If you are a bit paranoid about your browsing security, you might want to try Google’s new feature: the safe browsing. Safe browsing allows Google to screen first the website before the page downloads, thus minimizing brute website attacks and other hacking and malware troubles. All you have to do is to put “http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=” on the address bar and affix the intended website you wish to visit after equal sign. This is in fact a bit of a hassle since you need to do this every time you are to visit a website. If you don’t want to undergo this process, you might want to shift to Yahoo!. They have partnered with McAfee to provide internet browsers secure browsing.

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NY Times, one of the most prominent and well respected broadsheets in the United States, unveiled their latest feature: the Times Machine. It is beneficial for those who wish to track back to the previous news articles published by New York Times as it acts like a time machine—letting you read articles as early as the 1850’s. The print version is available only for those who have home subscriptions, however, those who are not subscribed can view a glimpse of some of the broadsheets published before, complete with their original appearance. For those who want to relive the times, better subscribe now and reminisce the past.

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Mozilla is now becoming a firm favorite of some of the internet browsing populace since you can do a lot of things with their Firefox browser. You can install add-ons, skins and other stuff to personalize it with just a click of a button. Mozilla promises to release their Firefox 3 within the following weeks—however, another Firefox baby is coming on its way: Firefox 3.1. Mozilla promises to release their 3.1 browser six weeks after they have released their Firefox 3. It promises to have a more stable browser and is said to use much lower memory compared to their 2.0 release.

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With the different economic crises happening all over the world, epitomized by the recent recession in the United States, who would ever thought that the market for company servers won’t get affected? It’s true that companies did a little cost cutting on the side, but they never dared to cut of their server costs—in fact, server sales grew in the first quarter! Companies saw the need of technological integration to further their business success, thus, investing more on web content and other web-based mobile devices. HP was the leader in server sales, making $4.01 billion (10.3% increase compared to last year).

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Since free web-based emails put some of my important emails in my bulk/spam folder, I regularly and faithfully check it to see if I have urgent mails redirected there (to think I receive hundreds in just 30 minutes).

I see all the time emails from “Google Business”, so, thinking that this might be something important, I opened the mail. However, upon hollering my cursor over the link, I saw in my status bar that the URL is way too far from “www.google.com”. In fact, it was from a social networking website called “Perfspot”. Yes, the hackers have done it again. They used Google to retain the “legitimacy” of their email and redirect the link to their desired website (that sometimes automatically installs malware and Trojans).

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“In only three years, 20 average households in the US will generate more online traffic than the entire Internet today.”

This was a quote from an AT&T spokesperson about the future of the internet. Due to increasing bandwidth speeds, internet users enjoy video streaming and quick transfer of huge files. However, AT&T claims that the internet’s structure will reach full capacity by 2010 unless large investments are made for its expansion. They project that the cost of this expansion will be 55 billion USD for the US network and 130 billion USD worldwide.

This seems like a huge exaggeration, but there is no doubt that there will come a point in the future when network expansion has to be done if current trends continue. Right now, most analysts concur that this will occur sometime between 2016 and 2018.