AppUp, Intel’s own version of an app store for Windows XP/Windows 7 and MeeGo/Moblin netbooks, is finally out of beta and has gone Gold. AppUp is a portal, a centralized catalog of applications that can be bought or downloaded to the users’ netbook or other device. The software applications found in the store are organized [...]
Intel made a lot of jaws drop when they announced that they plan to buy security software giant McAfee. The move, estimated at over $7.6 billion will transform McAfee in a subsidiary of Intel, who plans to strengthen its mobile strategy. The company also plans to extend and enhance the security offerings, bringing not only [...]
Social gaming is one of the rising stars of the online business, and an unexpected one: who would have thought that online farms and mafia simulators would have such a great potential? But they have, as proven by the acquisitions made by bigger companies lately: Electronic Arts has taken over Playfish last winter, Disney has [...]
Best Buy puts the “personal” in personal computing with the launch of Software Installer, a connected desktop application to help consumers customize their new or upgrade their existing PCs and netbooks with the latest content, software and service solutions. Bringing together diverse offerings from leading software and service providers, Software Installer is now available via [...]
Nero Move it Now Includes NVIDIA GeForce GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding for Faster Performance, Faster File Transfers, and Decreased CPU Usage NVIDIA announced that NERO has released an update to its Nero Move it software that reduces video encoding time by up to five times by utilizing NVIDIA’s CUDA computing architecture built inside select NVIDIA Graphics [...]
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for Conficker arrest and conviction. Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership with technology industry leaders and academia to implement a coordinated, global response to the Conficker (aka Downadup) worm. Together with security researchers, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and operators within the Domain Name System, Microsoft coordinated a response [...]