Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Google Inc’s Web-based email service on Thursday suffered its second technical problem in a month as users reported difficulty accessing their contacts.
The disruption, which took 2-1/2 hours to resolve, followed a two-hour outage of Google’s news website this week. Earlier this month, a majority of its email users were unable to access the service [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
Lenovo put nearly a year of research into two design changes that debuted on an updated ThinkPad laptop this week. No, not the thinner, lighter
form or the textured touchpad — rather, the extra-large "Delete" and "Escape" keys. It may seem like a small change, but David Hill, vice president [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
Dell, the world’s second-biggest computer maker, is increasingly looking at over 1,200 professionals at its Indian centres to not only support the company’s critical business systems globally, but also to identify and address newer business opportunities. Dell CIO Robin Johnson says that his company drives over one-third of its $500-600 million IT application budget out [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
BOSTON: Oracle Corp has ended a high-profile computer-building partnership with Hewlett-Packard Co as Oracle prepares to acquire Sun Microsystems Inc, a rival of HP.
Sun, the world’s No. 4 server maker, and Oracle have jointly developed a second-generation version of a specialised database computer, dubbed Exadata. Oracle and HP launched the first version a year [...]
Friday, September 18, 2009
HELSINKI: The United States continued to lead the global IT industry competitiveness ranking in an annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, followed by Finland, Sweden and Canada. India stands at the 44th spot in global IT competitiveness index.
The prominence of Finland, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands in the index’s top tier was helped [...]
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Google set to make changes to its search ranking algorithm to combat the spate of links leading to malicious web pages appearing at the top of Google’s search results, according to an inside source.
Over the past few months, cybercriminals have been using blackhat SEO techniques to manipulate search rankings. When it first began, they were [...]
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Today on 1st April 2009 (fools day), Youtube changes their layout and screen seems to be upside down
And here is the trick:
and they have given tips for viewing this as:
1.
Turn your monitor upside-down
Our internal tests have shown that modern computer monitors give a higher quality picture when flipped upside down—kind of like how it’s best [...]
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Some broadband users are considering going back to dial-up as the tough economic climate forces them to cut their household budgets, according to a story published Friday in the Chicago Tribune.
While it’s unlikely Americans will ditch broadband for dial-up en masse, there are likely to be some people who find the $20 to $50 monthly [...]
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A company that monitors peer-to-peer networks said it found classified information about the systems used onboard the U.S. president’s helicopter in a shared folder on a computer in Iran, after a file containing the data was accidentally leaked on a peer-to-peer network last summer.
The file appears to have come from a computer belonging to a [...]
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Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that users will be able to remove Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), as well as several other integrated applications, from Windows 7.
The ability to remove IE8 was revealed by a pair of bloggers on Wednesday after they poked around Windows 7 Build 7048, a post-beta version that has leaked to file-sharing sites [...]
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Mozilla on Tuesday (February 3, 2009) released an update to Firefox that its developers said addresses several security and stability issues in the Web browser.
Version 3.0.6 fixes six bugs, the worst of which is a JavaScript issue affecting the browser’s layout engine that developers labeled as critical. The vulnerability, which also affects Mozilla’s Thunderbird e-mail [...]
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There is very silly reason to this why this happened on January 31 2009
“This Site may harm your computer”
Read This article posted on Googles official blog:
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The search engine Google sparked online confusion Saturday when a glitch in its security program temporarily warned users that websites from all search results were potentially harmful.
Between [...]
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Today on Saturday January 31 2009 at around 8:15 (its fixed at 8:50 ) (GMT 5:30) , when I was searching on Google I have found a very humorous error. To every item i search in Google it says
“This Site may harm your computer”
Isn’t it funny ???? See the attached images
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
As noted on the O’Reilly Radar, EveryBlock, a Web service that “crawls local data sources, aggregates the data, then surfaces (it) geographically” to enable you to see things like local police and traffic reports, has decided to completely open-source its Web site under the terms of the grant that funded its development.
That’s great, right? Everyone [...]
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
New Google toolbar for firefox with chrome look
Google released a second beta of its toolbar software for Firefox that gives the browser a prominent feature of Google’s own Chrome.
In Chrome, when you open a new tab, the browser displays a page with up to nine miniature versions of pages you visit often–a selection of what [...]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
CareerBuilder.com launches viral site for sending “constructive criticism” to the boss
Here’s one more reason for bosses to treat their employees well.
CareerBuilder.com launched a viral Web site where people can send anonymous messages to the bosses and co-workers who drive them crazy. The Anonymous Tip Giver site is billed as a tool that allows people to [...]
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