Archive for April, 2008
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008The probability of loosing valuable data stored on your hard drive is high due to the existence of various determining factors like viruses, hardware crash or human errors. There are many alternatives to backup sensitive data by using other storage media or online services.
Mozy website offers an online free backup service for Windows [...]
YouTube Glitch Lets Users Access Others’ Gmails
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Google's video sharing service YouTube is currently affected by what seems to be a pretty dangerous glitch since it allows users to access others' accounts and view the information stored inside. Moreover, if the affected YouTube member uses the same account for Gmail, thanks to the global Google account which permits to have the same [...]
Google Sends Users’ Private Details to Police
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Google has always said that users' privacy is extremely important and its efforts to protect it were applauded even by international authorities. However, the Mountain View-based company has just handed over private information about some users to the Brazilian authorities, as part of an investigation supposed to stop pedophilia in the country. A few weeks [...]
Wikipedia to Be Released in Printed Version
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Those who say that Wikipedia isn't one of the most important web services nowadays should think twice. Because it surely is. But this is not enough and Wikimedia Foundation which owns Wikipedia is planning to do even more than that. According to several reports, Wikipedia will be released in printed version in Germany as soon [...]
Users Concerned about Google Account’s Privacy
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Google and a few other web companies allow their registered members to access all the services built by them with the same username and password. Some people think this is quite a useful function while other raise concerns over the privacy of the account. A WebmasterWorld user nicknamed MyNewPC said that using the same account [...]
Get A Free Community Toolbar from Conduit
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Browser toolbars are common used tools that provide enhancements to the default navigation functionalities. From the Internet marketing point of view, they represent an important resource for website traffic improvement, allow website syndication through the web browser, build users communities by making visitors come back and more.
Conduit website allows you to create a personalized [...]
MarioLovesPasta.com, Google Thinks
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Google tries anything it's possible to protect its brand and if this means buying thousands of domain, no problem, Google does this, too. In fact, it has already done it as thousands of domain names, some of them totally unrelated to the Mountain View-based company, were bought by Google, probably just as a security measure [...]
Google Is, Once Again, World’s Top Brand
Thursday, April 24th, 2008The analysts of Millward Brown published the BrandZ 2008 Top 100 Brands, revealing that the Mountain View-based super search giant Google is, for the second year in a row, on the first position. Google has topped the table with a brand value of $86,052M and a change of 30 percent in comparison with General Electric [...]
Yahoo Boosts Profit, Microsoft to Rethink its Acquisition Strategy
Thursday, April 24th, 2008The Sunnyvale-based company Yahoo has published its financial results for the first quarter of 2008, reporting revenues of no less than $1,818 million, an operating income of $121 million and compensation expense of $433 million. According to the report, the marketing services revenues brought $1,572 million in the first quarter of 2008, which represents an [...]
Flickr Debuts Photo Sharing Option
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Yahoo's photo sharing service Flickr has just rolled out a brand new feature, which makes sharing photos, videos, groups and sets a piece of cake. In fact, the improvement is actually a button, namely the “Share this” button, which lets registered users share the content mentioned above with a single click.
Obviously, sharing photos isn't [...]