Late last year, Jabra released a new Bluetooth headset, the Stone, exclusively with AT&T.  The Stone features an innovative design that fits in the palm of your hand, even while connected to its charger. The Jabra Stone is now available for $109.95 in the WMExperts Store. [Sponsored post] .. more »

Computer security is big business these days, and with good reason. You’ve got to protect your computer not just from online threats like viruses and malware, but also from old-fashioned crimes like theft. Dozens of programs exist only to protect you and your data from these threats. One such program, included with the Enterprise and Ultimate ve.. more »

So, I’m not the biggest fan of netbooks, but I do see their place among PC’s. I actually tried to pull my brother away from purchasing a netbook because I thought he would want something with a bit more functionality. I was wrong. He seldom ever uses his netbook for anything other than sitting on the couch and monitoring his fantasy basketball and .. more »

Like many computer users I’m always interested in trying something new. This means I’m often looking for new applications and registry hacks on the web to improve my computer operation. Sometimes these exploits end up in disaster. Every time I download an application, install a new game, perform a software update, I’m making changes to my comput.. more »

What’s your speculation on the big announcements to come from MIX10 ? A date for VS 2010 availability on MSDN? A release candidate for Silverlight 4 on the desktop? An SDK for Silverlight on Windows Mobile 7? A CTP of Internet Explorer 9? Something (anything!) new on Windows Live ID development? More JQuery in ASP.NET? Alas, the vast majority of .N.. more »

In this article, Ashic Mahtab shows an elegant, reusable and unobtrusive way in which to persist sensitive data to the browser in hidden inputs and restoring them on postback without needing to change any code in controllers or actions. The approach is an improvement of his previous article and incorporates a per session salt during .. more »

It no longer requires a big budget to design, develop and distribute a commercial, online game. Wild Pockets, a spin off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, is democratizing game development and making it accessible to everyone. Its development platform provides an easy way for anyone to create, publish and monetize 3D.. more »

I am in Austin, Texas at the SXSW Music, Film and Interactive Festival this weekend attending panels and moderating one of my own. I had a chance to sit in at a panel about “App-vertising.” The premise of the panel was the large and increasing...(read more).. more »

, the technical evangelist for Bing Maps, led a fascinating panel at South By Southwest on Sunday morning with map experts from Foursquare, Twitter, Navtec and Flickr talking about the future of mapping. The panelists discussed their anticipated future at which online maps are overlaid with more and more data: personal history of places you’ve be.. more »

Some of the things we’re doing with social media, sometimes in pursuit of profit, and sometimes in pursuit of more altruistic efforts to improve online community, can have some significant and unexpected consequences for users in terms of privacy expectations. That point was driven home by danah boyd of Microsoft Research in her keynote pr.. more »

Posted by Steve Ballmer Chief Executive Officer President Obama on Thursday expanded on his National Export Initiative, calling attention to the importance of robust protection for intellectual property rights in assuring our nation’s prosperity. We applaud...(read more).. more »

that Facebook’s search traffic grew 13% in January with 395 million searches, up from 351 million U.S. search queries in December of 2009. raised the question earlier this week. Here’s what it says: “Eventbrite is partnering with Facebook to enable you to collect money for your event. Your attendees pay with credit card and Eventbrite collec.. more »

about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 4.0. Thus far, XNA Game Studio has been primarily used to develop casual games for the Xbox 360 and, more recently, to create games for the Zune HD. ... Long story short, Klucher confirmed that XNA Game Studio 4.0 will support game development on Windows Phone 7 Series phones, but not on the Zune HD. Well that's a .. more »

Are you having an issue with USB ports and your OEM Windows Home Server? I am. Think you have a solution? For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

Back at CES, one of the biggest news items was the announcement of the Ceton 4 CableCard Tuner card for Media Center. Since then news has been a bit scarce, and now the announcement has been made that the card is available for pre-order and will be shipping May 31st. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

If you are using DA Document Manager, or if you are thinking of using it, you might be interested in watching some demonstration videos that the guys over at Group Seven Technology have posted. For the full article, please visit http://usingwindowshomeserver.com.. more »

TrustedReviews.com has a review of the Acer easyStore H340. their 2 page review takes a good look at the Acer Home Server, which gets an impressive 8 out of 10 as an overall score. You can read their review here. .. more »

Earlier this month, Take-Two announced the potential movement of one of the titles planned for release in its fiscal fourth quarter, extending from August to October. The choices were: LA Noire, Mafia 2, Max Payne 3, or Civilization V. During our demo of Mafia 2 on Wednesday, we were told the game would make its Q4 release, removing it from the .. more »

The latest trailer for EA's upcoming reboot of the Medal of Honor series, which debuted this week on GTTV, really goes out of its way to explain exactly the kind of gentlemen you'll be piloting this summer. These guys are Tier One Operators -- "experts in the application of violence." That seems pretty self-explanatory ... but we've never been .. more »

A trio of new images from the upcoming DLC for BioWare's Mass Effect 2... more »