A lot changes have been occurring at Yahoo in recent days. After a lot of anticipation, Yahoo finally chose Scott Thompson as it’s new CEO. Scott is the President of PayPal. As soon as Scott was chosen as the new CEO, Yahoo’s share value has fallen down. This is because Wall Street analysts think that Scott has no background in media and may not be able to play well enough. On the other hand, some are suggesting that he may go on to purchase Netflix as one of his earliest moves.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Internet
On January 7, 2012(4 months, 15 days ago.)
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The Guardian is one of the very few newspapers which have successfully moved from print to digital realm without losing a significant number of readers. The latest proof of this success is that The Guardian’s iPad app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times ever since it’s release in October. On Christmas Day, the app was downloaded a whooping 23,000 times. And now, the newspaper is also planning to add it’s Weekend magazine to the app through an upgrade.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Web Apps
On January 7, 2012(4 months, 15 days ago.)
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SOPA has been making a lot of noise and headlines. While we have to wait the verdict from a Congress who’s members define internet as ‘tubes’ and ‘internets’, the online community continues it’s severe criticism of the bill. The bill aims for internet censorship which, most argue, will eliminate the freedom of speech that online realm provides. The hackers have decided to present their own solution: let’s launch satellites and use internet through them so that no one could control internet. Seems like an interesting idea.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Internet
On January 1, 2012(4 months, 21 days ago.)
As popularity of social net-workings specially Facebook are increasing day by day, it seems that, the social network targets the Desktop PC or Laptop market as well. Facebook has been testing the Windows-based Facebook Messenger application since November as part of a private trial, but anyhow TechIT revealed the download link (Demo Version) on Thursday. The application can be installed only on Windows 7/Vista that includes access to the chat, ticker feed and notification parts of Facebook.
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In the latest move by Anonymous, the well-known hacktivist group which has been involved in a number of recent hacks, it has hacked the website of Stratfor and defaced it. Stratfor provides strategic intelligence for political, economic, security and business purposes. As of now, the official website is down for maintenance.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Security
On December 26, 2011(4 months, 26 days ago.)
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The news are that Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is at Vietnam with his girlfriend to spend his holiday. Although the official Facebook sources say that he is there in his personal capacity, it is interesting that he chose Vietnam over all other destinations, a country where Facebook is facing many problems including blockage. So is this trip an attempt by him to set things right with Vietnamese government?
Google Books have been a very useful tool ever since it’s inception. However, if you wanted to read a book on Google Books, you had to stay online and read it. Not anymore! With a latest update, Google now allows you read the books from Google Books offline too. You need to have a Chrome browser or a device run on Chrome OS to read the book offline.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Web Apps
On December 26, 2011(4 months, 27 days ago.)
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In case you are not aware, SOPA is a bill under discussion in US Congress which aims to provide new censor mechanism for the internet. Through this bill, private companies and US governmental entities can censor websites they deem unfit. Nearly the entire internet community has fervently opposed the move. GoDaddy supported the move but that resulted in thousands of users transferring their domains away from GoDaddy. As a result, GoDaddy has now announced that it doesn’t support the bill.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Internet
On December 25, 2011(4 months, 28 days ago.)
Apparently, the main topic of interest for web surfers in the US is Facebook, as recent studies reveal. Experian Hitwise analyzed the top 1000 search terms and Facebook related searches landed on four positions in the top ten and Facebook was the most searched query by the US web surfers.
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Lately we’ve heard a mix of bitter sweet news from Mozilla but the end of the year is certainly impressive. After the company was rumored of losing about 84% of its revenue Google announced renewing the contract for another three years to be the default search engine on Firefox, and the financial disaster was avoided. With good times ahead, Mozilla recently released a new version of its desktop web browser, Firefox 9, albeit still in beta. Now, Firefox 9 for Android tablets just landed.
Reporter:Radu
Under: Web Apps
On December 24, 2011(4 months, 29 days ago.)
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Recent investigations have revealed that the servers at U.S. Chamber of Commerce had been infiltrated and compromised. The persons who infiltrated the servers were Chinese hackers. According to the investigation, the hackers had been accessing and stealing the data from the servers for more than six months and the security agencies have realized that only now.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Security
On December 24, 2011(4 months, 29 days ago.)
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Of all unlikely partnerships in the world – we had to witness this: Yahoo seems to be chasing after Facebook’s tail, or after Facebook’s success more likely. First, it was Facebook being nice and allowing users to share all their activities on Yahoo’s websites. Things started going very well , and Yahoo was seeing 1 million shares and 500,000 referrals a day to its U.S. new site.
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Even, with the holiday coming, Google keeps busy and rolls out a new modification almost every week. So, starting of today, Google seems to have opened the gate towards complete integration of Google+ updates from official brand pages within search results. Google+ Plus Brand Pages are a new addition to the Google list as well, as they were launched a couple of months ago, with the intent of connecting brands with their costumers in a more effective way.
Reporter:Radu
Under: Web Apps
On December 22, 2011(5 months, 1 day ago.)
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It looks like Facebook isn’t happy with how far it has pushed its Sponsored Stories ads and is thinking of doing something about it. The Stories were located to the sidebar Ticker, but from the looks of things, in 2012 (most likely) users are going to be having them into their main news feeds. Reports on the web, indicate that the ads will only appear once per day. But a major bummer consists in the fact that users will not be given the chance to opt them out. The only solution will be to hide them individually as they pop up in the feed. Glorious!
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Data transfer online is a tricky business. Especially for online applications which make use of large amounts of data, there are a number of ways the security of this data can be compromised. It can be due to a data theft by a third-party or by a rogue system administrator himself. To prevent these, CryptDB is a very effective tool which helps secure the data.
Reporter:Salman
Under: Security
On December 21, 2011(5 months, 2 days ago.)
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