San Francisco (ip-192.com): Twitter takes aim at phishing websites and other malicious attacks against users, the popular micro-blogging service said in a blog post. "By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link [...]
Oslo (ip-192.com): The Internet has a new speed-champion: Opera. The newest version 10.5, which was just released as a beta, leapfrogged every rival to become the world's fastest browser, benchmark tests show. Speed tests show that Opera is almost 20 percent faster that Google’s Chrome and more than twice as Firefox 3.6. Opera 10.5 features [...]
Redmond (ip-192.com): A hard-to-detect rootkit may be causing Windows XP systems to crash after applying patch MS10-015, according to Microsoft. As reported by ip-192.com (our stories are here and here), Windows users began flooding Windows support forums almost immediately after installing Microsoft's February security update, saying that their computers had been rendered unusable with a [...]
San Francisco (ip-192.com): Well - we may have come a bit closer to answer the $1 billion questions! How much is Twitter really worth? Twitter is currently in advanced talks to Microsoft and Google to license its data feed to the companies search engines, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Both companies seem to [...]
Cupertino (ip-192.com): Apple and Google continue to drift away. News that Apple quietly acquired Placebase, a company that develops APIs used for mapping, is the latest sign of an increasing rift. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple's acquisition actually took place this past July, and a founder of a partner company that was using [...]
Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Well, your e-mail account could be a thing of past – at least according to Google. The search giant is inviting 100,000 testers to preview its new communications platform called Wave. Google describes Wave as an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. The program allows people to review and discuss documents [...]
