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Digg for Mobiles Gets Enhanced

In a piece of news that might or might not be Digg-worthy, the mobile version of the popular social networking website has gone through a reconditioning process and is now said to be better than ever. Which means that you can digg and/or bury articles from your handset more efficiently (if there's any efficiency...

2 August 2008
08:32 GMT

Sprint Enhances Its Users' Internet Experience with Sprint Web

Sprint, the third largest mobile operator in the US, has just announced the availability of Sprint Web, a new home page set to improve the mobile Internet experience of its subscribers. Sprint Web features quick Google search access, as now Google is the default search engine on Sprint's phones. Moreover, lev...

28 July 2008
10:33 GMT

Use Your Google Account to Login to Zoho

For those of you that are Zoho users, the AdventNet web-based application has just released a new feature. You can now turn to the Zoho website and login using either one of your Google or Yahoo! accounts. The announcement was made yesterday on the Zoho blogs and is available for anyone wanting to login to Zoho.For t...

14 May 2008
10:22 GMT

'Email? What's That?', One in Five Americans Says

Although for some of you this may sound pretty incredible, one in five US households never sent an email, the National Technology Scan report, compiled by Park Associated, reveals. Moreover, no less than 20 million households don't have an Internet connection, which means that approximately 18 percent of the tot...

14 May 2008
10:17 GMT

Opacity 1.1 Allows Vector Graphics for Web Page Crafting

Opacity, exclusively crafted website imagery and desktop software (such as launch icons), has been updated to version 1.1, adding support for SVG, which allows web vector illustration. The software relies on both Quartz and Core Animation technology, and has vector, layer, and filtering tools. A downloadable trial ve...

9 May 2008
19:11 GMT

Nokia Improves the S60 Platform's Web Capabilities

Nokia announced that its S60 Symbian mobile platform just got better, with the addition of enhanced capabilities for Web Run-Time, enabling users to create both context aware and personal widgets. Moreover, S60 now comes with support for various platform-independent C libraries, offering a greater freedom for open ...

24 April 2008
03:56 GMT

Apple's CEO Doesn't Like Adobe's Flash

The latest CNN reports (via techcrunch.com) say that liar-liar-pants-on-fire Apple CEO Steve Jobs isn't very happy with Adobe's flash tech, as far as his iPhone is concerned. And for good reason too, as it slows it down dramatically. This would imply that Adobe came up with a "middle" solution, which Adobe,...

6 March 2008
06:02 GMT

iPhone Web Apps, the Final Frontier

As a bit of a space freak myself, coming across this trio of iPhone web apps was a bit of a shock, but a pleasant one nonetheless. Apple's official website provides descriptions and links to iSkyGaze, Starry Night Mobile and LookUp, three spacey web apps designed to show you the stars and their exact locations, ...

4 March 2008
08:58 GMT

Yahoo! and America Movil Team Up

Yahoo!, the Internet giant company, and one of America's top mobile phone company, America Movil, have shaken hands in order to bring more mobility to the world. The two companies have teamed up in a deal that would provide mobile Web services in 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.America Movil will...

21 December 2007
03:04 GMT

Five Dangers Posed by the Internet

1.Internet can destroy your marriage. Husbands and wives can turn "widows", by remaining abandoned while the spouse spends hours in front of the computer sending messages to strangers in chat forums, downloading music or games, and watching pornography. Another menace for the couples are those sites where old romance...

6 December 2007
14:06 GMT

Why Spider Webs Can be so Beautiful

There are spiders with an innate artistic sense. This is the case of the Argiope spiders, which have beautifully adorned webs with zigzag and spiral patterns. And the artwork is effective: insects are attracted by the fancy webs, but predators, too, as signaled by a new research published in Behavioral Ecology. The m...

22 November 2007
03:27 GMT

Google Is Being Favored

In case you were born yesterday and have learned to use the computer since, I'll let you in on a little inside info: Google is the "lifeblood of the Internet," in the words of Barak Obama. 75% of the Internet searches are conducted through it, it's going into the mobile business and it's basically a mo...

16 November 2007
06:55 GMT

New Alphabets For the Internet Domains

ICANN prepares some new goodies for Internet users from all around the world as the organization will debut a new test next week in order to implement Internationalized Domain Names on the web. In case you don't know its meaning, let me define this for you. What ICANN, which actually stands for the Internet Corp...

12 October 2007
04:55 GMT

The Web Could Bring Companies Down!

