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GLENN’S SHOWNOTES    Google Glass Is on Sale for Anyone in the U.S. (Again) Glass can now be purchased by anyone in the U.S. willing to fork out $1,500. But it’s not clear for exactly how long. The company has … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES    Firefox 29: Mozilla’s Biggest Browser Upgrade Since 2011? biggest update since Firefox 4.0 was released in March 2011   Firefox can synchronize open tabs, browsing history, bookmarks, passwords and form data across desktop and mobile installations The … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES    Microsoft zero-day reveals Windows XP exposure A wave of targeted attacks against serious vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer expose the increased risk facing organisations and consumers facing  Windows XP users. Microsoft issued a security advisory on Sunday, warning … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES  Microsoft silently alters user files on OneDrive a blogger Seán Byrne in Ireland has found Microsoft appears to be silently modifying user data stored using its OneDrive for Business service by injecting uniquely identifiable code into some files. … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES    Google to Launch Modular Smartphones in 2015   Google on Tuesday announced that it will launch a modular smartphone platform in early 2015, letting users pick and change out hardware components just as they do with software … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES   The Heartbleed Hit List: The Passwords You Need to Change Right Now   An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES Microsoft beefs up customer privacy policy Microsoft Corp, under fire for accessing an employee’s private Hotmail account to prove he was leaking computer code to a blogger, has said it will now refer all suspicions of illegal activity … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES Source code for MS-DOS and Word released   Microsoft has released the source code for both MS-DOS and the original Word for Windows.   Both have been released to the Computer History Museum, in a bid to help … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES   Office “needs more than a tune-up” says Gates   Bill Gates has criticised one of the company’s biggest cash cows – Microsoft Office – admitting the package needs “more than a tune-up”.   Now, they need more … Read More

GLENN’S SHOWNOTES 25 years of the World Wide Web Computer world – the Web is marking its 25th anniversary. On March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, introduced the idea of the World Wide Web in a proposal … Read More