Netbooks: Moving in Right Next Door to Useless
Netbooks are apparently surging in popularity. Some of the more recent data suggests that some 30 million netbooks will be sold this year. That’s a fair amount of hardware. Clearly, people are hot for netbooks. I just don’t see why. Netbooks are like like a regular laptop except they are smaller. Kind of like the iPhone or one of the 20 Android phones coming out. They aren’t as powerful as a regular laptop, but you can do basic web surfing, texting and Twittering. Kind of like...
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Tip: Recover your password via text message
Posted by Cristelle Blackford, Online Operations Strategist Even the best of us forget our passwords from time to time. In fact, recovering passwords is one of the top reasons people visit the Gmail Help Center. To help with these situations, we recently added the ability to recover your password via text message. To turn this on for your account, just sign in, select ‘Change Password Recovery Options,’ enter your cell phone number and click ‘Save.’ Next time you forget...
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Switched On: With Google, this is not your father’s OS war
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Google’s incursions into software — particularly in strategic markets for Microsoft, are like an Earth-bound asteroid. Observers see it coming for a long time, and fear its impact will be devastating when it finally arrives. So far, though, Google’s major software forays have been anything but cataclysmic, and Microsoft hasn’t even had to send Bruce Willis into space to stop them. On...
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