The web is a great place for business, everybody knows that. Unfortunately, it's also the best place for scams! But scams are not the worst, hackers are… not to mention viruses. So how can the web bring a company down? Some people say that it's not possible, but just let me explain.For one thing, if you hav...

8 October 2007
06:38 GMT

Fun to be Snatched Away from the Web

Now, this is outrageous! Thinking about security is one thing, but taking the fun part away from the Internet is just too naïve to work. While taking a look at the Economic Times webpage I learned that a new law is about to be issued in India. I understand that these guys have been facing cyber-security problems, but...

5 October 2007
09:37 GMT

Looking Into the Crystal Ball: The Threats for 2008

Based on a Georgia Tech Information Center report, here are the threats bound to increase and evolve over the next year - Web 2.0 and client-side attacks, targeted messaging attacks, botnets, threats targeting mobile convergence and threats to RFID systems. "As the natural evolution of the Web progresses from 1.0 to ...

4 October 2007
09:39 GMT

Internet Presence Threat Analysis Available

Who protects us, people, from fraudulent online activity? Well, generally it's financial services organizations. But who helps them? That's easy - people that make a business out of online threat protection. So, to get to the facts, BD-BrandProtect today announced the availability of its Internet Presence T...

2 October 2007
11:04 GMT

Death On the Web

There are several questions to be answered here and a lot of people are concerned about their security on the Net. Can the Internet kill you? Directly, it cannot, that's for sure! What about people threatening your life? Bogus!Now, can the Internet be used to kill? Well, not as a tool, but as an environment, yes...

26 September 2007
06:17 GMT

Children in Danger!

Certainly, I'm in no position to tell parents how to raise their children, but I can surely say a lot about what dangers lurk around on the Web. Cyber-security is not an issue for kids to handle, but parents should seriously think about it, when letting the little ones surf the Net. Now besides the fact that chi...

26 September 2007
04:33 GMT

If You Can't Sleep, Browse the Web!

A new research conducted by Standard Life revealed that one in seven persons who can't sleep prefer to surge the Internet instead of doing anything else. Old news, I would say, as it's well known the fact that nowadays, most people browse the Internet and spend important parts of their free time on the web....

13 September 2007
10:16 GMT

Mozilla Labs Brings Web Elements to Mobiles with "Joey!" Project

The developers of Firefox have created one more service that has high chances of becoming popular for many people. The "Joey" project looks to bring bits of the web to mobile phones with little effort.With "Joey!", handset users are capable of taking selected text from web pages or even videos with little effort. The...

16 August 2007
10:15 GMT

Improved Mobile Web Service from Verizon Wireless

Verizon Wireless announced that its Mobile Web 2.0 service has just got better, after an important upgrade. The redesigned service will help users get information on their mobile devices easier than ever, as it comes with new functionalities and characteristics. Needless to say, the old features of Mobile Web are sti...

15 August 2007
09:13 GMT

Cisco Systems Is Optimistic

Cisco Systems reported a high quarterly profit backed up by increasing revenues as more and more companies and enterprises invest in renewing their networking equipment. Cisco Systems is a manufacturer and vendor of routers, switches and other types of networking equipment. As the Internet expands and all major compa...

8 August 2007
02:47 GMT

QNAP Launches a New NAS Server

QNAP Systems launched a new network storage server, the 2-bay, Hot-swappable All-in-one NAS (Network Attached Storage) Server, TS-209 Pro Turbo Station that is aimed at office and business use. This NAS server is different from everything else the market has to offer now as the TS-209 Pro uses a powerful 500MHz proce...

4 August 2007
04:09 GMT

The iPhone Can Be Hacked via Web

The iPhone has revealed yet another vulnerability in its system, as it can be hacked through Web. This vulnerability is only theoretical at this time, as there are no reports of people actually using this possibility to break into an iPhone.The flaw concerns not only the iPhone, but also Apple computers in general, a...

26 July 2007
06:31 GMT

Innovative Mobile Social Networking Platform from Intercasting and Sprint

Intercasting Corporation, a top US mobile media company, announced that its innovative mobile social networking platform called ANTHEM will become available in the near future on select Sprint phones. This new networking platform was developed to allow wireless carriers to bring web content and social networking to t...

18 July 2007
08:56 GMT

Flash Will Be Replaced by a Native Video Capability in Opera

The Opera Software officials confirmed that the Adobe Flash plug-in for the mobile browser will be replaced by a native video capability. Therefore, the users will be able to use video, text and javascript and "directly execute video inside of the Web" as Tatsuki Tomita, senior vice-president for consumer products at...

16 June 2007
08:46 GMT




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