Firefox 4 may have just dropped, but Firefox 5 is already on its way. According to ConceivablyTech, Firefox 5 may be here in a matter of weeks with a whole gamut of new features. So much for that long anticipated launch last month.
Mozilla’s development crew is said to be considering to add nine features to the next version. Reports …
In what’s being touted as possibly one of the biggest data breaches in U.S. history, online marketing firm Epsilon warned some of its customers over the weekend that the personal information of many, many people could be at risk.
Follow-up: See a list of which companies’ e-mail lists have been exposed.
Last Friday, an outside …
Next time your friend whispers some scurrilous rumor in your ear, then leans back and swears “It must be true! I saw the tweet!” be forewarned: tweets ain’t always what they seem.
Not with a website like TweetForger lurking on the internet.
TweetForger, you see, lets anyone create a realistic-looking tweet supposedly written by
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Sad but true: We have no national holidays in this country that pay tribute to our great technological heritage. But if we did, April 3rd would be a good candidate. On that day in 1981, at a trade show in San Francisco, a startup called Osborne Computer Corporation announced the Osborne 1, the first mass-produced portable computer. That …
Here’s something unexpected: David Hayes, the coder who worked out how to get around the New York Times’ website paywall with just four lines of Javascript has been contacted by the NYT legal team. Okay, that part might’ve been just a matter of time, but here’s the unexpected part – they were complaining about his use of the “New York …
This leaked welcome screen for Windows 8 isn’t itself a huge development, but it does offer some hints about where Microsoft is headed with its PC operating system.
If you’ve ever seen a Windows Phone 7 handset, the fonts in the image above should look familiar. Within Windows, the blog that first published the welcome screen, says …
April 1 2011 –
[vodpod id=Video.5893576&w=425&h=350&fv=key%3D6c4e44a1af]
We so excited.
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaoMJuKAIB8″%5D
This has got to be a joke, or I’m seriously starting to worry about people from the UK.
Twitter may claim 175 million registered users, but anyone who’s looked at their “@” messages knows at least some of those users are really spambots quoting lines from Star Wars or Raiders of The Lost Ark the second you mention George Lucas. So how many people are really on Twitter?
The people at BusinessInsider wondered the same …
Music lovers and Apple fanatics, beware: There’s a new malware campaign out there, and it’s using iTunes to get to you.
The malware, nicknamed “LizaMoon” by security firm WebSense, was first discovered on March 28th on 28,000 webpages, many of them associated with RSS and XML feeds for iTunes podcast updates. A more recent update …
After being upstaged by Firefox 4, Microsoft is trying to lure users to Internet Explorer 9 with a free month of Hulu Plus.
To take advantage, you must download IE9, then visit Hulu.com and make it a pinned site by dragging the open tab down to the Windows taskbar. After that, visit the Hulu Plus landing page, and the box that …
Wouldn’t it be nice for HTC, but no, it looks like HTC’s $250 Thunderbolt probably isn’t clobbering Verizon’s iPhone. In fact it’s hard to say exactly what it’s doing, unless you’re an easy sell on tiny sample pools.
The Thunderbolt hit stores a couple weeks ago, supports Verizon’s 4G LTE network, and seems to be an all-around hit …
As the first serious Android tablet out of the gates back in November of last year, Samsung’s 7-inch Galaxy Tab had its $600 to $650 price tag (unless subsidized by a wireless contract) working against it right away.
Five months later, and we’re finally about to see the Wi-Fi-only version that’s been rumored since before the 3G …
