Upgrade to Windows 8 and you may be surprised to find that you can no longer play video DVDs. Unlike previous versions of Windows, Windows 8 doesn’t include built-in support for playing DVDs. Microsoft opted not to include DVD support because so many new computers – especially tablets and ultrabooks – aren’t coming with DVD [...]
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Oct
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Google’s Chromebook hadn’t been on my radar, I confess. The first models from Samsung and Acer were so meh. And Google seemed content to quietly market them exclusively to K-12 schools. But the ARM-based Samsung Chromebook has my full attention. Hello, my $249 gorgeous… That caused me to belatedly examine all of the progress the Chromebook [...]
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Oct
20
Every step you make….Every breath you take…I’ll be watching you… Verizon Wireless has begun selling information about its customers’ geographical locations, app usage, and Web browsing activities, a move that raises privacy questions and could brush up against federal wiretapping law. The company this month began offering reports to marketers showing what Verizon subscribers are [...]
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Oct
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The FBI‘s Internet Crime Complaint Center is warning smartphone users of malware that targets Android operating systems. “Loozon” and “FinFisher” are the latest known versions of this type of malware, according to the IC3, which investigates Internet-related criminal complaints. The organization is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Nation White Collar [...]
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Oct
12
Technology offers so many opportunities to help improve users’ lives. This means it is really important to focus or we end up doing too much with too little impact. So today we’re winding down a bunch more features—bringing the total to nearly 60 since we started our “spring” clean last fall. AdSense for Feeds was [...]
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