TypePad and Friendster Team to Offer Friendster Blogs SixApart has teamed up with social networking site Friendster to offer Friendster Blogs, a paid blogging service power by SixApart’s TypePad. Pricing for the new service is identical to the Friendster-less TypePad service. The service has currently launched in beta status and is restricted to users in …
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Firefox and Opera Update Browsers Mozilla has reacted to a browser feature that leaves customers open to URL spoofing and other scams with the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.01. The spoof exploited flaws in how the Firefox browser interprets the Unicode a character set, which can be used to create “homogenic” attacks, where two different …
Mozilla Firefox 1.0.1 Released – Addresses Security Concerns The Mozilla Foundation yesterday released an update to its award-winning Firefox 1.0 browser. The Firefox security update is available for the 27 million users who have already downloaded the free browser. “Regular security updates are essential for maintaining a safe browsing experience for our users,” said Chris …
Apple Puts New iPod Photos On the Market Apple today updated its iPod photo collection by introducing a new slim 30GB model, which holds up to 7,500 songs, for $349 and a new 60GB model, which can store up to 15,000 songs, for $449. Both models hold up to 25,000 digital photos and will feature …
Internet Explorer 7 – The Empire Strikes Back It was very much wanted but no one expected it to appear like this. Looks like a direct result of the Firefox effect on the Microsoft’s strategy as the software giant woke up and noticed that people have started moving on to a better browser (or browsers …
Fake Blogs: Is it a Big Deal? Fake Blogs and Blog Anchor Text: While the author of asbestos.stinkmachine.com is not interested in the subject, he is acquiring some good linkage data as the blog community states how fascinated they are with him making money from AdSense. In Google’s investor day a slide showed Weblogs Inc …
New FireFox 1.1 Release Delayed While the current final version of Firefox reaches new heights (it touched a download mark of 21 million recently!), the developers released some information about the coming releases. Originally planned for a March 2005 launch, the release of 1.1 version of Firefox has been delayed and as per the related …
Bill Gates claims nearly 1 million users for MSN Spaces In an interview with News.com, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has claimed that MSN Spaces has “close to a million people”, an amazing figure given the short length of time since the launch of the English speaking service, but he indicates that this figure may include …
Microsoft Releases Anti-Spyware Application As expected, Microsoft has released a beta version of their own Anti-Spyware application based on their recent acquisition of Giant Software Company. In addition, they would also be releasing another new tool for malware-removal on January 11. Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Security Business and Technology Unit had this …
Bloggers took the Internet by storm in 2004 Users on the Internet have been blogging since ages. I have seen people maintaining their journals online for over a decade now. However, with the convenience that Google’s Blogger.com and LiveJournal offers, almost everyone and I mean almost everyone I know have a Blog on the Internet. …