Microsoft's BUILD event starts today and runs through Friday. The keynote is today at 9AM Pacific Time and has the potential to reveal lots of new things about Windows 8. You can check out the BUILD website and see the general agenda of this week's activities. BUILD is a new event that shows modern hardware and software developers how to take advantage of the future of … [Read more...]
Microsoft Releases Garage Project Mouse Without Borders To Bring Synergy To PCs
A few years back, I wrote about Synergy, an application that allows you to use one mouse to control the cursor across multiple desktops. It's like having the efficiency of multiple monitors combined with the power of multiple mice. Microsoft released a Garage Project, their little incubator for their engineers' off the clock projects, called Mouse Without Borders that does much … [Read more...]
What is PEGI?
If you have watched any video game trailers online, you might see a message with a robotic voice appear before the video plays that says "PEGI 16" or "PEGI 12" (pronounced like 'Peggy'). Like some of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Y5SyjbHAA Seeing them in a series like that might make it a little more obvious but at first, you might not know what the PEGI rating is … [Read more...]
Updating The DigiNotar Breach Away – Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google React
If you haven't been following the story so far, DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority that provides SSL certificates, was breached by hackers. A compromised CA doesn't exactly convey the level of trust one would want from a certificate authority. It was first detected that a wildcard SSL certificate for *.google.com was issued and Chrome threw up an additional warning when … [Read more...]
Mozilla Gets Into Do Not Track Details; Released Field Guide
Yesterday on Mozilla's Privacy Blog, they went into details regarding Firefox's Do Not Track feature. They showed the adoption rate climbing from 3% to 4.5% and the Firefox Metrics Blog further explained those numbers. In that same posting, they released The Do Not Track Field Guide for developers. The PDF includes an intro to DNT, case studies, and tutorials on implementing … [Read more...]