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Web giants promote new IPv6 internet address system
June 08, 2011The biggest ever test of the internet's new address system is taking place. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Bing and Facebook are among the companies switching-on IPv6 versions of their websites for the one day trial. The technology is gradually being introduced...
Sites hit in massive web attack
April 04, 2011Hundreds of thousands of websites appear to have been compromised by a massive cyber attack. The hi-tech criminals used a well-known attack vector that exploits security loopholes on other sites to insert a link to their website. Those visiting the...
Web images to get expiration date
January 21, 2011Help is at hand for anyone who has ever forgotten about embarrassing images they posted to a social network or website. German researchers have created software called X-Pire that gives images an expiration date by tagging them with an encrypted key...
Gawker hack triggers password resets at major sites
December 16, 2010Millions of web users are being asked to reset their passwords as concerns spread over a major hacking attack. Yahoo, Twitter and LinkedIn have asked users to change their details, days after gossip site Gawker was hacked. Online game World of Warcraft...
Yahoo may topple Google to become the king of the Web
October 26, 2007Google has been knocking the cover off the ball for the last three years – showing increasing revenues, profit margins and market share gains, quarter over quarter. The company can't be stopped ... or can it? The company that really started...
Canadian taxman seeks eBay names
September 28, 2007The Canada Revenue Agency said it wants eBay Canada to identify all high-volume Canadian sellers on the Web site. The CRA said it wants to know whether the affected individuals and companies reported online sales income in 2004 and 2005 for tax purposes...
Backing of new MTV site draws criticism
September 28, 2007MTV is testing a social networking Web site called ThinkMTV.com to encourage activism among young people but its backing is upsetting some non-profit sites. ThinkMTV has the financial support of four foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates...
Simon Wiesenthal Center uses Web site to inform Muslims about Judaism
September 11, 2007A Web site, launched by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, will inform Muslims about Judaism through a forum that allows visitors to post live questions in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Bahasa and English. The Web site, www.AskMusa.org, which means Ask Moses in Arabic...
Social-networking Web site helps US intelligence
September 06, 2007A social-networking Web site yields to James Bond's high-tech gadgets. But the U.S. intelligence community is taking a page from popular online hangouts like Facebook and News Corp.'s MySpace to help encourage operatives to share information. In December...
- July 21, 2007
The way that rates the Web sites has suffered a changed, when Nielsen/NetRatings announced the new service that will measure popularity by how long users linger on sites. This could be a hard thing for the online advertising sites, because they count...