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Paypal Increases Reward For Finding A Flaw In Its Security

Paypal means money transactions and no mode of monetary transactions is good enough if it isn’t secure enough. Naturally, the company keeps trying to improve its security by all possible means. It had launched a bounty program a while ago under which if you found a security flaw in Paypal’s products, you would be entitled to cash reward. Now, Paypal has increased the amount of that cash reward.

Amazon Announces Summer Launch Of European Appstore

Amazon’s Appstore in the U.S. has been to amass a fairly decent amount of success. It is quite popular, both with the users as well as the developers. Amazon claims that it currently hosts tens of thousands of apps as well as games. In one year since its launch, the company says that the store has witnessed unexpected success.

Denmark Decides To Educate Internet Users Regarding Privacy

Many countries in Europe are putting increasingly greater curbs on piracy and file sharing, a move that is seen as something which may put the freedom of internet at peril in these countries. However, there are some who are trying to take more amicable routes. Among these is Denmark who has reportedly decided to educate the users regarding the issues of online privacy.

Researcher At Microsoft Tries To Answer Why Nigerian Scammers Tell They Are From Nigeria

You must have received those mails asking you to give your personal information so that you could be send a few millions from some Nigerian prince who is stuck in a difficult situation. Such spam mails are quite common and are a very real swindling method of Nigerian scammers. But many ask, why do these Nigerian scammers make such obviously outlandish claims?

Microsoft’s Surface Tablet May Make Business Difficult For Other Hardware Vendors

For long, Microsoft has mostly been a software company (except for its XBox venture), creating new and better software and shipping it out to hardware vendors for use. However, given Apple’s immense success, it had become evident that a hardware-plus-software company, with the tight integration of the two, would sell better in today’s tech world. The examples in this case are iPhone and iPad. And, the Microsoft’s new venture, the Surface tablet, casts some serious doubts within industry analysts that the company is out to follow Apple’s business model.

Facebook App Developers Can Now Build Like Buttons Into Their Apps

Facebook has been trying hard to further bolster the growth of its mobile front by providing better tools to make the mobile version of Facebook as good as its web version. It seems that the latest developments in Open Graph, announced by Facebook, are meant to this end.

Organize Your Services In One Place With Jolicloud’s New Android App

With such an explosive growth of the social media, there are simply so many online services that one often gets baffled. It gets all the more harder when you are accessing these services on a smartphone. You have a different app each for Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and other services and it can get quite hard to remain organized.

Microsoft Finally Unveils Windows Phone 8 “Apollo”

We have been hearing about Microsoft’s plans of unveiling its upcoming version of the OS for mobile platform – and today, at a ‘sneak peek’ event, Microsoft finally did let of some of the wraps from Windows Phone 8, which was formerly being called Apollo. The new version comes with many good news as well as some rather not so good news for current Windows Phone users.