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The protocol most home automation equipment still runs on was designed in 1975. That is the single most useful fact about this field, because…
Google launched Google Chrome web browser on September 2, 2008 for Windows platform featuring innovative multi-process architecture isolating individual tabs preventing browser-wide crashes, V8…
Microsoft initially phased out Windows XP for Vista, but extended its life due to the rise of netbooks, which couldn't run Vista effectively. This…
Syndication is the one part of the web that worked exactly as designed. A publisher lists what is new in a standard format, anyone…
A JavaScript library that mostly wraps things the browser already does has become close to universal in about two years, and the reason it…
Ruby on Rails made a specific promise when it showed up a few years back: skip the boilerplate, follow the conventions, and a small…
Apple holds something like seventy percent of the music player market and is the company most likely to end it. The device that threatens…
Photographs have carried hidden text for years. Camera model, shutter speed, aperture, the date and time down to the second. It sits in a…
Strong email encryption has been freely available since 1991. Seventeen years later, essentially nobody uses it, and the usual explanation is that the software…
The circulating advice to quit a job and start a blog for financial success is misleading. While some blogs generate significant revenue, many fail…
The home storage boxes now on sale are advertised with redundancy as the headline, and a great many people are reading that as protection.…
Cablevision aims to offer a cloud-based DVR service that records shows in its data center, arguing it functions like traditional home recording. However, content…
Universities are putting lecture recordings online for nothing, and this is being described as a threat to universities. It is not, because a lecture…
Microsoft unveiled a comprehensive Xbox 360 dashboard overhaul at E3 2008, introducing an avatar system modeled after Nintendo’s Miis alongside a transformative Netflix streaming…
Square Enix delivered one of E3’s most unexpected bombshells during Microsoft’s press conference, announcing Final Fantasy XIII will launch simultaneously on Xbox 360 alongside…
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