Tech
Week in review: November 25, 2011
Sixteen stories you may have missed.
- Are Microsoft's patent claims against Android FUD? Netscape, Mosaic, Adobe, the W3C, the Acorn and even Richard Stallman himself all brought to bear on Microsoft’s patent claims.
- No Flash for Android 4.0 'Ice Cream Sandwich' just yet Is no-Flash in ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ a deal-breaker?
- Are security firms that warn of Android malware 'charlatans and scammers'? Are you worried about Android malware?
- Microsoft puts Windows 8 on a diet ready for web delivery 2.32GB compressed down to 1.51GB.
- Firefox 8.0.1 available for download Two bugs squashed.
- Analyst: Updated Xbox 2012, no new console until 2014 ‘Microsoft is still selling a ton of Xbox 360s, and they won’t replace the existing one until sales begin to slow.’
- How to: Stress test your new PC to shake out any faults How to stress-test all the major components in your PC.
- Thanksgiving tech support survival kit - 2011 Edition Prepare in advance for the inevitable ‘Turkey Day’ tech support requests.
- Your Thanksgiving mission - Help eradicate Internet Explorer 6! Time to kick IE6’s butt!
- Do you want a Microsoft Kinect built into your TV? Gesture-based TV control, anyone?
- Yes, even Amazon's DRM sucks If it looks like DRM, and smells like DRM, then it IS DRM!
- U.S. government blows $200,000 on useless smartphone app App is ‘extremely slow, it looks like butt, and it crashes all the time.’
- Ubuntu sees massive slide in popularity, Mint sprints ahead ... but why? Try to please everyone, and pretty soon you please no one.
- Schneier on iPhone security Smartphones to become the primary platform of attack for cybercriminals.
- Windows 8 bootkit demo Windows 8 PWNED!
- Google begins shoehorning ads into Chrome browser Is this a deal-breaker for you?
Image credit: Marcin Wichary