January 10, 2010
Before you install any application or widgets in your social networking site, you’d better think twice. Cyberattackers have included Trojan viruses in some of these apps and installing it in your site maybe dangerous. According to researchers at Finjan, cyberattackers are now going to these social networking sites such to get more victims.
“Attacks will become more sophisticated by combining several services in order to heighten infection ratios and decrease the detection rate, while providing more robust and scalable attack frameworks,” Yuval Ben-Itzhak, chief technology officer, Finjan, said in a news release. “The focus will be on trojan technology as it enables maximum flexibility in terms of command and control. This adds another potentially malicious element to the ‘legitimate’ web traffic that needs to be examined by security solutions.”
In short, before installing the app or widget that your friend sent you, confirm if it came from them. If it didn’t, kindly delete it immediately. If it did come from them, research on the app or widget from previous users.
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September 3, 2009
By: MJ
As time passes, laptop computers have become more recognized than the normal computers. They are portable and can be brought anywhere. Aside from Mac laptops and Asus, there is now another competitor in the business. Asus, which originally offered small and affordable laptops is now faced with The Neo Explore. Though it seems that the new gadget had won over the consumers because of its lower price, there are still glitches that the company had overlooked.
To be able to sell their product for a cheaper price, they have used Linux instead of Microsoft. Though the company aimed the younger generation to use this gadget, they have neglected to see through the possibility that they may become shocked with the unfamiliar system.
July 21, 2009
Widgets are small applications that are updated dynamically through the internet that can be something as simple as an ornate clock to a small pocket sized game similar to those battery-powered games you used to play with as a kid only on your PC. They are fun and easy to use that many advertising companies have started to use them for online ad campaigns as they shift to more productive ad campaigns. Compared to more traditional ad campaigns, done throught the internet and getting other people to work for you takes more of the guess work out of the total solution. It needs a small program that is sent out through popular websites. The Ad part can be changed dynamically and easily through the link the widget maintains with the servers where they are updates as the ads changed.
June 16, 2009
Bing has been out on the wild (internet) for some few weeks and the search engine has managed to gain some users who experts say is a normal occurrence when it comes to new stuff on the net. More time is indeed needed to determine the abilities of the software but one Google Inc. executive seems to be more interested this time round due to some allure the search engine may have that he sees as a possible threat to their own product. The company has yet to manifest great an alarm over the release of the replacement for Microsoft’s Live Search, saying search engines come and go and they have been doing so for the past few years. (more…)
May 16, 2009
The process can give you some abilities to expand on the ones already built-into the loved multimedia player, and news that the iPod Touch can be turned into a phone as well is quite anticipated. The manufacturer, Apple had a WiFi Chip built-into the said device for a purpose and this might be it, but maybe set back because of more research and study. They may also have a program (real one and not hacked) in the works that can expand on the capabilities of the said media player that looks almost the same as the iPhone except it’s not a phone and it doesn’t have a camera to match. (more…)
April 16, 2009
The much loved Twitter has been abuzz with the so-called “Twitpocalypse”, a state at which software clients that uses the company’s API are to suddenly cease working. In what many are seeing as the
apocalypse of Twitter, the 32-bit signed binary number is a set limit at which the API can continue to work and function, reaching of which might result in a total system shutdown. The popularity of the said
micro-blogging site may have this as a major oversight due to it’s release on the 32-bit platform a few years back. Too many users posting too many posts, too quick for the system to handle that is causing
quite a stir with effects similar to the coming of the year 2000 when all hell was expected to break loose (nothing really happened). (more…)
January 12, 2009
The many mail applications out there should be looking out for Google’s Gmail for they have just allowed the inclusion of inline pictures and not just as mere attachments. Microsoft Outlook has been under threat from Google when it announced Google apps, their cloud-based office look alike which rivaled the more commercial Microsoft Office product line. Google has been a major player in the open-source development of the cloud. Along with Apple’s Appstore, with the thousands of apps available, they are continuing to improve their products that are managing to rival the many commercially developed software on the internet. Seems the Open-source workplace has been hard trying to oust the monopoly of commercial developers with Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s FireFox in the freeware arena, Web applications are going to be a part of the world for many years to come as the social web takes the control of their environemtn and changes the web forever.
October 7, 2008
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Headup is a new Mozilla Firefox extension, a simple tool for connecting everything that you see in your browser at a certain time and in your social networks. It is something that you will have to explore when you get the chance to download this amazing add on. The program Headsup gives you a little background story on people or places and of things that are in your browser. Without being intrusive. Headup was created by its CEO, Tal Keinan of a TelAviv based company SemantiNet. Tal got $3.4 million in September from Series A funding. The company is an eraly adopter of numerous services. It uses Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. It provides you with two types of informations. Whats going on inside major social networks and what people think of those networks. The apllication is not a search engine as others might think, its more of an inference engine that compiles relevant connections with the topics in your social network.
August 9, 2008
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Many of us today create our own site for making money, giving information, offering other service and some other features. It is a problem for us how to increase the view of our website everyday. One of the best way is the help of search engines by using search engines optimization your site will get a best chance to be found first on the list depending on the keyword use. But many site already has this features, Andy Mindel and Mike Mindel has a great idea how to increase your seach engine optimization by creating WORDTRACKER. WordTracker is a online analyzer that analyst keyword or key phase that are relevant to them and their client to boost or optimize the use of search engine. It can also determine the number of competing sites that use the same keywords or key phrases that have the greatest traffic potential in selected search engine.
May 29, 2008
Web apps have been a normal occurence on the internet for a long time and they have now entered the arena of mobile communications. With more and more mobile phones going 3G, the higher transmission speeds have turned them into more than just wireless telephones but mobile computers that is one step closer to a pocket PC. They use specially designed OS’s and browsers that allows them to access the internet on the go, anywhere there is a bar on your signal indicator. Companies like Instant Access Technologies with their Zabidoo that allows one to browse the web without the need for a URL, wow, now that’s movile internet access. Browsing the internet used to be cumbersome and difficult especially on your mobile where the keypads are as compact as they can get. It supports 1,000 mobile websites and just the thought of browsing with such ease would be enough to claim praise from your aching thumb.
