http://www.pcworld.com en-us Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:48:59 -0800 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:48:59 -0800 Antivirus vendors are warning customers of a spreading malware that can infect computers through a well-known bug in the Windows AutoRun software used to automatically launch programs on a DVD or USB device. The significant increase in infection is curious because Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs will not launch autorun.inf files, and Microsoft has released two patches for older systems. Therefore, security experts believe infections are happening through a combination of unpatched computers, shared folders and files, and social media. Someone inserting a USB drive or memory stick carrying the malware can infect unpatched PCs. On other systems, an infection can occur once the malware travels to a network share and someone clicks on an infected file or folder. Trend Micro reported that malware was also spreading on Facebook. Other vendors tracking the malware include McAfee, Symantec, and Sophos. While it is interesting that cybercriminals are still exploiting a four-year-old AutoRun bug, Sophos says most corporate PCs are being infected through network sharing. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here "The Human Face of Big Data" is an ambitious and attractive new large-format book that aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Author Rick Smolan is a photographer who gained fame for his "Day in the Life" series, which included an edition focused on the Internet in 1996, "24 Hours in Cyberspace." Another collection, "America at Home," is available as an app from iEnvision. He says that his latest work is based on the premise that "our planet is beginning to develop a nervous system." The book is accompanied by an iPad app that debuts Tuesday—the same day that Smolan is sending a copy of the book to 10,000 people whom he considers the world's most influential. He's hoping to start a "global conversation about the tools and technologies" that he and others think will have an even greater impact than the Internet. Among the stories highlighted in the book, and illustrated by some of the 100 photojournalists who contributed their work, are the following: To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Archify is a free Web service that you might want to have stalking you. Once you set up an account with the service, it will automatically catalog, index, and capture web pages that you travel to and allow you to search through them at any time. Archify has been in private beta since February, but last week it opened its doors to the public. 
Personal stalker
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]]> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2017843/archify-free-service-stalks-your-web-travels-to-build-archives.html Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:20:00 -0800Reed Hastings, CEO of video streaming company Netflix, says that the current state of cloud computing is akin to the era before compilers took some of the heavy lifting away from coding.
Netflix started its move to Amazon's cloud in late 2009, and according to Hastings, who addressed the recent AWS re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas, 95 percent of the company's computation and storage is provided by Amazon Web Services.
"We've got some remaining low value systems that we haven't yet converted but we hope by the end of next year to be the largest business in the world that's 100 percent on AWS outside Amazon retail," Hastings said.
Hastings said that Netflix was ahead of its time when it started to shift to the cloud, but it had little choice due to extraordinary growth. "So streaming at that time in 2008 was about a million hours a month and now it's about a billion hours a month," Hastings said. "So we've had this thousandfold ramp up in computational resources necessary over just four years ... and so we had to take some risks.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Internet freedom could be at stake at a secretive meeting of governments that begins Monday in Dubai.
The United Nations International Telecommunication Union will negotiate new international telecom regulations, including Internet issues, at the World Conference on International Telecommunications that runs through Dec. 14.
Many companies, organizations and individuals oppose the meeting because it is a secretive session that involves some countries that oppose a free and open Internet.
According to the Center for Rights, some proposals allow for access to be cut off more easily, threatening privacy, legitimizing monitoring and blocking online traffic. Others seek to impose new fees for accessing content, the group says, adding that there could be consequences for businesses and human rights.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft may bring a music player feature to its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
That would mean if you have songs saved to SkyDrive you could play them from any browser or mobile device, similar to how Google Play Music or Amazon Cloud Player work.
The website LiveSide found references to a SkyDrive music player in SkyDrive.com codes, as well as related images from an internal testing version of SkyDrive.com.
It's not clear how a SkyDrive music player would relate to Xbox Music, but it's a good bet the two will be integrated.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
April may be the cruelest month for the soul, but December can be the cruelest for electronics shoppers. Many of the best electronics deals occur during the Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekend in November. Nevertheless, electronics bargains continue to appear as Christmas and the New Year approach.
"If you didn't jump on the electronics deals during Black Friday weekend, then at this point, you might as well wait until January and February to buy a digital camera, TV, or other device," advises bargain hunter site DealNews Its reasoning? "The Consumer Electronics Show in January is the official launch for many 2013 models, which means that all the goods from 2012 will begin to see a round of discounts."
