Time Warner Cable Offers Free Wi-Fi for Customers in NYC

From DailyTech: Time Warner Cable has announced that it is offering its Road Runner high-speed internet customers in New York City access to Wi-Fi zones free of charge. The new zones are available for customers who are on the broadband service and offer unlimited usage in many areas...

Who Needs Flash? CBS Prepares HTML5 Player for iPad

From DailyTech: The good news for HTML5 advocates is that Apple's iPad for better or worse may finally push the format into the mainstream, which could eventually displace proprietary formats like Flash and Silverlight. The bad news is that Apple has pushed a version of HTML5 that...

IPhone Falls in Pwn2Own Hacking Contest

From PC World: A delayed flight didn't stop Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Weinmann from scoring a cool US$15,000, a brand-new iPhone and a trip to Las Vegas at the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest in Vancouver on Wednesday.

The security researchers developed an undisclosed attack on the...

Adobe Photoshop CS5 to Bring Stunning "Content-Aware" Smart Fill

From DailyTech: Adobe Creative Suite 5, the twelfth major release in the best-selling series of image editing software, will air April 12, 2010. It's expected to bring a number of advanced technologies, like three dimensional brushes and warping tools. It also is expected to bring...

Digg's belated iPhone app brings native goodness

From CNET News.com: Digg's new iPhone app, which arrives Wednesday, does not bring any of the new, or exciting features announced by the company at the SXSW festival last week. It will, however bring a better and more complete Digg experience to iPhone users than what they've had...

OCZ Technology Shuts Down Hypersonic High-End PC Business

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading supplier of components for personal computers, has decided to shut down its Hypersonic business unit, which used to make high-end personal computers. The move was made to concentrate on core businesses for the company, which is to...

Intel Reportedly to Release Discrete USB 3.0 Controller

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of central processing units and chipsets, will reportedly release its own discrete SuperSpeed USB controller in a bid speed up transition to the new interface and also obtain a new revenue stream.

The lack of core-logic sets...

Security companies warn of uptick in attacks using new IE flaw

From PC World: Criminals are stepping up their attacks leveraging an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, using it to install fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim's computers.

Microsoft first warned of the bug on March 9, saying that it had...

Google Has Minor China Outage After Censorship Snub

From PC World: Some Google users in China had technical problems accessing the company's search engines on Wednesday, just two days after Google snubbed Chinese authorities by ending censorship for its search users in the country.

For up to an hour starting around 10 a.m. local time...

China blocking some Google searches

From CNET News.com: China did not erase Google from the Internet on Tuesday, but it did take a few steps in response to Google's decision to move its search engine to Hong Kong on Monday.

Chinese Internet users can still access Google.com.hk, calming fears of those who thought...

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