Day: October 19, 2013

Google Hangouts for iOS dials up free voice calls for US, Canada

Version 1.3.0 of Hangouts for iOS adds outbound calling on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and also lets US users of Google Voice receive calls in the iOS Hangouts app…….


Evernote’s Phil Libin on how his company was saved at the eleventh hour

At the annual Y Combinator startup school event, Evernote CEO Phil Lubin details the most important lessons he’s learned throughout the founding of three companies and how Evernote came to the precipice of failure…….


Reprogrammed Bacterium Speaks New Language of Life

wabrandsma writes “New Scientist reports that ‘A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that the standard language of life no longer applies. Instead, one of its words has been freed up to impart a different meaning, allowing the addition of genetic elements that don’t exist in nature. … The four letters of the genetic…


Microsoft yanks Windows RT 8.1 update from Windows Store

Company temporarily pulls its recently released Windows RT 8.1 update for ARM-based devices owing to an unexplained issue…….


How PR Subverts Wikipedia

Daniel_Stuckey writes “We all know that Wikipedia can be subverted—it’s an inevitability of an open platform that some people will seek to abuse it, whether to gain some advantage or just for a laugh. Fortunately, the Wikipedia community has strong mechanisms in place to deal with this, from the famous cry of [citation needed] to…


MNET Solution XSS / SQL Injection / File Upload

Sites designed by MNET Solution suffer from cross site scripting, html injection, remote shell upload, and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. Note that this advisory has site-specific information…….


Microsoft pulls Windows RT 8.1 update from the Store

Microsoft has pulled temporarily its recently released Windows RT 8.1 update for ARM-based devices due to an unexplained issue…….


OCZ May Be On Its Last Legs

itwbennett writes “OCZ, one of the first commercial solid-state drive (SSD) makers has been blaming a shortage of NAND for its woes for some time now, but things have taken a precipitous turn for the worse: ‘For its second fiscal quarter ended August 31, 2013, revenue was $33.5 million, a huge drop compared to revenue…


At Apple, gold iPhone 5S is known as ‘the Kardashian phone’

No, it didn’t merely have some secret code name with numbers and letters. Apparently, the (relatively) blingiest of the iPhones was associated from the beginning with, well, a lack of taste…….


SAP to slow development of Business ByDesign: report

The company’s mid-market business software suite will be wound down but not shut down, according to a German magazine…….