Windows 8 logo confirmed, looks even more like a window

Feb. 17, 2012 (3:41 pm) By: Sal Cangeloso In: News

Just last week we posted a leak of what appeared to be the Windows 8 logo. The commenters we’re pretty vicious and even the people that didn’t doubt it were pretty disappointed with the result. As it turns out, that leaked logo (seen below) was legitimate, and it’s what Microsoft will use to represent the [...]

Google exploits Safari bug to plant cookies, says it’s “known functionality”

Feb. 17, 2012 (12:16 pm) By: Lee Mathews In: News

The applications you use on a daily basis have user preferences for a reason: to give you control over how they behave. Unfortunately, not everyone has the scruples to respect your settings. Google, for example, seemed to think it was OK to sidestep cookie blocking in Safari on OS X and iOS. Google’s misstep was [...]

JotForm domain released by Secret Service, won’t say why it was seized

Feb. 17, 2012 (11:14 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

Late on February 15, JotForm lost access to jotform.com. The company soon discovered the U.S. government had seized the domain by lodging a request with the site’s domain registrar GoDaddy. Soon after, it had been taken down. Aytekin Tank, co-founder of Interlogy Internet Technologies, and owner of JotForm, later confirmed that he’d been in contact [...]

RapidShare introduces 30kb/s free account speed cap, disables resume

Feb. 17, 2012 (10:16 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

RapidShare is one of the most well known file storage and transfer services on the web. But today it’s angered a lot of users by introducing severe new limits on free account downloads. Remember the days of dial-up Internet? Well, RapidShare is taking free account holders back to those days by limiting downloads speeds to [...]

Google Drive and its logo spotted in the wild

Feb. 16, 2012 (5:25 pm) By: Lee Mathews In: News

Well, what do we have here? Why, it’s another leaked image that appears to show the most elusive Google product of all time: Google Drive, or the app formerly known as GDrive. It bears a striking resemblance to the current Google Docs interface, and it’s entirely possible that this is the work of a prankster [...]

CamelBak All Clear bottle purifies water in 60 seconds

Feb. 16, 2012 (11:45 am) By: Ray Walters In: News

For those of you who are avid fans of the outdoors, or are just really concerned about having clean drinking water on the go, the hydration experts at CamelBak have got you covered. The company has recently announced the release of its “All Clear” bottle that has a UV-C light built into its cap capable [...]

Microsoft Skype merger to be challenged in court by Cisco

Feb. 16, 2012 (11:01 am) By: Lee Mathews In: News

The tablet above is the Cisco Cius, one of the more interesting Android tablets around — both because of its outrageous price tag and that fact that its main selling point is that it works seamlessly with Cisco’s IP phone systems. It also plays well with Cisco WebEx, the company’s online meeting and videoconferencing platform. [...]

Form creation site JotForm seized by US government due to user content

Feb. 16, 2012 (8:02 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

SOPA didn’t get passed and most people sighed with relief, but that hasn’t stopped domains being seized and taken down due to the content being posted. In the case of Megaupload the seizure probably didn’t come as a surprise to many, but another domain was seized late yesterday even though all it does is produce [...]

Google DNS handles more than 70 billion requests every day

Feb. 15, 2012 (11:46 am) By: Lee Mathews In: News

For years, Google has championed the idea of a faster web. Their commitment is obvious for anyone using Chrome, which continues to add new tricks and tune its engines to deliver the speediest internet experience possible. Chrome was initially released in 2009 — the same year that they introduced another product designed to speed up [...]

Paper alloy could replace plastic in laptops, gadgets

Feb. 14, 2012 (2:49 pm) By: Matthew Humphries In: Geek Pick, News

Ever since Greenpeace started releasing its Greener Electronics Guide, a number of high profile manufacturers have removed many of the harmful chemicals from their products. But one material that’s tough to replace is plastic. It’s cheap, very hard-wearing, and easily molded into complex shapes. The problem is, it isn’t very environmentally-friendly as it doesn’t degrade [...]

Firefox for Windows 8 Metro under development by Mozilla

Feb. 13, 2012 (3:39 pm) By: Lee Mathews In: News

Mozilla developers already have a lot on their plates. In addition to dealing with shorter release cycles for Firefox and Thunderbird, they’re now looking after tablet and smartphone versions of Firefox for Android, Firefox Home on iOS, and there’s a new long-term support version of Firefox, too. On top of that, they’re starting work on [...]

Microsoft online store hack reveals passwords stored as plain text

Feb. 13, 2012 (2:57 pm) By: Ray Walters In: News

There’s nothing like waking up in the morning and finding out that one of your online accounts has been compromised by a hacker group. This is exactly what happened to customers of Microsoft’s online store in India over the weekend. A hacker group called the “Evil Shadow Team” was able to take control of the [...]

Blurry vision may stop us living in space

Feb. 13, 2012 (11:45 am) By: Matthew Humphries In: News

The International Space Station is the most expensive laboratory not located on Earth. It has allowed astronauts and scientists to carry out many experiments that are just not possible on the shorter shuttle missions. It has also allowed doctors to monitor the health of individuals who spend weeks or months in space. One of the [...]

The Windows 8 logo has been revealed

Feb. 13, 2012 (9:30 am) By: Lee Mathews In: Geek Pick, News

You probably already know that Windows 8 is going to be different from its predecessors in a number of ways. It’ll run on ARM processors, for example. It’s also missing a start button. And apparently it’s also getting an updated logo. Since the early days of Windows, there have been few changes to its iconic [...]

First Microsoft Store opens in Canada later this year

Feb. 13, 2012 (8:00 am) By: Lee Mathews In: News

Just over two years ago, Microsoft launched its latest foray into brick-and-mortar sales with the opening of two Microsoft Stores. The original stores in Scottsdale and Mission Viejo have since been joined by a dozen more, and Microsoft has previously announced its intentions to add 75 additional stores across the U.S. in the next two [...]