Technology giant Google is once more trying to corner more of the social shopping market by buying The Dealmap, a 15-month-old company that offers its own location-based daily deal service. Menlo Park, Calif.-based The Dealmap collects data from hundreds of sources and arranges deals by location, on its website [...]
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If you’ve seen the 1983 movie “WarGames,” in which a young Matthew Broderick accidentally uses computers to bring the world to the edge of “global thermonuclear war,” then you have a pretty good idea what hackers and security researchers are super-concerned about these days — in real life.
Mozilla is planning to shunt 12 million users, who are still surfing the web on its aged Firefox 3.5 browser, over to a more recent version. “We need a plan to obsolete [sic] Firefox 3.5 as we can’t support it into perpetuity,” said Mozilla. “We have been frustrated with our efforts [...] Facebook bought Netherlands start-up Sofa for an undisclosed sum yesterday. The company, which in the past has developed Apple Mac software and design projects, announced the takeover on its blog. Sofa will be shipped out from Amsterdam to Palo Alto, California in the next few weeks and said it would take [...] A leading security researcher has warned that Google risks repeating Apple’s mistakes on security with its new Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed to work exclusively with web applications. Chrome netbooks running the new OS will be available from Google’s partners Samsung and Acer from [...] Notorious hacker collective LulzSec has targeted the NHS, publishing an email sent to the health organisation which highlights holes in its security systems. In the typically bizarre correspondence, LulzSec describes itself as a “band of pirate-ninjas” and claims not to mean any harm to the department. Setting the tone, Lulzsec [...] Web for business. This is trend which is raising since the last ten years ago. No wonder, many business institutions use web for accelerating their business profit. Website can be used either just for product promotion or buy and sell transaction. But, it can be used also as a tool to make production [...] Most of Firebird’s advantages are MSIE’s disadvantages, and vice-versa. This article will look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of Firefox in relation to MSIE. Advantages – Security is often cited as the primary reason for users switching from MSIE to Firefox. Security is of utmost importance for software [...] I’m probably not the only user who thinks that the increase in Firefox builds has made it difficulty to keep up to date with the latest features and improvements. Just like Google Chrome, it has gotten to a point where I’m less interested in keeping track of the development progress. The [...] One of the biggest issues that I personally have with Firefox, and that for a very long time, is the fact that add-on preferences are not deleted when the add-on that has written them to the config is uninstalled in the browser. This means that the config file grows over [...] |
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