Cody Taylor

Scareware has found itself a new flavor in Anti-Virus-1, possibly in response to court cases and investigations launched against Antivirus XP last year. In this case, the program is a bit malware, a bit scareware, and generally bad news. It doesn’t just yammer at the user with false positives, it’ll also hijack your browser and aim it at phony posi

We were among the first journalists to get their hands on the Windows 7 Beta code and have been testing it. Here, we’ve ranked the 30 best features we’ve found in Windows 7 so far, ranging from minor tweaks of the user interface to a full replacement for virtual private networks.

I’m sure you’ve heard that last.fm are stealing your scrobbles and distributing them to get you arrested. Newsflash: That’s a load of crap.

AddictingGames releases an online game in which you can decide where the trillion-dollar bailout money goes. And you can slap a fat cat or two.

Before you rush out to buy a new router, signal booster or a more powerful antenna there are some cheap and simple tricks which could give you coverage where you need it.

The accolade of “Best of CES 2009″ that the Palm Pre received wasn’t just because it looked good – this baby is also seriously jam-packed with some groovy functionality. The foundation of the exciting new Palm is built on the zippy OMAP3430 processor and Palm’s new webOS. With these as building blocks, it seems Palm has picked up where Apple left

Add, delete, rate, and move—these are your app options on the iPhone. This interface concept, though, puts full app management within iTunes, and makes us wonder why it wasn’t there in the first place.

TechDirt is reporting that the Associated Press is poised to be the next in a long line of news organizations to completely bungle their online distribution methods by making their content require payment. While this wouldn’t happen for a while due to deals with others, like Google, to distribute AP content for free, even considering this is a massive step in the wrong direction. “Also, I know we point this out every time some clueless news exec claims that users need to pay, but it’s worth mentioning again: nowhere do they discuss why people should want to pay. Nowhere do they explain what extra value they’re adding that will make people pay. Instead, they think that if they put up a paywall, people will magically pay — even though the paywall itself is what takes away much of the value by making it harder for people to do what they want with the news: to spread it, to comment on it, to participate in the story. Until newspaper execs figure this out, they’re only going to keep making things worse.”

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