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Big Tech: Anil Dash: With the Surface Tablet, Fist-Swinging Microsoft Jumps Back Into the Ring
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Illustration: Sébastien Thibault Microsoft’s June unveiling of the remarkable Surface tablet came almost exactly a year after a much more important milestone. In May 2011, the nine years of legal sanctions against the company—part of the consent decree Microsoft reached with the Feds to end its long antitrust battle—finally came...
Critical flaw under active attack prompts calls to disable Java
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An exploit that FireEye researchers observed on Sunday being hosted on a domain named ok.XXX4.net. FireEye A vulnerability in the latest version of Oracle's Java software framework is under active attack, and the damage is likely to get worse thanks to the availability of reliable exploit code that works...
Here's How To Stop Facebook From Tracking You
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Most people don't realize that Facebook can continue to monitor their internet activity, even if they are no longer logged into the site. Using "Facebook Connect," and other social pulg-ins, Facebook is able to set up a cookie on any site that has a "Like" or "share" button, Facebook has...
Microsoft: Windows 8 running on ARM chips will only support 4 desktop apps
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Today, Microsoft announced, formally, its plan for desktop app support on ARM-based Windows 8 machines. You aren’t going to like it. According to reporting on AllThingsD, only four desktop apps will run on Windows 8 machines that employ an ARM chip: Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All other desktop applications will...
Google Chrome Just Passed Internet Explorer To Become The World's Most Popular Web Browser
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After months of chipping away at its lead, Google Chrome has finally overtaken Internet Explorer to become most popular web browser worldwide. Chrome's share of the market rose to 32.8% in the week ending May 20, while Internet Explorer's share of the market dropped to 31.9%, according to new data...
Attackers Pounce on Zero-Day Java Exploit
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Attackers have seized upon a previously unknown security hole in Oracle’s ubiquitous Java software to break into vulnerable systems. So far, the attacks exploiting this weakness have been targeted and not widespread, but it appears that the exploit code is now public and is being folded into more widely-available attack...
Google Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer as the Web’s most used browser
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Google Chrome has been long expected to leapfrog Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) to take its position as the Web’s most used browser and, according to data from Statcounter, the momentous change of leadership happened last week. The firm’s latest figures — spotted by Global Nerdy blogger Joey deVilla – show that Chrome’s line of...
Chrome is the most popular browser in the world, says StatCounter
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For the first week in history, Google Chrome is the most-used browser in the world, according to Statcounter. While Chrome has been leapfrogging the incumbent Internet Explorer on weekends for some time now, the week of May 14th–20th marks the first time Chrome has averaged a higher traffic share...
Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites
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Critics are calling for the ouster of Trustwave as a trusted issuer of secure sockets layer certificates after it admitted minting a credential it knew would be used by a customer to impersonate websites it didn't own. The so-called subordinate root certificate allowed the customer to issue SSL credentials...
Microsoft trolls Internet Explorer haters with latest browser ad
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Microsoft is tackling anonymous anti-Internet Explorer commenters head-on this week. The software maker launched the latest browser you loved to hate video today, showcasing the latest part of its attempts to keep Internet Explorer relevant. The video sets the stage for a comment war with an anonymous IE hater...
Google introduces Chrome for phone
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Search giant to replace web browser in Android smartphones with revamped version named after its Chrome desktop productGoogle is to replace the web browser in Android smartphones with a revamped version named after its Chrome desktop product, as the search giant redoubles its efforts to knock Microsoft off the top...
Chrome Briefly Becomes World’s Most Popular Browser, Thanks To Emerging Market Usage
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Google has made some significant strides getting Chrome, in relatively short time, to become one of the most popular web browsers around. Now, some numbers from StatCounter indicate that it has, for the first time — and for one day only! — become the world’s most popular browser, overtaking Internet...
Child-friendly Internet Explorer 9 released by CEOP and Microsoft
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Microsoft and the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) have teamed up to release a customized version of Internet Explorer 9. The browser launches today as part of Safer Internet Day 2012, and provides easy access for children to report cyberbullying and inappropriate images, as well as seek...
The death of Firefox
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It doesn’t look good for Firefox: Almost every month for the last three years, Firefox has lost ground to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. For most of 2009 the trend was fairly straight as it fended off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and today Firefox has...
Big Tech: 1995, When CD-ROMs and Microsoft Ruled
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<< Previous | Next >> The Windows 95 launch was the iPhone launch of its day. On Aug. 24, 1995, crowds lined up to purchase what Microsoft promised was the biggest transformation yet in desktop computing. Where did they line up? At stores, which were still at the time really...
