Archive for August, 2009
ZoneAlarm Gets Toughen Up
From the read at Venturebeat, ZoneAlarm has just toughened up its software, and now more people can be better protected against computer viruses and worms. One feature that has caught my attention is that ZoneAlarm provides keystroke encryption. This very feature allows ZoneAlarm to encrypt whatever you type on your computer in real time, and [...]
Walmart Plays Catch Up, Helps Others Sell Products Online
Walmart is growing its business through online sales by selling other companies products on its website. Not all companies are now qualified for partnering up with Walmart through its online store. Walmart is doing this to counter its recent offline slow growth of sales. So why are we talking about how Walmart sells its products [...]
Snow Leopard Is Cheaper?
Snow Leopard is the latest release of Apple’s Mac OS X (operating system). Surprisingly, Apple’s Family Pack of Snow Leopard is only $49. You can find roughly the same or cheaper prices for Snow Leopard on Blogmyway Store (selling Amazon’s products). If you’re only going to install Snow Leopard only for yourself, then you don’t [...]
More Digital Books For You and Your Mobile Devices
Good news folks! Google is ready for you to download over a million of digital books in EPUB format that can conform to the mobile screen sizes. The books you get to download from Google, many are no longer under copyright law. As the way Google puts it, converting atoms to bits — it’s [...]
Judge Forced Google To Reveal A Blogger’s Identity
Liskula Cohen, a Canadian model, sued Google in court to reveal an identity of a blogger since that blogger called her a skank, a whore, and many other things on his/her blog. The court ruled in her favor. I think it’s wrong for a blogger to be so offensive in defaming someone else with or [...]
Amazon, Yahoo, and Microsoft Challenge Google’s Book Project
Publishing a book now a day is not delicious as it used to be, and the digitizing of books is the more popular trend. The problem of digitizing books is that it can be pirated. Then again, by digitizing books, it’s easier for search engines to crawl, and people can search for the books that [...]
Tr.im Goes Open Source
Tr.im announces that it’s going open source! What is this talk? Tr.im was supposed to shut down it service completely, but had decided to stay around. Then come this new news that Tr.im will release its source code for everyone. This means you and I can go get Tr.im’s source code, install that onto a [...]
EveryBlock – Local News Makes Easy
Hard to find local news, hard to find public records, and you can even enter your zip code to find what is happening in your area are done superbly by EveryBlock. If you’re living in Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and {Washington, [...]
MySpace Buys iLike For $20 Million
And so the social race is heating up even more! MySpace decides to take some glory off of FaceBook’s recent FriendFeed buyout by buying up iLike for $20 million. iLike is a social online application/service that adapts to music lovers’ behaviors and offer its recommendations on popular music. FaceBook’s users and other social network portals’ [...]
Microsoft Releases New Security Patch Plugs 19 New Security Flaws For Multiple Windows
Microsoft has rolled out a new patch to plug 19 security holes that affect multiple Windows versions. The patch is released to address ActiveX vulnerabilities, Web Server vulnerabilities, and other serious bugs on Workstation.
ActiveX allows programmers to assign a much higher privilege to their software that run on Windows, and only Windows can use ActiveX. [...]