Still, DealNews points to some worthwhile prices on laptops and HDTVs this month.
Laptop deals continue
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers temporary storage lockers where people can receive online purchases when they're not at home.
BufferBox is based in Waterloo, Ontario, and has a network of storage lockers in the area around Toronto. Users sign up for the service and then provide a BufferBox shipping address to online retailers.
Parcels get delivered to the lockers, and users retrieve them with an access code sent via email. The locker can then be used for someone else.
The purchase could help Google expand its e-commerce business, though rivals including Amazon.com already have similar services.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft last week answered more questions about its upcoming Surface with Windows 8 Pro (Surface Pro) tablet, but also left out a few essential details as we approach the device's January debut.
We know the Surface Pro will be available with a storage choice of 64GB (for $900) and 128GB ($1000). Microsoft's tablet will come loaded with an Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor, 10.6-inch screen with 1920 by 1080 resolution, 4GB RAM, front- and rear-facing cameras, one USB 3.0 slot, a microSDXC card slot, a miniDisplayPort, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth 4.0, and, of course, Windows 8 Pro.
A free digital pen comes with your Surface Pro, but an external keyboard such as the Touch Cover or Type Cover will cost extra, as with the Surface RT. The new tablet also lacks GPS and cellular connectivity.
If you don't mind the price, the Surface Pro sounds like it could be a good tablet; but a number of questions remain.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Facebook has broadly launched a feature it began testing earlier this year that automatically syncs photos you take on your mobile phone to a private album on the social network where you can later choose to share them if you want.
If you have the latest Facebook app for Android or iPhone, you'll now see a notification about photo sync when you visit your timeline using your handset.
If you turn photo sync on, Facebook will upload all the photos you have saved on your phone, as well as any future shots you take — up to 2 GB worth of images. To use photo sync on an iPhone, you need to be running iOS 6.
You can also turn on photo sync from your computer by going to your timeline>Photos>Synced From Phone.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
http://www.pcworld.com en-us Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:48:59 -0800 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:48:59 -0800 Antivirus vendors are warning customers of a spreading malware that can infect computers through a well-known bug in the Windows AutoRun software used to automatically launch programs on a DVD or USB device. The significant increase in infection is curious because Windows 7 and Windows 8 PCs will not launch autorun.inf files, and Microsoft has released two patches for older systems. Therefore, security experts believe infections are happening through a combination of unpatched computers, shared folders and files, and social media. Someone inserting a USB drive or memory stick carrying the malware can infect unpatched PCs. On other systems, an infection can occur once the malware travels to a network share and someone clicks on an infected file or folder. Trend Micro reported that malware was also spreading on Facebook. Other vendors tracking the malware include McAfee, Symantec, and Sophos. While it is interesting that cybercriminals are still exploiting a four-year-old AutoRun bug, Sophos says most corporate PCs are being infected through network sharing. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here "The Human Face of Big Data" is an ambitious and attractive new large-format book that aims to give readers, through photography and short articles, a glimpse of how powerful new data processing capabilities are changing people's lives. Author Rick Smolan is a photographer who gained fame for his "Day in the Life" series, which included an edition focused on the Internet in 1996, "24 Hours in Cyberspace." Another collection, "America at Home," is available as an app from iEnvision. He says that his latest work is based on the premise that "our planet is beginning to develop a nervous system." The book is accompanied by an iPad app that debuts Tuesday—the same day that Smolan is sending a copy of the book to 10,000 people whom he considers the world's most influential. He's hoping to start a "global conversation about the tools and technologies" that he and others think will have an even greater impact than the Internet. Among the stories highlighted in the book, and illustrated by some of the 100 photojournalists who contributed their work, are the following: To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Archify is a free Web service that you might want to have stalking you. Once you set up an account with the service, it will automatically catalog, index, and capture web pages that you travel to and allow you to search through them at any time. Archify has been in private beta since February, but last week it opened its doors to the public. Personal stalker
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
]]> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2017843/archify-free-service-stalks-your-web-travels-to-build-archives.html Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:20:00 -0800Reed Hastings, CEO of video streaming company Netflix, says that the current state of cloud computing is akin to the era before compilers took some of the heavy lifting away from coding.
