Remember when Firefox 3 was released and there was a big deal about setting the world record for number of downloads in a day? Well, the same hoopla hasn't come to town with Firefox 5's release today. Trying to keep up with Google Chrome frequent release rate, which has a stable version at 12 within its 3 years of existence, Mozilla is increasing the pace of major releases. … [Read more...]
Get 25GB of Storage in the Cloud Free with Microsoft’s Relaunched SkyDrive
Microsoft announced yesterday that it has rebuilt its cloud file storage service, SkyDrive. It's touted as being faster with HTML5, has improved layouts for different file and photos, and using Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7, you can pin SkyDrive to your Desktop for quick, easy access. The jump list can also allow you to get to tasks that are buried a little bit with a … [Read more...]
How To See If Your Computer is Part of a BotNet
Malware has a few different intentions when it infects your computer. It could want to: show you ads to make money (adware) Watch where you go on the web and steal your passwords to either use your accounts for sending out spam or access your bank/credit card account Make you think you have a virus so you pay them to fix it (scareware) Make your computer part of a … [Read more...]
ICANN Votes In Big Changes Coming To Domain Names
ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, voted in a pretty big change to domain names at its special session held in Singapore today. They have voted to allow registries to buy and control the top-level domains, or TLDs. Typical TLDs include .com, .net, or .org but after the vote, individuals will be able to apply to run a wide variety of what they want. … [Read more...]
A Rough Road For Bitcoin – Largest Exchange, Mt. Gox, Reports Leaked Account Info and Huge Sell-Off Initiated
At the end of March, I first wrote about Bitcoin, a virtual cryptocurrency with no central management by design. When I wrote about it, you could buy a single bitcoin for about 80 cents. Since then, the value of a bitcoin has skyrocketed to $30USD and stabilized around $16USD as more services and merchants are starting to accept the currency and speculation puts the currency in … [Read more...]