ESET has released NOD32 Antivirus 6 and Smart Security 6 to public beta, and is attempting to lure early adopters by offering a chance to win one of 500 one-year licences for Smart Security. Top of the new feature list must be Anti-Theft, a web service which aims to help you locate missing devices. If you’ve enabled anything similar [...]
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iPhone meets its match
May 18th, 2012 
admin Finally, initial sales of another smartphone smoke iPhone — that is if leaked numbers prove true. Samsung Galaxy S III goes on sale in 11 days, but preorders reportedly already top 9 million. By comparison, the much-lauded iPhone 4S sold 4 million units, including preorders, during its first three days of availability. At this pace, [...]
Facebook’s IPO is a jackpot for some, despite dark shadow of mobile
May 18th, 2012 admin Today is Facebook Day, the day when the most-successful-social-network-so-far opened up to public investment and outshone all other American IPOs up to this point. With shares initially priced at , Facebook (FB) opened at .99 on the Nasdaq at 11:30am EST on Friday. After a brief delay in trading on Friday, a reported 82 million [...]
Turns text files into 3D-animated ebooks
May 18th, 2012 admin Plain, ordinary text files aren’t normally the most interesting ways to convey information, but if you’d like to change that then Toolwiz FlipBook may be able to help. Just point the program at a particular TXT file, and in a click it’ll be converted into an executable file. And launching this on any Windows PC will display [...]
Infinity Blade Dungeons Gameplay Footage
May 18th, 2012 admin Infinity Blade and Infinity Blade 2 have become widely successful that it earned the respect of gamers everywhere and solidified the iPad as a gaming device to reckon with. Epic Games is not resting on its laurels with their plan to release Infinity Blade Dungeons. Infinity Blade Dungeons lets go of the closer point of [...]
Subscribers complain about annoying Globe iToolbar
May 18th, 2012 admin We received several emails today about the newly implemented Globe iToolbar. The iToolbar appears when you’re using mobile internet or tethering your device to a phone on the Globe network. A few readers pointed out to us that this new implementation is automatically inserted by Globe to any website that your browse on the net. [...]
New iPad 3 Philippine Release on May 29!
May 18th, 2012 admin It’s now confirmed that the new iPad (or the iPad 3) will be officially released in the Philippines on May 29, 2012. Though the page is not yet posted on the Philippine Apple Online Store, they cited that it will be ready by May via local resellers, Globe Telecom and the Online Store by then. [...]
Ditch Windows Explorer, go retro with XFile
May 18th, 2012 admin If you used PCs back in the 1980s then you’ll probably remember that file management was, well, a little basic. To put it politely. But that all changed in 1985 with the arrival of XTree, a powerful file manager that came packed with functionality: the geeks of the day loved its feature set, speed and [...]
Secure your connections with HTTPS Everywhere
May 18th, 2012 admin When browsing the Internet you may well have noticed that some of sites you visit are secure, while others are not. While HTTPS is most often used for secure shopping and banking web sites, there is no reason that connections to other pages should not be encrypted to help improve privacy and security. If this [...]
Windows Phone reaches for the bottom
May 18th, 2012 admin Sometimes, BetaNews readers really amaze me. Three days ago I posted “The measure of Windows Phone failure is…” based on comScore US smartphone OS market share data. To me, it was a trivial story, because I was days late writing about the numbers and posted it more as filler, being short writers (because of holidays [...]
