Google adds more sites to Blacklist

Earlier this year, Google quietly began blocking filesharing-related search terms from certain features. Queries such as "BitTorrent," "RapidShare," and "Megaupload" still produced valid results if you completed a full search, but disappeared from the company's Autocomplete and Instant search services. The former provides you search recommendations below the text box when you type, while the latter displays results as you enter your query. Google has since expanded its censorship program to include many other popular filesharing sites, according to TorrentFreak. Searches including "thepiratebay," "the pirate bay," "isohunt," "torrentreactor," "btjunkie," "kickasstorrents," "sumotorrent," "btmon," "extratorrent" and more are now being blocked in Autocomplete. Interestingly, "thepiratebay.org" and "pirate bay" are still visible, so it seems the filter isn't all-encompassing -- yet, anyway.


Again, to be clear, results for those terms aren't blocked on full searches, just Autocomplete and in some cases, Instant searches. This won't affect most users who already know where they're going, but it can dent overall traffic levels. TorrentFreak draws attention to a graph that shows a rapid decline in Hotfile searches after it was censored in January. There is an understandable push to reduce Web piracy, but Google's actions affect real businesses. Companies BitTorrent and RapidShare are completely legitimate operations. RapidShare decried Google's decision earlier this year, saying the company had "obviously gone too far." A similar message is being echoed by sites affected this time around. "It's a lot more subtle than the censorship attempts made possible by the pending PROTECT IP and SOPA bills, but it's still censorship and it starts small. Google is increasingly becoming a self-righteous Big Brother of the Web. So much for 'Do no evil'," IsoHunt founder Gary Fung told TorrentFreak.


The ever-vocal folks behind The Pirate Bay have also chimed in, saying this is "just another step towards censoring their search engine altogether -- without a legal basis. We're also wondering why this happens at almost the same time as they've released Google Music -- a service where they sell music which in some cases might be found on The Pirate Bay." Is Google just doing the entertainment industry's dirty work, or is this a valiant effort to combat piracy?

Rumor: Apple to launch TV that responds to gesture commands

There is no denying that Apple has pretty much revolutionized the music and phone markets with its iPod and iPhone devices. Then came the iPad, which took the industry by storm and to this day still dominates the majority of tablet sales. Now details are beginning to emerge about Apple's next big product, a television that you can control using gestures. The new device is said to be the brainchild of the late Steve Jobs, with the company hoping to realize his ambitions of turning couch surfing into a hi-tech experience.


Initial reports gained traction after Steve Jobs' biography referred to the new TV, with the former Apple executive quoted as saying: "I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it." Japanese firm Sharp will reportedly start commercial production of television screens in February, and Apple would have the sets available by the second half of 2012, according to Peter Misek at the American bank Jefferies. "Other TV manufacturers have begun a scrambling search to identify what iTV will be and do," he said. "They hope to avoid the fate of other industries and manufacturers who were caught flat-footed by Apple."


Apple's internet-connected television could also put existing services like BSkyB, Virgin and a host of online content providers at risk of losing customers to the Cupertino-based company's iCloud service, which could provide seemless downloading and viewing of films and music, as well as traditional television programs. 
According to the Guardian, Apple filed a new patent in October for "real time video process control using gestures, which describes using infrared, motion and other sensors to read the user's movements." Gestures could be used for anything from editing video to moving a film playing on a mobile phone to a bigger screen.


Misek believes the iTV will start with an initial production run of approximately 5 million to 10 million units, and will utilize LCD panels. Jeff Robbin, a senior engineer for Apple who contributed in creating the iTunes service and the iPod, is said to be heading up the new project. What is interesting though is Samsung already makes internet-connected television sets, so this new Apple device would open up a new front in which to compete with the South Korean technology giant. As you'd expect, Apple declined to comment on any speculation regarding the new product.

