Web developer Eric Mills, currently working as a Front End Developer Intern at Wolfram Research among others, has called for a national switch to Google+ on May 15 on Facebook. Eric has created a public event called ‘National Switch to Google+ Day’ on Facebook, and called upon all Facebbok users to switch to Google+ on the given day. TheTechJournal staffs were amused by the naivety of the action and decided to give our readers a moment to laugh.
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The world has come a long way from being threatened merely by nukes and missiles to now being also threatened by mass-launched cyber attacks. And that is precisely why, the two leading super powers of the world, US and Russia, are now trying to create a direct line of communication between the two nations so as to discuss any possible cyber attacks in the future.
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Quite recently, a zero day vulnerability was found in Hotmail which would put the account security of a Hotmail user at jeopardy. The vulnerability allowed a hacker to reset the account’s password to his own choice and through this, lock out the actual owner of the account. That’s apparently the tip of an iceberg. Now, similar vulnerabilities have been found in AOL and Yahoo too.
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-Webkit prefix is often used by webkit browsers to indicate such features which are still experimental. Opera browsers didn’t support the prefix so far but now, it has confirmed that it has finally started supporting the -webkit prefix. According to Opera, in a way it has been forced to adopt this feature.
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Recently mobile application analytics company Flurry has published a report revealing social networking apps top spot in terms of usage by mobile users. This ends the 40 month domination of mobile gaming as the top performer in mobile app usage. Analysts found that mobile users are spending the same amount of time in social networking and playing games. Analytics show last year social networking app usage has increased to 24 percent on the first quarter of 2012 form 15 percent in 2011.
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Popular micro-blogging site Twitter has over 140 million active users as of 2012. It is handling over 340 millions tweets and over 1.6 billion search queries per day. But Twitter management is not content with the number, they are hungry for more. Recently Twitter’s Vice President Satya Patel has declared that they want to acquire 2 billion users though he have not mentioned a specific time frame. Before acquiring 2 billion users Twitter want to achieve 200 million active users by August 2012.
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Google has a knack of throwing a lot of cookies and Easters eggs our way. Some times, it’s a very well-crafted logo, at others, its something interesting in the search results. This time, the search giant is back with another very interesting thing. Google ‘Zerg Rush’ and you will know what happens. Still eager? Read below.
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It took nearly the entire web, with strong retaliation from Google as well as Wikipedia, to put SOPA where it belonged – in the trash. However, hacks in the U.S. House of Representatives were not to be thwarted by this. And now, the House has passed the CISPA bill, tainted as a cybersecurity bill, with a vote of 248 to 268.
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HTML5 has been gaining traction all around the web, with its speedier and more efficient solutions. The photo-sharing website, Flickr, has now introduced an all new HTML5-based uploader for the users. The uploader, as claimed by Flickr, is speedier, allows for uploading larger files and lets the users perform different functions on the images.
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The relationship between China and Google has been a rather turbulent one. The search giant was forced to stop work in the region for quite some time, was blocked and eventually restored and now, the relations are somewhat normal between the two. However, now the Chinese authorities have blocked access to Google’s freshly-launched cloud storage service called Google Drive.
Search Engine Optimization(SEO) has long been hailed by websites as a collection of techniques which can make their website rank higher and appear more often in search engine results and thus, earning them more traffic. However, there are usually a fair and a rather unfair form of SEO. And Google has decided to launch a crackdown against the latter which is called black hat webspam.
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As we broke the news and details about Google Drive last week, Google released Google Drive and its live now. Google Drive replaces Google Docs home and integrate very closely with docs. As expected Google Drive comes with 5GB free space and cheap upgrade starts from $2.49/month for 25GB additional space. Native Tools for Windows, Mac and Android is already available, and iOS App is on the way. Check the details below with full feature set, pricing details, video demo and additional notes.
Iran’s oil sector has been targeted with a nefarious virus. The attack was so severe that the authorities were forced to unplug the entire oil export terminal system. A cyber crisis team has been set up which will look into the matter and try to resolve it as soon as possible.
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Spamming is a popular internet activity that is abhorred by most of us but which, nonetheless, continues to be many people’s job. Junk email, in specific, is being used to spread spam and this mode of spamming is still very popular. Now, according to research by IT security company Sophos, India has overtaken US in being the source of junk email and is currently leading on that list.
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With improved performance along with shortcuts to share photos and messages, new version of Facebook for Android 1.9 has been released; confirms Facebook blogpost. With the new version users will be able to share photos and messages staying at the home screen. Messenger and camera shortcuts are made available in the app tray.
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