The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Building Windows 8 blog confirms that an App Store development team is among the groups working on Windows 8. This blog, kicked off on Monday, follows the general design of the Engineering Windows 7 blog created three years ago to advertise the previous Microsoft OS. President of Windows development, Steven Sinofsky, […]
Amidst the ever-escalating battle against computer crime, law enforcement receives a new tool. The Aircheck, by Fluke, is a WiFi tester for network professionals. I have several problems with this strategy. First of all, police are not network professionals.
After deleting the latest batch of junk mail full of random paragraphs lifted from fiction novels and purposely misspelled words to slip them past filters, did you ever start wondering who is really making enough money with spam to justify the effort? According to anti-virus software manufacturer F-Secure, a large percentage of the products advertised […]
App developer Shifty Jelly complains about Amazon’s business practices related to their App Store, in one of the latest stories of angry sellers who wind up selling elsewhere. His/her grudge? Apparently, Amazon’s popular Free App of the Day promotion doesn’t compensate developers a single cent when a given app is featured. (Whether this affects Techcitement’s […]
Online auction giant eBay remedies their growing problem meeting I/O storage requirements with an investment in 100 terabytes of solid state disk storage. Manager of QA Systems Administration, Michael Craft, says “One rack [of SSD storage] is equal to eight or nine racks of something else.” eBay not only saves a considerable amount of physical […]
Biophilia is an innate love for the natural world, supposed to be felt universally by humankind, per the Collins English Dictionary. For Icelandic singer Bjork, Biophilia is also the title of her seventh album, scheduled for release on September 26. Interestingly, Bjork isn’t content to release this work simply as a music CD. Rather, she […]
Apple pushes out a new software update today for the second generation AppleTV boxes, adding a major new feature. For the first time, we can buy TV episodes directly from the AppleTV, not just rent them. Additionally, we can now directly stream television shows initially purchased with an iTunes account. (Previously, users had to leave […]
The first article I ever contributed to Techcitement covered my experience trying out the FreeNAS, v8.0 server. Since then, my FreeNAS box has been happily storing Time Machine backups from several different Macs in the household — until now. What changed? OS X Lion! Apple’s ongoing efforts to increase security of their OS includes disabling […]
Most of the news about Apple’s new operating system focuses on the changes that affect the way people interact with it on a daily basis, but what’s potentially equally important are significant changes made beneath the surface. OS X Lion is, by far, Apple’s most security-conscious operating system they’ve ever released. The Register reveals the […]
According to Bloomberg, two contacts with knowledge of the upcoming auction claim Apple is preparing to make a bid for Hulu’s online video service. Other interested parties are reported to include AT&T, Yahoo, and Google, with Microsoft having already dropped out of the bidding. Considering Apple’s struggle to turn the AppleTV into a mainstream product, […]
