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In addition to discussing OSX Lion and iOS 5 today at Apple's WWDC, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will once again make a foray into cloud storage with a new service called iCloud. The idea is that the new service will seamlessly push user content like music, photos, and documents from the original source (theoretically a Mac or PC) to all of the user's other iOS devices. With iPhones and iPads becoming almost as common as phones… Read More

Last week Trend Micro discovered something very disturbing for Latin American customers surfing to the Best Buy site. Before they reached the page asking them to choose their language – Spanish or English – a subtle GEO-IP check happened. If they were from Latin America, they were redirected to another page. Trend Micro Threat Research Manager, Ivan Macalintal, said: “If (the) requesting IP is from the Latin America… Read More

A row is brewing over the decision by a number of British ISPs to ban a Wikipedia page showing a picture of a naked girl. The ISPs blocked the page after the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) warned them that the page might be illegal, according to the BBC. So what’s the picture behind all this? It’s the cover of an album – not named, but presumably Virgin Killer, which shows a young, naked girl – by German metal band… Read More

Earlier this week Apple was advising Mac owners to have multiple antivirus systems on their machines. Now they’ve pulled the page that offered the advice. What’s going on? It would appear that the page had existed for over a year on the site, but only when it was updated this week did it bring attention. But a spokesman said that the page has been dropped because it was out of date, according to Vnunet. "The Mac is… Read More

Internet giant Yahoo is rolling out a new version of its front page—one of the most highly visible pages on the World Wide Web—in a move to put personalization and customization features front and center. The idea is to make specific information and tools immediately available to users, rather than force them to navigate into separate, walled-off areas within the larger network of Yahoo sites to get what they want. The new home… Read More

Microsoft is getting close to owning 10,000 patents, and the latest is one for the Page Up and Page Down keys on your computer keyboard. Yes, really. They first applied for the patent in 2005 and were finally granted it last week, according to ZDNet, although the service showed a 1981 IBM keyboard with those keys. In the patent application the invention of the keys is credited to Timothy Sellers, Heather Grantham and Joshua Dersch… Read More

She obviously has a glowing career ahead as a detective. 16-year-old Yudelka Polenco of New York had her cell phone stolen by a pair of youths as she was walking home. However, when one of thethieves used her phone’s SIM card to gain Internet access, he inadvertently revealed his e-mail address. From that Polanco was able to find his MySpacepage, she explained to CBS News. However, the page was private, so she couldn’t add him.… Read More

For businesses and consumers who that need a printer to pump out page after page reliably, instead of a raft of extraneous features, Samsung has a new printer that may fit the bill. The company announced its ML-3471ND on Wednesday, a monochrome laser printer designed to be a high-speed low-maintenance workhorse. Equipped with a 400 Mhz processor and 64MB memory, the printer can push out 35 pages per minute, and delivers the first page in… Read More

Once the golden standard of a Web site’s popularity, the number of individual pages loaded by surfers is no longer a relevant gauge of their interest, according to the company that specializes in measuring Web traffic. Nielsen is expected to announce on Tuesday that it will abandon the old standby measurement of page views in favor of time spent viewing a Web page. New Web technologies such as Ajax, and the popularity of streaming… Read More

The Wall Street Journal said yesterday they'd redesigned their home page in the first significant set of changes since 2002. These changes are designed to bring about greater ease of use while at the same time adding new options for personalization. Changes to the WSJ's front page, the newspaper said, include new navigation links along the top of the page and the left-side navigation bar, a new personalization section dubbed My… Read More

Google yesterday rolled out a new web page creation tool which promises to bring ease of use to creating simple homepages. The Google Page Creator is up now and running in beta, though sign-ups are limited right now due to demand. The Google Page Creator, the web search company explained, allows users to edit and create pages just as they appear online, without needing to know HTML. No software downloads are necessary to create pages as… Read More

Radio giant Clear Channel Radio seems ready to fully embrace the podcast revolution as today they announced they were setting up multiple podcasts tied to various stations across their empire. This greater rollout is based on the successful podcast debut of WHTZ-FM Z100′s “Phone Tap

“The Japanese unit of online retail giant Amazon has posted a product page for the PlayStation 3, more than a year ahead of the console's expected debut. The page has no photos or links for placing advance orders and appears to offer no significant new details on the console, expected to go on sale in late 2005 at the earliest. But that didn't stop several visitors from posting five-star reviews of the gadget. “… Read More

Main Program Features: – Popup Blocker: Make surfing the web easier by stopping annoying popups. (currently only available for English) – New! AutoFill: Automatically fill in a form with the click of a button. (currently only available for English) – New! BlogThis: Create a weblog post pointing to the page you are visiting. (currently only available for English) – New! Country Search: Restrict your search to pages… Read More

Main Program version 2.0.112 Features: - Popup Blocker: Make surfing the web easier by stopping annoying popups. (currently only available for English) – New! AutoFill: Automatically fill in a form with the click of a button. (currently only available for English) – New! BlogThis: Create a weblog post pointing to the page you are visiting. (currently only available for English) – New! Country Search: Restrict your search to… Read More