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New Facebook App Permissions Could Be Abused

Security researchers fear that Facebook's decision to give applications access to people's contact information could invite abuse from spammers and unscrupulous developers.Facebook announced Saturday on the developer blog that two new permissions called user_address and user_mobile_phone have been created.A...

17 January 2011
06:55 GMT

IPv4 Space Running Out, Under 10 Percent Left

Due to a recent surge in IPv4 allocations in Asia, in major part owed to China's Internet boom, ICANN has recently announced that the total number of available IPv4 addresses has fallen below the 10% mark and is now approximated around the 400 million mark.Not to cause any panic in IT circles, Rod Beckstrom, ICA...

2 February 2010
08:06 GMT

For One Gmail Address You Get Two

Gmail users have it made for them, everything is working itself out smoothly (with the dev teams help, were not there yet with artificial intelligence and code that rewrites itself) and all they have to do is just enjoy the many features and characteristics that only Googles email service offers.One of the lesser ...

27 February 2008
17:06 GMT

Google on Privacy: Are IPs Personal?

The EU came forth last week with some disturbing news for the search engines, that IP addresses should be considered personal information and thus should not be stored. Instantly, that covers the whole cookies problem that many people have, storing preferences and settings against their will.Google's Privacy Pol...

25 February 2008
03:44 GMT

Google Maps: You Don't Have to Know the Address, Just the Name of the Place!

It's kind of a nuisance to have to go somewhere and not know the address. You have to do all kinds of research beforehand, to google the name and then hope that there's not more than one place with that specific denomination in your town, and only after that you'd go to Google Maps, insert the destinat...

28 January 2008
08:12 GMT

Gmail Having a Jealousy Crisis?

It doesn't wait for you in its slippers, holding a baseball bat while aggressively approaching you, don't worry. It couldn't do that, it's an email service, not a wife substitute. Nevertheless, the more it knows about you the better it is for you and a better and more organized life you'll ha...

21 January 2008
13:26 GMT

Did You Know There's Also an Address Bar?

I just love the way people don't ever pay attention where they are typing whatever it is they are typing. This is the way many passwords are revealed to the people around you and how it comes to be that you've just find that you can't use your account anymore. This actually happened to me, I didn'...

27 December 2007
04:09 GMT

Find Yourself on Google Earth!

Google's employees presented an interesting feature of Google Maps, codenamed Geocode, which allows users to type an address and find it quickly on the map. As far I can see, the function is also compatible with Google Earth version 4.1 beta, the latest release of the application that was quietly launched by the...

11 May 2007
03:26 GMT

IP to Earth

Internet browsing is so common that it has become a usual task in our every day's life. The great part is that for connecting to the Internet, you don't necessarily need to be in a fixed location. While some do it at work, others at home, well, thanks to wireless networks, some can do it anywhere. But have ...

2 April 2007
04:28 GMT


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