A virtually unknown company called PersonalWeb Technologies has launched a series of patent infringement suits against some of the internet’s most important companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM.
Internet Explorer users have been told to ditch the application and switch to another browser, pronto. The warning comes from Rapid7, which describes a hole that’s exploitable by visiting a…
Long before Unity or the Unreal Development Kit, Torque was the engine of choice for indie developers with big dreams of making their own shiny 3D games, costing only $100…
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has said that it has added three new modules for prescribing, operations notes and correspondence to OpenEyes, its open source e-patient record system.
Social network Twitter has signed up as a member of the Linux Foundation. The non-profit Linux consortium welcomes the social network on the back of its extensive use of Linux…
Microsoft on Tuesday released a security update for two vulnerabilities, both categorized as “important.” The update will address a Visual Studio Team Foundation Server flaw, which permit privilege escalation for…
In a great victory for open standards, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has just standardized Opus as RFC 6716. Opus is the first state of the art, free audio…
Developers of Apache, the Internet’s most widely used webserver application, have released an update that causes websites to ignore privacy settings in the upcoming release of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.
Apple sued Samsung Electronics for copying its iPhone and a U.S. jury made a “patriotic” ruling ordering the Korean firm to pay $1.05 billion in damages. Now, what appears to…
Microsoft is ready to introduce measures in Windows 8 to address the European Union’s antitrust concerns about users’ ability to chose between different browsers, European Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said on…
The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research division of Congress known for its objective studies, recently released a report on the effects of patent trolls on innovation and the economy….
The good news is that Microsoft’s next Patch Tuesday, due on September 11, should be a breeze, bringing just two security updates. The bad news is that October’s Patch Tuesday…
Remember the Pepsi Challenge? Apparently, Microsoft does. The software company on Thursday evoked that famous marketing campaign when it launched the “Bing It On” challenge, an online blind comparison test…
Have a laptop with a fingerprint reader and use that biometic security? Most popular laptops shipped with a UPEK fingerprint reader. If yours did, then sadly your password is not…
The new terms-of-use agreement was rolled out late last week. It grants Microsoft the right to use information gathered from Hotmail, Photo Gallery, Office.com and SkyDrive accounts in a manner…