Malwarebytes announced its acquisition of ZeroVulnerabilityLabs, Inc today. The company has multiple products such as a browser and a utility to protect against drive-by downloads through exploits. With an agent running on the computer, it adds another layer of protection to the end user browsing the web. With the acquisition of ZeroVulnerabilityLabs, a new version of … [Read more...]
Oracle releases Java 7u25, no 6u51
Oracle released Java 7u25 on Tuesday. It is the first update where an update to Java 6 was not included despite February 2013 being the extended end of support for Java 6. Beyond February 2013, Java 6u43 and Java 6u45 were released. With the latest update, users of Java 5, 6, and 7 are encouraged to update to Java 7 update 25. Not publicly available, Java 6u51 and 5u51 are only … [Read more...]
Unburying the Delete button in the Gmail Android app
The Android app for Gmail recently received an update. It adds a bit more color than the previous version by using avatars (or generic substitutes) of the sender to take up some of the app's limited real estate. Also part of the update, the developers decided to hide the Delete button by default. My frustration at its departure was growing a little bit each day until today when … [Read more...]
The Cloud – A marketing success for technology
In a conversation with a coworker the other day, we got onto the topic of "the cloud". To summarize, it seemed the marketing genius behind 'the cloud' knew exactly what they were doing. From an IT Pro perspective, the sentiment seemed to swing drastically with just the change of terminology. Outsourcing: "Booo!" The Cloud: "Yay!" Even servers in your own data center have … [Read more...]
Twitter API deprecation disables widgets across the Web
On Tuesday, Twitter retired v1 of their API and completed the transition to v1.1. As a result, you may see numerous areas of websites that are supposed to pull a Twitter feed but are actually blank. Twitter is hardly known for its stability or high-availability. You may have thought like I did that Twitter was just suffering an outage the first and maybe second time you saw the … [Read more...]