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Firefox on Windows RT 'probably not worth it'

Mozilla will "probably not bother" building a version of Firefox for Windows RT if Microsoft does not allow other browser makers to call important APIs for the new operating system, according to a Mozilla product director.
Microsoft battles PC bloat with new Signature tune-up

Microsoft has had the bloatware accusation thrown at it countless times but now the company reportedly wants to make money turning back the tide of PC-slowing software with a little-known service called ?Signature?.
WWDC 2012 forecast: Cloudy with a chance of new MacBooks

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is less than one month away and we're guessing there will be new MacBook Pros and personal video sync (not iTunes purchases) to iCloud. But how many people will share via iCloud when so many popular alternatives already exist including Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram, Picasa, Dropbox and Windows Live?
DDR4 memory poised to boost tablet and server performance

The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor DDR4 will herald a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data centre hardware and consumer products alike, according to IHS iSuppli analysts.
Intel launches third generation Core vPro processors

Chip maker Intel today announced the launch of its third generation Intel Core vPro processors, codenamed Ivy Bridge, designed for use in business laptops, desktops and ?intelligent systems?.
AMD launches Trinity APUs to take on Intel?s Ivy Bridge

AMD touts a ?ground-up? improvement with the 'Trinity' A-Series APUs, compared to the previous generation with double the performance per watt. Eyeing up the Ultrabook market, the firm quotes up to 12 hours of battery life for notebooks by way of the power-optimized ?Piledriver? CPU core.
Lenovo packs 'thinnest' ThinkPad X1 Carbon ultrabook with 4G LTE

Lenovo has announced a range of new ThinkPads with Intel's latest third-generation Ivy Bridge Core processors, including a ThinkPad ultrabook that the company claims is the "thinnest ultrabook in the world."
ThinkPad Windows 8 tablet being developed by Lenovo and Intel

Lenovo is working with Intel on a future ThinkPad tablet based on Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
CEO Paul Otellini boasts Intel has advantage over ARM on Windows 8 tablets

Intel CEO Paul Otellini thinks the company has an advantage over its rival ARM on Windows 8 for tablets because of decades of developing x86 chips that support the Windows operating system.
Lenovo ThinkPad line gets new Windows 8 tablet-laptop hybrids

Lenovo plans to add business-friendly Windows 8 hybrid laptops to its ThinkPad line that will be similar to the convertible, flippable IdeaPad Yoga.

Latest Features

10 reasons your Wi-Fi speed stinks (and what you can do about it)

The first 801.11ac chipsets are coming soon, but 802.11n is likely to stick around for many years to come -- both in the business world and our homes. Unfortunately, the 300Mbps (megabits per second) that the n-standard promises rarely delivers anything even close and proves to be a massive bottleneck in the days of 50/100Mbps (or more?) broadband connections, 1080p video streaming, massive backups and so forth. On the business side of things, even menial tasks such as remote desktop or real-time collaboration suffer from a poor Wi-Fi-connection.
Intel's Ivy Bridge Processor: Leaner and meaner

So how will you be able to tell whether you have an Ivy Bridge CPU in your new computer? Look for the "3rd Generation Core Processor" brand name. You can also tell from the model number: Systems with a 3000 number after "Core i5" or "Core i7" use Ivy Bridge, while systems with a 2000 model number are Sandy Bridge. So, a Core i5-2600K, for instance, is a current-generation Sandy Bridge processor, while a Core i5-3550 is a new Ivy Bridge model.
Chief mobility officer - Do you need one?

Mobile computing in all its complex, multifaceted, unstructured indigestible glory is on the plate of every IT leader and IT department. It can?t be avoided, and who would want to do so?
What's the fastest browser? Maybe you're measuring it wrong

Among all those very scientific benchmarks we forget one factor: the user. Our human eye is incapable of distinguishing the 221 ms load time of a JavaScript applet in IE9 from the 220 ms load time in Firefox 17. Do we even notice if Chrome opens a website in 778 ms versus IE's 953 ms? Humans think in seconds, not milliseconds.
Ten ways your smartphone knows where you are

One of the most important capabilities that smartphones now have is knowing where they are. More than desktops, laptops, personal navigation devices or even tablets, which are harder to take with you, a smartphone can combine its location with many other pieces of data to make new services available.
What will Windows 8 touchscreen laptops look like?

Windows 8?s touch-centric interface will help to usher in a new wave of laptops with tabletlike touchscreens. To make it easier for users to tap and swipe on even superthin Ultrabooks, laptop makers will break out of the traditional clamshell shape and introduce laptops with more unusual designs.
Five things Microsoft should fix in Windows 8 to prevent another 'Vista'

Windows 8 marches on toward its inevitable release - not yet confirmed, but expected sometime in early fall. Judging by the Windows 8 Consumer Preview release, though, the latest version of Microsoft?s flagship operating system has some fatal flaws that could turn it into another ?Windows Vista? scenario, and cause users to cling to Windows 7 as they?ve clung to Windows XP.
Security in the cloud - Encryption for the enterprise

Many experts are touting encryption technology as the solution ? offering robust protection against the rising cybercrime threat, giving only authenticated users access to enterprise data, and securing data to satisfy compliance requirements.
Is end point security a waste of time?

The first board member at your organisation to walk through the door with an iPad did the IT team a massive favour. Put bluntly, there was no longer an argument. They had to ease the purse strings on your requests to fund management and security systems to go with your enterprise mobility projects.
The next frontier in virtualisation

Desktop virtualisation is becoming increasingly attractive to enterprises, particularly mid-sized businesses that have achieved significant data centre efficiency improvements through server virtualisation.

How-tos

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How to install an old laptop hard drive in your desktop

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How to recover a lost phone, tablet or laptop

How to recover a stolen laptop

How to improve the performance of your home Wi-Fi

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Mobility is exploding: Are you ready?

The mobility race is on, fueled by the success of the iPad. After several decades of fits and starts, Apple?s iPad succeeded where all others failed, ushering us into the era of mobile computing. Forrester Research predicts tablets will outsell laptops by 2015, and smartphones will outsell both by a large margin. IT departments are following suit, with 75% either developing apps for mobile devices or evaluating the use of tablets in the workplace. Just like that, it?s an untethered world.
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