Google’s web browser, Chrome (short for Chromium) has just gotten a boost with the release of it’s ver 2.0 which is being met with enthusiasm by many users of the browser who says it is well worth the wait. Chrome also got some well needed add-ons which gave it a bit of a chance to catch up on Mozilla’s Firefox browser which had a lot of available downloadable add-ons making it better. Seems the two are in battle for Mozilla has also recently announced that it was launching JetPack which is an open-source add-on development platform. Chrome seems to be a tad faster than the first version of the browser from Google as it continues to improve on the technology as it aims to take part in the browser wars that is currently raging all over the internet.

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The software giant from Redmond has received approval for a software patent, in this case a program that has the ability to restrict the use of a particular computer loaded with any of their programs or denying access to specific hardware. The specifics of the program and it’s use are still quite muddled or unavailable which may be something we will be seeing soon in a desktop near you. The patent was approved by the US Patent Office filed May 19, 2009, for what purpose the software would serve is stirring quite a lot of conspiracy theories and is expected to be rolled out with the new operating system they may be rolling out next year.

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As the corporate world goes, the bigger a company, the bigger the chances that laws have been broken in the process of growth which places Google Inc. smack in the sights of lawmakers in the US and the world over. Google has become the biggest search engine company in the world with control of a majority of the world’s internet advertising revenue. They went under fire when talks between them and Yahoo were buzzing, eventually leading to a killing of any deals for they were under so much pressure from the law and competitors who are stating that any partnership with the number one and two in the search engine market would be counter-productive. Google has stepped on many toes during the years and they have all been trying to get their hands on the search and advertisement giant for quite sometime.

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The term “phishing” is a term used to define the illegal procurement of personal information from internet users through the use of misleading and false pretenses – much like actual fishing, where fish are baited with a worm attached to a hook, that once they bite, can never free themselves of.

Phishing is a real threat to internet users all around the world, where more and more people are accepting the normality of transacting business and exchanging personal information on the world wide web. Phishing sites and scams are really designed to bait the unsuspecting user into filling out forms and sharing sensitive information that phishers use for their own personal benefit. So in every transaction in the net, it is always best for you to pause a bit and assess whether a particular site, offer, or person is legit.

One of the most widespread malware programs, the internet worm was estimated to have infected millions of computers connected to the internet and that doesn’t count dial-up connections for they are so slow they cannot be canvassed properly. People have been hearing of such malware for many year now and they have also seen the amount of damage it can do to computer systems, from wiping whole hard disks, corrupting files and many more unspoken problems that is known only to it’s maker.

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Internet surfers feel a bit more secure nowadays as clicking on malicious sites seems to be going down. It maybe that internet search engines may have blocked them out or filtered them out to non existence:

The investigation, conducted by McAfee(R) SiteAdvisor(TM), studied the five major U.S. search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and found that the overall chance of clicking through to a risky site declined by 12.0%. Still, McAfee estimates that consumers click through to risky sites more than 268 million times each month.

“It’s good to see that clicking on search engine results has gotten modestly safer,” said Chris Dixon, director of strategy, McAfee SiteAdvisor. “But when almost one of 12 sponsored links still clicks through to a risky site, there remains significant room for continued improvement.”

Although it’s been declining, it’s better still be vigilant when it comes to clicking on unknown sites.

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Google adds a new feature that will truly spice up the usability of Gmail further. In the ‘Whats New’ page in Gmail, you can see the latest addition to the features which is the ‘Voice and Video Chat’. It is a plug in that will enable you to chat via your Gmail. It incorporated the Vidyo technology. Vidyo offers high quality multi point video conferencing. Google Talk only provides for voice conversations from the time it started. And the web version of Gtallk in Gmail was always media free. This time it is very different. The new feature will enable the Gmail users talk and see each other with both Voice and Video capability. It is one step further from the Google Talk’s feature which is limited to voice capability.

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Im wondering how the the new Microsoft CEO will tackle the competition of ‘free’ applications and source codes. Although their products are doing quite well on the server software side, like the Windows Server. It works most especially well with the Exchange email server and the under rated but very efficient collaborator server, which is the SharePoint. These applications and products have certainly ripened much to the delight of users. They are extremely easy to use and set up and manage. The Exchange successfully manages email, contacts and calendars for the thousands of its customer organizations worldwide. Apple recently adopted Exchange. With its iPhone, now easily syncs with Microsoft’s servers. Future compatibility and support for Exchange in the coming OS X is well under way. This is good news for Apple and Microsoft lovers as well.

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Yuwie is a social network that pays you. The goal is to get paid for what they are doing.Yuwie works like this… a person signs up for an invitation, he then passes this on to another friend of his. A chain is created this way. And that’s how you are paid up for it. You are building a network and the chain can go for ten levels.They pay you for blogging, making new friends and talking to people. Many people get interested to join because they are able to make more new friends and still get paid for it. This is great for home based people. When you have a lot of time to spare, you just log on and blog on.Yuwie is one innovative piece of work where you can enjoy life and earn at the same time.

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