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A warning for a recently discovered flaw in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 is being issued. The flaw is related to iframes, which most of us encounter in the form of ads of various sorts, and how IE6/IE7 handles access restriction on them. The attack requires at least some user intervention, but appears to be [...]

Up until now it’s been very challenging to search rich Internet applications on the web because content in Flash rarely gets picked up by search engine indexes (they can see the SWF file but not the content inside), rendering sites that are heavy on Flash nearly-invisible to casual visitors. This has long-been a major drawback [...]

One of the richest men in the world is getting a new job.Bill Gates today ends his tenure as a top leader at Microsoft, the software giant he co-founded, to devote himself full-time to his huge charitable foundation.
Instead of working to solve problems in the information technology business, he’ll now be working to solve the [...]

Falling in love is easy; telling someone you love them isn’t always as simple.You want to make the first time you say, “I love you” to be special and the millionth time to be just as memorable.So, how do you do it?
Saying “I love you” doesn’t have to be perfect, but the intention and the [...]

Cyber-bullying used to involve sending threatening texts or e-mails, but the class of 2008 are finding social networks to be a fertile, and occasionally dangerous breeding ground, as Ian Hardy found out.
It does not take much for a teenager’s cyber universe to spin out of control.
A fight at school, an online misunderstanding, and within [...]

Microsoft won’t be dropping support for Windows XP anytime soon, and has recently announced that they will actually commit to support the OS into 2014. That will be 13 years after XP was originally released, and while it seems like a long time it is actually only a three-year extension compared to their previous operating [...]

It wasn’t all that long ago that owning a PC was considered a luxury. Particularly during the early period of PC sales growth in the late 80s and early 90s, a PC was a relatively large and expensive piece of equipment that many could do without, and many still do today. The number of people [...]

In an effort to tackle recent advances into the smartphone world by Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, Nokia has announced its intention to buy the remaining 52 percent of Symbian shares that it does not already own and open the mobile operating system for royalty free use.

Though Symbian software has never been popular in the [...]

MySpace is now no longer number one when it comes to social networking dominance, with Facebook slipping by them to take a slim lead, globally, for the number of visitors last month. Facebook netted around 123.9 million unique visits across a total of 50.6 billion pages views, coming above MySpace at 114.6 million unique visits [...]

It turns out that while Google Android initially was expected to be available by the second half of 2008, phones based on the open source platform may not be around until the very tail-end of the year, with most carriers not expecting to have devices available until 2009.
Apparently T-Mobile is the only carrier expected to [...]