Within the last few days, a number of people have experience difficulty in posting their comments simply because a Facebook error message would pop up, suggesting that their message is either irrelevant or inappropriate. In many cases, this has happened even when a person has tried to post a perfectly innocent message. Has the social network started censoring comments or is it a result of spam filtering?
Adobe has been pretty active in nabbing security vulnerabilities of its software. Now, the company has shipped out a security update for the Flash Player. The update is to fix an exploit in the Flash Player that, Adobe says, is already being utilized by hackers to gain control of Flash Player users.
Online hacktivists have been increasingly vigilant and active in responding to any actions taken against them. There are a number of such outfits online and one of the well-known ones is TeaMp0ison. The group has now claimed through its Twitter account that it has hacked the official websites of WHO, Panasonic and the Australian government.
Many readers may feel surprised at the title of this article but that is what a latest study reveals. According to the study, you are far more likely to be a victim of a malware when visiting a religious website as compared to when visiting a porn site.
As people are getting busy day day by day and the life is getting harder and harder gradually, it’s really hard to communicate or co-ordinate with people in person. Thanks to internet and advanced technologies that has made our communication with one another easy. Normally people communicate with others using different social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Google etc. Among those social networking sites, Google And Facebook dominate the social logins.
It was only recently that Twitter introduced an all new version of the ‘Discover’ feature. Well, it seems that the company is on a roll for improvements and has also introduced a number of changes to the basic UI of Twitter.com. Although these changes were not announced, some have been quick enough to spot them.
Google has been pushing YouTube to all new dimensions by connecting with content producers and trying to bring original content to YouTube channels. With the video portal becoming one of the largest video ad properties, it seems natural that Google is still continuing to invest heavily into the website.
Only too recently, Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo hinted while speaking at Wired’s conference in New York that Twitter was working on a pro version, something which was still being explored by the micro-blogging platform. He further stated that he had plans of providing more ‘lightweight’ controls to the user, though he wasn’t clear whether that would be for everyone or just the pro users.
Google has been updating Google Docs with newer features. The company added a number of new features to the service last month and has now announced, yet again, a host of new additions to Google Docs. These include the addition of more than 450 new fonts to Google docs as well as a number of other features.
Tumblr has become one of the most wildly popular blogging platforms on the web. People are increasing flocking to it and it currently boasts a whooping 54 million-strong user base. For long, Tumblr has remained rather profitless, concentrating more on providing an excellent blogging experience. Now, however, it seems that the time to make some money has finally arrived.
Internet speeds around the world have been steadily increasing over time, with the availability of better equipment, technologies and machines. However, according to a report recently published, the average global internet speeds surprisingly decreased during the last quarter of 2011.
Twitter’s Discover feature has been quite useful for a lot of users. It helps a user keeps tabs on relevant topics, or at least such topics which Twitter thinks may be relevant to a user. Now, the micro-blogging website is updating the feature to make it even more relevant. Read further to find out how.
Pinterest has been one of the most wildly popular emerging social networks right now. Where many other social sites have risen, floundered and then gone back to dust, Pinterest has been gaining a steady and successful traction. Its success can be gauged from the very fact that the total daily unique visitors of the website shot up from 2 million to 4 million between January and March this year.
Your global and local IP addresses are quite important and are mostly hidden from other users. This is because if a hacker intends to misuse them, he can launch DDoS attacks and cause a lot of problems for you. Now, it has been revealed that a hacker can very easily nick off the local as well as global IP address of a Skype user through a simple hack.
US Congress seems bit too interested in internet and social media these days. It has been trying to put curbs on internet at one hand, and at the other some of its members are lobbying to keep the social network profiles of users private. For this purpose, these gentlemen are pushing for the Social Networking Online Protection Act (SNOPA).
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