Apple search engineers to redesign the Apple Online Store

Apple search engineers to redesign the Apple Online Store...

Although we have had a recent facelift on the official website of Apple, it is possible that in a while we see another redesign important: the company is seeking software engineers senior specialized software to create "the Apple Store Online for new generation" according to a job offer that has been published officially.

Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com

Hacker attack on Blogger platform wordpress.com ...

The blogger platform wordpress.com has been target of a massive hacker attack, which had possibly political motives. The DDoS attack (distributed denial of service) resulted in significant damage on Thursday (local time).

Flickr app for mobile devices equipped with Windows 7, officially launched

Flickr app for mobile devices equipped with Windows 7, officially launched...

We had our friend Yira Albornoz in early January that Flickr was preparing an application for phones equipped with Windows Phone 7 and tablets running Windows 7. Well, the launch is now official, Flickr just announced on his blog.

500,000 Gmail accounts have been "reset" by accident (updated: are 150,000 accounts)

500,000 Gmail accounts have been "reset" by accident (Updated: are 150,000 accounts)...

Imagine one day and try to get a Gmail account you come across a completely empty with no email, chat, attachment, etc. It is certainly a scary situation, especially for those who are set to run in circles with just a few hours to drop the Gmail service.

gNotifier, notifications for Gmail between Sparrow and Google Notifier

gNotifier, notifications for Gmail between Sparrow and Google Notifier...

gNotifier is an application that focuses on giving us a quick and easy access to our email accounts, also facilitating the delivery of notifications and customize with a high level of detail this aspect.

Beta 5 Firefox 4 of Mobile for Android and Maemo available

The Mozilla development team has released a new Firefox 4 Beta for Android, Maemo, which are available now for download. This review is focused on improving stability and application performance.

Federal government presents Cyber-Security Strategy

A Cyber-Security Strategy on the protection of citizens, businesses and government from attacks from the Internet has now decided the federal cabinet. With the proposed protection measures to ensure that the Web does not fail. For the "availability of cyber-space and the integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of data is available have become an existential question of the 21st century," says the release. Should be coordinated efforts for the safety of a new cyber-defense center, which is the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) belong. The security strategy is a PDF file under www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Themen/OED_Verwaltung/Informationsgesellschaft/cyber.pdf?__blob=publicationFile available free of charge.

Stronger drugs purchase on the Internet

Over the Internet is now even more user drugs. Three out of five people in the past year at least once ordered online medicines. The proportion of those who order more drugs on the Internet is, according to a Nielsen survey, even at a quarter. The shopping on the Web has several advantages: A positive assessment 89 percent of respondents convenient way of ordering, the low prices appreciated 67 percent. About the reliable and fast delivery happy 71 percent of survey participants.

E-mail subject lines to vote on the issue

The subject lines of e-mails should convey to the recipient, ideally at a glance what to expect when reading. It facilitates the communication if the author is aware of this and writing a little trouble there.

Love makes the Web often blind

Proverbial blind love is often on the Internet. Because on news of alleged secret admirers, many users fall occasion of Valentine's Day (February 14) start. Behind the messages often put online criminals and spammers who want to entice unsuspecting users into divulging personal user data.

International Day for the Internet Segura

Today is International Day for the Internet Segura. The onomastic usually accompanied by reflections, publications and anniversaries are remembered. A good excuse to revisit issues that are always there but with the constant evolution of events are parked and sometimes forget.

Internet: A quarter of the traffic violates copyright

Pirated products are traded on the Internet through special pages in a big way - in such a large scale that a quarter of all traffic on the Internet violates copyright. This is the result of a recent study by the company Envisional on behalf of NBC Universal. Been analyzed, the data traffic that is caused for example by sharing and similar websites.

   In so-called Bittorent networks are each about 35 percent of the popular copyrighted content from movies and porn. Television content such series make a share of around 14 percent and the PC or console games a little less than seven percent. With about four per cent following software that is still ahead of music (about three percent)

TAN award for online banking is safer - and more expensive

Many people in Germany to conduct their banking transactions via the Internet, online banking is perceived as comfortable. The customer takes on a large part of the process into their own hands, so save the banks costs. So that the various orders can be done, are so-called transaction numbers, short TAN needed.....more

Disposable addresses in e-mail service Hotmail

At a special protection against spam, users of the e-mail service Hotmail to draw from now: In addition to the actual address can create up to five additional email addresses.....more

Finally, MySpace is for sale

Purchased at a high price but rapid loss of speed, the pioneer of social networks is to sell to the highest bidder. NewsCorp looking for solutions....more

From old postal codes for the web

After 30 years, is closing: the available IP addresses for each device on the Internet are used up, the central procurement agency has no more reference to the previous standard for IPv4....more

Internet: many article authors are often well

An online article written by many authors can be just as good as a text that has produced only a writer. This has now been an experiment in the United States. Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have asked to volunteer to write about aspects of a complex issue short texts. The individual writers have not been able to deny each other, they worked independently of each other....more

Internet standard IPv4 will soon become obsolete

The Internet is running out of addresses.As the association of German Internet Economy (eco) on Thursday announced in Cologne, has for the assignment of IP addresses responsible Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) on the same day, the last IP address blocks to the old standard IPv4 to the Regional Internet Registries distributed.....more

Online chain letters: Real cries for help or not?

Circulating on the internet several alleged assistance calls that are forwarded by e-mail.It is invoked to route the messages to as many friends, for example, an organ donor for an allegedly found child suffering from leukemia. Many users are wondering whether these calls are actually real.....more

Latest IPv4 addresses are exhausted, IPv6 is the solution

What we predicted a few months ago in Engadget , IPv4 addresses were being finalized. With the assignment of the last five blocks IANA has allocated over five regions of the world, the well is exhausted and this marks a milestone in Internet history....more