March 7, 2013
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In the eternal war between crackers and security professionals, the hackers have won the latest battle.
At the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada, the HP Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) annual Pwn2Own competition has ended its first day of competition and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 10, Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox Web browsers have all been cracked. In addition, Java—can anyone be surprised at this?–was also cracked multiple times.
March 7, 2013
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Who doesn’t like free cloud storage? Many of us use Dropbox every day. Others build their businesses around Box’s OneCloud services. And still others hunt eternally for the most storage for free, which, for the moment, would be Mega’s 50 gigabytes.
But now, Google with its new Chromebook Pixel, has upped the ante. This new cloud-based laptop comes with a terabyte of free storage for three years.
March 6, 2013
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Google’s Chrome OS, thanks to the growing popularity of Chromebooks, is being used by more and more people. Many people know that Chrome OS has a Linux foundation. But how Chrome OS developed from Linux, and exactly what is in Chrome OS today, has been something of a mystery — until now.
March 5, 2013
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Torvalds may have come to terms with the Linux GNOME interface, but what he really, really likes is his new Google Chromebook Pixel’s display.
Linus Torvalds really likes Google’s Chromebook Pixel. More >
March 5, 2013
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Pretty much everyone agrees that Google’s Chromebook Pixel is too expensive to just run the Chrome OS Web browser. But what if it could run Android tablet apps as well?
Chromebook Pixel: Does this device herald Android and Chrome OS’s wedding? More >
March 4, 2013
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Windows fans will whine, but Net Applications’ desktop operating systems numbers don’t lie. Windows 8’s pathetic user adoption numbers can’t even keep up with Vista’s lousy numbers.