Iran has restricted access to the internet for years now, but it seems the land of Persia is clamping down even further on its citizens’ ability to surf the web as they wish. Bloomberg has confirmed with Google that Iranians haven’t had access to Google’s encrypted search, YouTube and Gmail since February 10th. Iran’s Mehr news agency has [...]

We all know that Windows 8 will have a split personality, with a Windows 7 style “Classic” desktop environment working hand-in-hand with a finger-friendly Metro UI. Given that Firefox has a significant market share in the PC web browsing market, it’s only natural for Mozilla to accommodate both parts of Microsoft’s new OS. According to its 2012 [...]

It’s the end of another era at NASA, although this one was perhaps more inevitable than others. Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton announced in a blog post over the weekend that the agency’s last mainframe computer was shut down this month, marking an end to decades of room-filling computers. Of course, that last mainframe was considerably [...]