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Information on Twitter Threat

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Following on from last month’s phishing attacks on Twitter via the mass distribution of spam messages, Symantec Security Response has now detected a wave of fake Twitter invitations that come carrying a mass-mailing and malicious worm.
The observed messages appear as if they have been sent from a Twitter account; however, unlike a legitimate [...]

13-year Old Boy takes 1 Billionth Apple App Download

Monday, April 27th, 2009

In just 9 months, the Apple Store was able to reach 1 billion app downloads for iPhone and the iPod Touch. The App Store has more than 35,000 applications available to consumers in 77 countries.

Microsoft retires Encarta Encyclopedia

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Looks like Wikipedia has finally killed the encyclopedia. Microsoft has just announced that their are discontinuing the Encarta service. On October 31, 2009, MSN Encarta Web sites worldwide will be discontinued, with the exception of Encarta Japan, which will be discontinued on December 31, 2009. Additionally, Microsoft will cease to sell Microsoft Student and Encarta [...]

Windows 7 Beta ready for Download

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Microsoft made the beta version of Windows 7 available for download over the week-end. However, the deluge of people grabbing a copy overloaded the MS servers. Only 2.5 million activation keys were initially made available.
The download page are now back online and running normal. Here are the direct links to the downloadable ISO files.

Windows 7 [...]

Globe launches AppZone website

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Globe launched a new site that offers subscribers a collection of software downloads for their mobile phones or PCs called the AppZone. AppZone will be home to mobile and digital technologies that can help subscribers maximize their mobile experience with Globe.

iPhone OS 2.2 Released, Lets You Turn Off Auto Correction in Keyboard Settings

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

If you’re like me who got annoyed when I first tried texting using my iPhone when I first got it because of the pesky auto-correction which you can’t turn off, then you’ll be glad to update your iPhone’s firmware to 2.2. Just released yesterday, the iPhone OS 2.2 has just made it possible to turn [...]

R.I.P. Google Lively: July – December 2008

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Lively could make it to be the fastest project Google has killed in its lifetime.
First introduced last July of this year, Google announced today that it will kill the project by December 31, 2008 — just before the clock hits 2009.

A message on the Lively.com site reports the demise with and explanation posted on the [...]

Yahoo! Hacker Conference 2008

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

This is a bit late but we just got hold of a short video documentary of the 2008 Yahoo! Hacker Conference held at the Silicon Valley last September 12-13, 2008. Featured here is the Filipino representative to the Yahoo! Open Hack Day, Andrei Navarro, along with fellow developers from Singapore and Malaysia.

The event used to [...]

Take the Mozilla Survey for the Philippines

Saturday, October 11th, 2008

An email from a Mozilla exec is asking for online Filipinos to take this very short survey:
We’re doing a community survey online, both of current Firefox users as well as people who don’t use Firefox. It’s a pretty short survey, 11 questions. We haven’t been able to reach many Filipinos with this survey [...]

Google’s new Chrome browser ready for download

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google announced yesterday that it will releasing its own web browser soon. We didn’t expect it would be this soon. Google Chrome has just been released and ready for download.

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