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1. 
   Review - iTunes for Windows

   9.0.2 (Oct 29, 2009)

   No 64-bit support? Are they serious? LOL!!

2. 
   Review - ThreatFire

   4.6.0.19 (Sep 25, 2009)

   Absolute garbage. I'm starting to really suspect its an alpha release of one part of the next Trend antivirus product, and we're unwitting testers. AVOID.

3. 
   Review - Kaspersky Internet Security 2010

   9.0.0.318 Beta (Apr 22, 2009)

   This is the most unstable thing I've ever seen..I had to get rid of it via Safe Mode. The memory use was well over 100mb. Thank God for System Restore!

4. 
   Review - Comodo Internet Security (32-bit)

   3.9.73015.489 Beta (Apr 12, 2009)

   Defense+ is too sensitive, not smart enough..that you end up just disabling it out of annoyance. Antivirus gets a few that the others don't but misses some that ALL the others detect! Firewall is its strongest point - seems as good or better than anything else I've tried.

5. 
   Review - ThreatFire

   4.1.0.25 (Apr 9, 2009)

   Still giving the "Start menu2" error right at the end of the install..and this is on a brand new XP SP-3 install with nothing but video and NIC drivers. PC Tools support is a joke. I guess this promising little program has become crapware.

6. Comment - Tuning out the tablet: Time to give the endless speculation a rest

   4.1.0.25 (Nov 21, 2009 - 6:52 PM)

   Did you even *read* the article, moron?

7. Comment - Nokia re-affirms its commitment to Symbian, sort of

   4.1.0.25 (Nov 21, 2009 - 6:34 PM)

   Translation: "If the economy improves and people are willing to shell out for MIDs and such, then we'll relegate Symbian to the featurephones so fast you'll forget it was ever a fully-scalable platform."

8. Comment - Nokia's N900 arrives in U.S., bodes the death of Symbian on N-series phones

   4.1.0.25 (Nov 21, 2009 - 6:28 PM)

   That screwed up pseudo-QUERTY is a dealbreaker. They might as well go DVORAK. As for Symbian, I suspect it will be on their featurephones for quite some time.

9. Comment - Apple was NOT more profitable selling cell phones than Nokia in Q3

   4.1.0.25 (Nov 14, 2009 - 12:56 AM)

   I have tried time and again to track down misinformation, propaganda and lies online...and maybe one out of ten times I actually hit pay dirt. Anyone with a domain name can say anything they want and call it news. When that's happening in real-time the temptation to be first with a story often outweighs the need to verify information. Unfortunately this isn't limited to the internet - TV news is nearly as bad these days, esp. since networks are competing with online journalism as well as each other. News sites and channels quote seemingly respectable sources who have gotten their facts from less trustworthy ones..and there may be a whole chain of them. Even in print media this seems to be a growing trend. I actually forced a local paper to post a retraction about something this past spring when I proved their facts were completely wrong. I have friends who've worked for local TV and print who tell me straight-faced that about half the stories include fabricated quotes and other information - " not being able to disprove something is as good as having it proven. Besides, its mostly entertainment anyway," as one such acquaintance told me. If this is the norm with traditional media I can only assume that the internet is ten times worse. In small towns its sometimes hard to get away with this kind of thing because everyone knows everyone. In big cites you have multiple media outlets in fierce competition who will call each other out. The real problem is in small to mid-size cities, esp. if they also happen to be state capitols (Columbus, OH for example). You tend to have a population just big enough that nobody ever runs into the editor of the local paper at 7-11 where they can tell him he got a story wrong. If such a town is a county seat or state capitol it can get really bad, with local media hand-in-hand with influential businesspeople or politicians.

10. Comment - Blockbuster's way down, but poised for a comeback

    4.1.0.25 (Nov 13, 2009 - 11:35 PM)

    I've been saying for years that BB needs digital kiosks for people to load movies straight onto Flash drives, video iPods and the like. Streaming is great and all, but it requires a whole infrastructure of net-connected devices in your home to take advantage of it - not to mention broadband, which a huge swath of America still doesn't have. Imagine if you could go the video store, preview movies on a nice kiosk system, load em' on your flash drive, and have nothing to return later. BB stores could have a single server with all the popular releases and gazillions of pre-HD titles ready to go on demand. A single fat pipe could keep them updated. It would save a ton on handling charges and eventually shelf space as people transitioned to flash from DVDs.