Review - McAfee Internet Security 2012 for Mac

Mac OS X users are notably resistant to the ploys of anti-virus, anti-malware, and security-monitoring software offered for our platform. "What - me worry?" could be our motto, as well as, "Not paying for that!" Over the long haul, that attitude has served us well, but the nature and diversity of risks has increased, and is likely to get worse. McAfee Internet Security tries to address the virus, malware, and Trojan Horse issue directly, but also includes a robust, configurable firewall along with a Firefox plug-in that vets and reports on search result links. Despite my many years without such software installed, I'm strongly tempted to continue to use the package after testing because it's a multipronged and easy-to-manage extra layer that doesn't seem to slow my computer down one bit, while providing useful information and the right degree of control to block remote access.


The fundamental problem with a tool that prevents the execution of malicious software has been that the damage is usually done by the rapid spread of such attacks before the protective program has been updated. McAfee, like other anti-virus software makers, is constantly monitoring and testing for new vectors and writing defenses against them, and pushes out responses to discoveries in the wild quite rapidly. The software is set to pull down updates every four hours, too.

Protect yourself

Given that only a handful of Trojans and viruses have appeared in recent years for the Mac, and that they are laughable in their ability for users with any degree of proper caution to avoid, this part of the security suite might seem useless. But I'll argue it is not.

First, it prevents you from passing on Windows viruses that may be sent as attachments that you then guilelessly hand off to friends, relatives, or colleagues using an unpatched version of Windows. (This is also useful when copying files back and forth between a virtual Windows machine or a Boot Camp volume.) Second, you can recommend this software to those who might not have the instinct to stay away from unknown software or attachments. A relative might appreciate having this software installed to prevent them from making a bad choice due to their lack of computer knowledge--especially if they try to install Trojans masquerading as legitimate files. Third, if someone else uses your computer without the same care you have, you're protected there, too, against old threats and new ones. True, Apple has built virus defenses into Snow Leopard and Lion that are regularly updated. Consider McAfee a more explicit second line of defense.

I tested McAfee's virus protection against the very few known Trojan horses and other exploits that have been discovered, such as MacDefender. McAfee refused to let me launch or uncompress the archives containing the malicious files, and put them into a Quarantine area to make it simple to review them in a list and then delete them. I tried sending myself a virus via email, and McAfee prevented that from downloading as well. The software can defang the malicious part of infected files, but all the files I tested were entirely comprised of malware. The McAfee software has three more active components, however, that can protect you if a Trojan appears before they've detected and issued a fix, as well as to help you identify malicious Web sites you should avoid. These components let you review programs before allowing them to launch, use a firewall to prevent intrusions (useful to prevent unintended access to file sharing, even), and a Firefox extension that brands the safety of search engine results.

An Application Protection component, configured via the program's preferences, monitors software when it launches, and puts itself in the way with a pop-up prompt. You choose whether to launch with or without network access provided to the program, and allow the program to be launched once (just when you approve it) or always thereafter. Or you can deny a launch altogether. You can modify choices for individual programs or background processes later through preferences. Such controls generally prevent software that you didn't intentionally install from being able to run and take over your Internet connection. Of course, this can't protect against exploits that use techniques to gain root access to your Mac, and install software that runs beneath the user interface's service. Apple has patched many such holes, although there is little evidence that such attacks were made from Web sites or via email.

Firewall and Firefox

The firewall is simpler than many full-featured programs, and I appreciate that. For most people, being able to click a few buttons is better than an ocean of pulldown menus and configurations. I particularly like that you can shut down all incoming or outgoing traffic or both with a couple of clicks without having to disable your network interface. You can create custom rules--only certain kinds of traffic may originate from your computer to specific addresses, or block all but a handful of services from receiving signals from the outside world. You can also define trusted networks.

Firewalls have the benefit of keeping normal services you may have switched on, like VNC-based screen-sharing (a somewhat insecure option in the Screen Sharing service in the Sharing system preferences), from being accessible or crackable when you're on an open network, such as at a coffeeshop. If you use Firefox, McAfee's Site Advisor add-on is a big help in examining search results on Google and other engines. It's more tightly integrated with Yahoo (where it disables dangerous links entirely), but works just fine with others. When you perform a search, the advisor tags each result with a green, yellow, red, or question mark icon. McAfee constantly spiders Web sites looking for malware and other problems, and rates sites accordingly. A McAfee seal of approval appears on ecommerce sites that the firm separately evaluates

Kobo Vox review

The Kobo Vox is a value-priced tablet with a twist. Like its e-ink sibling, the Kobo Touch e-reader, the Vox has a social focus, and places an emphasis on sharing reading experiences. At £169.99 the Kobo Vox is priced the same as the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes & Noble Nook Color, and less than the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet. Though it lacks the video/music download and streaming options that distinguish its competitors, the Vox deserves notice for coupling e-reading capabilities with the multimedia functions of a basic Android tablet.

