Microsoft may have retired Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) last week, but it's still keeping track of the ancient browser's user share on a death watch-like website that's been running for more than three years. IE6 launched in August 2001, about two months before Windows XP shipped. Microsoft issued the final security update for IE6 on April…
Thomas Fox
The Heartbleed bug is one of the biggest security flaws the Internet has known. Internet research firm Netcraft estimates that as many as 500,000 websites could be affected. Since hackers can exploit Heartbleed to steal user data -- Canadian police yesterday arrested a man who allegedly used Heartbleed to steal user data from the government's…
Bug prompts Microsoft to halt update's delivery through WSUS, the standard enterprise update service.
Microsoft suspended serving Windows 8.1 Update to businesses that rely on WSUS (Windows Server Update Services), saying that a bug would prevent devices from recognizing future updates.WSUS is Microsoft's standard corporate update service and is used by IT staffs to manage…
Showering is great, I’m a big fan, but drying off? All that "toweling" is enough to make you need another shower, am I right? New York-based startup The Body Dryer realizes this, and they've created a device to help you skip the towel and get dry a better way.The Body Dryer dries you from the ground…
An Israeli based company named StoreDot is in the process of making the inconvenience of charging your phone from a nightmare, to a miraculous dream. Though the company is placed far out of our reach, they are going to bring this revolutionary technology to us. This life changing development came from research of Alzheimer's disease.…
Google’s Project Loon, the effort to bring Internet connectivity to more remote areas using a network of hot air balloons, has racked up an impressive achievement – going around the world in just 22 days. One of the project’s test balloons just managed this, despite estimates from the team that it would take around 33…
Google has recently announced that they will be working on a new gadget that they call project Ara. Project Ara is a new customizable phone that implements plate replacement. The new phone can be completely reinvented at your own whim. The device starts as a frame and from there will be given lego-like parts to…
Google cut prices on some Internet-based services for businesses by 30 percent or more, stepping up a challenge to Amazon.com and Microsoft Corp. in cloud computing.
Google Cloud to cut its cloud computing service prices. Cloud wars have begun.The services let customers use computer power or storage space on machines in Google’s own data centers. The…
It has been recently released that Apple has decided to make new emoticons or “emojis” that are more “racially diverse.” It was stated by chief executive Tim Cook that they wanted to be inclusive of more people when he was emailed by an employee of the MTV staff. MTV reported that Apple’s vice-president of worldwide…
About a week ago, Google (GOOG) seemed to face a tense moment in the development of its high-profile Google Glass wearable computer. Call it Peak Glass Cynicism.Some of the device’s earliest fans were questioning Google’s devotion to the product. Bars were banning it, citing the device’s surreptitious integrated camera. Bloggers were ridiculing it. In a sign that the mounting criticism…
Microsoft will announce its rebranding of its "Windows Azure" cloud operating system to "Microsoft Azure," this weekThe announcement is expected to happen today, March 25, and to take effect on April 3, the second day of Microsoft's Build conference in San Francisco, said a couple of individuals who asked not to be identified, but who…
Microsoft's crusade against pirated software was bolstered on Tuesday with the release of a study that found stolen programs are going to cause issues this year for both consumers and enterprise customers.The study, conducted by research firm IDC and the National University of Singapore, found that consumers worldwide will spend $25 billion and collectively waste…