Tag archive: user

In the shadow of more impressive announcements from Google about Plus’s skyrocketing user base, Instagram has released some numbers that should give pause as well. Having only launched in October of 2010, the iPhone-only app now boasts over 150 million pictures across its 7 million worldwide users. Each day these users upload 1.3 million photos; that’s about 900 photos each minute, 15 each second. Where the free iPhone-only app goes from here… Read More

Don’t let anyone ever tell you that complaining gets you nowhere. Following an uproar from its user community after altering its terms of service to give Facebook more control over user content, the company has relented and changed the terms back to their original condition. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the change in a post on the Facebook Blog, made late Tuesday night. “Based on this feedback, we have decided to… Read More

Software developer Brian Mastenbrook has revealed a serious flaw in Safari, the default Web browser included with Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. Leopard, which also affects Safari for PC. According to Vnunet, the problem can theoretically let hackers steal information, When the browser interacts with RSS feeds, it makes the user’s personal information vulnerable, Mastenbrook claims. In his blog he wrote: "Safari … is vulnerable… Read More

It’s certainly a clever idea. Computer security company Zone Alarm has come up with Force Field, a plug-in that creates a virtual user when a user goes online, with that virtual user destroyed at the end of the session. It protects the real web browser by deflecting all attacks from malicious sites, phishers, key loggers and others that can install malware. Once the session ends, the virtualized file system, including any… Read More

Maybe it was anticipation for the much-hyped iPhone, maybe it was the lure of DRM-free music from on the way from EMI, but new figures from market analysis firm comScore show Apple as the fastest-growing online property during May 2007, and the interest was enough to put the electronics company into the top ten Web properties for the month. According to comScore, the number of unique visitors to Apple's online properties increased by… Read More

Rather than relying on the praise and criticism that floats around on Internet message boards and crops up in reviews, the usability consultancy User Centric wanted to take a scientific approach to sizing up the iPhone’s new interface with a longitudinal study. "While multi-touch technology has been around for over a decade, the unique form factor of the iPhone is very compelling as it opens the door to a whole new set of user… Read More

In a paper entitled “The Ghost in the Browser” (PDF) presented at the Usenix HotBots '07 conference in April, Google researchers outlined a study which performed an in-depth analysis of some 4.5 million Web pages—condensed from a high-level analysis of several billion URLs. The researchers found found that about 700,000 pages looked to contain code which could compromise a user's computer, and about 450,000 (or… Read More

You can now buy a 2GB SD memory card for well under 100 dollars, so it should come as no surprise to hear that Solid State Drives (flash based) will eventually be picking up steam in the mobile PC market. Research firm In-Stat says that figure could reach 50% percent of the market by the year 2013. The company surveyed 389 mobile computer users and researched the current trends in Flash development to come to this conclusion. “The… Read More

As a result of rising penetration, the demographics of digital camera owners are shifting towards people of more moderate means. Additionally, women are increasingly more likely to own digitalcameras and to spur the purchasing decision for the household. While the demographics of digital camera owners continue to shift towards representing the average Internet user, digital camera owners still show a greater tendency to acquire new technology… Read More

Ad-aware Standard Edition is THE award winning, free*, multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability. With its ability to comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet… Read More

The researchers believe that online organized crime groups are breaking into Web servers and surreptitiously inserting code that takes advantage of two flaws in Internet Explorer that Microsoft has not yet fixed. Those flaws allow the Web server to install a program that takes control of the user's computer.   The extent of the attacks is unknown, but the security community has seen numerous cases of personal computers infected… Read More

A cell phone capable of using wherever the user is, the world phone made its first appearance at the CeBIT 2004 Conference in Hanover, Germany in March. The state-of-the-art phone is compatible for both CDMA 2000 1X and the EU's GSM mode. “Given the current demand for globally accessible phone, like ours, the user will increase by millions every year. After testing waters by introducing CDMA 20001X, GSM and new GPRS models this… Read More

ZoEmail, a new e-mail provider from New York says that its new service “completely stops spam and finally gives e-mail users real control over what lands in their inbox” New subscribers can get an e-mail address through ZoEmail priced at .99 cents a month for a 12MB storage limit and $1.59 for a 50MB storage limit. The system works by using a technology licensed from AT&T called simply “keys.” Keys are… Read More

Quote from the review at HardwareZone: “All in all, we believe that the new Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 will make a good storage option for high performance desktops targeted at either the office or home user. The large 250GB storage space would easily satisfy the needs of the storage hungry user while its fast seek access will enhance the user's computing experience with lightning speed response. Overall, we quite like what Hitachi… Read More

Panther will be available on Friday, October 24, beginning at 8:00 p.m. Panther delivers more than 150 breakthrough new features including a completely new Finderâ„¢ that provides one-click access to auser's favorite files and folders; Exposé, a revolutionary new way to instantly see all open windows at once; and iChat AV, a complete desktop video conferencing solution for business, education andconsumers. Apple's retail stores… Read More