Microsoft is working to make its signature Live Tiles much more interactive and capable. Today, the tiles mainly exist to provide glanceable information for popular apps across Windows 8 and Windows Phone. They’ll tell you how many email messages are waiting for you, or display a comment someone’s posted to your Facebook wall. But the…
Twitter Inc unveiled a redesign of its user profile pages on Tuesday, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service. In response to an all-time low in user growth figures during the recent quarter, Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo told worried Wall Street analysts…
Scientists are trying to build degradable materials and electronics that can safely melt when triggered, like if you lose your credit card, you could send out a signal that causes the card to self-destruct. Iowa State University’s materials scientist, Reza Montazami, said that it’s a new way of looking at electronics and you don’t expect…
San Diego television station KGTV reports five-year-old Kristoffer Von Hassel uncovered a flaw that would allow someone to log into a player’s profile without their password. Kristoffer Von Hassel is a 5-year-old boy who apparently exposed a security flaw in Microsoft Xbox. Result: Now he has got a job in the largest personal-computer software company…
The government has signed a deal with Microsoft to provide Windows XP support and security updates across the whole UK public sector for 12 months after commercial support for the operating system ends on 8 April 2014. The agreement is worth £5.548 million, and covers ‘critical’ and ‘important’ security updates for Windows XP, as well…
