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Steve Ballmer Planning “Significant Restructing” of Microsoft Leadership
The winds of change are blowing at Microsoft this morning, with reports suggesting that we could be about to see a big shakeup in the upper echelons of the company’s management. Nothing is guaranteed, but according to All Things D’s Kara Swisher, the company is about to undertake a “significant restructuring process”, citing sources with ...
Mozilla Plans Radical Overhaul of Firefox, Makes It More Chrome-Like
Mozilla is said to be preparing a radical design overhaul of its popular Firefox browser, which will eventually lead to a new and (we hope) improved browsing experience for all of its users. TechCrunch recently had an inside peek at what we can expect from Mozilla as they attempt to change the face of their ...
Yahoo Mail Update Kills Off User Privacy: Don’t Like It? Tough Luck
As of tomorrow Yahoo will be discontinuing its old Mail Classic email service, automatically switching all existing Mail users to a newly updated version and simultaneously forcing them to agree to a new privacy policy and terms of service in order to continue accessing their accounts. Unfortunately, the rule changes stipulate that Yahoo will henceforth ...
Anonymous Reveals News Site Plans; Launches #OpTurkey
Almost six weeks after the hacktivist group Anonymous announced that it had raised some $55,000 on Indiegogo to fund its own independent news site, the group has finally given some details about what we can look forward to. In a note posted on Pastebin, Anonymous said that its team was “working hard to design something ...
The Future is the Internet of Things, and it’s Already Here
Last year, a new internet was born. No doubt you were totally unaware it happened, because engineers had spent years working to ensure that when Internet Protocol Version 6, or IPv6, was finally switched on, it would do so without problems. But I can promise you this: In the next few years, you’ll most definitely ...
Google Gives Companies Just Seven Days to Fix Security Exploits
Being the all-powerful internet behemoth that it is, Google is often the first to stumble across security risks and vulnerabilities in other companies’ systems. When it does so, it tries to help, making them aware of the problem and giving them a 60 day grace period to sort things out. As of today, however, that ...
Big Data: Today’s Reality, Not Tomorrow’s
Big Data’s one of the hottest topics of discussion in the tech world at the moment, what with all the hype about its potential and its problems, and how its going to transform our world. All well and good, but it’s actions that speak louder than words, and for all the talk of how its ...
Motorola’s Crazy Idea to Replace Passwords With Pills & Tattoos
Most of us are aware that we shouldn’t use the same password for different accounts, but managing multiple passwords can be a huge pain in the ass. What with email, banks, games, productivity apps, blogs, social media accounts and everything else, most people are far too lazy to go creating different passwords for each one ...
“Glow” Fertility App Seduces Big Data to Make Babies
Max Levchin, the co-founder of Paypal, Yelp, board member at Yahoo, and general all-round Silicon valley superstar, doesn’t really come across as someone you’d likely turn to when wanting to discuss the intricacies of fertility and women’s health. But that’s exactly what he was doing on Wednesday at All Things D’s D11 Conference, where he ...
Windows 8 Start Button Returns, But Not As You Think
Some good news for Windows 8 haters – the Start Button’s return has all but been confirmed by leaked screenshots of a pre-release version of Windows 8.1, although perhaps in the way you were hoping for. Yesterday, Paul Thurrott of Supersite for Windows revealed a leaked screenshot of what he claims is the Windows 8.1 ...