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May 2010 |
Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share such information without consent.
The practice, which most of the companies defended, sends user names or ID numbers tied to personal profiles being viewed when users click on ads. After questions were raised by The Wall Street Journal, Facebook and MySpace moved to make changes. By Thursday mo... |
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May 2010 |
Google's Android was the fourth most popular operating system on smartphones sold in the first quarter, research firm Gartner said on Wednesday, putting the company in a good position as handsets look set to surpass computers for browsing the Web.
Android, which was in 10 percent of smartphones sold in the quarter, still lags Nokia's Symbian, Blackberry-maker Research in Motion and Apple.
But Gartner said Android phones were already outselling the iPhone in North America, less than two years after the... |
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May 2010 |
Less than a week after admitting it had inadvertently spied on some Wi-Fi users, Google is the target in several investigations in Europe and at least one lawsuit in the U.S.
On Tuesday, U.S. residents Vicki Van Valin and Neil Mertz filed a class action lawsuit against Google alleging their privacy was violated when Google's Street View vehicles drove by their homes, detecting and storing data from their open Wi-Fi Internet connections used in their homes. The news of the lawsuit was first reported by te... |
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May 2010 |
Microsoft has unveiled the next version of Hotmail, showing off several new features which already exist in rival Google's Gmail.
Hotmail remains the world's biggest webmail service, although it has trailed behind Gmail in terms of features for many years. Now it appears Microsoft is keen to close the gap.
Among the list of new features being introduced into Hotmail are in-message previews of YouTube videos and Flickr photos, a facility that graduated from Gmail's Labs earlier this year. "Now if someo... |
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April 2010 |
Twitter has revealed that it has over 105 million registered users, with 300,000 new users signing up every day.
The Twitter API handles 3 billion requests per day which, according to co-founder Evan Williams, "makes Twitter about the same size as Yahoo." He said the service has grown 1,500 percent each year on average since "Twitter Inc." was founded three years ago.
The service also handles around 19 billion searches every month, compared to about 90 billion for Google.
The company has struggled ... |
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March 2010 |
According to data from Arbor Networks, or all but the world's two largest ISPs, Google carries more internet traffic than all other ISPs in the world.
If Google were an ISP it would be the fastest-growing data carrier on the planet, with its size matched only by two unnamed tier 1 providers. Google was contributing to around six percent of the world's internet traffic as of mid-2009.
Also stated in the report is that two thirds of Google's traffic is delivered directly to consumer networks, and Google... |
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March 2010 |
Internet hardware company Cisco Systems has unveiled a router that is potentially capable of transferring data at up to 322 Terabits per second (Tbps), or around 32 times faster than a regular 100Mbps home computer network.
Dubbed Carrier Routing System 3, the system is 12 times faster than its closest competitor which is Juniper Networks TX Matrix Plus which has a maximum throughput of of 25 Tbps.
The Carrier Routing System 3 announcement came nearly six years after Cisco announced CRS 1, which has ... |
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Feb 2010 |
Google has said that from 1 March some of its services such as Google Docs, would not work "properly" with Internet Explorer 6, the browser identified as the weak link in a January 2010 cyber attack on the search engine. The company urges users to upgrade their browser "as soon as possible".
Google threatened to withdraw from the Chinese market following the "sophisticated and targeted" attacks, which it said originated in China.
Following Google's revelations of a "sophisticated and targeted" attack ... |
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Feb 2010 |
UK psychologists have said there is a strong link between heavy internet use and depression, finding that 1.2 percent of people surveyed were "internet addicts", and many of these were depressed.
The conclusions were based on 1,319 responses to an on-line questionnaire, and recruitment was via links on social networking sites.
People were asked how much they used the internet and for what purposes, and were also asked a series of questions to assess whether they suffered from depression.
These "int... |
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Feb 2010 |
Microsoft is investigating another flaw in its popular Internet Explorer browser. The new vulnerability affects users running its browser on older operating systems, which could result in an unauthorised disclosure of information.
In a security advisory the software giant said that even though there are currently no attacks based on the flaw it could be used for a Web-based attack.
This latest flaw could affect users running Windows XP and Internet Explorer on Windows XP. Those running the browser on... |
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Jan 2010 |
Last month people were searching more than any month during the year, with Google the clear winner in the search engine stakes.
ComScore release a study last week showing that 46 percent more searched were made in December 2009 than during the same period in 2008. The web tracking firm stated that people 15 years and older made 131 billion searches in December alone, an average of around 4 billion searches per day, or 29 million every minute.
ComScore also indicated that United States internet users s... |
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Jan 2010 |
Search giant Google has increased its efforts to get traction for Google Voice on the iPhone by launching a new version of the Google Voice service.
The new version of the application, which allows users to make cheap long-distance calls and to forward calls from a single phone number to multiple phones, among other things, can be accessed only via a phone's web browser, as opposed to applications that are downloaded directly onto a phone and installed.
Back in July, Apple turned down Google's applica... |
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Jan 2010 |
Facebook users are being offered a free 'firewall' that monitors their pages, in real time, for malicious posts, links and spam.
The app, called Defensio 2.0, monitors all Facebook posts in real time against Websense's ThreatSeeker Network, a database of problem URLs. The app then decided if a post is malicious or unwanted.
If a malicious or unwanted post if detected, the system informs the users, who can then decide which course of action to take. The app can also monitor web pages for rogue posting ... |
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Jan 2010 |
Google's video-sharing site YouTube will take its first steps into the online movie rental business on the 22nd of January, with an initial tome of only 5 different movies.
The five movies that will be available to rent will be from the 2009 and 2019 Sundance film festival, and will only be available for rent in the US.
Google-owned YouTube has been looking for ways to boost revenue and monetise the company since they bought it in 2006 for USD1.65bn, with some recent reports stating that it is losing ... |
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Jan 2010 |
Social networking site Facebook will build its own data centers. It has previously leased server space and bandwidth from wholesale data center, but has grown to such an extent that a custom-built infrastructure would be more cost-effective.
"Facebook is always looking at ways to scale our infrastructure and better serve our users," said Facebook spokesperson Kathleen Loughlin said last week. "It should come as no surprise that, at some point, building a customized data center will be the most efficient ... |
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