Toshiba's Digital Products Division (a division of Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc.), has announced that their upcoming 10.1-inch Thrive Tablet is available for pre-order at Amazon.com, with models starting at a suggested retail price of $429.99. Formerly known simply as The Toshiba Tablet, Thrive is the company's first Android-based tablet for the U.S. market, and…

RESEARCH IN Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook ($500 for 16GB version, $600 for 32GB, and $700 for 64GB) offers a convenient size and novel navigation, but its software can be frustrating. In some respects, the PlayBook is the most impressive tablet I’ve seen. But native apps such as its browser have disappointing glitches, and its variety of…

Sony’s recent data breach got all the headlines, but such attacks aren’t rare. Here’s how to protect yourself and your data from them. IN 2011 ALONE, tens of millions of users have had personal information exposed or put at risk in some way by data breaches at Epsilon, RSA Security, the state of Texas, Ashampoo,…

IN LATE APRIL, a purported scam spread via Facebook Chat and wall posts. Affected users received a message saying: “haha did you see this yet? it’s pretty funny... see what you look like 20 years older, mine is HILARIOUS:) [link redacted] whoops sorry meant to send that to someone else:P” If you received such a…

Early last decade a young entrepreneur named Christian Schmid was running forum hosting services and was having difficulty transferring large files. He decided to create his own service for transferring files and RapidShare was born. The service was originally known as Ezshare but was subsequently changed to RapidShare when Schmid discovered that Kodak owned rights…

Earlier today the WordPress team noticed suspicious commits to several popular plugins (AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache) containing cleverly disguised backdoors. We determined the commits were not from the authors, rolled them back, pushed updates to the plugins, and shut down access to the plugin repository while we looked for anything else unsavory. We’re…

"If the Internet were your living room, there would be crowds of people peeking through the windows,” says Mark Ghuneim, CEO of New York digital marketing agency Wiredset, “and you would have unwittingly granted them permission to watch and record everything going on.” Among the Peeping Toms: George Orwell’s figurative Big Brother—the government—but also, potentially,…

Three hours outside Bucharest, Romanian National Road 7 begins a gentle ascent into the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps. Meadowland gives way to crumbling houses with chickens in the front yard, laundry flapping on clotheslines. But you know you’ve arrived in the city of Râmnicu Vâlcea when you see the MercedesBenz dealership. It sits in…

oogle Analytics is good. It allows you to track your website traffic, free for up to 5 million pageviews a month, and you get a thorough report on almost every single detail of your audience. Piwik is another website analytics software that is as powerful as Google Analytics and serve as a great alternative. What…

It has been touted for awhile now that if Amazon were to come out with an Android tablet, that it would be the ultimate iPad killer. There were recent rumors that Samsung may be building the tablet and that a form of hybrid e-ink and LCD display would be used. But despite the mounting evidence…

CPU, RAM, and video card? How important is the PSU and extra hard drive space? Each of these things you need to consider when looking for a new desktop computer. Rather than grouping everything into the basket that exclaims that you just need a faster computer, let’s look at each feature individually. This way you’re…

There are a lot of reasons to use Outlook. With few exceptions, Outlook is a fairly decent PIM (personal information manager). If your business relies on an Exchange Server, Outlook is definitely the best PIM for the job. Sometimes Outlook isn’t the perfect fit for everyone, so today I’m exploring some fairly decent Outlook alternatives.…