Of the three tablets, the Vox is the most like a true Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet - which is both good and bad. The good part: You get many of the stock Android apps that come with Gingerbread (email, calculator, contacts, calendar, clock, browser, gallery, YouTube), minus Google apps such as those for Gmail and the Android Market, since this is not a Google device. The bad part: Gingerbread is more designed for phones than it is for the 7-inch screen of a tablet. Still, you get the benefit of having Android navigation conventions that you may already be used to on your smartphone, from the six-button menu pop-ups to the three familiar capacitive-touch Android buttons (back, menu, and home) to shortcuts such as pressing and holding the menu button to call up your eight most recently accessed apps.

True to a typical Gingerbread tablet, the Vox produced a handful of errors and glitches when I tried to use some of the apps, including the preinstalled Scrabble Free. Kobo advertises full open access to Android, and I found that it worked as such, most of the time. I had issues with some app sources, but other apps installed just fine, including an .apk file that I found for the Amazon Appstore. Kobo includes Rdio for music streaming, Zinio for accessing some 4500 digital magazines, and PressReader for accessing over 1900 newspapers; this arrangement keeps periodicals inconveniently separate from shopping at Kobo, as opposed to shopping at Amazon or Barnes & Noble. The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is also on board, but it doesn't integrate with the reading function (the company says this feature is coming in a software update).


Custom reading widgets


The Vox's customised Android interface puts a Kobo-centric spin on everything from notifications to the dock menu to the home-screen reading widget. What's pleasant about this approach is that the Vox doesn't feel like an arbitrary reskin of Android, in spite of the interface's different functionality and look. Rather, it feels as if Kobo simply extended the native Android OS to embrace the Kobo vision, in ways that are tailored for the tablet's reading activities. From initial startup, it's clear on the home screen that this device is aimed at reading first. The customised Kobo Vox reading and shopping apps are well presented, in a manner that other LCD, Android-based e-readers that simply have an e-reader app (such as those from Pandigital) can't match.


At the centre of the home screen sits a Kobo widget that shows your four most recently accessed books. Below, the usual Android icons are replaced by the Kobo reading dock, which has Read Now, Library, Shop, and Reading Life icons. Reading Life is one of three unique components of the Kobo social-reading experience, the others being the Kobo eReading App and Kobo Pulse. Reading Life summarizes your reading activities, offering detailed stats such as how many days, hours, and minutes you've spent reading books, information on the book currently in progress, and how many pages you've turned. Kobo Pulse, accessible from within a book, allows you to see how many other people are reading a book at that time, as well as to post comments to share with the Kobo community.


The eReading App offers some noteworthy viewing options. From your bookshelf library, you can manage font, display, and reading settings (all accessible from within a book), and you can control which Reading Life notifications you'll receive while you're reading (such as unlocked awards). You get seven font styles, plus up to 42 sizes selectable via a slider control; it would have been better to have real-time resizing and presentation of text changes, but at least these options are easily accessible. You can also choose between displaying one page or two when you hold the tablet in landscape mode.

The best feature of all: The Kobo Vox is the only tablet I've tested that let me adjust the LCD's brightness while in a book, independently from the overall system brightness. This is a long-overdue option that makes total sense for an LCD-based e-reader, as it makes reading easier on the eyes. You can tap at the bottom centre of the screen to reveal current chapter info, and a slider for moving around within a book. Annotations are easy to make, once you tap at the top of the screen and select the option; you can see all of them, or just view highlights or notes. You can share individual annotations via Facebook; you can't, however, share them by email, or share all at once, two features that would be useful.


