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Google Fixes Serious Chrome Bugs

By on January 26, 2012 in Internet

Typical of a software product that is never perfect out of the box, Chrome 16 gets a new set of security related bug fixes to address known vulnerabilities disclosed last Monday. Google made the announcement yesterday and further disclosed that a fifth of these vulnerabilities had already been patched two weeks earlier. This recent bug [...]

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Designing an app store for Windows 8 proved a challenge for Microsoft

By on January 25, 2012 in Internet

With the app stores creating more market following for an OS and, in the case of Apple’s iPhone and IPad, creating not just a trend but a marketing model emulated by RIMM and Android makers, Microsoft joins the fray with its own Windows 8 app store. It makes finding and downloading compatible content that much [...]

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Search while socializing with conversation at Google+

By on January 21, 2012 in Internet

Trying to catch up on the leading social network site seems to have its advantages. There’s really at a lot of truth when they say being an also-run makes you work harder. The tweaks on Google+ just keep on coming. What Google has not achieved yet in social networking, it has long ago achieved in [...]

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Anonymous goes ballistic, hacks DOJ in retaliation for Megaupload shutdown

By on January 21, 2012 in Internet

In what seemed like an all-out retaliation against the powers the be, infamous hacker group Anonymous has claimed it was behind the attacks that have recently brought down the online sites of several media organizations such as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Universal Music, as well as the US Department of Justice, [...]

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Successful Website Blackouts Anti-SOPA, PIPA protests

By on January 21, 2012 in Internet

The SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act) may have lost is wager in the US Congress but the Senate is scheduled for an initial vote this Tuesday, this time on the equally contentious PIPA (Protect IP Act). The fight apparently has not ended, according to senate sources. This comes a few [...]

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Facebook to launch Open Graph

By on January 20, 2012 in Internet

The F8 conference held last September saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising to deliver what he called a “frictionless” social networking experience across the Web using applications. And discounting any problem, this starts tomorrow making good his promise, according to the All Things Digital site. The world’s leading social site with a membership getting closer [...]

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Google+ gets LOLcaterizer photo caption tool

By on January 20, 2012 in Internet

Facebook challenger Google+ introduces a new feature that allows its members to add captions to their photo submissions. It’s called the LOLcaterizer captioning tool or the LOLcat text font generation. Is this finally the Facebook killer Google+ has been looking for? In a Google+ post today, programmer Colin McMillen wrote, “Today we’re rolling out a [...]

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Google adds more social features with Google+ and Picasa results

By on January 11, 2012 in Internet

Tuesday saw Google rolling out a new feature that will allow account holders to see content privately shared to them by their social contacts. Meant to strengthen its social search prowess, the feature tightly integrates between Google+, Picasa and its search engine. With the integration, Google aims to further improve the ease with which its [...]

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Paid Link Scandal Forces Google To Downgrade Chrome

By on January 6, 2012 in Internet

Google on Tuesday penalized its own Chrome browser with a 60-day penalty that buried its download page deep in its search engine results after a marketing campaign that failed. A Google spokesperson confirmed this in an email yesterday saying, “we’ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site’s PageRank for [...]

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Google+ US traffic grows 55% in December

By on January 4, 2012 in Internet

The alternative to Facebook winded up getting significantly more users during the last two months of 2011. According to Experian Hitwise, It is still quite far from getting parity with Facebook, but Google+ traffic in the US from November to December surges 55%, a phenomenal growth for the upstart social networking site. As of November [...]

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