August
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There's no credit crunch in Second Life
Insight newsmaker Businesses are moving beyond using the virtual world to attract eyeballs and instead major on collaboration, says Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon.
Tags: Business applications, Digital media, Web 2.0, Web sites, Linden Lab, British Telecommunications, Training, Business, movie, Apple iPod
Spammers tap Google's Picasa, Adobe Flash
News New techniques such as using images hosted by Picasa Web Albums and Flash-based site redirection showed up in August, new security report shows.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Spam filtering, Security Management, Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., Security, Google Inc., Google Picasa, Spammer, Mark Sunner
StarHub finally gets to sell iPhone
News Singapore carrier is last of country's three mobile operators to offer the Apple mobile phone, and will begin doing so later this year.
Tags: Mac OS, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., Starhub, SingTel, mobile, Information And Communication Technology, Singapore, tariff, Apple iPhone
A look at Ubuntu Upstart
Techguide Ubuntu's Upstart system is an event-based replacement for SysV init that handles the starting of tasks and services during boot.
Tags: Linux, Networking, Fedora Project, Apple Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Service, Fedora Core, Grep, Vincent Danen, FC10
RIM 'sues' Motorola over hiring blocks
News Research in Motion claims Motorola is blocking it from hiring recently dismissed Motorola staff.
Tags: HR policies and procedures, Lawsuits, Motorola Inc., Research In Motion Ltd., Bloomberg L.P., hiring, blog, agreement, Lawsuits, HR policies and procedures
Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL searches rise while Google's falls
News Google's share of the search market dipped in January, as Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL grabbed a tad more share.
Tags: Search, Earning reports/forecasts, Forecasting, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Semiconductor Industry Association, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., Forecasting, ComScore Networks Inc.
US tech job postings fall 40 percent in March
News Most of the declines in the United States were in full-time positions, according to a report from tech career site Dice.com.
Tags: Recruiting, Tech Job Posting, Dice.com, performance, job posting, career, job, U.S., Recruiting, August
Pirate Bay closure sparks rise in P2P sites
News Closure of Pirate Bay led to temporary 300 percent increase in the number of file-sharing Web sites, says McAfee.
Tags: Peer to peer, Piracy, Open Source, Site, BitTorrent, P2P, security company, McAfee Inc., File-sharing, Internet Service Provider
Yahoo's mobile home page cutting back on reloads
News Yahoo reveals an enhanced mobile home page that offers more stories that require you to reload the Web page fewer times.
Tags: Browser, Mobile/Wireless, Yahoo! Inc., partnership, mobile, Video, movie, CTIA, Apple iPhone, strategy
Still no arrests from Aust police raid
News Raid carried out by the Australian Federal Police on a Melbourne homeowner suspected of attempting to obtain credit card details via an online forum, has not yielded any arrests or charges.
Tags: Hacking, Authentication and encryption, Arrest, Spokesperson, Storage, RAID, computer, Melbourne, ABC Inc., credit card
US White House pulls e-mail for 'fishy' reports
News Say good-bye to "flag@whitehouse.gov"--it's been deactivated and messages bounce back, a win for critics comparing it to an "enemies list" and surveillance program.
Tags: Data security, E-mail servers, Security Management, E-mail Address, Republican, e-mail, aide, White House, health care, Sen.
Google praises Microsoft's HTML 5 thoughts
News After years of silence on the emerging HTML 5 standard, Microsoft threw its hat in the ring a month ago, and Google is appreciative of its suggestions.
Tags: Business applications, Web Browser, Video, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Search, Ars Technica, HTML, HTML 5
More malware per spam e-mail last month
News Proportion of malware-infected spam rose nine times between August and September this year, according to new Symantec report.
Tags: Spam and phishing, Viruses and worms, Adobe Systems Inc., Malware, MessageLabs Ltd., India, U.S., Adobe Acrobat Reader, Spam, E-mail Message
In Philippines, free ads site tops them all
Blogs Last September, just after typhoon Ketsana (locally known as "Ondoy") razed the Philippines, veteran IT chronicler Jim A...
IE overall usage slips, but IE 8 gains
News All of Internet Explorer's rivals gained overall from August to September, though IE 8 did increase in popularity. Firefox gained the most among IE's competitors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web browsers, Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Web Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Mozilla Firefox
