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By Mike Williams Emsisoft is a New Zealand-based company which has been providing antivirus solutions since 2003. Recently it’s been doing particularly good work fighting ransomware, and the company regularly releases free decrypters to recover files without paying the ransom. Emsisoft’s core product is Anti-Malware, a versatile offering which uses two engines (Bitdefender’s and Emsisoft’s…

By Nick Pino Update: Amazon Echo is on sale today in the US temporarily. The Alexa-enabled smart home speaker has been a $50 price drop, but that deal expires at midnight. The Amazon Echo is about to get its biggest upgrade yet – a touch screen and a camera. The new device is called the…

By Joe Osborne Convertible laptops have been refined down to a science since their awkward first steps onto the market a few years ago, and Samsung is perhaps most representative of this. The firm’s Notebook 9 Pro is the best example of meteoric improvement we’ve seen in awhile. Available in both 13.3 and 15-inch varieties,…

By Desire Athow Android TV boxes, often associated with Kodi, have had a bit of a bad press lately because of piracy concerns, but they can also be used as desktop replacement devices – real alternatives to bulky Windows PCs, especially in offices that have embraced BYOD and where mobile working is second nature. The…

By Mike Williams Most big-name antivirus companies like to boast about their years of experience, but few can match G Data. Not only has the German developer been around for more than 30 years, it also claims to have developed the first antivirus program way back in 1985. Fast forward to 2017 and G Data…

By Mike Williams It may not make as many headlines as some of the competition, but Trend Micro is a security giant, its wide range of enterprise, virtual, business and consumer products bringing in an annual revenue of $1.1 billion (around £870 million). The home product range starts with Trend Micro Antivirus+ Security, a simple…

By Cat Ellis You don’t need a dedicated device to enjoy ebooks. There are some excellent free apps around for reading them on your desktop too, and Calibre is one of the best. Calibre is a free, open source ebook reader that’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux, with an extra portable version for Windows…

By Mark Wilson Every decent quality image editor draws comparisons with Photoshop, but On1 Effects could be one of the few that stacks up very well, and it’s free of charge. That’s not to say that this is a Photoshop copy – far from it. In fact, when you fire up the program, you would…

By Henrietta Rowlatt The Taiwanese component giant Gigabyte have been making their P34 range of gaming laptops for a while now. We reviewed one of its previous incarnations favorably back in 2014. They’re a quality, or should we say mature, gaming line. They’re sometimes not the fastest, flashiest ones out there, instead they’ve got a…

By Mike Williams Bratislava-based ESET was founded by a group of friends some 25 years ago to market their NOD antivirus product. These days it has a broad portfolio of products covering all the major platforms, and is used by 100 million customers all around the world. ESET NOD32 Antivirus is the company’s baseline product.…

By Jon Mundy We’ve built up some pretty straightforward expectations for a new Amazon Fire 7 tablet. Each iteration is going to be a solid but basic mini tablet that acts as a 7-inch window onto the sprawling Amazon ecosystem. But what we expect above all else is that a new Amazon Fire 7 is…

By Mark Wilson Google offers a huge range of online services, but the problem with most of them is that you are tied to your web browser when you want to use them. If you use multiple Google tools – such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive and so on – you may find that…

By Desire Athow When it comes to tablets or laptops, the bare minimum you should be looking for to run Windows 10 comfortably is a quad-core (or quad-thread) device with 4GB of system memory and 64GB on-board storage (eMMC is okay, but preferably SSD). Cube, a newcomer to TechRadar Pro, unveiled the iWork 1X at…

By Andrew Williams If you’re new to tablets, the Amazon Fire HD 8 (2017) is one of the most appealing deals going. It costs just $80/£80, is slim and portable and gives you access to a lot of the apps you have on your phone, but on a bigger screen. Those already familiar with the…

At the Lenovo Transforms event in New York City, Lenovo senior VP Christian Teismann showed off a crazy foldable laptop concept with a flexible screen. Will the device ever become a reality? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers