Techthrob.com

What LulzSec Teaches us About Network Security

After fifty days of causing mayhem and running about the Internet unharmed, LulzSec has decided to disband as an organization. The constituent members remain at large, mind you, and surely they haven’t lost their taste for private data. There almost certainly will not be a reduction in break-ins, although they may now be more discrete. [...]

TechThrob Weekly Roundup: Sept. 25 through Oct 1

This Friday I’ve decided to do something a little different and try a ’roundup’ post linking to some of the most interesting and important things going on in technology right now. Followup: Hardware Graphics Acceleration for Browsers First up is a pair of stories that your web browser is soon going to have hardware graphics [...]

Why Google Will Dominate The Browser Wars

The browser wars are heating up again, with Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft as the main competitors. Google has announced its intentions to release several new versions in rapid succession, and Microsoft is pushing Internet Explorer 9. All the players realize that the stakes are higher than ever before, with more advertising dollars being poured onto [...]

Five and a Half Reasons I Prefer Linux (as a power user)

Linux is growing in popularity for many reasons, and as an operating system it is many things to many people. While we all have our own reasons for liking Linux and open source, here are my top five (and a half!) reasons why, as a power user, I prefer to use Linux. You’ll notice that [...]

Why an Ubuntu Tablet Won’t Sell

Note: Mark Shuttleworth clarified that Canonical is not working on a tablet edition, but rather other companies are developing Ubuntu-based tablets.

Will Ajax Runtime Environments Create Web 3.0?

Introduction Web 2.0 was marked by the development of web-based applications. Things really took off when “mashups” began to appear; the ability to take information from multiple sites and create a unique service, based on the web, that provided a sum greater than the whole of its parts. But the major limitation to all these [...]