The Library presentation is a bit more rudimentary than I would have expected. Most notably, the Library bookshelf view lacks a search bar. And although it has a handy import option for bringing books from a MicroSDHC card into the Library, I could see only the author and title information in the list view. Kobo supports ePub and enhanced ePub files. While the Vox lacks the distinct glare-reduction techniques found on the Nook Tablet, it does have decent text quality. (Tip: Choose one of the sans serif fonts for the sharpest, least pixelated text.) In my tests using the same book in the same fonts, displayed at similar sizes, in the e-reading sections of the Nook Tablet and the Vox, I found that the Vox was a close second in readability. The Nook Tablet was far less glare-prone, but the Vox's text rendering in that font was very similar. That same font wasn't available on the Kindle Fire - but even when I used the closest match on that tablet, the Vox still presented slightly clearer and easier-to-read text than the Fire did.


In our display tests, the Vox struggled, perhaps in part due to the native Gallery software, which had issues displaying sharp, rescaled images. It did well, however, with text from a website screen, and it did a fair job rendering our 1080p MP4 test video; overall it performed better than the vast army of Android 2.x tablets we've seen in the PCWorld Labs. The Vox has a 1024-by-600-pixel FFS+ (Fringe Field Switching) display; FFS+ is similar to In-Plane Switching technology, though Kobo claims that it will render better brightness and color, plus sharper white/gray reproduction. The Vox did outclass the Amazon Kindle Fire's IPS display (and the Fire's Gallery app) when showing our colour-bar chart and our grayscale chart.


In use, I found that the Vox's lackluster specs hurt its performance. It has a single-core 800MHz processor and just 512MB of memory - two subpar components that contribute to its laggy performance. Simple actions such as page turns felt zippy enough, but accessing menus or loading books often dragged and produced a spinning ball, and games lacked smooth transitions. The Vox ships with 8GB of storage, of which 5.34GB is user-accessible. A MicroSDHC card slot sits at the left side, supporting up to 32GB of flash storage. Like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, Kobo offers unlimited cloud storage for your book purchases.


Hefty Feel


The Kobo Vox feels like last year's hardware, at least in respect to its boxy, squared-off design. Measuring 7.57in by 5.06in by 0.53in inches, it's noticeably thicker than the Kindle Fire or the Nook Tablet. Kobo says that the Vox weighs 400g, which puts it about even with the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire. But both of those competitors somehow feel lighter than the Vox; the Vox's balance makes it seem heavier than its stated weight. I found my hands getting tired faster when I held the Vox than when I held either rival.


The back of the Vox has a soft, rubberised, diamond-pattern back, reminiscent of the design on the company's e-ink Kobo Touch. Along the outer edges Kobo has a little fun, offering a choice of finishes: black, hot pink, lime green, or ice blue. At the top are the power button and the single, woeful-sounding monoaural speaker; at the left is the volume rocker, and along the bottom are the headphone jack and the Micro-USB port for charging and data transfers. (Regrettably, the Micro-USB port works only with Kobo's own, included wall charger, due to the amperage requirements; at this writing, it can't trickle-charge off of USB.)

Rumor: Samsung to abandon netbook market in 2012

Once the rising stars of the personal computing industry, netbooks have fallen out of grace as of late, replaced in consumer's hearts by more portable tablets or more powerful ultra-slim laptops. Their future is uncertain and at least one manufacturer seems ready to ditch the category altogether and focus on more expensive ultraportable laptops and ultrabooks instead, if an email allegedly sent to trading partners is to be believed.

Samsung's NF310 netbook was featured in our Q3 2011 laptop buying guide

The email is quoted by French site Blogeee and reads: "Following the introduction of our new strategy in 2012, we will discontinue our 10.1-inch (netbook) product range in Q1 2012, in favor of ultraportables (11.6 and 12 inches) and ultrabooks to be launched in 2012."  The low cost of netbooks combined with their ability to handle most basic tasks made them quite successful for a few years. They were perfect as affordable travel companions or secondary systems. However, the form factor never really evolved that much. Every device was running pretty much the same underpowered hardware under the hood -- an Intel Atom chip, up to 320GB of storage and up to 3GB of RAM -- and there wasn't a lot that OEMs could do to differentiate due to their increasingly thinner profit margins.


