continuing from Part 1, found here … In a long section of his post, however, Harris called out seven goals of the Windows 8 GUI redesign. Most applied primarily to Metro, and secondly, to touch-based devices like tablets, or in a broader sense, to mobile devices where battery power is tight and longevity a...
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Won’t reveal Windows 8′s final desktop user interface until launch later this year Microsoft said Friday that it is abandoning the “Aero” user interface with Windows 8, calling the UI that debuted in Vista and continued in Windows 7, “cheesy” and “dated.” In a massive 11,300-word blog post, Jensen Harris, the director of program...
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The Browser War has intensified again, as Firefox is trying to claim back the throne from Google Chrome. Can Firefox overthrow Google’s flagship software product? Analyzing the stats from our site (click for zoom), we can see that Chrome has solidified its lead on the browsere preference, but is capturing 41,2% of the market...
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![Anonymous attacks, revisited [Part Two]](http://www.the-techbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/playstation-network-down-two-days.jpg)
Sony PlayStation network, no more Perhaps the most notorious atack of the collective was the bringing down of the PlayStation Network. It all happened without any warning – Operation #OpSony was launched as a response to the legal action conducted by Sony towards George Hotz (a.k.a. GeoHot) for his tool that enabled PS3 to run...
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![Anonymous attacks, revisited [Part One]](http://www.the-techbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/750px-Anonymous_Flag.jpg)
Emergence Hacking group “Anonymous” can be tracked back to the 4chan forum created in 2003, where users could post pictures, videos and comments anonymously, creating an internet social community. This lead to a bigger movement, essentially an online culture. Wikipedia refers to it as an an anarchic, digitized global brain – a term much more likely to...
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![New Google Privacy Policy: Explained [Part One]](http://www.the-techbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Google-Privacy1.jpg)
“We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google.” Doesn’t that sound so lovely? I wonder if you...
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Although millions have downloaded Microsoft’s Windows 8 developer preview, relatively few are actually using it, Web measurements show. During November 2011, Windows 8 powered 0.03% of the computers — or three out of every 10,000 — that connected to the Internet, according to data from California-based Net Applications. That’s a small increase from the...
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The partial legal victory that Apple won Monday against HTC won’t affect either company’s short-term sales but could play an important part in Apple’s long-range attempt to stymie Android’s march, expert said today. On Monday, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) ruled in favor of Apple in a 20-month case against Taiwanese smartphone maker...
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Earlier this month, I wrote about what Wikipedia should do, embrace ads or not? The question was spurred from a visit that I made to the popular crowdsourced encyclopedia. I was greeted once more, this time of the year by faces that urged me to donate in order to keep wikipedia running. In many...
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continuing from part 2… “Someone had to sit down and say, ‘I want to be able to control something on the factory floor, I want it to spread quietly, I need to have several zero-days,’” O Murchu continued. “And then pull together all these resources. It was a big, big project.” One way that...
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