http://www.qc110.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:09:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en According to the Associated Press, the social network has officially disabled access to the popular online game, which closely resembles classic board game Scrabble, after receiving a complaint from Mattel, the company that publishes it outside the United States and Canada. Access within the U.S. and Canada had already been ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/09/04/another-nail-in-the-scrabulous-coffin/ Slick, powerful, and much more extensible than Microsoft Outlook ever dreamed of being. There was just one thing I hated about the Zimbra experience: the browser artifacts around the application that made me feel like I was stuck in a Web site, rather than living in an application that ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/zimbras-new-desktop-look-ma-no-browser/ Now that we're beyond the 2-megapixel era, I'd prefer better sensitivity over a couple extra megapixels. I find myself much more constrained by dim conditions or fast-moving subjects such as children and wildlife than by insufficient pixel quantity. I've blown up my 8-megapixel camera's images to 20x30-inch prints without trouble. ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/poll-megapixels-vs-camera-sensitivity/ It's been a slow week in Eee PC news--it's Friday and Crave has seen only one post thus far--so let us quickly share information from a report on DigiTimes today. According to the report, Asus expects to bring "whole-day" battery life and Internet storage to its Netbook by the end ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/report-asus-bringing-whole-day-battery-life-to/ (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks) Last week I posted a list of the features that I'd like to see in the new 3G iPhone. I also asked you what you'd like to see in the new version, and I got quite a few responses. Voice dialing was one of the most popular ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/what-you-want-in-the-3g-iphone/ In addition to a flurry of new PCs, HP also announced this week that it would, at long last, start shipping the HP iPaq 900 smartphone on June 30. First introduced back in September 2007, the iPaq 900 is a business- and messaging-centric smartphone with a full QWERTY keyboard; Windows ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/hp-ipaq-900-smartphone-to-finally-ship-june-30/ Check out our reviews of the pricey X300 and the sleek Macbook Air. Lenovo has taken a page straight from Apple's playbook. The parody of the Macbook Air commercial promoting the ThinkPad X300 ultramobile PC has an effect similar to Apple's series of ads with John Hodgman and Justin Long ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/lenovo-takes-a-page-from-the-steve-jobs-playbook/ Haute Secure is a free 32-bit or 64-bit download when used for home use; businesses will be charged to have their Web pages checked for malicious code. At the moment there is little technical support offered beyond a few FAQs and a users' forum. New Web threats today come not necessarily ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/haute-secure-blocks-web-threats/ An interesting note in Karnitschnig's report is that the talks Monday in the Valley were held with only senior executives of the companies and no investment bankers from either side. And while the Journal report notes that no other meetings between the companies have been scheduled since Microsoft gave its outline ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/microsoft-and-yahoo-sans-investment-bankers/ On offense, cyberwar might be better relegated to support roles, and then only "sparingly and precisely," according to the report. A one-shot strike to silence a surface-to-air missile system, allowing aircraft to penetrate defenses to destroy a nuclear facility, is the example given. A new RAND Corporation report suggests the ... http://www.qc110.com/2010/08/24/best-cyber-offense-is-a-good-defense-rand-report/