Archive for January, 2006

BlackBerry to get Google Local & Google Talk

Expect Google to get into anything that has to do with the Internet! And if the Internet gets onto the Mobile, Google would follow suit and develop applications for your cell phone.
Google has announced that it is expanding its services to the BlackBerry platform. Available immediately, Google Local for mobile can be downloaded for free, [...]

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What is Phishing?

Phishing attacks have increased a lot these days. Infact hackers are now using a more sophisticated method called Pharming. So what is this so called Phishing and Pharming? Keep reading to find out…
Phishing, also called as spoofing, is the act of attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by [...]

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Google Earth for Mac

Google Earth came out of its Beta tag for Windows version and along with that Google also launched version for Mac OS X.
Following is part of the annoucement made on Google’s official blog:

We feel like proud parents around here. Our eldest, Google Earth for the PC, is officially leaving beta status today, and we couldn’t [...]

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Intel to launch low cost PCs

I just read on TechBulletin that Intel is working on introducing low cost PCs that will be priced around INR 10,000 (approx $225). The information was officially confirmed at the launch of Intel’s new processor range “Centrino Duo”.
Anand Chandrasekhar, senior vice-president (global sales & marketing), said at a press conference here, “We are working on [...]

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Self Destructing SMSes

Staellium UK has developed StealthText, an SMS delivery system that allows the sender to send messages that will be deleted from the receiver’s phone 40 seconds after it has been read.
The catch here is that both the sender and the receiver need to have WAP access and WAP-enabled phones. However, only the sender of such [...]

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Britney Spears is #1

Britney Spears has many times been the most searched for person on major Search Engines.
But then it was because of her albums.
Now Britney seems to be on top of searches because she had a baby!
She didn’t release an album of new material in 2005, but the new mother was #1 on Yahoo!’s annual list [...]

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Sex for an Xbox 360?

I just read that two boston woman allegedly offered sex in exchange for an Xbox 360 in an ad on www.craigslist.org. The posting seems to have been removed.
But what amazes me is that even women want an Xbox 360!
Please let me know what you think about this by leaving a comment.

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Bunny’s Technorati Tags

Want to add Technorati tags easily for your WordPress posts? Bunny’s Technorati Tags is a WordPress plugin that provides you with template function to easily display Technorati tags for your posts. The tags are stored in a Custom Field, so this plugin does not require any modifications of the database structure. The plugin adds a [...]

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Firefox gaining on IE?

Recent market share numbers released by site tracker NetApplications saw the number of Firefox users inch close to the 10 percent figure (9.57 percent, to be exact) in December 2005, a nearly 1 percent jump from November 2005.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) still dominates the browser world at roughly 85 percent of the market. But that [...]

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