems, and its scan didn’t do any collateral damage. However, it just wasn’t that effective at rooting out existing malware. Don’t install it...

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    Google Checkout Shutting Down in November

    Google’s spring cleaning continues with this week’s announcement that Google Checkout will be retired in the fall to make way for Google Wallet. Checkout merchants can continue to accept payments until...

  • Amazon Web Services Receives FedRAMP Authorization

    Amazon Web Services this week received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) certification, allowing the company to lower the cost of its cloud services for U.S. government agencies. The mandatory...

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    Corel WinDVD Pro 11 Review

    WinDVD improves the quality of DVD playback, but it doesn’t support enough configurations for playing Blu-ray discs. (2.5 out of 5) Pros DVD upscaling Web video search Support all important video...

  • Yahoo Overhauls Flickr; Sony Unveils PS4 Video; Teen’s 20-Second Phone Charger

    Yahoo was the talk of the tech world on Monday after acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion and unveiling a revamped version of its Flickr photo-sharing site. Yahoo ditched the old Flickr...

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    YouTube Comedy Week, Day 1: What’s Funny?

    We’re well into the first 36 hours of YouTube’s first official Comedy Week. It kicked off Sunday with the Big Live Comedy Show which, as the name suggests, ran live. As...

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    Yahoo Overhauls Flickr, Provides All Users With 1TB Free Storage

    Yahoo on Monday unveiled a revamped version of its Flickr photo-sharing site, a new Android app, and announced that it will provide every Flickr user with 1 terabyte of free storage....

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    Use Dictation to Control your Mac with Mountain Lion

    Wouldn’t it be good if, instead of having to type out anything and everything that you need to write, you could simply talk to your Mac and have it do the...

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    Google Voice Support Coming to Hangouts ‘Soon’

    Google today confirmed that it is working to allow outbound Google Voice calls within its new Hangouts experience on Gmail and Chrome, but at this point, the service only supports inbound...

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    Pinterest Teams With Brands for ‘More Useful’ Pins

    Pinterest is about more than photos of your favorite hairstyles and new exercise regimes. The social corkboard today launched a new branding function for products, recipes, and movies. Pinterest partnered with...

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    WiFi Site Survey by WiTuners (Android) Review

    With the ability to load floor maps, view heatmaps and import and export data –€” WiFi Site Survey by WiTuners is a smart app that obviously represents a lot of hard...

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    inSSIDer for Office Review

    inSSIDer for Office is a Wi-Fi network discovery tool that has the functionality of the free inSSIDer version for home, but targeted more at IT and networking professionals, with added (and...

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    Tiki-Toki Review

    Timeline creator Tiki-Toki is not without its idiosyncrasies; however, it makes up for them by creating attractive, media-rich, Web-based timelines. (3 out of 5) Pros Stylish timelines support Web video and...

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    Doo (for Mac) Review

    In the crowded space of document management, upstart Mac app doo trades folders for tags and elegantly interoperates with online repositories. (4 out of 5) Editor’s Choice Pros Innovative tag-based organizational...

  • Online Food Delivery Services Seamless, GrubHub Merge

    It’s a match made in deliciousness. Seamless and GrubHub, two of the top online food delivery services in the U.S., are joining forces. The former rivals on Monday announced plans to...

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    Expect Yahoo Ads on Tumblr Feeds, Memes on Yahoo.com

    With its $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition, Yahoo has pledged to keep the blogging site alive, though Tumblr users might eventually see Yahoo ads in their blog feeds, and Yahoo users could...

  • YouTube Celebrates 8th Birthday

    YouTube is growing up fast — the Google-owned video site today commemorates eight years of sneezing pandas and 8-bit flying cats. The website, acquired by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion,...

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    Yahoo Buys Tumblr for $1.1B, Promises ‘Not to Screw It Up’

    After a weekend of rumors, Yahoo this morning confirmed its purchase of blogging site Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Tumblr will continue to operate as a separate business with David Karp remaining...

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    Get Organized: 5 Tips for Evernote

    I’ve just returned after being on the road for work for nearly two weeks, collecting mobile phone data for our annual Fastest Mobile Networks project, and covering the Google I/O developer...

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    How Paid YouTube Channels Could Kill Cable TV

    When I travel around the world, the local TV channels are often limited. This used to be especially true in the United Kingdom, where I could only watch four or five...