More Angry Birds?

More Angry Birds for indie devs to compete with? Bring it on!

If you're heading to the pub, and you're bored with Birds, check out Titanbase Trivia on iTunes. It's free this weekend and a blast on any Apple device.

What a moron!

Wow! The Internet *is* communication. It's the best communication ever known to man.

Mr. Cerf must be drunk...

Strange omission

That is bizarre, and I have warned my facebook friends...

The Fire has promise. Here's hoping they open it up a little.

Let me count the ways...

Gee, let me count the ways I can access your PHP code. If it's Windows anything, I can just login to the server and xcopy it. Just boot into Safe Mode on most machines, no account required.

Seems like paranoia. Say if an employee copies it and hides his tracks? Sure it seems like 'magical' access, but it's not.

In other words, it sounds more like social engineering than anything else.

Most of these comments are missing the point...

... the point is, access of this type to their systems was "Unauthorized Access".

If you want to access areas that are marked "Unauthorized", no matter how simple or complex your script, you should be ready to address the consequences.

These guys went after data for the purpose of 're-purposing' the data for their own short-term monetary gains, it even shows up in their child-like chat logs.

These two should have the book thrown at them. Caught red-handed. They weren't trying to do anything righteous, that's just a smoke screen.

No plugins

As far as developers are concerned, we cannot use any type of browser plugin with the new SDK, except those provided by the WebKit engine.

Right now, there are many WebKit/Safari browser plugins that are supported 'natively'. So, if Apple wanted to, they could allow an Objective-C-based Safari plugin to run Flash SWF files, just like they allow the browser to run a native PDF viewer plugin to display PDF files.

What I find surprising is Adobe and Apple just can't seem to work together to give the users what they want: Flash on the iPad. For now the closest we can get is Flash on the MacBook Air.

Win7 and WinXP are great.

I recommend Win7 when possible and Windows XP when required.

It's easy to tell if you 'require' Windows XP. Your hardware might not be upgradeable and you want to use the system resources for applications vs. the operating system.

For home PCs, Windows XP Media Centers are still running fine with hardware replacements. For some people, this is their TIVO, so they really don't want to mess with it when it's working.

At some point they might want HD, or they get Windows 7 on a notebook and are ready to upgrade to Windows 7 on their home server/TIVO system.

Anytime Microsoft or other parties (like commenters) start getting pushy, it's because they want to sell more product. Makes sense, but it's a buyer's market right now.

Anti-Microsoft

especially @AC: Can't you troll elsewhere?

Only kids complain about their OS. If you don't like it, change it. There's no need to 'defend Microsoft' if someone doesn't like Windows.

Drama queens are upset no one is crying? Please give us a break! There should be moderation on these comments.

What a troll!

"Or they just hate change."

It's just a netbook running an operating system. Who cares if it's XP or the latest, we're just doing 'netbook' things like surfing the net.

Reminds me of a a troll trying to start a flame war. No one really cares, they just want a PC that works.

Do no evil?

Acquiring a competitor ad company for less than a billion is ridiculous.

That's just wrong.

Google is making money

Google is making money off of these links. Sounds like someone is unhappy with the terms.

One partner should not be struggling to keep employees while the other is trying to find places to hide billions.

Google is as much of a bully as any large corporation. No one is going to do anything about it. (Some might, those are the courageous few.)

No it means that

the World has gone "postal". .PST is the file type. It's a play on words.

Oh so those are Windows fan boys

I was wondering who would defend an operating system it is so riddled with security holes that they just had their biggest patch Tuesday ever.

Then I recalled the 'Windows Fan Boy' thing. They do seem like apologists for an insecure operating system.

The fact is: if you want to do secure online banking, don't use Windows. If you dispute the fact, look at the numbers for clarification.

Excuses for why the numbers are coming up so bad for Windows are just excuses. Sure there are lots of excuses that research will find, but it doesn't change the facts much.

I call foul

"Updating these browsers could break enterprise apps."

As a 10-year enterprise app developer, I call foul. If the apps break, hire some developers to update them or replace them. It sounds to me like they don't want to mess up the interface. It's quite simple to update the application interface (compared to the business logic that is much more important and critical to the application).

This excuse has been trotted out time and time again. Are programmers that expensive or are companies that uncomfortable with making updates?

ads all over the place

The fact that you don't see ads, and don't see value is great!

That means the competition is utterly clueless!

@jeff debate is for blogs

debate on blogs. wikipedia is facts.

post your facts and move on. if you're constantly updating things, something fishy is going on.

The word is FAIL as in you FAILED

When you FAIL at something, that means you did not do what you intended to do.

I would think that the trolls complaining about the word Fail should post a blog about it, and express their outrage there.

Instead they troll the comments section. How about talking about Alpha instead of hijacking the thread? thanks in advance!

BTW, welcome to the Internet. You seem new. Don't start flame wars. If you don't like this website, don't come here. Send criticism about their journalism to their e-mail address. Public drama won't help your case.

That's why

That's why you block advertisements with a blacklist, not some silly add-on that gets pschyzophrenic.

What a bizarre 'plan'.

Bashing MS?

@AC: No one is bashing the company. They are bashing the policies for their new app and phone software.

The company has already been proven a monopoly, and these are the same tactics. So it's 100% reasonable to expect more lawsuits over these decisions. The company itself is not the issue.

Standard rules are there to protect the monopoly. Perhaps a new standard is needed.

Finally, don't get upset when someone complains about a company's policy. You don't need to defend them. Just wait and see if they change their policies or do not. Crying about it, and belittling this website as a technical source won't help anyone.

McAfee has failed at security?

Ditch 'em!

There is no need to support 'corporate welfare'. Clearly they cannot be trusted to take care of security (as their business attests is their mission).

I hope everyone sees this as an irresponsible action on McAfee's part, and they go out of business. After all, what good are they?

In reality: they are a business trying to make money; they probably laid off most of their staff and now they are up the creek. Greed trumps security.

It's not your job, but others out there

others out there know how to do the job!

I work with end-users, from call center reps to executives. They tell me quite plainly what they are looking for.

What they don't tell you, is that they hate learning new technology. Case in point: I developed a system identical to twitter, but it required a web server. I don't have funds to throw away hosting twitter websites for anonymous users, so the app required a web server.

Twitter popped up as a web service, and it has taken the Internet community by storm. Since there is no 'technological hurdle' to jump over, Twitter has been successful.

Once Microsoft learns that most users hate programming, then perhaps their operating systems and online services will get better.

M$ Noobs

I don't think paying $99 is a good idea.

Good for Microsoft, I guess.

10% vs Termination

How about 10% of what you get now or termination?

Not such a wise-acre now? Continue writing software for hourly wages without royalties, and you get what you deserve.