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‘Military Meltdown Monday’— 90K Military Usernames, Hashes Released
Anonymous hackers have broken into a server belonging to consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton and published a database containing 90,000 military e-mail addresses and hashed passwords in what they named...
View ArticleMPEG LA: 12 Companies Own Patents Essential to Google’s VP8 Codec
MPEG LA, the self-styled one stop shop for motion video patent licenses, says that 12 different companies have come forward with patents “essential” to the VP8 algorithm championed by Google as a...
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The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage
Internet Explorer's dominance is coming to an end. Thanks to the rise of mobile and tablet browsing, where IE is noticeably absent, Microsoft's once mighty web browser is now used by less than half of...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble: Microsoft Using Patents To Cripple Android Competition
Barnes & Noble claims that Microsoft is attempting to stifle competition in the mobile device market and has asked the Department of Justice to investigate, reports Bloomberg. In a letter to Gene...
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Internet Explorer 10 Platform Preview 4: Windows 7 Users Need Not Apply
Microsoft has released the fourth preview of Internet Explorer 10. As is the case with previous Platform Previews, the release is aimed at developers: the new features are important to those creating...
View ArticleIs Apple Using Patents to Hurt Open Standards?
Opera developer Haavard Moen has accused Apple of repeatedly using patents to undermine the development of web standards and block their finalization. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the industry...
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Leadership Change Could Herald Windows 8-Powered Phones
Microsoft moves key executives around -- signaling the software giant might be trying to unify phones, desktops and Xboxes via a common OS that lets developers build apps that work across all...
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Is Windows Phone’s Consumer Focus Killing It?
Microsoft has finally come up with a mobile operating system that sings — most reviewers and critics would place it ahead of Android, and consumer satisfaction among those who have bought Windows...
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Google Works on Internet Standards with TCP Proposals, SPDY Standardization
In an effort to speed up the web, Google is proposing a number of changes to the standards at the core of the internet -- the Transmission Control Protocol, better known as TCP. The post Google Works...
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Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, PayPal Go After Phishers With New E-Mail...
The biggest names in e-mail have teamed up to create a new system for authenticating e-mail senders, which would help prevent fraudulent spam and phishing messages. The post Google, Microsoft, Yahoo,...
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