The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). On December 17, W3C announced that it has finalized specifications for HTML5 and the finalized specifications for HTML5 is ready for testing.
Yahoo has redone the looks of its email service, making it a lot simpler and fairly elegant. Yahoo Mail was long due for such an update; thanks to this new redesign, the email service now has the same look across all platforms.
Surface RT will officially step out of Microsoft’s retail shops from today. Staples is the first retailer to start selling Surface RT tablets besides Microsoft’s own stores and website.
Kristin Paget is a very well-known name among the top hackers. She had been involved with improving the security of Windows Vista, directly collaborating with Microsoft on it. Now, Paget has been hired by Apple, apparently to work on the security of OS X.
Motorola has been pursuing a case against Microsoft, alleging that the latter is not paying the right amount of licensing fee for using its patents. Microsoft, on the other hand, feels that Motorola’s demands are too excessive. Motorola had asked a court to ban Xbox 360 consoles in U.S. but the court has ruled against that.
Brute force is a popular technique used by researchers and hackers alike to crack passwords. Until now, it was thought that the larger passwords are safe from this technique, given the sheer amount of computing required to brute-force a long password. But that may no longer be the case, as some researchers have now proved.
The famous Star Trek will make its return in 2013 in video game. The third person action, adventure game is expected to become one of the top charted games in 2013. Digital Extremes, Namco Bandai Games and Paramount Digital Studios, the developer of the game, work really hard to give the game a new HD graphical edge look. They claim that the game will represent next generation graphics quality.
Things have been rather quite on the Windows Phone front. Microsoft had hoped that with the release of Windows Phone 8, it will be able to significantly bolster the sales of WP devices but that doesn’t seem to be happening. However, the Windows Phone Store is growing at an excellent pace, the latest statistics suggest.