Time for fall cleaning of your PC: Lose the junkware

From the PCMike NBC-TV Report…It’s autumn and time to get ready for winter. But don’t stop with the house and yard. Your computer also needs some attention. Just like we insulate our homes against the elements, so we need to insulate our computers against outside threats.

At the start of every season, you need get rid of the Adware and Spyware. All it takes is a few months for all sorts of needless software to sneak into your computer, gunk that is secretly installed by questionable websites to snoop on your privacy, deliver you unwanted ads and generally clog and clutter your computer. Read more

Free protection offer for your PC

Microsoft has a pretty good free offer going with its new Windows Live OneCare protection package for the PC. You can try the whole package for three months at no cost. OneCare provides anti-virus and anti-spyware filtering and screening, online ID protection, a firewall, printer sharing and multi-PC management features.

If you want to try Windows Live OneCare free for 90 days just download the free trial.

CNN does interviews with full body hologram images

TV interviews will never be the same. Now they’re able to literally “beam” people into their newsrooms. Amazing where tech is going. Right out os science fiction movies. CNN goes Star Wars, debuts live holograms.

Circuit City to close 155 stores

Electronics retailer Circuit City has become the latest industry name to scale back its operations.
The company announced is closing 155 stores throughout the country, representing about 20 per cent of its total retail operation.
Circuit City to close 155 stores - vnunet.com.

Surfing the Net while watching TV

Nearly a third of all U.S. household Internet activity takes place while the user watches television, suggesting new and old media often share rather than compete for attention, the Nielsen Company said in a report.
Nielsen finds strong TV-Internet usage overlap.

The end of print newspapers?

The Christian Science Monitor newspaper will become the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with its website. It’s another sign of the times as newspapers suffer massive circulation and advertising losses and search for ways to stay open.
Across the country, layoffs, downsizing and early buyouts have decimated most newsrooms. The move to the Web for the 100-year-old Christian Science Monitor signals what may indeed be the end of the print newspaper as we;ve known it.
Monitor shifts from print to Web-based strategy.

Hyundai makes a Macmobile

Call it the Macmobile.
Hyundai has equipped its luxuty Genesis sedan with a showroom full of Apple gear that includes three computers - a MacBook Air and two Mac minis - an iPhone, an iPod, slide out wireless keyboards built into the back of the front seats and, in the trunk, a 24-inch Mac Cinema Display for those tailgate parties.
Head alout it at the
iPhone Tattler.

Apple to exchange faulty iPhone power adapters

Apple said some power adapters for the latest iPhone can break and lead to the risk of electric shock and urged users to exchange them, although no injuries have been reported.
The company said the ultra-compact USB adapters in question have metal prongs that can break off. Apple to exchange faulty iPhone power adapters.

33% of internet non-users are not interested in the internet

Some 27% of adults in the United States do not use the internet. A third of them don’t want to, either.
33% of internet non-users are not interested in the internet.

US broadband users pay $34.50 a month on average

Home broadband users reported that their monthly payment for internet service was $34.50 - 4% less than the figure of $36 per month reported in December 2005.2 This decline in monthly broadband bills is half the rate (8%) reported over the February 2004 to December 2005 timeframe.
US broadband users pay $34.50 a month on average IT Facts.

Apple Geniuses being challenged by Mircrosoft Gurus

It’s a battle of the geeks and nerds! Who’s the smartest? Who’s copying who? Microsoft calling up Gurus to take on Apple’s Geniuses.

Spy shots reveal sneak peek at Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid

The folks at DVICE can hardly wait for GM to roll out its $40,000 Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car in late 2010. But besides a couple of shots of the headlights and a part of the car’s rear end, it’s been cloaked in mystery. Until now.

DVICE: Spy shots reveal sneak peek at Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid.

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