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Showing posts with label news. Show all posts

South Korean Database Hacked

According to the top US military officials in South Korea, a recent hack may have compromised the personal details of thousands of South Korean citizens employed by the US command. The commander of US forces in South Korea brought his apologies a few days ago for the “possible theft”...

eBay Claimed Paid Search Ads Don’t Work

The research, carried out by eBay in cooperation with Berkeley and Chicago universities, found out that adverts in search engines have no measurable benefits. eBay provided the researchers with the ability to experiment with how and when it purchased search adverts. The results...

Browsing the Web Is Not a Crime

The European Court of Justice has handed down the ruling saying that users who just visit a website can’t be sued for copyright violation. A landmark ruling says that browsing and viewing articles in the web is legitimate and does not require permission from the copyright owners. The...

Goggle’s Chrome Became the Most Popular Web Browser

It is official now: search engine’s web browser has officially overtaken Internet Explorer as the most popular web browser in the world and even in the US. The reports reveal that Google’s Chrome has 31.8% of the combined desktop and mobile online market – in other words, Google’s...

Hackers Continue to Receive Support for Windows XP

The software giant that withdrew support of Windows XP last month has recently warned against using a hack that allows the outdated OS to continue to receive security updates. The hack makes update servers apply security patches to Windows XP – a tiny modification within the OS...

Skype Voice Translator to Be Released Soon

Microsoft just unveiled a new service for Skype that can understand voice and translate the words into another language, speaking them back almost in real time. The new service dubbed Skype Translator is expected to be released for Windows 8 before the end of 2014, following 15...

Facebook Will Allow Children to Join the Network

The company is trying to figure out the way to allow children under 13 years old join the social network. It turned out that Facebook has designs for a system that allows children under 13 to be supervised by parents, as the US legislation prohibits children under 13 from using...