Tag Archive for: First

New computer? First, unpack; then, uninstall. – Washington Post

So I’d dump the included anti-virus program by clicking the Control Panel’s “Uninstall a program” link-after downloading MSE’s installer and disconnecting the computer from the Internet. (Keeping two anti-virus programs active at once won’t keep you safer …
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DRAM prices to keep falling through the first half of 2011 (Dan Nystedt/Computerworld)

Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
DRAM prices to keep falling through the first half of 2011  —  IDG News Service – The price of DRAM, the main memory inside personal computers, will likely keep falling throughout the first half of next year before a recovery takes hold, analysts and market researchers say.

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FTC names Princeton computer security expert as first chief technologist – Washington Post

The Federal Trade Commission appointed Princeton University professor Edward Felton as its first chief technologist. The enforcement agency, which oversees antitrust issues and the protection of consumers from fraud and deceit, has taken on several high …
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Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle (Tim Carmody/Gadget Lab)

Tim Carmody / Gadget Lab:
Scrabble Is First Paid Game App for Kindle  —  Screenshot of My Kindle, Getting Beat By the Computer – Image: Tim Carmody  —  This might be the happiest chapter in Scrabble’s short digital history: Electronic Arts has released an official version of Scrabble for Kindle.

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