“The Dark Knight” continues to obliterate box office records, crossing the $300 million Christian Bale and Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight” mark in just 10 days.The epic Batman saga grossed $75.6 million in its second weekend in theaters, pushing its domestic total to $314,245,000, Warner Bros. head of distribution Dan Fellman said Sunday.That surpasses the record set in 2006 by “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” which took 16 days to make $300 million.
The latest Batman installment already had …

Rumors of a Digg acquisition by Google have been on and off for some time now. But according to TechCrunch, the two have signed a letter of intent and are finally nearing a deal whereby the search giant would pay a sum in the range of $200 million to bring the popular news aggregation site under the Google News property.

Interestingly, a large piece of Digg’s cash flow comes from a three year ad deal with Microsoft – a deal which would presumably end or be threatened if Google acquired the …

Following eight months of testing, Google’s Wikipedia competitor, Knol, was finally opened to the public today. The concept is quite similar to that used by Wikipedia, whereby users can share knowledge in a wiki format, but with a twist that emphasizes authorship and control over an article’s content.

Each article – otherwise known as knol – is created by an author or team of authors who receive attribution and are allowed to insert AdSense ads on their pages to receive a share of the revenue. Any reader may suggest changes …

The battle of the browsers always comes down to Mozilla’s open-source Firefox and Micrsoft’s tight-lidded Internet Explorer, and no matter how hard Opera, Flock, Safara, and the rest of the alternate browser try to join the fight, there just doesn’t appear to be room for a third contender. Or is there?
Fenrir, a Japanse software company, apparently never got the memo and thinks it has a chance at snagging 5 percent of the browser market within the next few years. And while most of us would automatically shrug at such an …

Instant messaging is a great way to stay in touch, but anybody who uses it extensively knows the pain of having friends spread out over different services. Ever install a bulky and bloated IM client for just one friend? Or wished you could instant message all your groupies without running 5 different chat clients in the system tray? Well IM providers and a handful of crafty open source programmers have listened to our cries. Free browser-based alternatives exist for all the major platforms, and all in one desktop clients are finally able to bring the competing services together.

If you installed Firefox 3 since its release, you may have noticed that Mozilla issued an update for the browser today. The update wasn’t major, fixing a small list of security flaws and bugs discovered since release.
Some of the fixes include problems with Firefox 2 sitting side by side with Firefox 3, security certification warnings, a crash bug on Mac OS X and a potentially more serious flaw in CSS. You can read more in the release notes. Don’t forget to update. After all, frequent updating is what earned …

A Boston attorney, called Hal Levitte, has sued Google over ads that cost him $136.11 but allegedly didn’t yield any useful results. According to him, Google is defrauding its advertising customers by charging them for clicks from “parked” websites that the search giant knows are worthless.

The complaint states that parked domain and error page ads accounted for approximately 16.2% of all clicks on the plaintiff’s ads during his campaign, but did not result in any conversions – he doesn’t mention however how ads converted on other pages. Levitte alleges …

In a world so plagued by identity theft and security concerns, knowing that security holes are being patched in places where you store sensitive data is important. Thus it is no surprise that Facebook wanted to announce that they had patched a security flaw which could have exposed users birthdates. Sophos originally made the flaw public, and Facebook admitted that the flaw was present in a new design they had rolled out this week.

A birth date may not be as crucial as a credit card number, but is a …

Another high-profile security concern in the news today, Google has been caught with its pants down regarding people who have registered accounts with them. Due to a bug (or perhaps “feature”?) inside Gmail, it is possible to retrieve someone’s name that is attached to their Gmail account, whether or not you are befriended to them or sharing any content with them on the Google network. So, if your account name is something random or an alias of any sort, someone could still use a simple exploit to see what …

Hai guys WordPress 2.6 has been released today.It contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.Download WordPress 2.6 from its official site wordpress.org.If you are not sure of what you need to do to upgrade  your wordpress then simply download and install WordPress Automatic Upgrade 1.2.Its very cool and a step …