Norton Symantec has identified some of the dirtiest websites that could infect computers with malwares. The internet security company has come up with a list of top 10 dirtiest websites.
 
Malware is software that can cause damage or disruption to a computer system.
 
A visit to any ...

The new online game 'World of Warcraft' can be played for free till it gets an official approval for commercial use. This was informed by the developer of the online game.
 
The game's operator in China, Shanghai Netease, has announced on its website, that it has finished all facility tests ...

Survey of India (SOI) will be providing digital maps to SatNav Technologies for coming up with more user-friendly maps for commercial use.
 
About 404 cities and 16 lakh point of interest (POI) will be present in the new enhanced maps.
 
SOI has entered into a deal with SatNav to ...

The iconic mapping application ‘Bhuvan’,a version of Google Earth, has been unveiled by ISRO.This would enable a common man to look into any part of the world through their personal computers using satellite images.
 
The new mapping application will allow users to have ...

A new website will be introduced by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA to provide information on near-Earth objects such as asteroids and comets that can approach earth.
 
The visitors to this "Asteroid Watch" site can also sign up for the new asteroid widget and Twitter account ...

Now the users of the social networking site can have their email ids on MySpace itself. MySpace has launched its own email service, MySpace Mail.
 
MySpace Mail has already rolled out the beta version which would be available to all globe users of MySpace "within the next couple of ...

Emails or Facebook posts or pictures can resurface months after they are deleted - in the wrong hands or at the wrong time, according to researchers.
 
"If you care about privacy, the internet today is a very scary place," said University of Washington (UW) computer scientist ...

Google Street View, the Internet road mapping service from Google will now cover areas like Stonehenge, which are far away from driving routes.
 
Rickshaw-style tricycles, which carry the 3-D cameras, will be used to film several popular off-road spots, including Loch Ness and the Angel of ...

Google has added a new feature in its location search. A location search in Google will now have the map information along with photos of popular attraction sites in that location.
 
Lingyun Liu, Software Engineer at Google, wrote “Using our Universal Search technology, we have ...

The next time you surf the internet, you may bump into a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. A US security expert has proposed the honour for micro-blogging site Twitter, which helped protesters in Iran beat censorship and tell their tale to the world.
The free social-messaging utility uniquely ...

A built-in video player used by the popular browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer, is vulnerable to hacking, claims Microsoft. The problem is accentuated in computers running on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

“An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability ...

Mozilla Foundation clocked 5 million downloads of its new browser in the first 24 hours after it released. A lot of bugs have been spotted and will be rectified in an upcoming patch.

Mozilla’s security patch is expected to release in three weeks and will kill at least three bugs and ...

After announcing new privacy settings for the social-network Facebook, the company is also slated to release a new and improved Facebook application for the iPhone.

Facebook has a lot going on this summer: it just became the most popular social-network in the US, beating MySpace for the first ...

The security researchers on Thursday warned the Internet users about the increasing levels of viruses and spam using Jackson's name to noose unsuspecting users.


The e-mail which carries the subject line "Remembering Michael Jackson" has been circulating with a worm in tow. The e-mail ...

Social networking site Facebook is testing new privacy settings to replace existing ones that are currently required for different applications and content.

Users will be given a transition tool to help them move their settings across to a new page after which the old one will be ...

China has retreated from its Wednesday deadline for computer makers to pre-install controversial internet filtering software Green Dam Youth Escort, following objections. There have been objections from inside and outside the country.

The delay in installing the Green Dam Youth Escort software ...

The new version of the Internet browser Firefox was released Tuesday which offers its users more speed and privacy and greater compliance with new Internet video standards.


The release of Firefox 3.5 came as the open source browser is proving an increasingly formidable challenger to ...

Swedish founders of popular torrents-download site ThePirateBay sold their brainchild for 60 million Swedish Kroner or Pounds 4.7 million.

For long the four founders, Peter Sunde, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstorm, have come under heat from everyone to lawyers to record ...

Mozilla recently announced the release of its latest update for Firefox 3.5 is now available. A previous article on the slated release is also available in this section.

The RC in Mozilla Firefox 3.5 stands for Release Candidate and is now officially available for download with many bugs on the ...

Many new start-ups today are refining the art of search-engine technology by making them more intelligent and responsive to specific keyword searches. While the world is still hung on to present search-engines such as Google or Yahoo WebSearch, trends in market are changing to tweak search-engines ...

Entrepreneur Vince Broady claims to have created the next revolution in social-networking called moment which may also be described as a new type of electronic-scrapbook that combines pictures, text and everything digital to create a ‘moment’.

A Moment is a collaborative effort where ...

Telecom operator Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) announced the launch of mobile broadband service in New Delhi on Monday. The mobile broadband service would offer a plug-and-play device for individuals and small office/home office users. The enterprise customers would be offered a router.
Home users ...

 
The popularity of a Facebook application mostly depends on whether you are male or female, and if it meets the criteria of being "cool", says a latest study.
The research was conducted by Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett and Dr. Larry Neale from the Queensland University of ...

The search engine giant, Google has brought several improvements in its Book Search product. The refurbished Google Book Search allows the users to immediately see where their search term appears in a given book, see thumbnails of all the pages in a book or magazine. It also offers embedded links ...

Leading search engine, Google on Friday (June 19) announced to take steps to restrict pornography reaching Internet users in China. According to statement from Google, the company is constantly putting its efforts to deal with the pornographic content on Chinese websites. The recent decision from ...

The former engineer of Microsoft's search unit, Ken Moss has developed a new search engine called CrowdEye which will allow the users to track discussion on Twitter. The new Twitter search engine has been developed by Ken Moss and his wife Becca Moss. The beta version of the new search engine is ...

YouTube has brought new features in its video sharing service which will allow its users to share their videos on Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader. The new AutoShare options in YouTube automatically send updates of user's new video to his/her friends in Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader. Just ...

Software giant, Microsoft Corp plans to sell its operating system Windows without internet explorer in Europe. This comes just before the European Commission is about to rule on antitrust charges against Microsoft. Microsoft has been accused of bundling the Internet Explorer (IE) and thus ...

World's leading social networking site, Facebook will offer personalized URLs to its users from June 13 onwards. The new move will allow the members to register their own user names to make it easier for others to find their pages. With the help of the personalized, people will get a unique address ...

NASA on Sunday (June 7) announced the launch of US human space flight review web site for public use. The web site has been launched for a two-way conversation with the public about the future direction of NASA's space flight programs. It will review the workings of US Human Space Flight Plans ...