Did you ever imagine your body could also be hacked by computer hackers? Well that might become possible in future as a scientist infects his body with a computer virus. Dr. Mark Gasson of the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip inserting it into his hand and then pass on the virus to external [...]
There is a very exciting piece of news for Android owners. As trials and testings have been going on for Firefox on the Android platform, the browser appears to have flipped the switch. For the pluses Mozilla’s new start page for the mobile browser is now live and seems to be slender and neat. However [...]
In the GT Blind Search application for Search Engine comparison, Bing and Yahoo has fared better than Google in all time numbers. There were total of 118 queries done by various people using the site, and 40+ goes to Bing’s favor. There were 88 web search queries, 10 news and 20 image queries.
In the current [...]
Fedora Community released Fedora 13, the Linux distro and with it comes a list of new features that enhance performance, access and quality assurance.
In a press release Fedora Community said, “The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT) sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today (May 25, 2010) announced the availability of Fedora 13, the [...]
There has been a great advancements and innovation in the field of computers since years. From mammoth room sized computers to desktops to laptops and then finally Netbooks, there has been a great shift in the way technology is molded and put together for portability and access on the go. The next revolutionary development is [...]
Remember Google’s first ever interactive logo on the home page last Friday? Google was celebrating the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s release with this animated Pac-Man doodle. But according to Tony Wright, founder of the time management tool RescueTime , Google Pac-Man consumed a whopping 4,819,352 hours of time, or $120,483,800 in productivity.
He estimated that Google had around 505 million [...]
‘When you’ve got it, you flaunt it!’ That’s what Google is doing right now as it calls itself the ‘’engine of economic growth.’’
The search giant wants the world to know about the great contributions that it has made to the economy. In a series of press conferences around the world, Google highlighted the impact that [...]
Less than a month after Google made the new version of Chrome OS available through its Beta channel, the search giant has officially announced the release of Chrome 5 for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. While this release brings with it a lot of improvements and significant fine-tuning like increase in JavaScript execution speed, [...]
The largest retailer in the world Wal Mart has announced that coming Tuesday it would slash the price of Apple iPhone to $ 97. Yes you heard it right- iPhone 16 GB 3GS would be available at just the price of $ 97 which is almost frugal considering the device. This comes as a result [...]
Now Google search can be encrypted. This means that, between Google and a searcher’s computer, the connection is protected with a digital armor that prevents your search terms and their results pages being intercepted by any eavesdropper on the road.
The mechanism used is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and considering that Google has a unified search [...]
