Pwn2Own: Down go all the browsers
In the first day of the Pwn2Own cracking contest, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox web browsers have all gone down in flames.
All things network from Web browsers to wireless networking to IPv6 with your host, and long-time networking hand, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system. SJVN covers networking, Linux, open source, and operating systems.
In the first day of the Pwn2Own cracking contest, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox web browsers have all gone down in flames.
Many services will provide you or your business with a few gigabytes of free cloud storage. But Google, with its Chromebook Pixel and its three years of a free terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, may be setting off a price war.
The popular multi-platform, note-taking web application Evernote has had its master website hacked — and you must change your password before you can use it.
From searching for alien life to working out cancer's protein structures to seeking cores for orphan and rare diseases, distributed computing programs can put your idle computers to good work.
Microsoft and Google have both just released new browsers for Windows 7. So which is the best now?
Microsoft had the embarrassment of seeing its Azure flagship cloud storage system crash for 12 hours on Friday because it forgot to renew an SSL certificate. Before laughing yourself silly, are you sure that a similar disaster couldn't happen to your internet presence?
Let's take a quick look at the 10 most important personal cloud storage services.
Personal cloud storage services have become commonplace but which one is the best for you or your company?
While Apple's iOS 6.11's 3G problem has been fixed, and there are workarounds for the Exchange problem, other headaches -- such as an inability to make Wi-Fi connections -- persist. And the iPhone's security remains utterly compromised.
In a surprise move, the Opera Web browser is moving from using its Presto Web rendering engine to using the popular open-source Webkit engine.