Netflix started its move to Amazon's cloud in late 2009, and according to Hastings, who addressed the recent AWS re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas, 95 percent of the company's computation and storage is provided by Amazon Web Services.
"We've got some remaining low value systems that we haven't yet converted but we hope by the end of next year to be the largest business in the world that's 100 percent on AWS outside Amazon retail," Hastings said.
Hastings said that Netflix was ahead of its time when it started to shift to the cloud, but it had little choice due to extraordinary growth. "So streaming at that time in 2008 was about a million hours a month and now it's about a billion hours a month," Hastings said. "So we've had this thousandfold ramp up in computational resources necessary over just four years ... and so we had to take some risks.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Internet freedom could be at stake at a secretive meeting of governments that begins Monday in Dubai.
The United Nations International Telecommunication Union will negotiate new international telecom regulations, including Internet issues, at the World Conference on International Telecommunications that runs through Dec. 14.
Many companies, organizations and individuals oppose the meeting because it is a secretive session that involves some countries that oppose a free and open Internet.
According to the Center for Rights, some proposals allow for access to be cut off more easily, threatening privacy, legitimizing monitoring and blocking online traffic. Others seek to impose new fees for accessing content, the group says, adding that there could be consequences for businesses and human rights.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft may bring a music player feature to its SkyDrive cloud storage service.
That would mean if you have songs saved to SkyDrive you could play them from any browser or mobile device, similar to how Google Play Music or Amazon Cloud Player work.
The website LiveSide found references to a SkyDrive music player in SkyDrive.com codes, as well as related images from an internal testing version of SkyDrive.com.
It's not clear how a SkyDrive music player would relate to Xbox Music, but it's a good bet the two will be integrated.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
April may be the cruelest month for the soul, but December can be the cruelest for electronics shoppers. Many of the best electronics deals occur during the Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekend in November. Nevertheless, electronics bargains continue to appear as Christmas and the New Year approach.
"If you didn't jump on the electronics deals during Black Friday weekend, then at this point, you might as well wait until January and February to buy a digital camera, TV, or other device," advises bargain hunter site DealNews Its reasoning? "The Consumer Electronics Show in January is the official launch for many 2013 models, which means that all the goods from 2012 will begin to see a round of discounts."
Still, DealNews points to some worthwhile prices on laptops and HDTVs this month.
Laptop deals continue
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Google has bought some more storage, but not the digital kind. The company has acquired BufferBox, a Canadian startup that offers temporary storage lockers where people can receive online purchases when they're not at home.
BufferBox is based in Waterloo, Ontario, and has a network of storage lockers in the area around Toronto. Users sign up for the service and then provide a BufferBox shipping address to online retailers.
Parcels get delivered to the lockers, and users retrieve them with an access code sent via email. The locker can then be used for someone else.
The purchase could help Google expand its e-commerce business, though rivals including Amazon.com already have similar services.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Microsoft last week answered more questions about its upcoming Surface with Windows 8 Pro (Surface Pro) tablet, but also left out a few essential details as we approach the device's January debut.
We know the Surface Pro will be available with a storage choice of 64GB (for $900) and 128GB ($1000). Microsoft's tablet will come loaded with an Ivy Bridge Core i5 processor, 10.6-inch screen with 1920 by 1080 resolution, 4GB RAM, front- and rear-facing cameras, one USB 3.0 slot, a microSDXC card slot, a miniDisplayPort, 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth 4.0, and, of course, Windows 8 Pro.
A free digital pen comes with your Surface Pro, but an external keyboard such as the Touch Cover or Type Cover will cost extra, as with the Surface RT. The new tablet also lacks GPS and cellular connectivity.
If you don't mind the price, the Surface Pro sounds like it could be a good tablet; but a number of questions remain.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Facebook has broadly launched a feature it began testing earlier this year that automatically syncs photos you take on your mobile phone to a private album on the social network where you can later choose to share them if you want.
If you have the latest Facebook app for Android or iPhone, you'll now see a notification about photo sync when you visit your timeline using your handset.
If you turn photo sync on, Facebook will upload all the photos you have saved on your phone, as well as any future shots you take — up to 2 GB worth of images. To use photo sync on an iPhone, you need to be running iOS 6.
You can also turn on photo sync from your computer by going to your timeline>Photos>Synced From Phone.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
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