Friday, February 14, 2014

Article: Report: Asus plans two new Chromebooks, the C200 and C300

Following the recent release of a Chromebox, Asus is planning to offer a pair of Chromebooks, the company’s first such devices. The plans are shown on a reported Asus strategic document found by VR-Zone and spotted by Liliputing. No details about the Chromebooks are available in the document exce...

http://gigaom.com/2014/02/14/asus-chromebook-c200-c300-tablet/

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Article: Apple Files Patent For Automated Disposable Email Addresses To Help Handle Spam

A new Apple patent application published today (via AppleInsider) details a system for heading off email spam and tracking its source. The tech automates a process many people now use manually, setting up temporary email addresses to be used for web service signups, which can then be thrown away ...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/apple-files-patent-for-automated-disposable-email-addresses-to-help-handle-spam/

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Thursday, February 13, 2014

Article: Humans Account for Less Than 40% of Global Web Traffic

If you own or manage a website, you probably refer to analytics to track performance, and help you strategize. It may surprise you, however, that 61.5% of all web traffic around the world comes from bots — both good and bad. According to a recent report from Incapsula, a cloud-based application d...

http://mashable.com/2014/02/12/human-bot-web-traffic/

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Article: Why Traffic To These Google Alternatives Is Soaring

What you look for on the Internet reveals a lot about you, which is why a growing number of people are turning to services that do not track their searches and offer greater privacy protections than Google. “The consciousness is only slowly building on the dangers,” says Robert Beens, CEO of Dutc...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2014/02/10/why-traffic-to-these-google-alternatives-is-soaring/

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Article: Google and VMware team up to put your Windows desktop on Chromebooks

So, your bosses have replaced most of the office computers with Chromebooks, but you need those old Windows apps to keep you sane. If the IT folks aren't on top of it already, you may want to tell them about a remote access solution developed by Google and VMware called Horizon Desktop as a Servi...

http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/13/google-vmware-chromebooks-windows-remote/?ncid=rss_truncated

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