Meanwhile, tablets have taken over the $200-$500 price range excelling at things like web browsing, email, some gaming, and a lot more through native apps -- all while offering unrivaled battery life. It shouldn't be that surprising to see Samsung discontinuing netbooks in favor of more profitable products. They've already moved into tablets with their relatively successful Galaxy Tab line, while ultrabooks are being heavily pushed by Intel as a way to boost PC sales amid declining growth in the industry.

Nokia to release two Lumia 800 updates to fix battery woes

Nokia just recently released its new, make-or-break Windows Phone 7 powered Lumia 800 smartphone, and it's already becoming apparent that many users are suffering battery-related problems. After receiving ever-increasing complaints on its official forum, the Finnish company has now released a statement saying, "We understand that some people have expressed concerns about battery life on the Nokia Lumia 800. Early investigations show that the majority of people are enjoying the full Nokia Lumia experience without any problems. A software update in early December will include improvements to power efficiency, while a second update in early January introduces further enhancements to battery life and battery charging."

Nokia also said that anyone concerned should contact his or her local Nokia representatives at the earliest opportunity for further assistance. The phone, released just last month is marked as their flagship model, powered by the new Windows Phone Mango operating system. Affected users are understandably unhappy, with average standby times massively reduced from those quoted on the specifications for the phone. While they await the updates, Nokia has released support information on its forum to help users optimize battery life as much as possible -- though providing tips such as turning your phone off when you are not using it is certainly not going to impress handset owners.


A forum poster by the name BrentNewbury summed up his experience in a response to Nokia's tips, "it would just be nice to see a more understanding response like 'Nokia are aware of the problem and are currently investigating the issue. We apologise for the inconvenience', rather than (and this is paraphrased) 'You're using the phone wrong, you need to turn off every feature that makes your £400+ device, a smart phone.'" In some respects, it mirrors the battery issues faced by Apple with its new iPhone 4S release, although according to several reports its hotly tipped iOS 5.0.1 patch did little to resolve the problem, sending them back to the drawing board to resolve it with an upcoming iOS 5.0.2 update.

MSI Enjoy Android tablet Features

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• Capacitive Multi-Touch Display
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• 4GB Memory
• Battery Life up to 4-5 Hours
• 1 Year Standard Warranty

Adobe Photoshop Touch for Android Review

Photoshop Touch is one of six new Touch Apps that Adobe has released for Android tablets running Honeycomb. It is designed to bring many of Photoshop's most popular features to Android tablets, allowing creative professionals to integrate these tablets into their mobile workflow.

The Photoshop Touch app is no replacement for the desktop version of Photoshop, but it does bring many popular Photoshop tools, filters, and effects to Honeycomb tablets with a finger-friendly touch interface. Photoshop Touch connects to Adobe's Creative Cloud so you can move your work back and forth between the tablet and the desktop. You can also share images via email and Facebook, though sadly there was no Twitter option.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus Review

In the world of Android, we see a lot of new phones -- and inevitably, some of them are destined to be forgotten. Samsung's new Galaxy Nexus is not one of those devices.

The Galaxy Nexus, available now in the UK, is an exceptional phone, arguably the finest Android handset to date. It's the first device to run Google's just-released Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and will serve as the flagship phone for the platform. The Nexus name means Google had a close hand in developing the device, and that level of involvement certainly shows.

Body and display

First things first: The Galaxy Nexus is no small gadget. The phone measures 2.7in x 5.3in x 0.4in, thanks in part to its jumbo-sized 4.65in display. Despite those daunting figures, I haven't found the new Nexus to feel the least bit bulky; the phone is sleek, thin, and light - weighing in at just 4.8oz - and perfectly comfortable to hold and carry around.

It's worth noting that the LTE version will differ somewhat in its dimensions: Google lists that version of the phone as being a small amount thicker and heavier than the HSPA+ model I've been testing.

Google:Gmail Applications Support Drop to Blackberry smartphones

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc, the maker of Android software for mobile phones, will stop supporting the Gmail application for rival BlackBerry smartphones made by Research In Motion Ltd.

