Goodbye Microsoft Security Essentials

Microsoft Security Essentials (Windows Defender on Windows 8) was once on top. Over the years, it’s slid in the test results, but Microsoft argued the tests weren’t meaningful. Now, Microsoft is advising Windows users to use a third-party antivirus instead.

This revelation comes to us from an interview Microsoft gave. Microsoft’s official website still bills MSE as offering “comprehensive malware protection” without any hint that they no longer recommend using it. Microsoft is not communicating well with its users.

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Has Apple outsmarted Google?

Once allies, now clearly foes, Apple and Google have been in an intense battle to win the hearts and minds of people across the planet. And while Apple has lost its dominance and market-share to Google’s Android, you could argue that the Cupertino-based giant has outsmarted its Mountain View rival.

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first graphene based holographic optical disc

Scientists in Australia have succeeded in creating the first graphene-based optical disc. Owing to the magical properties of graphene, we’re not just talking about a Blu-ray or DVD disc that has had its recording layer replaced with graphene, either — we’re talking about holographic storage with absolutely monumental capacity, intrinsically high security, and apparently the ability to recover the data even when the discs are broken.

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The new look of Bing

Beside a revamped logo, Bing has also added to its search capabilities. One function autofills a search terms and offers a glimpse of information about it, and results displayed in two columns have search information and data from social networks blended along the right side.

Microsoft’s Bing may be trying to find itself. The search engine’s website got a makeover with a more streamlined look and a more angular, yellow logo. The new logo aims to be “simple, real and direct” and more closely mirror the logos of other Microsoft products, Scott Erickson, a senior director on the Bing brand team.

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VMK launch 'first African-designed' smartphone and tablet

Verone Mankou insists his devices are designed and engineered in Africa

A smartphone and tablet said to be the first designed by an African company have been launched.

The products, designed by Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou, are manufactured in China.

His company VMK's devices run Google's Android software. They will retail at $170 (£105) for the smartphone and $300 (£185) for the tablet.

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What is Android

World is contracting with the growth of mobile phone technology. As the number of users is increasing day by day, facilities are also increasing. Starting with simple regular handsets which were used just for making phone calls, mobiles have changed our lives and have become part of it. Now they are not used just for making calls but they have innumerable uses and can be used as a Camera , Music player, Tablet PC, T.V. , Web browser etc . And with the new technologies, new software and operating systems are required.

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Microsoft CodePlex

CodePlex is an open source project hosting website from Microsoft. It allows shared development of open source software. CodePlex is an open source Website where engineers and computer scientists share projects and ideas. Its features include wiki pages, source control based on Mercurial, Team Foundation Server or Subversion (also powered by TFS), Git, discussion forums, issue tracking, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases (ClickOnce releases are also supported).

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