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March 10th, 2010 by Grace
The information search engine, Ask.com has released AskEraser, a new tool that can be considered as the first step (of many) in handing over the rightful control of privacy to its users. According to EPIC’s Marc Rotenberg, this cool tool prevents from storing any search data. It can completely delete search queries and any other associated information from the site�s servers. This includes complete texts of queries, IP addresses, user ID�s, and session ID�s. Users can find the link for the AskEraser tool on the upper right corner of the search engine’s homepage and search results pages and can be turned off anytime. AskEraser is available now in the U.S. and in the UK — and will be deployed globally in 2008.
Source: Newsfactor
July 21st, 2009 by Yalung
When it comes to paying off your bills and monthly expenses, online banking has certainly made life easier. Most banks today have embraced the gifts of technology and we can see that with online access normally on their websites.
So when you want to make money transfers and bills payments in a hurry, you don’t have to go out and get to the nearest bank to do so. Simply register with your bank and do all your transactions online. It is surely lesser of a problem especially when you want to beat deadline of payments today.
June 16th, 2009 by Grace
One of the founders of Yahoo and Flicker was apparently pissed enough at the two internet giants, Microsoft for messing with them and Google for not taking them in, that they have come up with their own crowd-sourcing program called “HUNCH”. Coined as a rival to Yahoo’s Answers and Google’s other sites, it’s aim is to get search results for what is popularly accepted by more people as the right answer to a specific question. More closer to the social internet compared to the search engines from the two other search giants, it takes information fro the many social networking web sites, indexes them and presents them not only to relevance but also according to popularity according to the millions of other users who may have searched for the same information. Continue reading ‘Yahoo Pissed at Google and Microsoft, Just a “Hunch”!’
May 16th, 2009 by Grace
So they say, the software developers has in fact filed charges against specific people for what it says is a violation of the company’s rights to revenue that should have been generated by pay-per-click ads that has websites generating revenue from each and every click. The specified accused are being accused of imitating ads by the company and re-directing clicking customers to be to other sites that are far from their legitimate destinations, the Microsoft products page amongst others. Click-jacking may be the term for this, has hackers using legitimate advertising banners, substituting them with their own or with that of a preferred customer, thus robbing the legitimate advertiser of supposed revenues. Continue reading ‘Microsoft – Victim of Click Fraud !???!’
April 16th, 2009 by Grace
The many security breaches at the popular micro-blogging site has again been seen as one of the worst performing, internet-based companies the world over in terms of security with thousands of people affected by many security holes and breaches in the past few months. This type of negative publicity is considered by the micro-blogging site as publicity and even with wide gaping holes in their API, they continue to grow by leaps and bounds each and every day as if people aren’t listening. One new problem they are facing is the set coming of the Twitpocalypse or the meeting of a pre-set condition tbat would bring an unimaginable death to the whole system, crashing or totally ceasing to function. This current problem is apparently due to a pre-set binary number that goes back to the days when the base-system of the social networking site was under development. Continue reading ‘Twitter – In the Headlines for the Wrong Reasons’
March 16th, 2009 by Grace
People and businesses are still not aware that the naming conventions that have been used for so long on the internet are to freed up, liberalized forever and taken out of the hands of any one body the world over. These naming conventions used to be developed and designated by the ICANN and other internet management groups yet moves to take this out of the control of any group or body has resulted in the planned de-regulation of naming conventions. Google can now have specific marketing websites such as “search.Google” or say “Images.Google”. This move would give businesses more room to expand on their use of the internet, say a University having a web site for students named “Students.University”. Continue reading ‘Web Domain Liberalization – Not Many Know’
October 7th, 2008 by Grace
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Microsoft has at last shown some Web 2.0 innovations with its Web based application suite. They have recently released the Microsoft Office Live Premium. And by far this is the best new economy Web 2.0 internet move, Microsoft has undergone for a very long, long time. But Microsoft’s first move in this undertaking, that is looking for another percentage of the world’s weakening economy, is to ask the users how much they are willing to shell out for the service or the app. Microsoft Office Live is the first real step that the company took on its own. As it turns out, Microsoft’s web services had no serious efforts in chasing Google with its different undertakings and releases these past few months. Microsoft runs the Hotmail service through the Web 2.0. And the Windows Live Mail, and its Virtual Earth, One Care and many others.
August 22nd, 2008 by Grace
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Many people are wondering what is Social Bookmarking all about and how did it became such a popular trend with the Internet users nowadays? Through filing a site in your bookmark list, anyone searching for that identical type of information can do a search at the bookmark site and find the sites that you have bookmarked. It is like a search engine without all the junk.
One of the cool features about these bookmarking sites is that your social bookmarks are with you anywhere you go and not just on your own computer. With Social Bookmarking, there are many diverse types of online communities that you can link and most will help you get an assured amount of traffic on your site. Social bookmarking is a way of presenting what interests you share with the rest of Internet world.
Through organizing your bookmarks online; you can aid yourself in getting organized or getting your contents exposed so that it will also help others at the same time to find a great content. All social bookmarking sites have a list or cloud of the tags created by users – and each user has an individual page with their own tags. A social bookmarking site also assists you to meet those other people who are interested in the same topics you are and who may also have the extended knowledge of web resources that you don’t know about.
July 1st, 2008 by Grace
The H.R. 404 bill which was passed July of last year is now pending before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee to clarify accountability language. The bill that was sponsored by Mr. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, focuses on customer service performance of different government service agencies. This includes Web interaction services. The bill, if approved, will eventually require the White House Office of Management and Budget to develop a system of performance metrics that would ensure citizen satisfaction. One incentive of H.R. 404 is that it would allow agency heads “to pay a cash award … to employees for demonstrated excellence in customer service.” Agencies will have to post customer-service guidelines and customer-service contact information on their public Websites.
Source: Government Executive
May 29th, 2008 by Yalung
We all know that hackers have their share of trying to prove their greatness and it comes in the form of giving problems and headaches towards big companies such as Comcast. Apparently this is not something new anymore but if word gets out, you may have a big problem in the form of customers in your hand.
This will surely question the ability of Comcast personnel on their ability to handle such security breaches. If Comcast knows any better, it should do something about it.
Some Comcast customers are complaining that they still cannot access their e-mail even after the company says it has fixed a problem caused by a hacker who got into their site.
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