Super Bowl sees tightly integrated security measures. However, for the coming Super Bowl on Sunday, security has been upped considerably and it is believed that this is the most secure Super Bowl to have happened ever!

If you have not heard of Wayland until today, it is because Wayland has not had any public release of their display protocol. Wayland will replace the X Window System in Ubuntu and Fedora, after its release.

Although methods like SPF and DKIM have been used in email phishing protection already, they have their limitations. Finally, all tech giants, namely Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, PayPal, Facebook and LinkedIn are going after spammers. They have decided to verify if the email sender is indeed the actual sender.

Firefox 10 is the first “Extended Support” version of Firefox, ensuring it will get support and security patches for the next nine release cycles. Moreover, it also has slight UI tweaks and many bugfixes.

The New Tab page on Firefox is similar to the new tab page of Chrome, where it will showcase your most visited websites in a Speed-dial like interface. This puts your most visited websites in a 3×3 grid where you can drag and re-position the tiles.

Google+ has restricted its usage to those above 18 years of age, since its launch last year. However, in a new development, Google has announced that going further, it will allow teenagers to create a profile on their social network. Besides opening up to teenagers, Google+ also introduced a new set of privacy policies and [...]

The biggest complain that open-source advocates have against Android, is that all the Android development done by handset manufacturers happens behind closed doors. This goes against the true philosophy of Open Source. This Plasma Active based tablet, developed by Aaron Seigo and team, aims to change this scenario.

If you visit her profile recently, you will see that the employment details have been taken down. Even Louis Gray, the famous Google+ evangelist fell for this fake profile, and shared her profile as part of one of his circles.

Over the last few months, SOPA and PIPA have been trying to take control of the Internet. Although they were finally averted with mass protests, it must be noted that SOPA and PIPA were not the only bills threatening the Internet and its user-generated content.

This new policy will help Twitter enter new geographical regions, which have stringent laws regarding free speech. It will also safeguard a user from strict and harsh free-speech laws within some countries.

With this release of Cinnamon, the API and the desktop are fully stable. However, Cinnamon is not the only product that the Mint team has in plan. They want to build a complete desktop environment ecosystem with themes, applets, extensions, user ratings and comments.

HTTP is an old protocol, and the web has improved by leaps and bounds since then. There could not have been a better time for a new application layer protocol.

The IT department of the region has estimated about 40,000 computers that will be migrated to open source technologies, as part of this move. If the project proceeds as planned, it will be Europe’s second largest desktop migration project.

Heads Up Display, or HUD is a new way of interacting with applications, where you do not go through multiple menu hierarchies to reach a menu item. Instead, you simply type it and HUD will search it for you, in live.

Timeline was also released on 15 December as an opt-in feature, where you had to enable Timeline for your account by yourself. This time though, Timeline will be the default view on your profile.