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January 2009

Google Enters the Offline Client Game

Google has finally entered the ranks of its email competitors Yahoo! and Microsoft in offering an offline version of its interface. Yahoo! and Microsoft have both offered offline clients for their mail, calendar, and contact information with Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop and Windows Live Mail for some time now and Google …

European Union Heads Down Slippery Slope with Microsoft

Microsoft has been battling monopoly charges from the European Union for some time now and might find itself distributing Windows with alternative browsers than Internet Explorer. Microsoft has been found by the EU to be harming the browser competition by bundling its own browser with its operating system. The question …

Trojan Hits Macs Through Pirated Software

Appleinsider reports that tens of thousands of Mac users have been infected with a trojan horse when installing pirated software. A hacked copy of Apple iWork ’09 and Adobe CS4 have been floating around through bit torrents and P2P softwares that installs some extra software that checks in with a …

Obama’s “Secure” Blackberry

Okay, I guess I was behind the 8 ball yesterday when I talked about Microsoft wanting Obama to be on the Microsoft platform due to “security risks” with the Blackberry. It’s official, they’re going to let him use a standard Blackberry with an upgraded encryption package. The device will be …

President Obama to Switch to Windows Mobile?

Obama’s addiction to his Blackberry has been a point of interest to a lot of tech blogs during the election season as well as so far in his Presidency. Obama has made it clear in the past that he would really like to keep his Blackberry, but has not been …