Thursday, November 26, 2009

Italian prosecutors seek jail for Google execs

Italian prosecutors sought six-month to a year sentences for four Google executives Wednesday over an Internet video showing the bullying of a teenager with Down's Syndrome, the company said.

4 Sure Ways To Increase Blog Traffic


Are you constantly blogging but the numbers you see in your traffic logs are embarrassingly low? It can be maddening to check your stats and realize that no one is actually stopping by. Don't give up yet, because there are four great ways you can get traffic
fast.

Important Plugins You must Use for Blogging





Plugins for the Wordpress platform are tons of fun and incredibly useful. You'll find everything you need to turn your blog into something amazing that is every bit as great as you would have imagined. While there are many plugins out there that are worth your while, the five that follow are the cream of the crop.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Astronaut's wait over as daughter born back home

By MARCIA DUNN, AP Aerospace Writer - Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:19AM EST


CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -
Astronaut Randolph Bresnik is a new dad again, after launching into space and taking a spacewalk, all the for first time.
He announced the birth of his daughter, Abigail, on Sunday morning on NASA's airwaves.

New Attack Fells Internet Explorer

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service - Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:30AM EST

A hacker has posted attack code that could be used to break into a PC running older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
The code was posted Friday to the Bugtraq mailing list by an unidentified hacker. According to security vendor Symantec, the code does not always work properly, but it could be used to install unauthorized software on a victim's computer.

How To Get Your Pages Indexed By Google


Provided that you respect some basic SEO guidelines, 100% of your posts should be indexed by Google. The basic SEO guidelines are:

1. All your posts must have unique and quality content. By unique I mean that the content of your posts should be found only on a single place (i.e., avoid duplicate content both inside and outside your domain). By quality I mean that the content should be useful to potential visitors. If you repeat the letter “z” one thousand times you would end up with unique content, but it would have zero quality so Google would probably not index that.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Teen Drivers prone to Accident due to Texting while driving


One-fourth of US teenagers aged 16 and 17 have sent text messages while driving and over 40 percent have had a cellphone conversation while behind the wheel, according to a study published on Monday.

One-fourth of teen drivers text behind the wheel.

Oldest US newspaper for gays and lesbians shutting down


Washington Blade, the oldest newspaper in the United States for gays and lesbians, said Monday it was shutting down.

Washington Blade, the oldest newspaper in the United States for gays and lesbians, said Monday it was shutting down.

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Link From Blog - Advertise on Blogs



Today I have stumbled upon a relatively new site, based on what I have learned about this company so far, it  is a marketplace where Advertisers buy blog reviews from niche blogs, Bloggers combine blogging hobby with ethic way of earnings.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Top 10 Web Design Mistakes you Need to Avoid in Blogging


There are several lists of web design mistakes around the Internet. Most of them, however, are the “Most common” or “Top 10” mistakes. Every time I crossed one of those lists I would think to myself: “Come on, there must be more than 10 mistakes…”. Then I decided to write down all the web design mistakes that would come into my head; within half an hour I had over thirty of them listed. Afterwards I did some research around the web and the list grew to 43 points.

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Data Transfer Made Easy

Move Files Between Computers without Hassle


Moving massive amounts of data from one computer to another can be a tedious and slow process if you first have to back it up to an external hard drive or other storage media. But not if you use Hawking Technologies' Easy-Link Data Sharing Hub.

Colbie Caillat: Pop Star, Geek Girl

Posted by Doug Newcomb on Friday, October 9, 2009 7:07 AM


With hit songs like "Bubbly" and "Realize" from her double-platinum 2007 debut album Coco, Colbie Caillat quickly became one of pop music's biggest stars and most promising talents. And she proved she has staying power with her sophomore album, Breakthrough, which has spawned the Top 20 single "Falling for You."

Friday, November 6, 2009

Building a Highly-targeted Opt in List



Are you prosperous with your Internet business? Cured even now, do you consider you are renowned with your online business? When most online entrepreneurs are asked with these questions, they usually scrub it off. This is because most of them, who organize not later take in the honest way to succeed in Internet Marketing, continue to assume trust to that the scant fact that they entertain a website is already sufficient to attain on the Internet.

Facebook: We're going after scammy ads, too


The industry P.R. frenzy over scams in ads and offers on social networks goes on: Facebook announced on Thursday evening in a post on its developer blog that since it updated its developer platform terms of service this summer, it has disabled two ad networks that it says were running deceptive advertisements.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Facebook password scam circulates online


The Tech Herald covers a new Facebook scam that was recently distributed through spam email. The spam email asks appear to come from the Facebook Support Group and ask the user to download an attachment to change their password. In reality, the attachment is malware and makes the victim's computer part of the Bredolab botnet.

Sony Ericsson details its first Android phone


Sony Ericsson has released details and a video of its upcoming Xperia X10 smartphone based on Google's Android operating system.
The X10, which had been code-named Rachel, has a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, which should make this one of the fastest Android phones yet. The phone will sport version 1.6 of Android--aka Donut--and it will run applications from the Android Market and Sony Ericsson's PlayNow arena. The device will also feature an 8-megapixel camera, with autofocus and an LED photo light.

AT&T vs. Verizon: There's a lawyer for that


 
It was bound to happen. AT&T is suing Verizon Wireless over its "There's a Map for That" advertising campaign.
When I first saw the advertisements on TV, I thought for sure that AT&T or Apple would file a lawsuit claiming the advertisement was too similar to the iPhone's "There's an App for That" slogan.
I was right about one thing. AT&T is suing Verizon. But I was wrong about the reason behind the suit.

Microsoft gives the MSN butterfly a makeover

Aiming to stay relevant, Microsoft on Monday is introducing a new look for its MSN.com home page.
Although MSN gets far less attention than the company's Bing or Windows Live efforts, the home page remains an important economic engine for Microsoft's online business, as well as a significant source of search traffic for Bing.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

New Transparent Navbar Styles for Blogger


Blogger has added a new style for webmasters, it's the new transparent Navbar for blogs, just a few months ago in which they have placed the share button for blogger, this allows bloggers to share interesting post to millions of people in the internet.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Nintendo Says 'Wii Has Stalled', Press Piles On




Poor Nintendo, the Wii can't catch a break. It's been the number one selling console for years, but you wouldn't know it from the dearth of news sites that bother to cover the thing seriously. The system's consistently beat the odds time and again--well, the analyst cobbled together ones, anyway--and gone on to outflank all the pundits,including yours truly.