YouTube To MP3 Conversion Site Banned By Google
Google has announced that it has made the decision to ban a popular site which allows YouTube videos to be converted over to MP3. The site, called YouTube-MP3.org, was notified by Google in a letter which stated that this practice violated YouTube’s terms of service. In response, YouTube has blocked access to their videos to [...]
The Internet’s governing body reveals that domains will no longer be limited to .com, .org and .net, as it released a list of 1,930 applied-for generic top-level domain (gTLD) names. There are 22 existing gTLDs, until the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved plans to allow people to apply for new ones. [...]
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Apple announced enhancements on most of its mobile devices, namely a new operating system, its own maps application to replace Google maps, and a built in Facebook feature. In the preview version sent to application developers, the iOS 6 software boasts of more than 200 new features. Not applicable to all Apple devices, iOS 6 [...]
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Google is shifting from its free product search model to a new product search engine, Shopping, which will charge retailers who want their products to appear Google product search listings. The current scenario allows retailers to provide and add information about their products to the search listings for free. Then they are ranked by popularity [...]
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Facebook users suffered from a series of service disruptions, keeping many people out of the popular social networking site. Facebook users reportedly endured problems in the website, making some of them unable to use their accounts for almost two hours. There were also complaints of sporadic disruptions and system time outs. Users who could get [...]
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Wednesday saw the launch of the first Facebook office in the Arab world as a new location was opened in Dubai. The office, which begins with a staff of only three, is located in a popular business park located in Dubai’s Internet City. Firms that have already established themselves there include Google Inc and Microsoft [...]
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In an effort to overcome Beijing’s attempts at online content restriction, Google has begun to issue warnings to the country’s users. Google has specifically leaked certain search words that could draw attention from the government. This latest attempt to sidestep the government’s Internet ban comes at a time when Google has seen their market share [...]
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Facebook has just launched an updated version of their mobile News Feed. The app’s new and improved design can be seen on the company’s mobile website, m.Facebook.com, as well as on the iPad, iPhone and Android. Some of the exciting new features included is the fact that photos are now up to three times larger [...]
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A spam campaign designed and initiated by Twitter has been used to inadvertently redirect users to various malicious websites. Once there, user’s computers were infected with rogue antivirus programs. The incident was reported by security experts from Kaspersky Labs, an antivirus firm. Due to the massive variations of messages, embedded links and number of accounts [...]
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Industry leaders such as Amazon, Apple and Microsoft have been labeled as using “dirty” cloud technology. That’s the word from a recent report entitled “How Clean Is Your Cloud”, which was released by the conservation group, Greenpeace. Cloud computing, which is the ability to deliver everything over the Internet from information, to data and even [...]
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