Archive for:March, 2011:


Facebook Kicks Out 20,000 Underage Users Daily

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Tweet Since these users are the most vulnerable to predators on Facebook and the rest of the Internet Nearly half of all 12-year-olds in U.S. are using social network sites, despite not meeting the minimum age requirements for sites like Facebook; a report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project claims. The report also

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India Seeks Ban on .xxx Domain

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Tweet Joins Indonesia and the Middle East to protect the moral integrity of its citizens After half-a-decade worth of approvals and rejections the quest for a separate .xxx domain exclusively for porn finally came to fruition a few days ago. The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally given a go ahead

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Twitter brings HTTPS Security Protocol Across Site

Published by in Social, Technology on March 19th, 2011
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Tweet Opt-in security setting already available to users Popular micro-blogging style social network Twitter has announced that it will add extra security settings for the users. Today onwards, Twitter users would be getting an option to choose HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) for the web interface as well as number of clients meant for the

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Tags: , FireSheep, Hotmail, HTTP Secure, , , , Wi-Fi

Farmville gets English Countryside Level

Published by in Social, Technology on March 19th, 2011
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Tweet English themed level will kick in for all players who have reached level 20 Farmville just got a brand new addition to its level roster with Farmville English Countryside, which has a very British slant to it. The level will be available to all players who reach level 20 in the regular version of

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Tags: Dorking, EC number, England, English language, , Shire horse, Shorthorn,

IE9 Downloads Cross 2.3 Million in One Day IE9 Downloads Cross 2.3 Million in One Day

Published by in Social, Technology on March 19th, 2011
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Tweet Microsoft on Cloud 9 The final version of Internet Explorer 9, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s web browser, was released to public two days ago on of March 15. In just 24 hours, the browser managed to cross 2.3 million downloads. That’s a pretty impressive number, considering only Windows Vista and 7 users can

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Gmail gets New Smart Labels

Published by in Social, Technology on March 14th, 2011
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Tweet Aims to remove the clutter from your overloaded Inbox Gmail, the email service by Google, already has Labels for organizing and categorizing the emails with the help of custom filters. Google has now announced new Smart Labels feature for Gmail available via Labs in Settings. The new Smart Labels will allow users to organize

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Tags: Bulk mail, , , , Mailing list, Radio-frequency identification, Smart label, Wine label

Twitter 11.6 Hours Survey Scam Spreading Virally

Published by in Social, Technology on March 5th, 2011
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Tweet Installs rogue application capable of harvesting your personal secure data Twitter users beware! According to IT security and data protection firm Sophos, a survey scam is currently plaguing Twitter users and bad thing is that they may not even be aware of it. Twitter users have been advised to be wary of tweets stating

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