NortonLive Ultimate Help Desk tackles consumer's tech problems 24/7/365

Norton by Symantec announced today its new NortonLive Ultimate Help Desk service – a  24x7 online service and virtual personal IT help desk service for consumers that supports a broad range of computing and digital devices, from PCs to printers to iPod devices, commonly used at home.

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The Apple Beat: The importance of the Verizon iPhone, Motorola's ad aiming for iPad

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

In a few days, the Verizon iPhone 4 will be available in the US for the first time, giving users the very first CDMA iPhone and also offering Americans some real choice of iPhone providers since the device launched in 2007. The world will be watching as the first CDMA iPhone hits the market.

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Kaspersky PURE security suite available online and in stores

Kaspersky Lab recently announced the availability of their Kaspersky PURE suite of security applications for Windows 7. Designed around families and home users, Kaspersky PURE integrates internet protection, parental controls, antivirus solutions, anti-theft solutions and can manage the various computers in a household from one central computer. Kaspersky PURE starts at $89.95 for 1 year protection for three PCs.

Design flaw in Sandy Bridge support chip will cost Intel $700M to fix

Intel Corporation has discovered a design issue in a recently released support chip, the Intel® 6 Series, code-named Cougar Point, and has implemented a silicon fix which will cost the company $700 Million. The chipset is utilized in PCs with Intel’s latest Second Generation Intel Core processors, code-named Sandy Bridge.

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