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The US Government has halted its anti-piracy legislation for now. The implementation of two key anti-piracy measures has been withheld for wider agreement. The implementation of two anti-piracy bills viz. SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) has been stalled by the legislators of the US Government. This development must have offered immense relief to all the big Internet companies... Read More »

The BT Openreach recently arrived at Bourne — the market town of Southern Lincolnshire, situated in the East Midlands of England. Around 4,800 homes and business establishments are expected to reap the benefits from the ambitious broadband project that is committed to deliver an ultrafast network infrastructure for more than 18 million households, covering two-thirds of the UK districts by 2014.... Read More »

A renowned name in the world of networking, D-Link has finally revealed its foremost wireless router DIR-645 featuring the company’s patent SmartBeam technology. The most interesting aspect about SmartBeam technology is that it frequently monitors the signals power of all the interlinked devices to offer a seamless, uninterrupted, and steady wireless connection from any corner of the home.... Read More »

From now onwards, 9 August will be known as the dark day for all the third-party Twitter photo sharing services such as TwitPic and yfrog. Twitter has itself released an official photo sharing service named Twitter images with the help of Photobucket as its hosting partner. Now, no third-party will be required to share photos on Twitter. Photobucket plays an important role in this new photo sharing... Read More »

Using wireless internet these days at home is just like home phones in 80’s. They are very important so much that even a slow internet connection makes us furious. Using Wireless internet is not always fast and can make interne to work slow. Today we will discuss something similar to that. We will discuss steps to improve the performance of the home network. Step 1: Please make sure you have placed... Read More »

Many users prefer to use more than one monitor so that they can work on more than one windows or application. For example you are working on words, Outlooks and Mozilla Firefox together and want to view them simultaneously so what can you do is connect three different monitors or screen and then open the in their respective screens. But what if you open one of this application or software and it comes... Read More »

One of the leading firm and organization in the world today is none other than Microsoft. This is because of the yearlong service and quality product that the firm has provided to its customers. No other organization has stayed so long at the top most position in the international market. The reputation and the service speak its self. The main purpose of the company is to provide software to the users... Read More »

The exuberance was lost when the recent news from Hollywood came that the Fox Network which was handled by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation declared that the networks will commence specifying Web access of programs of TV to audience who subscribed to involving cable and satellite providers for TV of which Dish TV is the one which has been signed so far or readers to Hulu Plus which is the site’s... Read More »

Last year, Yahoo! started using the Bing search engine of Microsoft to power its search results. According to recent reports, Yahoo! will now allow you to sign in with the user IDs and passwords of Facebook and Google accounts. For enabling this, the OpenID authentication protocol will be used. Analysts say that the move from Yahoo! is to increase its number of users by simplifying the login process.... Read More »

Yahoo! Messenger is the most widely used instant messaging tool available these days. The reason why Yahoo! Messenger is considered to be the best is because of its numerous user friendly features. This is the messenger which started voice chat for the first time and later was adopted by others. It provides an amazing interface and support for numerous icons. It provides interactive backgrounds, both... Read More »

Various surveys around the world are trying to analyze and present performance analyses of various segments of the markets with information technology, Internet, mobile phones, smartphones and PCs / laptops use as a base. CommScore US survey of 2010 shows a pattern of e-mail usage – web based e-mail usage in various age segments in the US. The report shows the use of web based e-mail reducing by... Read More »

Microsoft is aware about the fact that people are using multiple e-mail accounts and it desires to make the process easier. On 3rd February, Hotmail has launched a new type of feature, which allows people to create multiple e-mail accounts, which can be replied to, and managed from one’s everyday inbox for e-mail. These additional types of e-mail addresses may be had in the manner like signing up... Read More »

According to a report by McAfee, there has been a steady growth in the number of security threats to mobile platforms. Cisco has warned one and all to be cautious about malware as miscreants have become more and more creative by exploiting networks, systems and human vulnerabilities to steal information or do damage. Although phishing attacks decreased in 2010, spam reduced drastically, virus attacks... Read More »

Using Wi-Fi, computers and other devices can be connected to the Internet very easily. Wi-Fi connections are smart and convenient as there is no need to use wires. The places of connectivity are called hot spots. These are sometimes rooms and sometimes these are spread in large areas. The most important benefit is that they provide freedom from the web of wires. Wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) was first... Read More »

Reports are coming from the tech arena that Libya has cut all the internet connections to block the flow of the communication. In Libya there is no democracy and press and the media is not free to express their views. The turmoil began from the February this year when people in Libya start protesting against its ruler Col. Muammar Gaddafi. As a result the dictator has decided to put a check on the... Read More »

During the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California, Khronos Group presented the final specification of the standard WebGL 1.0, which is designed to provide hardware accelerated 3D graphics in browsers without the need for plug-ins. Khronos Group industry consortium today released the final version of the specification WebGL 1.0. They offer the possibility to use tools for hardware... Read More »

The Internet Protocol version 4 in current use will suffer an IPv4 address exhaustion in this decade, experts argue it could be as soon as this year or max in 2 to 3 years. This necessitates the induction of IPv6. When IPv$ was started in the late eighties such widespread usage of net and so many domain names were not expected hence it was thought that IPv4 would suffice. However reports by CISCO... Read More »

Mozilla Firefox 4 is the latest version of the web browser from Mozilla Foundation. Firefox 4 is one of the most popular web browsers in the Internet world. The new version, that is, Mozilla Firefox 4, browser is one of the most secure and user friendly versions available. Firefox 4 is shipped free with Mac and Linux operating systems. It is also available free for Windows also. Firefox 4 has many... Read More »

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Release Candidate (RC) is the latest version of the web browser. It is one of the most popular web browsers in the world. The new version of this browser is one of the secure and user friendly versions available. There are lots more new options available in the newest version of Firefox. Firefox shipped free with Mac and Linux operating systems. It is also available free for Windows... Read More »

Online scams and frauds have increased in the past few days, which are aimed at fooling people into making donations for the victims of the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan. If you get an e-mail asking to donate money for people who have been affected by the Earthquake, it is advised to check the credentials of the sender. The e-mail could be spam or a phishing attack intended to steal confidential... Read More »

Microsoft has introduced ActiveX filtering in Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), which was released recently. The ActiveX filter is considered to be helpful as it gives the user control while surfing. The filter provides the user with an ability to control which ActiveX elements will be active on the websites they access. This step taken by Microsoft is another attempt by the company to increase the security... Read More »

Microsoft launched Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) for the public on March 14, 2011 at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) which is being held in Austin, Texas. The released version of Internet Explorer 9 is not compatible with Windows XP. It works with the Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. System requirements for installing Internet Explorer 9, include... Read More »

It is really a setback for Yahoo to know that the search share of Yahoo! search engine for U.S searches experienced a great fall in December 2010. The Company ComScore estimated market shares of major U.S. search engines in the last year. Last month, Americans have made a total of 18.2 billion search queries. This is a 3% increase compared with November, when users asked for help to search engines... Read More »

Microsoft confirmed the existence of an unpatched vulnerability in Windows. Internet Explorer vulnerability potentially allows an attacker to execute code remotely via the memory used by a CSS stylesheet. Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 are affected. Microsoft confirmed the security flaw in late December. On Tuesday, it updated its advisory to reflect reports of... Read More »

IPv6 is the extended version of IPv4 connectivity and some of the Internet’s most popular web sites such as, Facebook, Google and Yahoo have agreed to participate in the first global-scale trial of IPv6. IPv6 is the long awaited upgrade to the Internet’s main communication protocol known as IPv4. On the World IPv6 Day, participant websites will support native IPv6 traffic on their main web sites... Read More »