Technology Hacks from the Owl
Google co-founder Larry Page is set to marry his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, this weekend on a tiny private island in the Caribbean. Larry Page is the joint fifth-richest person in the United States. Six hundred guests...
After complaints the site was invading privacy, Facebook changed Beacon (Recently launched social advert. system on Facebook) from an opt-out system to opt in. Mr Zuckerberg has said users can now switch off Beacon completely. In...
Adult magazine Perfect 10 earlier filed a copyright infringement claim against Google alleging that Google was crawling the Perfect10.com website and created thumbnails of copyrighted images that were later displayed in Google Image search results. Google...
Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in a matter of hours. Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result. Eight-character passwords are used...
Microsoft has now revealed that they are acquiring the assets of Seattle based internet company WebFives. The financial aspects of the deal have not been disclosed by the two parties. Founder of the company Michael Toutonghi...
The producers of An Inconvenient Truth offered American classrooms up to 50,000 copies of their movie for free but they were rejected over fears that it would piss off Exxon-Mobil, one of the National Science Teachers...
“Help up help others” goes the motto of CarAngel – A site that helps you to donate your old car for charity, instead of making them land in the dump. Car Angel Ministries enables you to...
Venkat Kolluri, the chief executive of Chitika, an advertising company that has begun testing a service to tailor Internet advertisements to individual Web pages. Chitika is an advertising company based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. It was started...
Rest of the story over at TechShout  It is a proprietary runtime for browser-based Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Silverlight was codenamed as Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere (WPF/E) and will let users create content related to animation, vector...
Here are some sites on the web that were affected by Google’s PR Updation. A lower PR doent mean a change in traffic. The loss in PR is attributed to selling links on the sites. (...
