Nuance PDF Reader

The leading supplier of Speech recognition, Imaging, PDF and OCR solutions, is announcing the release of the Nuance PDF Reader, which enables users to do much more than just view PDF files. It takes up less disk space, is more secure than Adobe® Reader®, and works with virtually any PDF file. Best of all, it’s absolutely free, proving that you really can get a whole lot of something for nothing.

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Conficker and more. What we should be afraid of?

Permanent member Conficker strongly holds the first places in virus charts; another group of INF/Autorun fades on popularity.

Just like every month ESET Corporation published actual statistics of virus happening, so now we can take a closer look into a present virus romping. It became classics, that Conficker which carries on would keep all gold medals in imaginary malware Olympics for a couple of months now. In January Conficker won a first place with a 10% rate so each 10th infection keeps the name of Conficker.

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What is the Fate of the Yahoo Search Engine?

Finally, after many years of competition, there has been talk that Yahoo and Microsoft are already starting to meet about a future collaboration. With Google as every existing search engine’s biggest competitor, it is no wonder that more companies are starting to rethink the strategy of continuing to be islands in the greater technological sea.

There are still deals to be made that will stipulate that the Yahoo and Bing search engines will be powered exclusively by the Microsoft Bing engine. Although it is not crystal clear about how the collaboration will benefit Yahoo or Bing separately, it has only been stated by Microsoft that with the lessons learned in the implementation of both search engines, a lot of enhancement in tools, key topics, and data listings can be looked forward to by both Bing and Yahoo users. Otherwise, the whole world still remains in the dark about what to really expect.

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Top Annoyances of the Web (and you thought they fixed them already!)

Let’s face it, the internet has already impacted much of our lives. Most of us have adapted to the technology that permeates everyday living but shouldn’t we pause first and ask ourselves if it is right that we have to change our lives in order to accommodate the demands of an online world? Or do we have to wait for technology to improve for the web to fit seamlessly into our lifestyle? I am asking this question because right now I will show you a list annoyances that I consider to be so important that they makes me think of whether or not the internet is really headed in the right direction. We have a choice: Should we ignore them and work around the annoyances, or actually fix them?

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2010 Ushers in a Variety of New Touchscreen Cameras

The year 2010 brings nine touchscreen cameras to the market, all of which are beginning to cause a stir with the digital junkies. With their new and unique features, these cameras make their debut (or are about to make their debut) and offer pleasant features in terms of touchscreen functions, connectivity, style and design. Here are the nine touchscreen digital cameras that will surely have you thinking about replacing your current camera this year:

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Mobilizing Windows 7

Here is exciting news to owners and fans of smart phones powered by the mobile version of Microsoft Windows. There will be a major upgrade of the operating system to Windows 7. The mobile edition of the operating system will be called Windows Phone 7 Series and will be soon available at the start of the holiday season of 2010.

Gone is the familiar start menu where most of the access to software takes place. Instead, what the user sees in the display screen is an optimized user interface that utilizes clean and visually appealing tiles representing the most favorite or the most used software. Tiles not only represent software and data that reside inside the phone’s memory, they may be used as live shortcuts to websites such as Facebook or Twitter. The live links to the websites work in such a way that when any of your friends updates their status, the tiles set up to represent these websites get updated too. While this is could be a very obvious step forward, people who are used to static displays will find this new feature unsettling at first but way cooler, nonetheless.

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Things Old and New That Do Not Work

In this age of modern computers and amazing gadgets, it would be right to assume that most of the fundamental problems regarding technology should have been fixed already. After all, these problems have very straightforward solutions and it doesn’t really require ten Albert Einsteins’ to fix them.

One age old problem is the absence of a universal standard for the wall plug. This problem already borders on the ridiculous. I remember owning a cell phone charger whose plug is as big as the plug that goes with my 2 horsepower air conditioner. Yes, plugs come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. What works in one country does not work in another. Good thing most chargers accept a wide range of voltages. Imagine the mess if chargers only work in one voltage (i.e. 110 volts only) and when you go to Europe, you find out that you couldn’t charge your cell phone because the current over there runs on 220 volts. Steps are being undertaken in the right direction. Nowadays, most cell phones and digital cameras can be charged using a USB connection. Still, there are six types of USB plugs and there is no set pattern that dictates whether a Type A connector should be used or Type B. Cell phones and compact digital cameras have roughly the same dimensions because they need to be held with one hand. So it would be safe to assume that because of similar form factors, they would use the same size of USB connector. But, as you may have observed, your cellular phone’s USB cable won’t fit in the USB socket of your camera. Standardization of the USB standard needs further work. Because of the rapid rate of obsolescence of electronic gadgets, managing the ever growing heap of incompatible power cables with different plugs is becoming a serious environmental problem. If plugs were standardized they could just simply be reused as is, which is a far better deal than getting them recycled.

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