Monthly Archives: July 2008

Google employees’ personal data stolen

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 14, 2008
Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Source: CNET News
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iPhone vs. BlackBerry® Smartphones, BlackJack™ II and Centro

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 13, 2008
How Does the iPhone compare? Originally posted at wirefly.com
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Shorten your links

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 8, 2008
Link or URL shortening services are nothing new–TinyURL, for example, has been around since January 2002, when site creator Kevin Gilbertson wanted to link directly to newsgroup postings with really long addresses. Indeed, that’s the true impetus behind these services; taking really long and unwieldy Web links (to an Amazon or eBay item, for example), [...]
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Use Gmail for all your e-mail links with gAttach

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 7, 2008
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Legal groups want to know- tracking via cell phones

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 4, 2008
The ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Justice Dept. Tuesday for information regarding the use of cellphones as tracking devices. The Washington Post reports that the ACLU had filed, back in November, a Freedom of Information Act request for documents, memos and guidelines on tracking cellphone users.
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Web browser study uses Google data to pinpoint security problems

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 3, 2008
Less than 60 percent of Web users are outfitted with up-to-date, fully patched browsers, according to a new, IBM co-authored research study, which relies on examinations of users’ Google log records to help reach that conclusion.
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Guinness bestows download record on Firefox

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 2, 2008
The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox.
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AMD improves CPU market share – with little impact on Intel

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 2, 2008
El Segundo (CA) – If we believe the public statements of AMD executives, then the company’s market strategy has always been based on maintaining and growing market share at virtually any expense. So far, this game cost AMD more than $4.3 billion, but according to iSuppli, AMD may have reached a point where it may [...]
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Microsoft Offers iPod Prizes for Search in Australia

By Krishna Chaitanya Mandava | Published: July 2, 2008
Microsoft is offering iPod nanos, shuffles, and touches as prizes to promote their Live Search in Australia, according to the Brisbane Times on Wednesday. Microsoft is working through a joint venture in Australia with Nine Network, ninemsn, for Internet search.
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