Firefox is expected to reach 1 billion downloads today, an obvious indication of the browser’s growing popularity.
Firefox has boosted its market share over the years, trailing just a notch lower than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Firefox owns 34 percent of the market share, while IE has 60 percent.
IE previously held 90 percent of the market, but Microsoft’s legal spat with the European Commission over antitrust violations may have caused its numbers to abruptly...
Ebay may resort to closing down Skype peer-to-peer telephony tool because of an intellectual property dispute with a firm operated by founders of the service.
Ebay is still facing a legal battle with Joltid after it had laid claim to some Skype’s key technology. Joltid threatened to abolish the license agreement it had with eBay, which could lead to the closing down of Skype service.
Ebay explained,...
Months before its official release, Windows 7 has already found its way to major file-sharing websites. Hackers have posted a pirated copy on the net, luring users who have long been waiting for the software’s release.
Microsoft has verified the breach and has warned against downloading the software to avoid security issues.
"We are aware of reports of hacks that attempt to circumvent activation and validation in Windows 7,...
Gary McKinnon failed his bid to bring his trial back in the UK. The world reknowned hacker is now facing a tough trial in the US.
McKinnon was widely supported by London mayor Boris Johnson but that didn’t stop his extradtion to the US. Among his other supporters were the Daily Mail and a number of MPs.
McKinnon was accused of hacking 97 United States military and NASA computers...
Former Google information officer Douglas Merrill revealed that companies have been squandering on unnecessary security, which all the more razes financial structures amidst recession.
Merrill said companies have been venturing in useless and at times harmful security, cutting a huge chunk of their overall budget. Top executives are incurring unimportant spending because of lack of knowledge on the technology.
"Everyone listens to security officers. Executives are, in fact, terrified of us. So...
BT’s stock value has climbed by 12 percent, following an announcement made about its fiscal results for three months. However, the company’s profit steeply declined by 45 percent, accounting to £272 million. In 2008, BT gained £497 million which was attributed to its cost-saving schemes.
Amidst worldwide economic crunch, BT has announced 15,000 job cuts to as a way to lower its spending. The firm also resorted to...
According to some experts, the MI5 attack perpetrated by a hacking group known as ‘Team Elite’ does not pose a threat to national security. The gang could have pilfered data from site visitors of MI5, and launched virus attacks to their computer systems.
MP Patrick Mercer was quoted saying, "Having potentially highly classified information available to hackers is deeply concerning. The identity of agents and informers in terror...
Virgin Media has introduced a new ‘unlimited’ mobile tariff for multiple services like voice, text, and web browsing. Existing customers with any of Virgin’s service packages will enjoy the offering at £65 for 18 months.
The company is diverging from the current market value, offering more expensive mobile devices such as Nokia N86 and Samsung Jet. With the new tariff, qualified customers will get unlimited calls to other Virgin Mobile numbers,...
Vodafone has rescinded plans of acquiring T-Mobile. A representative from Vodafone said its chairman is not even aware of any buyout deal being worked on between the two firms.
T-Mobile statistics have declined over the past few months. Acquisition rumors have been floating around lately, and Vodafone as well as O2 are reported to be interested with the mobile network operator.
O2 is the current leader in the UK market, recording a 27 percent...
Apple has reported to the US Copyright Office that jailbreaking could harm a mobile phone’s transmission tower, allowing uncharged calls. The report was presented in contribution to the Copyright Office’s regular review of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The legislation prohibits people from skirting copy control systems.
Apple has been budging to refute the request of Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) to authorize alterations made on iPhone’s software. The US...
Orange recently launched a new venture featuring a mobile-broadband package which comprises of a free dongle and a bargain basement priced Asus laptop. This is in line with today’s increasing interest in mobile internet connection over fixed-line broadband. The package costs...
A research by More4 News revealed that more than 8,000 virus have plagued NHS hospitals last year. The government has tried to transfer patient records, prescriptions and X-rays to IT systems; but a virus attack did not make most of the...
Like many computer security threats, a new weakness in Web commerce emerged today from the grass roots. Researchers said Dec. 30 they’d used 200 PlayStation 3 video game consoles to defeat a Web security mechanism in three days of computing time. A team of security researchers from the...
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