by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | Blog Entry
Analysts urge company to recant design ideology as nod to customer complaints Microsoft may recant its Windows 8 design theology, bloggers reported Tuesday, by offering Windows 8 users an option to bypass the “Modern” UI and by restoring the Start button...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | Blog Entry
from the everybody-has-the-same-idea-at-the-same-time dept. BoingBoing reports on why it’s ‘so hard to make a phone call in emergency situations.’ Quoting: ‘[The thing about] the radios is that they have different sizes of cells. You’ve...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 20, 2013 | DATA, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept. A few weeks ago the FSF reported that Google had started blocking invites sent from non-Google Jabber servers. This was done as a crude anti-spam measure. Google have since rolled out proper anti-spam filtering for its Jabber...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
While the company is committed to Internet Explorer, it is experimenting with an architecture to replace the browser called Embassies Microsoft’s latest security report has found that Web-based attacks pose the greatest threat to companies, giving credence to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 19, 2013 | DATA, INTERNET, Malware Reports, SECURITY
From August 2011 to February 2013, AV-TEST investigated malicious code in approximately 40 million search results from major search engines. The results of their research are now out and show that Google comes out on top, returning only 272 infected web pages in a...
