upload code to the Fortify software-as-a-service and get a limited analysis about whether the code has specific vulnerabilities or design flaws. The free service is still considered to be in beta, according to Mike Armistad, vice president and general manager of enterprise security products at Fortify, a division of HP. Mobile, or BlackBerry. The service focuses on a limited number of specific vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting, Armistad says.

Unity Technologies has opened a beta program for Windows Phone 8 apps, and invites experienced developers to start testing. Unity's cross-platform development tools can be used to create games for a multitude of different platforms, including smartphones, PCs and game consoles, simultaneously. The new beta program is "a chance to preview Unity 4 for the Windows Phone 8 platform and get a foothold in an all-new marketplace that is looking for great games," the company said in . Unity underlines that support for Microsoft's smartphone OS has not yet reached maturity; it is still working on optimizing the performance, according to the blog post. There are also bugs and some features missing, it added, but it feels that experienced developers can take advantage of what it has to offer. They will, for example, be able to port existing games to Windows Phone 8 using the early builds. The Wednesday announcement comes just three weeks after a similar program for Windows Store apps was announced. Together the two programs allow developers to create games for the entire Windows ecosystem, according to Unity.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded Microsoft 13 design patents Tuesday for its Surface line of tablets, including their innovative Touch keyboards-slash-covers, according to published documents. The baker's dozen were published by the USPTO on March 26, with multiple inventors noted for each design patent. They came just a week after four other design patents were awarded for other elements of the Surface. Because they were design patents, the applications published by the USPTO did not delve into the functional details of the Surface or its cover, but instead outlined what's described as the "ornamental" aspects of the products. used to attach the cover to the tablet.

Websites take longer to load. Netflix cuts out. Normally you can blame those annoyances on a slow Internet connection speed, but this week, it’s the result of the largest global cyberattack in history. The European nonprofit spam filtering company Spamhaus reportedly is fending off DDoS, or , that briefly took the site offline (it is now back up) and is causing widespread congestion on the Web. Spamhaus creates blacklists of servers that spammers use to send messages for e-mail providers, so providers can then filter spam for their users. The company had recently added the Dutch website hosting company CyberBunker and its ISP, A2B Internet, to its list. The attack began March 18. Spamhaus was overwhelmed with traffic in a clear DDoS attack, and turned to the security team at CloudFlare to get the site back up and running of the attack on March 20.

Offering wireless Internet access for guests can open new doors for your business. For a cafe or restaurant, customers are more likely to stay longer, purchase more items, and return knowing they can use a Wi-Fi connection. For motels and hotels, Wi-Fi is one of travelers' deciding factors when selecting where to stay. Offering guest wireless access from an otherwise private office can be beneficial too, as it provides outside associates, contractors, and other visitors with a reliable Internet connection. , Wi-Fi connections can provide faster speeds and usually aren’t subject to usage limits. Plus Wi-Fi can be offered where 4G access isn’t available—as well as for laptops, tablets, and other mobile devices that aren’t4G- equipped. The simplest way you might think to offer public or guest Wi-Fi access is to let people on an existing Wi-Fi network used by the business, but this isn’t secure. Allowing outsiders on the private network could open your company up to hacking and data theft.

Every once in a while, I come across a service that leaves me speechless. This is exactly what happened when I first started using Tackk: It took my breath away. Tackk is a free website maker currently in beta, and will help you create any single-page website (or Tackks) in minutes. there's simply no other way with Tackk. If you decide to go for a free account, you'll get Tackks that never expire, the ability to create multiple Tackks, give them custom URLs, and include contact forms. All other features are available to everyone, and anonymously. To help you get started, Tackk comes with five different themes: Anything, Events, Housing, For Sale, Announce, and Business. Each one comes with the features you're most likely to use on the page, but you can add and remove elements as you please. After choosing a theme, use the Editor on the right to choose your color, headline font, and background texture. Remember when I said your website is going to be beautiful? This is due to the delicate balance of freedoms and limitations that Tackk provides. You can choose any color you want (there are almost 100 to choose from), but once that's done, it sets the color scheme for your entire page. When it comes to your headings, sub-headings, and buttons, you only get to choose from 3-4 colors that go well with your background. The weak point of this feature is links, which always take the background's color, and may become almost invisible when using dark backgrounds.

There are a lot of video downloaders out there, but few are as slick and easy on the eye as standalone utility Freemake Video Downloader v3.5. The program will download video from any site that you can snag a URL from—and if you're using YouTube and Firefox, you can even download using a button that the program embeds below the video being viewed. Not bad for a free program. , which I use with Firefox. ) to convert download videos, if you choose. You can either pre-set the conversion settings (the program will convert any video to MP4, FLV, WebM, or 3GP) for one-click downloading and conversion, or choose a format for each download. After you've pasted in a URL and selected the conversion format (if any), it's just a matter of waiting till the video downloads. There's a handy play button next to each completed download that will launch your default video player.

I know loads of Facebook users who never bother to check their notifications. You know, that area in the top-left corner of the screen, the one with the little red number badges?

Most small and medium businesses (aka SMBs) have some sort of backup solution in place, but not all have made the move to a cloud-based option—perhaps because of price, and perhaps because of concerns about security. . Specifically, that's 10GB of cloud storage for you, the administrator, and 10GB each for up to nine additional users. The backbone is Evault's backup-and-recovery version of its Endpoint Protection service, meaning you won't get all the features of a paid account (like remote wipe and device tracking), but you'll still get business-class protection for your users' data. Indeed, Evault offers 256-bit military-grade encryption and "Geo-redundant Tier 4 data center hosting." That's about as much piece of mind as I'd need for my files.

After Apple launched the iPad in 2010, it didn’t take critics long to start asking if this new breed of one-panel touch tablets would kill the PC market as people opted for slates over clamshells. Now, more than three years, four iPads, and a gazillion Android tablets later, the answer to that question is finally taking shape. Worldwide tablet shipments are expected to overtake desktop PCs in 2013 and laptops will suffer the same fate one year later, according to market research firm IDC. (). That would seem to be a pretty definitive case that PCs are about to be replaced by tablets—but on closer inspection that’s not what IDC's numbers are truly saying. There’s little question the market for tablets is exploding. In 2012, IDC said global tablet shipments grew by 78.4 percent compared to the year previous. Meanwhile the market share of desktop and portable PCs (laptops, Ultrabooks, etc.) dropped by 4.1 and 3.4 percent, respectively. And that's just the start of the bleeding: IDC predicts the desktop market will drop another 4.3 percent in 2013, while laptops are expected to stay relatively flat at a growth rate of just 0.9 percent. But percentages can be deceiving and they tell only half the tale of IDC’s predictions. Peering ahead to the future, IDC’s numbers suggest that while the overall market share for PCs will decline, shipments will still increase, if only by a hair. In other words, the demand for PCs isn't dying down—it’s just that the thirst for mobile devices is exploding.

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