Chrome for iOS coming as mobile browser wars ensue
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Google’s Chrome browser is assumed to be coming for Apple’s iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices by at least one analyst group. On Tuesday, Macquarie (USA) Equities Research released a lengthy note explaining what this would mean for both companies, suggesting it could reduce the amount of money Google pays...
Cheating DeathWatch: Microsoft Isn't Dead Yet
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The ReadWrite DeathWatch is known for serving up plenty of doom, gloom and grumpiness. But for the Holiday Season, we're going to take a slightly different tack, and highlight companies and technologies that Cheated Death - that might have died, but didn't. First up for the Cheating DeathWatch is Microsoft,...
Chrome overtakes Internet Explorer worldwide for first time
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The victory was short-lived, however, as the lead was obtained on March 18 and quickly given up the next day. [Read more]...
Dragon PC software now lets your voice control Gmail and Hotmail
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Ahoy, ye landlubbers and typists. Nuance Typing out an e-mail will never require actual typing—or even mouse-clicking—again, if the maker of the popular Dragon speech recognition software has its way. The software has long allowed users to dictate e-mails or any other document by voice, but a new version...
Foxconn Got Hacked!
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A hacker group called SwaggSec has released a dump of internal info from Foxconn, reports 9to5Mac. Some of the information is pretty sensitive and includes a collection of email logins and passwords as well as corporate logins for specialized procurement sites. SwaggSec's release even includes passwords belonging to Terry...
Microsoft's IE reclaims lost ground in browser battle
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Internet Explorer resumed growth in browser usage in March, reversing a years-long slide at least for now. IE9 in particular grew fast, but Microsoft is weak in mobile browsing. [Read more]...
Crack in Internet's foundation of trust allows HTTPS session hijacking
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A screen shot from a video showing CRIME decrypting the contents of an encrypted cookie used to authenticate a dropbox.com user account. Researchers have identified a security weakness that allows them hijack web browser sessions even when they're protected by the HTTPS encryption that banks and ecommerce sites use...
Living with Internet Explorer 6: Six ways to ease the pain
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Recently, we recommended Internet Explorer 9 and Chrome as the best business browsers. But for many companies, they both have a major problem: they're not Internet Explorer 6. Intranet applications that choke on newer browsers, but which work in Internet Explorer 6 or sometimes 7, are an unfortunate feature...
Microsoft PSA: Internet Explorer 9 can do more than download other browsers (video)
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See that up there? It's called inertia, and it's what the crew at Microsoft is trying to overcome. For the past 17 years, Internet Explorer has been little more than meme fodder and a litmus test of whether you knew how to navigate the web -- and let's be...
Why Bing's Facebook Integration Won't Help Most People
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On Monday, Microsoft added the capability to "tag" Facebook friends while searching in Bing, actively soliciting the wisdom of real people when conducting searches. While this sounds like a great idea in theory, it's unlikely to be used except by a majority of users. That's not to say bringing Facebook...
StatCounter: Google Chrome became the world’s most popular browser…for a day
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Last week, Google’s Chrome browser became the world’s most popular browser for the first time, topping the charts for just a single day (on a Sunday no less) as it continues to see increased usage all over the world. Chrome’s growth was charted by website analytics service StatCounter, which noted...
Gaikai brings its cloud gaming to Facebook, launches beta application
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Gaikai's certainly grown leaps and bounds since its early days, and today the cloud gaming firm takes another step by joining the largest social networking platform on the globe. For starters, this first beta of Gaikai's Facebook application is available to North American / European gamers, offering support for...
Opera Mini Now Has 169 Million Users, 56% Of Them Only Use The Mobile Web
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On the desktop, Opera‘s browser is only a minor player compared to Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but as a mobile browser, Opera competes head-to-head with Apple and Google. Worldwide, depending on which statistics you believe, it is either just ahead of the competition or a close runner-up. In...
Microsoft Admits It No Longer Rules Your Workplace (MSFT, AAPL, GOOG)
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Microsoft is bringing one of its fastest growing business applications, Dynamics CRM, to the iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and the BlackBerry. It's a startling development for a company that used to be so dominant in the workplace that it didn't even bother to make its business apps work right...
Foxconn attacked by hacker group, internal information released
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Foxconn, which has come under fire due to allegations of poor working conditions in its factories, may now be the victim of a hacking attack. 9to5Mac is reporting that a group calling itself SwaggSec was behind the alleged compromise, and was able to gain access to Foxconn's internal networks...
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