For long, Windows XP has been the most loved and most used flavor of Windows from Microsoft. Users all around the globe have been using it for years and it has been able to gather some huge following. However, now it seems that Windows 7, the latest Windows release, is becoming wildly popular and may soon steal the crown from Windows XP.
Remember about Canada’s Bill C-30? The sweeping surveillance bill proposed by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, who declared that if you opposed unlimited, unaccountable, secret warrantless snooping on networked communications by the police and by appointed civilians, you “stand with the child pornographers?” The sweeping Canadian warrantless Internet surveillance bill, officially known as Bill C-30, is back again.
Motion interaction is nothing new. Motion-control sensors have been around for quite some time, including some very popular ones such as Microsoft’s Kinect. However, motion interaction directly with computers hasn’t been much common so far. There have been some tools but they haven’t offered such cool motion interactions by the new Leap device.
Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform may have some pretty good devices as well as nifty software to its name, it hasn’t been able to gain as much traction in the tech world as iOS or Android devices. And the chief reason for this is that Windows Phone platform lacks an adequate number of apps. In such a scenario, every new app for Windows Phone devices is a welcome addition.
A lot of hacking news are surfacing these days with a lot of online accounts compromised. However, on the list now is not an ordinary user but none other than Mitt Romney. Although it is not confirmed that whether or not his account was hacked, authorities are looking into the matter.
Acquisitions are a norm in the tech world. What is significant about these acquisitions, though, is that they contain hints as to where a tech company is headed. For instance, the search giant, Google has now acquired a mobile productivity company, Quickoffice. Google plans to improve its own apps development through this acquisition.
We reported earlier that a number of tech analysts around the globe are identifying the recently-discovered Flame malware as the most nefarious malware that has been known to date. The complexity and functionality of Flame is unmatched by any other malware that exists today. Now, security analysts are breaking down Flame to identify which of its modules are the most nefarious.
We recently informed you that Kaspersky Labs has detected a new malware which is being called Flame. The malware is the most notorious of all the known malwares in that none of the current security solutions can adequately address it. So, flame is able to nick away data and infect the user’s computer without letting the user know at all.