Tag Archives: Internet
Internet Underground – Organized and Rich
Did you know that you can buy a keystroke logger for $23 or pay $10 to have someone host your phishing scam? Having a botnet at your fingertips will cost you $225, and a tool that exploits vulnerability on a banking site averages $740 and runs as high as $3,000. That’s according to the Symantec [...]
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A message popped up next to the live webcam broadcast of Abraham Biggs lying motionless on his bed, followed by LOL and “hahahah.” Biggs was motionless. The 19-year-old Broward College student really did commit suicide by taking a drug overdose in front of a live Internet audience, as some computer users egged him on and [...]
Full StoryGoogle Users Can Shuffle Search Results
If you don’t like the results Google offers up on your search, you can now erase them and kiss them goodbye! Google Inc. unveiled this new system on Thursday. The intent was to provide a more personal touch for its search engine. Google now lets users reshuffle results so their favorite Web sites get top [...]
Full StoryComcast Boosts its Bandwidth Speed
Starting in December, Oregon and Southwest Washington Comcast customers will have a much-faster option called “Extreme 50 service” This service is capable of download speeds of up to 50 megabits per second. Comcast calls it “wideband”, but its technical term is known as DOCSIS 3.0. This will be a dream for those who have a [...]
Full StoryJoeThePlumber.com Worth 800K
“Joe the Plumber” name was referenced 26 times throughout the last presidential debate earlier this week. As you know, the man known as “Joe the Plumber,” whose real name is Sam Wurzelbacher, was thrust into the national spotlight, and declared the real “winner” of the presidential debate by Senator McCain, except for a few things. [...]
Full StoryTelephone Companies Support Open Internet
It’s our internet and it should remain open and widely available throughout the United States. I am not sure if the new government will agree with this, but the telephone companies do. The Obama administration is extremely supportive of Net neutrality, and this could be one thing that will be good for all of us. [...]
Full StoryFirefox adds Porn Mode
Private Browsing aims to help you make sure that your Web browsing activities don’t leave any trace on your own computer, noted Firefox programmer Ehsan Akhgar in a blog post. The ‘Don’t Leave A Trace’ feature, as it’s being dubbed, was seen as being especially critical for version 3.1 as Google’s Chrome browser, the IE8 [...]
Full StoryHappy Birthday Internet Worm
This weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the Internet Worm, the first major worm that propagated on the Internet. Even though many years have passed and underlying media has changed, worms are still able to wreak havoc and keep system administrators up at night. Today the damage done by worms is far less visible and [...]
Full StoryWhy StumbleUpon Makes a Difference
I am sure I share the same views with many of you about StumbleUpon. Here’s a list of my 7 reasons why StumbleUpon makes a difference over many of its competitors. Instant traffic: StumbleUpon can jump start almost any blog. TechJaws.com has seen more than 5000 daily unique visitors in one day that came from [...]
Full StoryHappy Internet Day
This is the day the Internet was invented. We should all be grateful for what has made a major impact on our world and the way we live. The Internet Era is now 39 years old and will out live everything known to mankind. Internet day doesn’t come with gifts like some of the more [...]
Full StoryWiMax Officially Released
Sprint’s WiMax wireless broadband data service, called Xohm (pronounced “zome”), was able to rightly claim it the first carrier to offer the long-awaited official version of the technology to businesses and consumers. (Clearwire, a provider of pre-standard WiMax service that Sprint’s Xohm unit will be merged into later this year, began its service offerings earlier.) [...]
Full StoryComcast Offering Faster Internet Speeds
Comcast is beginning to wake up and only because FIOS is in full swing from Verizon, which breaks the speed barrier. You can visit Verizon on the various packages they currently offer. (AP) – Comcast Corp. on Wednesday said it will begin rolling out faster Internet speeds over the next few weeks in selected markets [...]
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