Feature: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8
When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful …
Amazon plans to stream movies to own-branded tablets, researchers claim
Amazon has plans to offer a streaming movie service tied to its forthcoming own-branded tablets, researchers at Detwiler Fenton claim. According to the research team, Amazon's streaming movie service...
Spanish police website hit by Anonymous hackers
A member of Spain's Technological Investigation Board displays an Anonymous mask — The website of Spain's national police force has been briefly knocked offline by hacker collective Anonymous. — T...
iTunes now costs $1.3 billion/yr to run
The iTunes store continues to grow. The data that Apple published in the last event included the following: — 15 Billion iTunes song downloads — 130 million book downloads — 14 billion app downloa...
Turkish Police Detain 32 Suspects Allegedly Linked to Anonymous
Following the arrest of three alleged “Anonymous” members by Spanish authorities on Friday, Turkey's state-run news agency has reported that police have detained 32 individuals allegedly linked to the...
Thieves Found Citigroup Site an Easy Entry
Think of it as a mansion with a high-tech security system — but the front door wasn't locked tight. — Using the Citigroup customer Web site as a gateway to bypass traditional safeguards and imperson...
Ex-Googler Calls Out Google Infrastructure as Obsolete
In the latest of several thoughtful blog posts from ex-Googlers about why they left, Dhanji R. Prasanna called out Google's infrastructure as, well, dated. — Prasanna may understandably hold a grudg...
Next iPhone reaches final testing stage, Verizon likely won't support 3G FaceTime this year
A previously accurate Apple source has told 9to5Mac some interesting information regarding what 2011 holds for the iPhone and Apple's popular FaceTime video chat service.
Personal data stolen from UK developer Codemasters
UK based Codemasters is the latest firm to be hit by hackers — The personal details of thousands of people have been stolen after hackers targeted British games developer Codemasters. — The firm d...
Only 30% of YouTube Users Skip Pre-Roll Ads
Youtube introduced a new form of advertising in December 2010, called TrueView, where they gave people the option to skip past pre-roll ads on videos. The news didn't seem too great for advertisers. ...
Surprise: iOS 5 bumps up video exports in apps from 720p to 1080p
Media framework strings in iOS SDK have added a new 1080p video export preset — In addition to the newly discovered ability to render 1080p videos on A4-powered devices by scaling down high-definiti...
Anonymous' Operation India removed from Facebook and Twitter
After all the activities Anonymous carried out last week, it seems like the ‘hacktivist’ group is now on the receiving end of censorship from Facebook and Twitter. — Anonymous, which started its Ind...