Updated Dell Vostro laptops have no trialware
Dell has recently updated its range of Vostro laptops with models 1320, 1520, and 1720. As you’d expect the hardware and features have all been revamped, but it is another addition, or lack […]
View ArticlePure Google? Verizon sneaks two bloatware apps onto the Galaxy Nexus
If you thought that buying the Galaxy Nexus would give you the Pure Google Experience that it’s marketed as, you would only be mostly right. While you will indeed get an unskinned version […]
View ArticleLenovo bolts Start Menu bloatware onto Windows 8 systems
Bringing back the Start Button apparently wasn’t enough for Lenovo. The world’s biggest PC manufacturer has decided to start shipping Pokki Menu — a Start Menu replacement app — on its systems. The […]
View ArticleNew Samsung Chromebook 2 introduces bloatware to Chrome OS
Samsung has announced two new Chromebooks available in April that introduce “premium apps” valued at $100 with the historically bloatware-free Chrome OS. The cool thing about Chromebooks is that...
View ArticleSamsung caught disabling Windows Update on its computers
It’s annoying enough when manufacturers throw useless bloatware on their computers, but Samsung might have stooped to a new low. Their software may be actively disabling Windows Updates on users’...
View ArticleLenovo caught using rootkit-like technique to reload bloatware on clean...
Ignoring Microsoft guidance, not providing an opt-out for users, and reloading unwanted bloatware even on clean installs.
View ArticleAmazon’s new smartphone play is being bloatware on your new smartphone
Amazon built a smartphone, and by most reports it sucked pretty hard. Now they’ve found a new way to suck at smartphones: by shoving bloatware onto phones made by other companies. According to […]
View ArticleMicrosoft convinced 74 OEMs to ship their bloatware on smartphones and tablets
Patent licensing deals with Android OEMs have made Microsoft plenty of money in the past few years. But they’ve come up with an even more profitable way to leverage their arrangements with those […]
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