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India’s mass rapid transit systems — or metro, as it’s known locally — rely on commuter smart cards that are vulnerable to exploitation and allow anyone to effectively travel for free.

Mozilla today announced that it will halt development of its Firefox for Windows 8 Metro browser after about a year-and-a-half of development. According to Mozilla’s Firefox VP Jonathan Nighting

Tiggzi, a DIY mobile app maker, just announced that it has added support for Windows 8 to its cross-platform drag-and-drop development suite. The services, which already offered support for Windows Ph

Love it or hate it, Windows 8 is a big deal and it's only going to get bigger. Particularly the Metro side. The Windows Store will bring app store economics to the PC in a way that most users have nev

Ever since we heard the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/metro-ms-windows8/">first rumors</a> about Microsoft <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/03/as-windows-8-nears-public-debut-micro

With the official launch of Windows 8 just around the corner, Mozilla today unveiled its first preview release of Firefox Metro. The Metro version of Firefox, Mozilla says, was "designed from the gro

Here is a reminder for developers who want to write apps for Windows 8's Metro mode (or whatever Microsoft prefers to call it these days): the only way to distribute your apps to consumers is through

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/17/windows-8-youll-absolutely-hate-it-at-first-but-give-it-a-chance-anyway/">Love it or hate it</a>, but Windows 8 will <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/

It's hard to blame Microsoft for making bold decisions with its upcoming desktop operating system. But the <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/09/metro-ms-windows8/">renamed</a> Windows 8-style UI

Microsoft is abandoning its "Metro" branding - the branding that refers to the clean, modern, tiled layout that defines many of its consumer-facing products including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox 36

As the release of Windows 8 draws closer, all of the major browser vendors are also preparing to launching their applications for the touch-centric Metro UI that will prominently feature in next ver

Microsoft has ported Kinectimals, the Xbox 360 game that involves the care and feeding of dangerous animals in the wild, to the iPhone, suggesting that (at least in the short term) even Microsoft sees