There is more news hot off the presses again today, but there is also good info and helpful tips. So read on… JRC
Netflix, Starz to break up: One crazy ride ahead to Feb. 28
Contract renewal talks between Netflix and Starz have broken down and the streaming movie and television company is facing a stunning amount of uncertainty in the next few months. How Netflix navigates the next five months will either rattle its standing as the Web’s darling streaming content service or cement it as an elite Hollywood player.
Yahoo, Bartz part ways (roundup)
Carol Bartz is out as CEO at Yahoo. Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse will take over as interim CEO while the company's board searches for a permanent replacement. The trouble was not Carol, but rather her board who have made mistake after mistake and taken a once hot property and driven it into the ground.
Amazon tablet coming in November for $250?
Much ink has been spilled in the rumor mill about a coming Amazonian tablet, and now those rumors look to be confirmed. TechCrunch has apparently gotten some time with Amazon's forthcoming slate, and reports that it has a 7-inch, backlit color capacitive screen and is bereft of physical buttons.
Amazon continues on its mission to disintermediate publishers
What if you could ask the author of a book a question while you were reading the book? That's the kind of world Amazon wants to offer with its new @author feature, which the online bookstore launched on Wednesday. Readers can ask questions directly from their Kindles while they are reading a book.
7 great Office 2010 add-ins
Office 2010 comes with a ton of great features, especially in its ability to connect with SharePoint 2010 and provide the collaboration capabilities that modern Office users need. However, that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement. Here are seven great add-ins you should consider for Office.
Five ways to avoid being tracked on the Web
Web spies are getting stealthier and stealthier. Recently they've been caught peering into our browser histories to determine the sites we've visited, even in so-called privacy mode with cookies disabled. Many of the companies whose sites were discovered using the technique claimed to have had no idea and immediately decried the spying. If the owners of the spying sites aren't even aware of the activity, what are unsuspecting visitors to do?
NASA releases stunning new moon-landing snaps
NASA has released a series of photos of Apollo moon-landing sites that are dramatically improved over previous photos taken as recently as 2009. The photos were taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which was launched on June 18, 2009 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, along with the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite.
Best Free Rootkit Scanner/Remover
Windows rootkits are used to hide malware so that their execution goes unnoticed by your security applications. So imagine that a rootkit has been installed on your computer and that its purpose is to hide a virus, thus giving the malware time to complete its goal, steal your data, and damage your system all the while going undetected. Unfortunately, rootkits are extremely effective at this, which means that even though you may believe your PC to be totally clean, some of you could be infected right now.
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