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Microsoft launches Windows Server 2012
While it is in just a few more weeks that Windows 8 will hit store shelves, the Redmond Company has already released its enterprise solution to the market. Microsoft has announced the availability of Windows Server 2012, which it has dubbed as the cloud OS. Microsoft says that the new server OS maximizes the utility [...]
Continue reading...Oracle quietly releases ‘emergency’ Java patch
Oracle has released a new version of Java to address the serious security flaws that attackers have been exploiting all week. Users are encouraged to immediately apply the latest Java update to close the zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment, Oracle said in its advisory on Thursday. If exploited, these security holes allow [...]
Continue reading...Quick Heal introduces the 2013 Series with browser sandbox, and more
Quick Heal Technologies has unveiled its Quick Heal 2013 Series suite, which is said to feature a powerful browser sandbox and several other new and enhanced features. According to Quick Heal, the 2013 Series of comprehensive solutions are designed for extreme levels of performance while being easy and light on the system resources. Quick Heal [...]
Continue reading...Falcon for Twitter (Beta) for Android Review
Twitter has been in the midst of wars of late, with a number of people attacking the micro-blogging network and others defending it, both with equal ferocity. Like it or hate it, what cannot be denied is that Twitter is one of the most popular social networks in the world with millions of users. And [...]
Continue reading...Microsoft continues to enjoy the season of change with new logo
The first deviation from the norm we saw from Microsoft was with Windows 8. A drastically different UI, tiles and most importantly, a new logo. Then we saw it with Office 13 (or 365) getting a new logo. Microsoft even went on to announce their venture into the tablet market with the Surface! Seems like [...]
Continue reading...Instagram 3.0 Review
They say they are two categories of smartphone users in the world – those who use Android and iOS and those who do not use Instagram. Yes, the app that made using filters a rage all over the world has now become pretty much synonymous with smartphone photography. And it definitely has come a far [...]
Continue reading...Four Crucial Pieces of Software for 2012
Seemingly weekly Mac or Android come out with another application or piece of software promising to revolutionize the way business or technology is accomplished. Although perhaps only a minority of these promised bloom to fruition, there are some applications that prove not only helpful but time and energy saving long-term. There article will explore and [...]
Continue reading...Download Windows 8 Enterprise 90-day trial edition now
Microsoft has released a 90-day trial edition for its final version of Windows 8 operating system, which is slated to go on sale on October 26 this year. The trial, however, is available only for the Enterprise edition of Windows 8 and is aimed at developers who intend to build apps, and IT administrators who [...]
Continue reading...Google goes after Torrent sites
It seems as though every pundit in the world is fretting about Google's new algorithm. It's supposedly designed to demote sites with high numbers of copyright complaints and change results of a search based on the possibilities that there is a nasty pirate site somewhere in the results. In the end, ask yourself one [...]
Continue reading...The Long Arm of Google on Chrome
Is it true Google can remotely uninstall apps from its Chrome browser without your permission? One of Chrome’s online Help pages does say that if Google discovers an app in the Chrome Web Store that violates its developer agreement or other laws, the company “retains the right to remotely remove those items from your browser [...]
Continue reading...Google modifies search, demotes results with copyright infringement notices
Google has slightly changed the way its search rankings work, using data of the number of copyright removal notices a site has got as a negative signal. The data comes from copyright infringement notices posted on Google’s 'Removing Content From Google' page. The search giant announced the change on a blog post entitled ‘An update [...]
Continue reading...Windows 8 graphics: Microsoft has hardware accelerated all the things
In what we believe to be the longest blog post ever posted on the web, Microsoft has detailed the extensive changes made to the Windows 8 graphics subsystem and DirectX 11.1. In short, everything in Windows 8 is hardware accelerated, and as a result its text, 2D, and 3D performance will blow Windows 7 away. [...]
Continue reading...Unboxed: How Big Data Became So Big – Unboxed
First, here are a few, well, data points: Big Data was a featured topic this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, with a report titled “Big Data, Big Impact.” In March, the federal government announced $200 million in research programs for Big Data computing. Rick Smolan, creator of the “Day in the [...]
Continue reading...Windows 8: Secure at the deepest level
Windows 8 will come with antivirus protection running, but its real security benefit is vastly improved protection of low-level activities like memory allocation. If every computer had antivirus software running, life would be tough for bot herders and cyber crooks. Their ability to orchestrate spam campaigns and denial of service attacks relies on a plentiful [...]
Continue reading...DealBook: Ex-Goldman Programmer Is Arrested Again
John Marshall Mantel for The New York TimesSergey Aleynikov, left, with his lawyer, Kevin Marino, leaving the Manhattan Criminal Court on Thursday. The legal odyssey of a former Goldman Sachs programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, took a surprising turn on Thursday when the Manhattan district attorney charged him with state crimes. Mr. Aleynikov was charged in state [...]
Continue reading...Why dropping YouTube in iOS 6 is good
A little too much ado is being made over Apple dropping the YouTube app from iOS 6, probably because Apple and Google are locked in a death match right now. That's true, but it isn't why YouTube had to go. That YouTube icon on every iPhone home screen was a vestigial piece of bloatware, and [...]
Continue reading...Bluetooth file transfer may be natively supported in Windows Phone 8
One of the biggest disadvantages of Windows Phone 7.5 was the inability to transfer files via Bluetooth, limiting the utility of the device. But that may change when Microsoft unleashes Windows Phone 8 later this year. Profiles of Windows Phone devices available on the Internet suggest that the devices running the new OS will be [...]
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5. September 2012