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About Comodo Antivirus

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

About Comodo Antivirus

Comodo Antivirus is a free antivirus program for Windows developed by Comodo Group, Inc.

Comodo Antivirus offers a great deal of total PC protection without a price tag attached. It features a comprehensive virus detection, in-depth reports on viral activity and can even scan archive files like ZIP and RAR. This antivirus program also interrelates with users for suspicious files submission with an immediate feed back from possible threats and virus. It also works with any default PC firewalls for much sturdy protection from big fish web threats which is ever present and cunning.

Aside from the mentioned above, it also comprise unique and effective features like proactive analysis, immediate virus updates, worm blocker and a sturdy quarantine system for effective isolation of web threats and viruses.

Overall, Comodo Antivirus delivers astuteness for holistic PC protection. Compared to other stripped down commercial antivirus software, Comodo is completely functional and never expires. This is definitely a considerable option for software wise users.
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Most Android tablets fail at GPL compliance

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Most Android tablets fail at GPL compliance

Matthew Garrett has been doing a bit of Saint Nick’s job for him — checking to see who’s naughty and nice for GPL compliance on Android tablets. The list comes a bit after Christmas, but it appears that many of the vendors shipping Android tablets deserve nothing but coal in their stockings.

Garrett, by day (or whenever it is he does his work hacking) is employed by Red Hat to work on power management. Garrett is also well-known for looking into GPL compliance on consumer devices. This time around he’s put together a list of offending devices that ship the Linux kernel (as part of Android), yet fail to comply with the GPL by providing source code. If you have an Android tablet from Sylvania or Viewsonic, Smart Devices, a Panda Pad 2, a XPad or one of many other Android tablets from vendors that aren’t household names, you’ve likely got a tablet that’s infringing on the GPL. One of Viewsonic’s tablets is listed as compliant, two aren’t.
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Cloud Drives Red Hat Back to Asia

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

Cloud Drives Red Hat Back to Asia

Closing the year on a high note with a 75 percent share of the Linux market and analysts salivating over its position in the tech industry’s three hot areas of open-source software, cloud computing and virtualization, Red Hat has recommitted itself to the Asian Market.

The database beat of the Bangkok Post quoted Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, vice president of Red Hat Asia Pacific, as saying expanding cloud-computing opportunities with governments and growing the acceptance of open-source solutions are the company’s priorities in the region.
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Mozilla launches 2010′s last Firefox 4 beta

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

Mozilla launches 2010′s last Firefox 4 beta

Mozilla shipped Firefox 4 Beta 8, the last preview it will release this year before it makes a run toward a final version in 2011.

Originally slated to appear last month, then delayed until December, Beta 8 of the open-source browser first appeared today, a day later than planned, on Mozilla’s official download site and as updates for existing preview users.

The newest beta includes simplified setup for Firefox Sync, Mozilla’s bookmark, password and open tabs synchronization service; additional Windows and Mac graphics card support for WebGL, the under-development standard for 3-D graphics rendering; and a revamped extension manager that silently updates any installed add-ons .

According to Mozilla, Beta 8 also sports more than 1,400 bug fixes or changes from its predecessor, which launched six weeks ago .

Although Mozilla once said it would wrap up work on Firefox 4 this year, delays this fall forced the company to push the final release date into 2011 . Currently, Mozilla plans to produce at least two more betas — it won’t finalize a timetable for Beta 9 until after Jan. 1 — and then a series of “release candidates” before greenlighting the code.

Beta 8 also was slightly faster than Beta 7 in rendering JavaScript.

According to quick tests run by Computerworld using the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite, Firefox 4 Beta 8 is about 5% faster than its forerunner.

Mozilla had previously added other major features to Firefox 4, ranging from a new JavaScript JIT (Just In Time) compiler, dubbed “JagerMonkey,” in Beta 7; hardware acceleration in Beta 5 last September; and a new tab manager, dubbed “Panorama,” in Beta 4 a month earlier.

Alongside Beta 8 for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, Mozilla today also issued an updated beta of its mobile browser, which runs on Android-powered smartphones. Changes in the mobile edition of Firefox were more noticeable, and included revisions to the user interface, changes to the add-on discovery process, and like its desktop cousin, streamlined Firefox Sync setup.

Firefox 4 Beta 8 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Mozilla’s site.

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Chrome OS: The Next Big Thing or Not?

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Chrome OS: The Next Big Thing or Not?

Chrome OS definitely made a noise since its unveiling. Though still in beta, many were already wondering if the operating system can make or break it. Still, it is too early to make a chromey prediction.

After Google unveiled its Chrome OS, many alternating headlines came to the scene. Some says that Chrome OS faces serious risk of failure, while other thinks that the new operating system will succeed. So what will it be?

As Jason Perlow — a technology blogger at ZDnet — puts it: “If you know how to use a browser, you pretty much already know how to use Chrome OS.” If you are using Chrome on your chosen OS, then there’s not really any transition to the operating system. With Chrome OS, the browser is the operating system. So in one way or another, the Chrome OS will succeed. But if you asked whether the world is ready for it, that is another issue.
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