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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals recently began calling the new Super Mario 3D Land for the Nintendo 3DS insensitive to the hunting and killing of real-life tanuki racoon dogs for fur. I guess PETA never had an issue with everyone's favorite plumber stomping on turtles and using their shells as weapons all these years. From PETA's "Mario Kills Tanooki" section of their site:...
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The Department of Justice has indicted seven people for allegedly hijacking millions of computers, manipulating traffic on popular websites, and generating more than $14 million in fraudulent advertising revenue. The defendants -- six Estonians and one Russian -- allegedly hijacked more than 4 million computers using malware that rerouted Internet traffic to websites where they would get a...
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Adobe Systems Inc. capitulated to partner-turned-rival Apple Inc. in a battle over technologies that are shaping the evolution of websites and mobile software. Adobe on Wednesday said it will no longer push its Flash software format for use in the browser programs that come with smartphones and tablet computers. Instead, Adobe will increase its support for HTML5, a collection of technologies...
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Verizon Wireless will launch the new Droid Razr for $299.99 in its stores Friday, marking the event with a later-than-usual opening time at 11:11 a.m. on Friday's date of 11-11-11. The date was chosen partly to commemorate the original Droid's birth two years ago in November 2009, Verizon said in a statement. Friday's launch at the 11:11 opening time has been promoted in slick new national...
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The legislation would allow states to collect sales tax from out-of-state online sellers Four U.S. senators have introduced legislation that would allow states to collect taxes on Internet sales, even when the seller does not have a physical presence in the taxing state. The Marketplace Fairness Act, introduced Wednesday, would allow states that sign on to one of two tax simplification...
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Automatically disables add-ons installed behind users' backs Mozilla on Tuesday released Firefox 8, adding Twitter search to the browser and patching eight vulnerabilities. Since Mozilla kicked off its every-six-week upgrade cycle last summer, each new Firefox has had relatively few visible changes. That held true yesterday. Firefox 8's most notable addition was Twitter as a choice in...
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No fix for Duqu flaw, but quashes different bug in same TrueType parsing engine Microsoft today delivered four security updates that patched four vulnerabilities in Windows, most of them affecting the newer editions of Vista and Windows 7. Only one of the updates was marked "critical," Microsoft's most-serious threat ranking. Two of the remaining were labeled "important" and the fourth...
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