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Windows 8 Trys to Put a Stop to Linux on Microsoft Machines

Hispalinux has filed a European antitrust complaint against Microsoft over the use of UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) Secure Boot feature in Windows 8 machines. Hispalinux has asked the European Commission to grant a preliminary injunction forcing Microsoft to modify its current agreements and requirements for manufacturers whom are forced to implement Microsofts UEFI Secure ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 27 - 2013 Technology

Apple Adds Two-Factor Authentication on all Apple accounts

Apple added a two-factor authentification to protect its customers against a new password reseting attack. Hackers have found a way to reset Apple customers passwords. All the hacker needs is the users email address and date of birth, unfortunately it’s a little bit too easy to find this information online nowerdays. If you are an ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 25 - 2013 News Explained, Technology

3D Display allows Phones and Tablets make Holograms

3D display developed at HP labs creates 3D images without the use of glasses or any moving parts. The image that it creates allows the viewer to walk around it like a real object and appears to hover above the screen. The screen itself is as thin as half a millimeter thick, created by modifying ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 21 - 2013 Technology

Chameleon Botnet Costs Advertisers over €4.6M per Month

“Security firm Spider.io has identified a botnet, dubbed Chameleon, which helps cybercriminals earn more than $6 million (4.6 million EUR) a month from advertisers by emulating human visitors on certain websites.” quote from SOFTPEDIA news If you are an advertiser, like myself, I would be a bit concerned about botnets such as the Chameleon appearing. ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 20 - 2013 Technology

Sim City not working

Since EA’s move to make Sim City online, presumably only to help prevent pirates, yet they have shot themselves in the foot. Unfortunately the game servers used for the launch were not good enough to cope with the volume of traffic. Amazon suspended sales of SimCity late on 7 March as players reported continued problems. ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 9 - 2013 Business, Internet, News, Technology, Top Story

HTML5 exploit fills your hard drive

Feross Aboukhadijeh, a 22-year-old Web developer from Stanford has developed a HTML5 exploit that takes advantage of the storage space that your browser assigns for each website to use. Your browser assigns space for each website to save things such as cookies which can be between 5-10KB but HTML5 allows a website to store large amounts of ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 8 - 2013 Internet, News Explained, Technology

Google Now Advert

Google has just released it’s new advertising campaign for it’s Google Now product for Android phones to further showcase the benefits that it can provide users with. In addition to Voice Search, Google Now also provides users with Flight Search, Search by Image, Google Instant, Related Search Preview, Knowledge Graph, Gmail Search Field Trial, and ... Read More
Posted by Andrew Colby On March - 8 - 2013 News, Technology, Top Story

Hello world!

Welcome to Andrew Colby‘s Blog. I thought that it would be fitting to use the typical Hello World! to say hi
Posted by Andrew Colby On February - 19 - 2013 AC News, Articles, Blog, Business, Entertainment, Internet, News, News Explained, Random, Scripting Help, Social Media, Technology, Top Story, Uncategorized