The app for Google’s Web-based email will no longer be available as of November 22 and won’t be supported after that, the Mountain View, California-based company said in a blog posting. Users may continue to use the app if already downloaded, Google said.

RIM is struggling to find ways to stop a decline in smartphone market share as customers increasingly opt for Android devices or Apple Inc’s iPhone. The Gmail announcement comes one week after Google debuted a similar app for Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices, before pulling it after users began receiving error messages.

RIM, based in Waterloo, Ontario, closed down 4.1 per cent to $18.05 in New York, its lowest level since Aug. 13, 2004. The stock has dropped 69 per cent this year. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index shed 3.7 per cent to 1,229.1, its worst decline in almost three months.

Google’s move is an inconvenience for BlackBerry users with a Gmail account who want to access those messages on the go and also a signal to RIM more than anything else, said analyst Roger Entner.

‘Symbolic gesture’

“It’s a more symbolic gesture, as if you want it to work you can make it work but the app makes it easier,” said Entner, founder of market research firm Recon Analytics LLC in Dedham, Massachusetts.

BlackBerry users that want to access their Gmail accounts will still be able to do so on their phone’s Web browser, or by synchronizing their Google account with BlackBerry service.

Google said it is stopping development of its app for BlackBerrys to focus on the mobile browser experience, without elaborating further.

RIM said in an e-mailed statement that the BlackBerry operating system supports “native” Gmail so a dedicated app is not needed to access its messages. Native describes the ability to synch e-mail to your BlackBerry. The large majority of BlackBerry Gmail users already rely on that native support, the company said.

RIM’s share of the global smartphone market fell 5 percentage points to 10 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier, according to research firm IDC. Its market share in the US alone dropped to 9 per cent from 24 per cent, according to another researcher Canalys.

Google, Motorola

While RIM is struggling to shift its entire range of devices onto a new operating system and revive interest in its PlayBook tablet, its base of more than 70 million subscribers remains a threat to competitors.

Google is seeking approval for its $12.5 billion purchase of handset maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, which would turn it into a hardware maker as well as software and search engine company.

“Google is sticking it to RIM because RIM has become more and more of a competitor, from an ecosystem perspective and, pending the Motorola acquisition, from a device perspective,” said Entner.

Google closed down 1.9 per cent to $600.95.

RIM said in a separate statement that the company is investigating reports that some users in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have experienced delays. There is no system-wide outage, the company said.

The BlackBerry network suffered a three-day outage last month after problems that began in Europe spread to North and South America, disrupting access for millions of BlackBerry users.

RIM said the delays were caused by the failure of a backup switch when a core switch failed, resulting in a large backlog of data that spread across the network.

Pictures of first BBX smartphone leaked

Pictures and specifications of what people believe will be the first BlackBerry device based on Research In Motion’s (RIM) forthcoming BBX operating system (OS) have appeared on the net via technology blog The Verge.

The design of the touchscreen device — which has been dubbed the BlackBerry
London — is a far cry from RIM’s iconic (and flailing) BlackBerry candybar handsets. However, the BlackBerry London draws aesthetic inspiration from the clean lines and metallic detail seen on RIM’s Porsche Design P9981 handset which was introduced in October.

The London is “thinner than the iPhone 4,” writes The Verge and “allegedly is equipped with a TI OMAP dual-core CPU clocked to 1.5GHz, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of onboard storage, an 8-megapixel rear camera, and a 2-megapixel front-facing shooter.”

Technology blog BGR backs up the claims and reveals that the device “should in fact launch as the company’s first BBX-based smartphone.”

According to the two blogs, the launch date is still a long way off; the BlackBerry London may not be available until the third quarter of 2012.

ZDNet editor in chief Larry Dignan comments on Twitter that, “RIM’s rebound always seems just a few quarters away.” With Mobile World Congress (MWC) coming up in February 2012 and a slew of powerful new smartphones on the horizon RIM will have to act fast to stay competitive.

HTC will reportedly unveil “the most the most powerful smartphone the world has ever seen” during MWC. The Android smartphone will be shipped with a Nvidia quad-core processor and will feature a cutting-edge 4.7″ display.

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