From DailyTech: Introduced in 2002, Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) was billed as a tool that would turn your Windows PC into a digital video recorder (DVR) and media hub. The star of the show was the titular Windows Media Center (WMC), which Microsoft had developed...
From InfoWorld: Mozilla is on a mission to make encryption on the Web ubiquitous, but the cost could prove too high to pay.
In a blog post made last week, Firefox Security Lead Richard Barnes declared that Mozilla would be "setting a date after which all new features [in Firefox] will be available...
From PC World: For the past several days security researchers have raced to demonstrate that phishing protections added by a new Google Chrome extension can be bypassed with ease.
The Password Alert extension, developed by Google and released Wednesday, is designed to alert Chrome users when they...
From PC World: Facebook’s Internet.org has opened its free Internet access platform to any low-bandwidth online service that meets its technical guidelines for running on basic phones.
Internet.org’s goal is to provide underprivileged people in Asia, Africa and Latin America with access to select...
From CNET: Facebook wants to publish news articles and other content from sites like The New York Times and National Geographic directly on the social network. And in return, it's offering to let those third-party publishers keep all the revenue from some of the ads associated with their content...
Do we create faster interfaces because of faster devices, or do we have faster devices because of faster interfaces? For questions like these, it is easy to dwindle down to a circular argument like the technological equivalent of the chicken and the egg, but we can always take a look at history. Back in 2010, we have reviewed the OCZ Vertex 2 60GB, an SSD I claimed to be "one sizzling fast piece of storage device for $100". By 2015 standards...
Have you ever put a lot of effort into creating something, only to have someone else come by and say, "Hey, this already exists!" This is commonly phrased as reinventing the wheel, and refers to a duplication of a method or an object that has already been created or optimized by others. For example, if I told people I was in the middle of inventing a portable power source, which could be recharged and reused just by plugging it into an outlet...
From InfoWorld: Something big is up in the cloud. Google's Senior Vice President for Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle says in five years you will barely be able to recognize what today's cloud looks like.
Here's the example Hölzle gives: Think about what a "smart" phone looked like in 2007...
From PC World: Mozilla is planning to gradually favor HTTPS (HTTP Secure) connections over non-secure HTTP connections by making some new features on its Firefox browser available only to secured sites.
The browser developer decided after a discussion on its community mailing list that it will set...
From CNET: The Sony Xperia Z3 smartphone has made its return to T-Mobile about a month after it unceremoniously dropped off store shelves.
Customers looking to buy Sony's flagship smartphone can find it once again through T-Mobile for no money down and 24 monthly installments of $20.83 -- or for...
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