Craig Mundie has left his role as Microsoft's chief research and strategy officer to become senior adviser to the CEO, as he winds down before retirement. Mundie had led strategy since founder Bill Gates stepped down from full-time work at the company in 2006. first reported the move Monday morning, noting that it was announced in an internal memo from CEO Steve Ballmer on Dec. 14, which also included news that Mundie plans to retire in 2014. Chief Technical Strategy Officer Eric Rudder has taken over most of Mundie's former duties, including overseeing Microsoft research.
Gentium, a TrueType typeface designed by J. Victor Gaultney, is part of SIL International's Non-Roman Script Initiative. The ideas behind Gentium is to provide diverse ethnic groups around the world with a digital resource to present their complex languages. Even without that lofty goal, the typeface itself is refined and modern, yet classically elegant. To the casual observer, Gentium may seem similar to Times New Roman, with a stacked letter-press type lowercase, delicate serifs, and legibility at very small sizes. But Gentium has more rounded glyphs, and a much less harsh overall appearance. Gentium supports a wide range of Latin- and Cyrillic-based alphabets, and is available in a number of versions to fit all your business needs. Gentium Basic includes upper and lowercase, numbers, punctuation, special characters, and a limited Latin character set. Gentium Book (designed by Gaultney with Annie Olsen) is a slightly heavier version. Both Gentium and Gentium Book include italic, bold, and bold italic faces. In addition, Gentium Plus offers extended Latin glyphs, archaic Greek symbols, and full extended Cyrillic script support; but currently includes only regular and italic faces. Gentium Alt includes more than 2400 kerning pairs and flatter diacritics designed to improve appearance when writing non-English (and offers fun options that may not be typographically correct, but add flair). Gentium fonts are free for both personal and commercial use, in addition to being open source under the SIL Open Font License (which permits both redistribution and modification). Embedding is installable.
Children across the world are anxiously awaiting the Monday evening; luckily, in 2013 we have numerous ways to track the Jolly Old Elf during Christmas Eve. As usual, the North American Aerospace Defense Command is tracking Santa via radar this season and displaying Saint Nick's location online. But this year, NORAD has partnered with Microsoft and Bing to show Santa's every moment instead of Google, the Can-American organization's online partner since 2004. Not to be outdone by its search rival, Google is also tracking Santa's midnight ride on its own.
Starting with version 25 of Google Chrome, browser extensions installed offline by other applications will not be enabled until users give their permission through a dialog box in the browser interface. At the moment developers have several options to install extensions offline—not using the browser interface—in Google Chrome for Windows. One of them involves adding special entries in the Windows registry that tell Chrome that a new extension has been installed and should be enabled. "This feature was originally intended to allow users to opt-in to adding a useful extension to Chrome as a part of the installation of another application," Peter Ludwig, Google's product manager of Chrome Extensions, said Friday in a . "Unfortunately, this feature has been widely abused by third parties to silently install extensions into Chrome without proper acknowledgment from users." In order to prevent this type of abuse, starting with Chrome 25, the browser will automatically disable all previously installed "external" extensions and will present users with a one-time dialog box to choose which ones they want to re-enable.
has announced two ARM-based desktop computers that will be shipping "soon" with Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). very compact. Both measure 7.48-by-5.87-by-1.0 inches and, when mounted in the vertical position don't take up much more space on a desktop than a typical router. The pint-sized desktops are built around the Allwins A10 ARM processor, which runs at 1GHz, and have Mali-400 MP4 graphics. Inputs/Outputs include five USB 2.0 ports (four rear, one front), VGA and HDMI ports, an SD/MMC card reader, RJ45 jack, a fast Ethernet port, and support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Adobe plans in February to close a dangerous hole in its application that causes the application to be downgraded when a user launches older multimedia content, allowing hackers to target years-old vulnerabilities. The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (U.S. CERT) issued an on the vulnerability, which could allow an attacker to deliver malware and execute arbitrary code, considered to be one of the most dangerous kinds of flaws. U.S. CERT of the problem on October 27, 2010, but an Adobe spokesperson said Wednesday that the problem will be closed with the next major upgrade of Shockwave, scheduled for February 12. "We are not aware of any active exploits or attacks in the wild using this particular technique," said Wiebke Lips, senior manager with Adobe corporate communications. Adobe did not consider the issue a high risk to users.
With Office 2007, Microsoft introduced entirely new file formats for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Designated by an at the end of the file extension (.docx instead of .doc, and so on), these were not backward compatible. Initially, I wasn't happy with this change. I'm generally conservative about popular and established file formats--especially those supported by a great many software venders--and don't want them to be changed. And almost everyone in the office software business has been supporting .doc and .xls for years.
Assembly line workers are logging 12-hour days to churn out the latest handsets for Samsung Electronics at a factory in Huizhou, China. 24-year-old Wang Hong Wei knows what it's like: He and about four to six others would collectively assemble 2700 Samsung Galaxy S III phones each day at the factory run by HTNS Shenzhen Co. But they could never finish the job within normal working hours. "They told us we could complete it in ten hours, but ten hours was not enough," Wang said when interviewed in late November. "Every day we kept working, but we couldn't finish." Long working hours are often cited as one of the major over working conditions in China, both Samsung and Foxconn have pledged to bring down workers' overtime hours over the next two years.
Mozilla on Friday backtracked from a decision to suspend all work on a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows, acknowledging that user criticism had changed its mind. . "After reviewing that feedback, and consulting with Release Engineering, I believe that we can keep a set of users happy by making a modification to the original plan." of 64-bit (x64) Firefox for Windows, citing add-on incompatibilities, problems deciphering crash reports, and a low priority for the project. At the time, Smedberg said that Mozilla had already decided not to ship an x64 Windows Firefox in the first half of 2013, and perhaps not at all during the year.
Das gesamte Redaktionsteam wünscht Ihnen allen schöne Weihnachtstage und einen schwungvollen Rutsch ins Jahr 2013.
Das gesamte Redaktionsteam wünscht Ihnen allen schöne Weihnachtstage und einen schwungvollen Rutsch ins Jahr 2013.
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