Archive for December, 2009
IT is the most powerful weapon to combat climate change
IT technologies are the most powerful tool for sites to prevent a potential climate catastrophe, says Secretary General of the International Telecommunications Union. Hemandoun Toure urged delegations to COP15 not reject that advanced technologies can reduce carbon emissions in many industries. He said studies have shown that the most effective use of ITC could provide [...]
How To Get A New Site Indexed Fast
After designing a web site, the next most important thing is to get it indexed by the search engine because if your site is in their database, that means any of your pages will be returned as a search result for a related keyword searched on that search engine. A web site can be crawled [...]
MEWBOX launch an rival Android iTunes
A small start-up company called Mewbox launched what could be a major support for platfoma Android, a music download service without DRM. The company initially developed for the last Mewbox Archos 5 Internet Tablet, which was released in September and runs a customized version of Android. Mewbox interface was designed specifically for the big screen [...]
G Data’s warns against phishing and offers safety tips for online Christmas shopping
Many buyers prefer shopping online especially because the opportunity to make a quick comparison between prices and because of the possibility to buy products at any time of day sitting comfortably on their couch. These advantages are very appreciated in the context of the turmoil of Christmas, because buyers can avoid the crowded shopping centers. [...]
Netbook sales increase in Europe
Netobook’s sales continue to grow in Europe, food and attractive prices and offers subsidized by mobile carriers. The figures show a sales increase of 37.7% in Europe last month, netbook-sized market reaching nearly one fourth of the total PC market. Netbooks now represent 22% of all PCs sold by major European IT distributors and 30% [...]
Hackers trick the CAPTCHA security system
Computer criminal gangs using sophisticated software to trick the service systems used Captcha webmail, microblogging, social networking sites to protect against hackers and spammers. According to analysis done by Symantec and MessageLabs, they have developed software able to decode the hidden text in the Captcha image, whose role is to distinguish real users of software [...]
End is approaching DDoS attacks?
Distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) are increasingly popular among hackers, security firm McAfee warned in a report in November. But the IT department of Bristol University research says he would put an end to these attacks. The research, which will be presented at the conference in Tokyo ASIACRYPT of 6-10 December, explores a defense [...]
Google public DNS
Google has release today a new service, Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. To try it out: Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers or Read their configuration [...]