News: Internet
Tuesday, 11 May 2010
Twitter Bug Forces People to Follow You
The Twitter bug has been solved, but it's still worth mentioning that for a brief period, you can force people, and by people, we mean famous celebrities, to follow your Twitter account.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Researchers Discover New Attack Bypassing Almost All Antivirus Protections
The method based on a bait and switch tactic makes almost all antivirus protections useless.
Friday, 7 May 2010
Symantec Acquires PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge
Symantec Corp announced that it has signed definitive agreements to acquire PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc., two privately-held leaders in the email and data encryption market
NEC Participates in LTE Trial with SingTel
NEC announced today its participation as the only Japanese vendor in Singtel's field trials of LTE (Long Term Evolution), a next generation mobile communications standard.
Non Latin Top Level Domains Now Available
Net regulator ICANN has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Speeding Along with Chrome 5
It gets better and faster; the latest version of the Chrome web browser is said to be much speedier than most of its counterparts, and also much faster than its predecessors.
Google Gets New Look
A new look for your Google search result has been rolled out, with a left panel that shows some of the more advanced search options.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Google Editions to be New Digital Store Front
Google has revealed plans to launch a digital e-book store front in the middle of the year.
Friday, 30 Apr 2010
The 13 Lies in Steve Jobs Open Letter on Flash
Steve Jobs open letter on Adobe's Flash seems to have raised a lot of eyebrows, and has made plenty of valid points, but not everything mentioned is accurate, as pointed out by this Flash developer.
U.S. Accountable for Most of World's Spam
According to a recent study, the U.S. is accountable for over 13% of the world's spam.