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Deals on Desktop PC – If youve recently purchased a computer, or are just learningabout using email and the internet, you may have heard aboutcomputer viruses and anti-virus software. You may be wonderingif this is something that you should be concerned about, and ifso, what you should do about it. This article will attempt toanswer these questions for you.First, you may be wondering just what a computer virus is.Basically a computer virus is one of many types of smallprograms that install themselves on your computer… Continue reading Why Do I Need Anti Virus Software For My Computer? →

In time for next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony is launching a new generation in memory cards. Called XQD, they will initially come in 16 and 32 GB sizes, and feature data transfer rates of 1Gbps/125MB/s. Nikon is also announcing a new flagship camera in its digital single-lens reflex line, the first camera to use the new memory cards. The target market for the new cards is the advanced photographer who deals with huge image files in RAW format. Fast write speeds mean shooters have less waiting between shots in memory-heavy formats such as RAW, and can edit previously recorded material faster. In compatible DSLR cameras, such as the new Nikon, shooters can capture as many as 100 RAW images in continuous shooting mode, without pausing. ‘Entirely New Meaning’ Viviano Cantu, director of consumer media for Sony Electronics, said in a statement that, while “memory card technology has done a great job of keeping pace,” the new cards “give an entirely new meaning to speed and performance.” The XQD memory card spec, announced in November and recently approved by the CompactFlash Association as an open format, requires the PCIe expansion card standard for serial interfaces and an optimized controller in order to take advantage of the speed. Along with the card, Sony is introducing a new USB 2.0/3.0 compatible XQD card reader. An XQD ExpressCard Adapter is available for computers with an ExpressCard 34 card slot. The memory cards will be on sale in February, at $130 for the 16 GB and $230 for the 32 GB. The new format was adopted by the CompactFlash Association in December, and is about 75 percent the physical size of current CompactFlash cards. While CompactFlash cards are based on the older PCMCIA standard, XQD are built around PCI Express. Sony said that capacities and transfer speeds substantially… Continue reading Sony Offers New Superfast Memory Cards; Nikon Has Camera for Them →

In time for next week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Sony is launching a new generation in memory cards. Called XQD, they will initially come in 16 and 32 GB sizes, and feature data transfer rates of 1Gbps/125MB/s. Nikon is also announcing a new flagship camera in its digital single-lens reflex line, the first camera to use the new memory cards. The target market for the new cards is the advanced photographer who deals with huge image files in RAW format. Fast write speeds mean shooters have less waiting between shots in memory-heavy formats such as RAW, and can edit previously recorded material faster. In compatible DSLR cameras, such as the new Nikon, shooters can capture as many as 100 RAW images in continuous shooting mode, without pausing. ‘Entirely New Meaning’ Viviano Cantu, director of consumer media for Sony Electronics, said in a statement that, while “memory card technology has done a great job of keeping pace,” the new cards “give an entirely new meaning to speed and performance.” The XQD memory card spec, announced in November and recently approved by the CompactFlash Association as an open format, requires the PCIe expansion card standard for serial interfaces and an optimized controller in order to take advantage of the speed. Along with the card, Sony is introducing a new USB 2.0/3.0 compatible XQD card reader. An XQD ExpressCard Adapter is available for computers with an ExpressCard 34 card slot. The memory cards will be on sale in February, at $130 for the 16 GB and $230 for the 32 GB. The new format was adopted by the CompactFlash Association in December, and is about 75 percent the physical size of current CompactFlash cards. While CompactFlash cards are based on the older PCMCIA standard, XQD are built around PCI Express. Sony said that capacities and transfer speeds substantially… Continue reading Sony Offers New Superfast Memory Cards; Nikon Has Camera for Them →

Symantec is working to soften the revelation that a segment of its source code for Norton products was stolen in a security breach. But is it enough to convince customers that Symantec is holding its security secrets tight to its chest? An Indian hacking group is claiming that it got its hands on source code used in the Norton anti-virus program. Known as the Lords of Dharmaraja, the group is making threats to take the source code public, potentially giving a black eye to the security industry leader. Yama Tough, a hacker in Mumbai, is serving as spokesman for the Lords of Dharmaraja. He claims the group obtained the source code from less-than-bulletproof Indian government servers. Hackers Speak Out “As of now we start sharing with all our brothers and followers information from the Indian Military Intelligence servers, so far we have discovered within the Indian Spy Programme source codes of a dozen software companies which have signed agreements with Indian TANCS programme and CBI,” the group said in a statement on its Google+ page. “Now we release confidential documentation we encountered of Symantec corporation and its Norton AntiVirus source code which we are going to publish later on, we are working out mirrors as of now since we experience extreme pressure and censorship from U.S. and India government agencies.” Symantec Answers Back Cris Paden, a senior manager for Symantec’s corporate communications, said the drama began on Wednesday. That’s when a local chapter of Anonymous from India claimed in an online forum they possessed source code for Symantec’s Norton Antivirus solutions. “Symantec’s Information Security team investigated the claims and found that instead they possessed documentation from 1999 describing how Norton Antivirus worked, but no source code was included. Hence, the claim was false,” Paden said. However, he added, on Thursday morning, the same chapter announced they… Continue reading Symantec Softpedals Indian Source Code Theft →

As in the national debate over the economy, the mobile world, it seems, also has a “1 percent.” But rather than hogging all the wealth, this 1 percent hogs data. A new study by Arieso, a London-based firm that provides network management software solutions, suggests that just 1 percent of mobile Internet users are hogging a whopping 50 percent of all the data surging through wireless connections. And with an “explosive” growth in mobile data demand, Apple’s newest iPhone model, the 4S, not surprisingly has the hungriest users. Comparing data usage across a variety of smartphones and connected devices, Arieso found that 4S users demand three times as much data as iPhone 3G users and twice as much as iPhone 4 users, the most demanding lot in last year’s study. The data-heavy Siri voice-command-operated data assistant is a primary feature of the 4S, and soon after its release Apple’s server for the system briefly crashed. 3G Benchmark Arieso used the usage level of iPhone 3G as a “normalized benchmark” by which to compare other smartphones. The other top smartphones for data hogs are HTC and Google’s Nexus One, Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10i and HTC’s Desire. Michael Flanagan, CTO of Arieso and author of the study, said the data was gathered from network operators in a European city and its suburbs. But he said “many parts of the study are illustrative results, no matter what country you are in.” In a phone interview from London, Flanagan said it was impossible to determine precisely how those data hogs are using their phones because the information is collected through billable data meters, not from application usage. “However,” he said, “we can speculate based on other work we do that this very much falls into two categories of known devices: 3G data card or dongle-type plug-in laptop users, which are… Continue reading 1 Percent of Mobile Users Hog 50 Percent of Capacity →