E.U. Regulator Tells Google To Pause Privacy Changes In a letter to Google's chief executive Larry Page, Europe's 'Data Protection Working Party' wrote that "we call for a pause in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google's commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens, until we have completed our analysis".
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SEC Filing: VeriSign Security Repeatedly Breached The VeriSign attacks were revealed in a quarterly U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing in October that followed new guidelines on reporting security breaches to investors.In written Senate testimony on Tuesday, U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called the known certificate breaches of 2011 "a threat to one of the most fundamental technologies used to secure online communications and sensitive transactions, such as online banking." Others have said SSL as a whole is no longer trustworthy and effective.
French Court Fines Google Maps Over Unfair Competition The French company provides the same services for a fee and claimed the Google strategy was aimed at undercutting competitors by temporarily swallowing the full cost until it gains control of the market.
Ping – Domains By Proxy article http://blog.corewebsolutions.com/domains-2/domains-by-proxy-privacy-registration-faq Great read.
Why Paid Links are No Good Many website owners, webmasters and SEO’s believe that paying for links should not be forbidden. They often say, “It’s just advertising”. Google on the other hand says its artificial manipulation of their search results so they forbid it if you want to play nice with them. In this article I will try to explain how [...]
Twitter Suggests New Users to Follow A week or so ago I noticed that when you follow a new member of Twitter the site will then suggest “since you followed so and so, you may want to follow …” and suggests 3 possible users. Sometimes they seem related to your interests sometimes not.
A Fix for the Outlook 2010 Search problem I wrote this on the other blog. Check it out http://blog.corewebsolutions.com/general/outlook-2010-search-add-in-mssphtb-dll-disabled-solution
How to Make RSS Widget Links NoFollow in WordPress 3.0 Adding an RSS feed your sidebar from a respected site that updates articles frequently is a good way to add dynamic content and keep your WordPress blog fresh even when you don’t have the time to add new content. You see on the right sidebar of this site there is a section called “Web News” [...]
Interview: Does Facebook’s IPO Make Good Business Sense? Companies file for IPOs all the time, but the recent filing by social networking giant Facebook has seemed to connect with nearly everyone, and in a big way. On Wednesday, Facebook filed for its IPO in hopes to raise $5 billion or more, which would make it the largest initial public offering from an Internet or technology company.
Bing Hints At Better Utilization of Facebook, Twitter In Near Future It’s well known within the Internet industry that Bing has special access to Facebook and Twitter that Google doesn’t. They pay for such access. Google thinks it can do better by putting Google+ content all over its results with Search …
Android, iOS App Celebrates 75 Years Of Dr. Seuss Seventy-five years ago a cartoonist and poet by the name of Theodore Seuss Geisel decided to try his hand at writing children’s literature. The first result was a wonderful little book about a boy letting his imagination wander as he …
$500 Million Spanish Treasure Recovered The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia denied another motion from the Odyssey Marine Exploration Company to keep over $500 million in recovered treasure. The treasure was recovered by Odyssey in 2007 from a sunken ship off …
Snake, Classic Phone Game, Turns 15 Do you remember Snake, the oddly addicting cellphone game introduced on Nokia phones? The game turned 15-years-old today. Nokia Connects has a list of 10 Snake facts to celebrate the event. Snake first appeared on a Nokia device in 1997 …
Where Is The Universe? Have you ever asked yourself “Where am I?” “What am I?” “Who am I?”; Have you ever just stopped to ask “where is the universe?” Let us deviate from conventional thinking; as children we are taught that the universe is …
Super Bowl Pizza Deals Come To Foursquare With Super Swarm Sunday If you’re an American Express user and a pizza lover, Foursquare has a deal for you. It’s safe to assume that plenty of people will order pizza during the Super Bowl. It’s also pretty safe to assume that a high …
Study: Amazon Gains Momentum, Kindle Fire Less Satisfying Than iPad A new study has been published that shows Amazon as king of the hill among online retailers. The study, conducted by ChangeWave Research, looked at the planned online shopping activities of over 2,600 North American shoppers. According to the survey …
Google Panda Update Addressed In New Google Announcement Google today listed changes it made to its algorithm in January. As previously discussed, the biggest takeaway from that (at least in my opinion) was an increased focus on freshness through not only updates to the “Freshness Update,” but also …
Game Day With Google Gets You Ready For the Super Bowl It’s Super Bowl Sunday, you’ve got a big party brewing, but you’re unsure of how to prepare. If this describes your last second scrambling, all in an effort to throw a passable Super Bowl party, Google has you covered. Game …