If there’s one silver lining to the cloud cast over Mac users by the recent revelation that the Flashfake Trojan has infected over 500,000 Macs worldwide, it’s surely the end to the myth that Macs are invulnerable to viruses and other malware. Seasoned Mac users will have never claimed anything different, but now there’s no [...]

Facebook, the biggest social- networking service, is buying the Instagram mobile photo-sharing application for about $1 billion in cash and stock, using its biggest acquisition yet to attract users of mobile devices. The transaction is expected to close later this quarter, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook said today in a statement on its site. Facebook Chief [...]

With a stylistic nod to the Zelda games of old, iconoclastic role-playing game  Mother 3, or 2010′s exciting Realm of the Mad God, it’s made for Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, and the Opera web client using new WebSocket technology. The four browsers together account for between 45% and 60% of all online surfing, [...]

Windows 8 Beta, Windows Server 8 Beta and Visual Studio 11 Beta are now available to academic users via Microsoft’s DreamSpark Program. Students, faculty and staff world-wide can easily download these great products at no cost from their institution’s DreamSpark WebStore. Learn more on how each product brings great new enhancements to provide a better [...]

The highly popular Firefox browser has reached its next milestone, version 11. Now, the browser isn’t going to be officially out till Mozilla says it is, but going by the history, Mozilla dumps the final release on the FTP a day or two before the official release date. The latest version 11 binaries are now [...]

Microsoft has today announced the release of its Windows 8 Consumer Preview, and made it available to download for anyone interested. While it’s not tagged as a beta, the Consumer Preview is still a prerelease edition, unfinished and incomplete, so you need to be very careful where you install it. It’s also much closer to the [...]

Google’s Chrome development team is working on a system to automatically generate passwords, which would help users secure their online identities with passwords that would be diversified across different sites, and are randomized and thus harder to guess. Detailed in developer documentation on the Chromium Project site, the system would detect account sign-up pages and [...]

The Google sniper was launched a couple of years ago and now it has become an extremely powerful internet marketing tool all over the world. Its sales volume has really broken the records and its release has shaken the whole world with a big bang. The very easy to operate start to finish system to [...]

Carbonite is a fairly well known name in the globe of online backup. It makes use of a desktop interface that’s user-friendly and simple to set up and that makes backing up incredibly handy for end-users. Carbonite divides its plans into home and business choices. For the business user, the plan features 250 gigabytes of [...]

Many companies might question why there is even a need for address verification software if the client already gave the address the first time. Unfortunately, we are now living in a mobile society where people move constantly. In many specific demographics like renters and students, they can move around a great deal. The address which [...]