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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Build your own digital snapper with the Bigshot

If you are a photographer with children, then you may want to consider sharing photography with them via the Bigshot camera. Founded in 2011 by Kimera LLC, the Bigshot is a build-it-yourself kit camera designed as an educational tool illustrating the science and engineering behind digital imagemaking. After building the camera, you take pictures using a wheel-like lens system that offers a standard view, wide angle and stereo prism view.

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What is Google Play?

Google Play is Google's new name for what we used to know as the Android Market, where Android users went to buy and download their mobile apps.

The problem for Google has been the way this app distribution service has exploded alongside the mobile OS itself, with the search giant adding movie rentals, books and (in the US at least) a music service to its app shop, making it more of a supermarket than a simple app listing service.

So, the decision was made to rename the entire service from Android Market to the more generic sounding Google Play, with the app itself changing its name to Play Shop on phones across the world, thanks to a simultaneous update of the Android app. 

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JavaScripts

A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. Although it shares many of the features and structures of the full Java language, it was developed independently. Javascript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content. JavaScript is endorsed by a number of software companies and is an open language that anyone can use without purchasing a license. It is supported by recent browsers from Netscape and Microsoft, though Internet Explorer supports only a subset, which Microsoft calls Jscript.

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What Is Pinterest?

Pinterest is an online pinboard, a visual take on the social bookmarking site. Unlike other social bookmarking sites, such as Digg and StumbleUpon, content shared on Pinterest is driven entirely by visuals. In fact, you can’t share something on Pinterest unless an image is involved.

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How to Start a Blog on Blogger

Blogger is an online service owned by Google that publishes single or multi-user blogs created entirely by the user. The service has quickly become the preferred choice of many novice bloggers and is one of the easiest methods of creating and publishing a blog for free. If you are unfamiliar with the service, this article will teach you how to set up an account and create a blog on Blogger.com.

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What Is A QR Code And How Does It Work?

By now, you’re probably pretty familiar with QR codes (a.k.a. 2-D bar codes), whether or not you realize it. They’re the little square symbols that look like this:

                                                                 

The cool part is that anyone can make them. Yes, that includes you. Just Google “QR code generator” and you’ll have a plethora of websites that make it incredibly easy to make your own QR code. But that’s not even the best part. Once you have a QR code, you can mix things up, add color and graphics, and so much more. The key is to know how to keep your code scan-able.

Some people have already cracked this code, like Marc Jacobs. Others, like Yellow Pages, still have some homework to do. So how can you tell which edits will ruin your code and which ones will still allow it to be scanned? The question you should be asking is “what can’t I edit?”

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Joomla

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

 

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WordPress

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Everything you see here, from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms.

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Microsoft Silverlight

Microsoft's Silverlight technology, launched at the NAB conference, is being taken as a competitor to Adobe's Flash. Since it is a framework for providing rich applications to the Internet browser, it is indeed that. But though Silverlight and Flash are competing technologies, Microsoft's offering is different from Adobe's in key ways.

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