Thursday, February 9th, 2012 4:09 am

Facebook: Traffic up 60 percent

Cambridge (ip-192.com): Facebook is asking its 500 million plus users to set the social networking site as their browser homepage.  Some accounts already display a button "Make Facebook Home." The site generates nearly 1 in 4 page views in the US, according to Experian Hitwise, a global online competitive intelligence service. That’s a 60 percent [...]

New Messenger: Focus on social networks

Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft just released some details on the newest version of Windows Live Messenger, an instant messaging client designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Mobile. Tighter integration with social networks and better video quality are the main improvements of the new version that will be available as a [...]

Botnet down, experts skeptical

Redmond (ip-192.com): Security experts give Microsoft mixed reviews after the company did shut down the Waledac botnet (ip-192.com reported here). "Microsoft has taken a bold move in addressing this problem and it will be interesting to see how it develops," said Sandra Toms LaPedis, general manager of the RSA Conference, the world's biggest gathering of [...]

Thousands of Hotmail Passwords Leaked

Redmond (ip-192.com): Hackers have exposed more than 10,000 usernames and passwords for Windows Live Hotmail accounts last week, according to a report by Neowin.net. The blogging site reports that an anonymous user posted details of the accounts on October 1 at pastebin.com, a site commonly used by developers to share code snippets. The site claims [...]