Microsoft to deliver Flash update to Windows 8 users ‘shortly’
It looks like Windows 8 users won’t be at risk of attack from unpatched vulnerabilities in Adobe’s Flash Player much longer. In an e-mailed statement I received late last night, Yunsun Wee, Director of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, said: In light of Adobe’s recently released security updates for its Flash Player, Microsoft…
Smartphone smorgasbord ahead of iPhone 5
Racing to get out in front of Apple, nearly every major handset maker has launched or announced new smart phones in the past week. The good news is that the new spate of phones boast better cameras, bigger screens, longer battery life, and lower prices. You just can’t get it…
Liquid Robotics to Usher Era of Smart Oceans With Autonomous Robots
This post written by Jason Dorrier, a writer for Singularity University. Credit: Liquid Robotics (liquidr.com); Wave Glider Fontaine Maru halfway across the Pacific. When Liquid Robotics’ Ed Lu dreams, he sees thousands of his firm’s Wave Gliders blanketing the seaa smart grid for the ocean. It may yet be…
RIM is in trouble thanks to BlackBerry 10 BES chaos
The main advantage RIM hasand arguably the one thing that has kept it in the game up to nowis the existing BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) infrastructure. But, if the new BlackBerry 10 (BB10) devices don’t work with the current BES platform, BB10 could be dead on arrival. Galen Gruman of Infoworld…
This is How Facebook Can Redeem Itself
I believe an untapped potential that Facebook is just entering is the “search” arena. People on Facebook, just like anywhere else, search for things. But what they are looking for may not be on Facebook. Presently it places social ads in front of users even when they are not interested…
Microsoft Plans Windows 8 ‘Pop Up’ Retail Stores
8 Key Differences Between Windows 8 And Windows RT (click image for larger view and for slideshow) Microsoft plans to open temporary retail locations this fall to promote its new Windows 8 operating system, and the tablets, laptops, and PCs that carry it. Microsoft previously disclosed plans for the stores in July at…
Number of teenage smartphone owners jumps year-over-year, claims Nielsen
Most of the time, we see smartphone manufacturers marketing their devices toward young adults. That may all be changing soon, as a new Nielsen report says that teenage smartphone owners are growing faster than any other age group in the United States. Nielsen posted the results of a July 2012 That’s…
Steam on Your HDTV: Valve’s Big Picture Mode Enters Public Testing Today
Valve about to make PC gaming on your HDTV much more attractive. In mid August, Valve promised it would “soon” bring Steam to your HDTV courtesy of Big Picture mode. In typical Valve time, “soon” turned out to be more than three weeks. The wait ends today, though. Steam Big…
Publishing firm: iOS UDID leak came from us, not the FBI
A digital publishing company named BlueToad has come forward to take responsibility for the leak of a million iOS unique device identifiers (UDIDs) that were previously attributed to an alleged FBI laptop hack. In a number of interviews published Monday, BlueToad apologized to the public for the incident, explaining that…
Facebook Co-Founder Moskovitz’s Daily Stock Sales
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has been selling Facebook stock each trading day since Aug. 17. As of his most recent disclosure, he has shed 7.5 million shares for proceeds of $143 million, at prices ranging from $17.56 to $20.08. He still owns hundreds of millions shares. Moskovitz was Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate when they founded…