A new study as revealed that social networking site like Facebook and twitter take up about one- fourth of the total time spent over the web by users. The numbers were estimated by Nielsen Internet Research in their study titled “What Americans do online” and they stand at 23% of their total Internet time on [...]
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Parul Sharma
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We need to win the Cyber War: Hayden
Gen. Michael Hayden, former National Security Agency Director has seen the vague facts of cyber war.
On July 29th, at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Hayden discussed those aspects of cyber warfare. He clearly mentioned some important aspects as well as what exactly Cyber War actually is.
During the Obama administration, the issue of [...]
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Amazon $139 Wi-Fi Kindle big blow to Barnes & Noble, Borders and Sony?
A $139 Wi-Fi only kindle was launched by Amazon which is expected to drive digital book sales.
On Thursday, Amazon also introduced a $189 third generation model of the original Kindle with Wi-Fi and 3G wireless technology. It enables the users to not buy digital books from Amazon but also allows them to download them in [...]
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YouTube Thanks for extra five minutes uploading time……
You tube has gone for some changes in the site. It has increased its upload time from 10 to 15 minutes. The reason being competition with the various sites and also millions of requests sent by the users. You tube is trying to make room for 24 hours-plus of videos uploaded to its Website every [...]
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Black Hat conference: ATM’s vulnerabilities making it spew cash
Hacking into an ATM is not a big deal anymore .On Wednesday, in Las Vegas it was demonstrated by a security researcher that with the right software hacking into an ATM is possible and easy.
At the Black Hat conference. Barbany Jack, director of IQ Active, right in front of a large audience hauled two ATM [...]
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Green Light for Series Development of the Porsche 918 Spyder
The concept was first revealed at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year and after the awesome response seen from the public, the Porsche’s supervisory board approved to the project and its production. It was heard that the Porsche 918 will cost the customer about $600,000.Thus the customers will have to shed a lot out [...]
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Russia banned You Tube over objectionable content
The site has been reported to be hosting a video named “Russia for Russians”, the video judged as an extremist by the jury of a court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia. The court’s ruling has also been imposed on to the Internet Archive and three other online libraries which were found to be hosting writings of Adolf [...]
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Symantec profit peaking $161 million in the first quarter
Computer security giant Symantec of Mountain View, California on Wednesday stated that its fiscal year’s first quarter profit got doubled on the flat sales. This year the net income as stated by the company is $161 million, which is more than even double of the $73 million made by the company in the same time last year. Although the [...]
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Softbank invest $150 M in Zynga to bring social gaming revolution in Japan
In an announcement late Thursday the online games firm Zynga and the internet giant have confirmed their collaboration, Zynga Japan. Zynga is the online gaming company that is best known for its popular social game Farmville on Facebook, has reportedly received a US$150 million investment. The aim of this venture will be to develop and [...]
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Google Font Previewer: Simple process to give webpage a new look
Google has always sought to make the work of its users and developers easy. And it has done it yet again. It has brought a new tool Font Previewer to add a new font to a site as easily as possible. Google has added a new feature of Preview to its Font directory. Font Directory [...]