Monthly Archives: November 2013
Microsoft Xbox One Launches With Good, Not Glowing, Reviews
Microsoft officially launched its Xbox One console at midnight, Friday, Nov. 22, and as expected, the company drew crowds at midnight store openings and...
Mozilla Revenue Tops $311 Million From Open-Source Technology
Hundreds of millions of users around the world freely benefit from Mozilla technologies, including Mozilla's open-source Firefox Web browser, but that doesn't mean Mozilla...
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Crack Down on ‘Cramming’
AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are working with legislators to crack down on mobile "cramming," the practice of unauthorized third-party companies making charges to consumers'...
Microsoft Delivers Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
Microsoft has launched a new Node.js plug-in for Visual Studio, the open-source Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS).NTVS is a free, open source plug-in...
Samsung to Pay Apple $290M Says Jury, for a Discounted Total of $929M
Apple has been awarded $290 million in damages by the U.S. jury tasked with recalculating a disputed portion of the fine owned to the...
openSUSE 13.1: What’s New in the Latest Linux Distribution
openSUSE 13.1: What's New in the Latest Linux Distribution
by Sean Michael Kerner
OpenSUSE Is Open-Source Software
There are hundreds of different components that make up the...
PlayStation 4 a Strong Game Market Contender for Sony: 10 Reasons Why
PlayStation 4 a Strong Game Market Contender for Sony: 10 Reasons Why
by Don Reisinger
The Price Matters
Sony's decision to price the PlayStation 4 at $399...
Google Expands Its Google Translate App for Android
Google has just made its Google Translate language translation app for Android faster and expanded its coverage to several additional foreign languages, including Malay...
Smartwatches Struggle With Mainstream Adoption: Gartner
Smartwatches are unlikely to be featured on many consumers' holiday wish lists this year, despite the media hype around models from Samsung and Kickstarter-funded...
Botnets Keep Springing Back to Life After Takedowns, Damballa CTO Says
Kelihos keeps coming back, Citadel is hard to kill, and Zeus seems immortal. Security firms, led by software giant Microsoft, have tried to shut...