Chrome 17 is out with a new prerendering feature designed to make your pages load faster, and both Firefox and Opera have also released speedy new versions since our last round of speed tests. So, we’ve once again pitted the four most popular web browsers against each other in a battle of startup times, tab loading times, and more, with more surprising results. More »
First time accepted submitter wrldwzrd89 writes “The Document Foundation, the team behind the free and open-source office suite called LibreOffice, has released their latest and greatest version. As is typical with major releases of LibreOffice, there are significant new features making their debut in this version. The component with the biggest upgrade is Calc, which now has support for up to 10,000 sheets per workbook among its new features. Also noteworthy among the new features is support for importing Microsoft Visio files in Impress and Draw. The full feature list is available in a PDF hosted on Dropbox; LibreOffice itself can be downloaded here.”
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Have no doubt about this: Apple is revamping their MacBook Pro line in 2012 in a radical way—not merely evolutionary. We know this not because of the usual rumors, but because there is no way this will not happen. More »
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We’ve all been there. You’re setting up a shot that perfectly frames your friend against the background but as you snap your picture the people in the background start moving around and mess it all up. The picture is ruined, your friend looks like a bobbing ocean buoy amongst a sea of people and you hate everyone. Scalado thinks it’s come up with a new camera technology that can fix that all too common situation, it’s called Remove. More »
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Nortel Networks suffered a security breach that for almost a decade gave attackers with Chinese IP addresses access to executive network accounts, technical papers, employee emails and other sensitive documents at the once-thriving telecommunications firm, The Wall Street Journal reported (subscription required).
The publication, citing a former 19-year Nortel employee who oversaw the investigation into the hack, said Nortel did nothing to keep out the hackers except to change seven compromised passwords that belonged to the CEO and other executives. The company “made no effort to determine if its products were also compromised by hackers,” the WSJ said. Nortel, which sold off parts of its business as part of a 2009 bankruptcy filing, spent about six months investigating the breach and didn’t disclose it to prospective buyers.
The infiltration dated as far back as 2000 and allowed the hackers “access to everything,” Brian Shields, who was a senior adviser for systems security at Nortel, told the WSJ. By 2009—five years after a breach was first discovered, he found rootkits still burrowed deep into some of the laptops he examined. They were using an encrypted channel to send e-mail and other sensitive information to servers near Beijing.
Security experts call the type of attacks described in the report APTs, or advanced persistent threats. The term came into vogue in early 2010, following a disclosure by Google that it was the victim of a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” that stole intellectual property and information used to spy on Gmail users. APTs differ from financially motivated attacks in that they’re aimed at a particular company or group of companies and the hackers behind them are willing to remain dormant for months or years so they can surreptitiously access as much sensitive data as possible.
RSA has said that it was a victim of an APT, in an attack that exposed information that could compromise the effectiveness of two-factor SecurID tokens 40 million employees use to access corporate and government networks around the world. Military contractor Lockheed Martin also disclosed a breach it said was aided by the theft of that confidential RSA data. Other companies reported to suffer APTs in the past few years include Morgan Stanley, Exon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Marathon Oil, ConocoPhillips, and Baker Hughes.
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If you’ve been relying on a satellite modem for your daily dose of the Internet, you’re probably all too familiar with sub-1Mbps download speeds and an overall painful experience. That’s exactly why we’ve been so impressed with ViaSat and its new 12Mbps down, 3Mbps up Exede residential satellite broadband product. Yesterday, we journeyed deep into Camp Pendleton near San Diego to test out those 12/3Mbps speeds on the go-anywhere SurfBeam 2 Pro Portable, and now we’re back to play around with the enterprise setup’s more stationary sibling, the SurfBeam 2 Pro. The modem functions in much the same way as ViaSat’s less-expensive household version, though there’s a bit more horsepower under the hood.
The sample we saw at the company’s Carlsbad, CA headquarters is also provisioned for faster service, delivering throughput in excess of 40Mbps down, letting you transfer files from the web at speeds you’d typically only be able to meet with a fiber connection. That may be a bit excessive for regular web use, but if you need to download software, movies or other large files in remote areas, that extra speed will likely be more than welcome. Join us past the break for a quick look a Exede, followed by a demo of the enterprise version and its 40Mbps downloads.
Gallery: ViaSat SurfBeam 2 Pro hands-on
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All told, whatever the mix of smartphones and tablets, we’re going to be chugging down an insane amount of data: 10.8 exabytes per month, worldwide, or 130 exabytes annually — a lofty sum that breaks down to 33 billion DVDs, among other cutesy equivalents. One last figure before we sent you off into a statistic-laced coma: 4G will account for only six percent of mobile connections by 2016, but is expected to generate 36 percent of mobile data traffic. We’ll let you newly minted LTE adopters chew on your piggy data-hogging habits; the rest of you can find more numbers in the PR after the break.
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Torrent sites have been having a turbulent time recently, but that doesn’t bother BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen. Instead, he’s insistent that peer-to-peer sharing is the future of the way we consume media. More »
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We installed the app (designed for Gingerbread) on two of Samsung’s flagship devices — our Galaxy Nexus HSPA+ and our global Galaxy S II. The primary UI is simple and looks pretty much like any other basic camera app. Just tap the on-screen shutter key and Remove quickly takes several pictures in a row (the Nexus is about twice as fast as the GS2 here, interestingly). You can touch a second time to stop capture or let the app finish on its own. Remove then magically displays the resulting composite shot which you can save to the gallery by tapping the checkbox at the top right corner of the screen. There’s also a toggle in the same location which lets you switch to a secondary UI that allows you to pick which unwanted details to remove (or keep) from each frame. Of course you can load and re-tweak previous captures at any time to restore (or eliminate) objects after the fact.
Remove introduces a completely new way to capture special moments, and while we experienced occasional issues with the responsiveness of the UI and noticed a couple minors bugs, the app is relatively intuitive and works rather well for a prototype. Take a look at our gallery of sample images and screenshots below and hit the break for the full PR treatment, including Scalado’s concept video.
Gallery: Scalado Remove hands-on
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redletterdave writes “Apple announced on Monday that the Fair Labor Association has begun inspecting Foxconn’s Chinese factories, upon Apple’s request. Apple said that Auret van Heerden, the president of the FLA, is leading a group of labor rights experts in the first round of inspections at the sprawling plant in Shenzhen, China, more informally known as
‘Foxconn City.’ The FLA’s independent assessment — completely supplementary to Apple’s own auditing practices — will involve interviewing thousands of Foxconn employees about the working and living conditions, including working hours, compensation, managerial issues, and health and safety conditions. Foxconn has ‘pledged full cooperation with the FLA,’ and will reportedly allow unrestricted access to all of their operations. The investigative team will report their findings in early March on the FLA’s website. Apple’s other suppliers, including Quanta and Pegatron, will be inspected later this spring. By the time summer rolls around, the FLA hopes to have covered 90 percent of facilities where Apple products are built and assembled.”
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