There you go, after many rumors, we finally get a glance at the Asus Eee Pad, a 12″ tablet that is powered by an Intel Core Duo CULV (low voltage) processor. Yes, I know, it’s kind of surprising, as one would have expected an Atom or something like that in there - even if it runs Windows 7 Home Premium.
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Half of the enterprise computers running the aged Windows XP operating system are still relying on the soon-to-be-retired Service Pack 2 (SP2), a researcher said today.

According to security risk and compliance management provider Qualys, 50% of the several hundred thousand PCs it monitors for its clients are still running Windows XP SP2.

“The normal thing for IT is not to muck around with something that works,” said Wolfgang Kandek, chief technology officer for Qualys, as he tried to explain why corporations have stuck with 2004’s SP2 and not updated to SP3, which debuted two years ago.
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Motorola is looking at developing a new tablet-style product that could run Google’s Android operating system, a company exec recently revealed. Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha was answering questions at a conference when the topic came up.

The conference, an investor-driven event in New York City, took place on Thursday. After spending some time talking about Motorola’s focus on Android — “nearly all” of Motorola’s energy is being spent on Android these days, Jha divulged — the conversation shifted to Motorola’s plans for mobile devices outside of the smartphone arena.
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Apple passed a major milestone today, becoming the world’s largest technology company as measured by the total value of its shares.

Near the close of trading on the Nasdaq exchange, Apple’s market capitalization stood at $223 billion, higher than No. 2 Microsoft, which had a market cap of $219.3 billion.

It was the first time that Apple’s total share worth climbed above its rival’s.
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LG Display is currently showcasing a sleek, 47-inch 3D LCD television in Seattle, along with a host of next-gen panels.

According to OLED-Display, the giant 57-incher - which is best viewed with polarized glasses - dramatically reduces crosstalk to less than 1 percent.

In addition, LG is showing off the world’s largest 84-inch UHD 3D panel (up to 3840X2160 resolution), along with a 47-inch TV panel that uses a liquid lens to eliminate the need for 3D glasses.
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Two years after fixing a security bug in the Windows version of its Safari browser, Apple apparently has decided that Mac users can go without a fix.

Apple was initially unimpressed by Nitesh Dhanjani’s work developing what’s known as a “carpet bomb” attack, the security researcher said in an interview Monday. “I told Apple about it two years ago, and they responded back, saying it was more of an annoyance than anything else.”

That turned out to be the wrong assessment. Soon after Dhanjani went public with the flaw in May 2008, another security researcher showed how carpet bombing could be combined with another Windows attack to run unauthorized software on a Windows PC. Apple then shipped a fix for Safari on Windows, but not for Safari on Mac OS X.
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A handful of folks who got their hands on the HTC Evo 4G at the recent Google I/O 2010 event have managed to root the device over the weekend, where at this point in time, we can enjoy the rather blurry video you see here could very well be a foretelling of things to come. Do you think the iPhone 4G will be easier to jailbreak?
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