If you have watched any video game trailers online, you might see a message with a robotic voice appear before the video plays that says "PEGI 16" or "PEGI 12" (pronounced like 'Peggy'). Like some of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Y5SyjbHAA Seeing them in a series like that might make it a little more obvious but at first, you might not know what the PEGI rating is … [Read more...]
Archives for 2011
Updating The DigiNotar Breach Away – Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, Mozilla, Google React
If you haven't been following the story so far, DigiNotar, a Dutch certificate authority that provides SSL certificates, was breached by hackers. A compromised CA doesn't exactly convey the level of trust one would want from a certificate authority. It was first detected that a wildcard SSL certificate for *.google.com was issued and Chrome threw up an additional warning when … [Read more...]
Mozilla Gets Into Do Not Track Details; Released Field Guide
Yesterday on Mozilla's Privacy Blog, they went into details regarding Firefox's Do Not Track feature. They showed the adoption rate climbing from 3% to 4.5% and the Firefox Metrics Blog further explained those numbers. In that same posting, they released The Do Not Track Field Guide for developers. The PDF includes an intro to DNT, case studies, and tutorials on implementing … [Read more...]
Amazon Rolls Out A New Website Design
The Amazon.com homepage has received a face lift. It makes it a little less cluttered while showing more information. Speculation says that the redesign was secondary to making the site more mobile friendly for their upcoming Kindle tablet. … [Read more...]
TiVo Answers ‘What’s beyond Premiere?’ with Premiere Elite
On the TiVo Blog today, TiVo has revealed the details of the next evolution of their DVR: The TiVo Premiere Elite. The Premiere Elite expands on the previous enjoyed TiVo Premiere updates with two big improvements: two terabytes of storage for 300 hours of HD recordings and the ability to record four channels simultaneously while watching a fifth. Imagine a set-top box so … [Read more...]