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Microsoft developers recently announced a new security feature in the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which lets users login through picture password authentication. But while Microsoft lauded the security and convenience benefits of this interface, security experts don’t seem to agree.

Your days of Xbox Live avatar badassery are numbered, because Mircosoft will be removing “gun-like” items from the avatar marketplace starting January 1st, 2012. This news comes from Epic Games – it announced through its community forums that the Lancer and Hammerburst avatar items will become unavailable on that day, [...]

It was a big year in tech, folks. Who are we kidding; it’s always a big year in tech!  But with Christmas being just two days away, and the new year only a meager nine, it’s hard not to look back on the year that was and figure out what [...]

The tides have turned for Mozilla, as the Firefox browser gets gets a bit of good luck. While Mozilla’s default search partnership deal with Google was reported to have expired earlier this year, the search giant is renewing the partnership to the tune of almost $1 billion in the next [...]

Microsoft is doing its last keynote presentation at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in January. Citing a decision mutually done with the Consumer Electronics Association, the software giant will reportedly minimize its presence at the CES after their final show. But is there a deeper reason behind this decision?

A bit of a shocker emerges as word comes out of Microsoft saying that, after 2012, you won’t see a Microsoft presence at the Consumer Electronics Show again. No more booths, no more keynotes, and likely little more than a background presence will remain.

RIM’s not doing good at this specific time of the year, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see the Canadian giant corporation acquired by another important name in the mobile business. And so far we have three potential bidders that have shown interest in purchasing the BlackBerry device maker: Amazon, [...]

Earlier today we showed you how Microsoft plans to reinvent computer authentication by replacing word-based passwords and pin numbers with friendly images and gestures, but that’s not the only layer of added protection Windows 8 will have to offer.

Signing in to a computer using passwords has been the norm since time immemorial. But given the prevalence of touch screens in today’s devices, alternative means of logging in are being explored. Microsoft, for one, plans to use picture passwords when logging in to touchscreen devices.

If you’ve tried to type anything much longer than a web address on a touch screen keyboard recently, then you have a pretty good idea of just how unpleasant it is, especially when matched against typing the same thing out on any normal keyboard. But Microsoft has something in mind [...]