Archive for February, 2010
Open Source Promotes Piracy?
I don’t think I could write anything better than what already had written here and is available for you to chew on, and it’s all about the people/organization disguising themselves under the copyright law/intellectual property law (intangible assets) claim that open source promotes piracy. No matter how I look at this, it does sound very [...]
Cisco Says Hello To 1Gbps Broadband To Not Let Google Be The Only Guy In Town
Not only Google wants a faster America when it comes to broadband, because Cisco does too. It seems as if Google is competing against AT&T, Verizon, and others when it announces that it is building 1Gbps broadband network for consumers, but in my opinion, Google wants to see a faster broadband standard in America. Why? [...]
DHCP Exhaustion & DNS Man In The Middle Attacks
Don’t take my words for this, but you need to watch this video to see how dangerous it’s for you to surfing the web, taking care important stuffs such as online banking, and doing all of those urgent things over the wireless connection (safer at home but not hacker proof) through the public Wi-Fi (Internet [...]
Does Google Make Us Stupid? Yes And No, Really!
Does Google make us stupid? This is really an interesting question if one looks at it closely! This question has been a serious thought by Nicholas Carr in which he suggests as we’re becoming more digital-dependent, we might get stupid. People from various fields argue otherwise. What about you?
We can say that nowadays, we humans [...]
Google Gears Replaces By HTML5
Bad news for the people that are using Google Gears to check emails, blog with WordPress, and many other things that could be done offline with Google Gears since Google is announcing that Google Gears will no longer be supported? Not really, Google is making a big change by moving what’s good about Google Gears [...]
Google Faces Buzz Lawsuit
It seems that Google needs to be more careful whenever it rolls out new applications, because people will file for lawsuits. A recent feature that Google is pushing for is known as Buzz for Gmail. Unfortunately, the algorithm has weaknesses, and people are complaining about how Buzz exposes some contacts to unwanted prying eyes. Already, [...]
Google Acquires reMail, reMail Moves From iPhone To Android?
Users who are using reMail on iPhone may have to find a similar app to fill in reMail’s place! Google has purchased reMail and had removed this app from iPhone store. reMail is convenient because it’s fast and you don’t have to be connected to the Internet to search for a specific email.
How reMail works? [...]
Facebook And PayPal Team Up To Provide Virtual Payments
Buying virtual goods with real money isn’t a new thing since the World of Warcraft, although unintentionally, has been facilitating the business of selling virtual goods. Some WOW’s gamers bought virtual gold with real money to level faster and acquire awesome armors and weapons. WOW is only one example of many virtual communities that either [...]
Kneber Botnet Exposed, Not Enough Security Solutions?
Security reports are rarely made headlines since people do not care unless they themselves are having the problems. In a way, it’s doesn’t matter if you and I care about security or not, since our current premium security software from well known security vendors aren’t equipped to deal with the real sophisticated threats. Not to [...]
Stay Safe In Public Spots When You’re On A Computer/Laptop
Today post is a friendly reminder on how to play safe as you hop from one public location to another using the Internet. Recently, I have a friend who told me that he used a public computer, using his passwords to check his various accounts from different web services. I was shocked and gave him [...]
