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What to look for in a photo printer - Feature
Washington - You can have the best digital camera on the block, but that won't matter if your prints are no good. The fact is, that to get the most out of digital photography, you need to devote as much time to learning about photo printers as you do...

[Posted on : 2008-06-21 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Security flaw tarnishes Firefox download record
San Francisco - The new version of the Firefox browser was downloaded over 8 million times in its first 24 hours of release in what organizers claimed was a world record. But the success was tempered by reports from a software security company that F...

[Posted on : 2008-06-19 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Firefox launches new browser
San Francisco - The latest version of the open source browser Firefox was officially released Tuesday, aiming to continue chipping away at the dominance of Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.0 offers faster web browsing than the previous versio...

[Posted on : 2008-06-17 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Australian setback for internet auctioneer eBay
Sydney - Internet auctioneer eBay said Tuesday it would challenge a decision by the Australian consumer watchdog to block a move that would force successful bidders to use its PayPal payments system. The auction site said the Australian Competition a...

[Posted on : 2008-06-17 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Dealing with slow DSL
Hamburg, Germany - It sounds great: lightning quick surfing at up to 16 megabits per second. The reality, though, is often somewhat different. The transmission rates claimed by Internet service providers are rarely achieved in practice. In some cases...

[Posted on : 2008-06-15 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Internet search company Google wins top Spanish award
Oviedo, Spain - The US internet search company Google on Wednesday won the Prince of Asturias Prize, regarded as the Spanish equivalent of the Nobel, in the category of communication and humanities, the jury announced in the northern city of Oviedo. ...

[Posted on : 2008-06-11 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Computer and internet briefs
Washington - You can do more with your wheel mouse than simply scroll through web pages. Every software program controls the wheel functionality on a mouse differently. In Internet Explorer, for instance, hold down the Shift key and move your mouse w...

[Posted on : 2008-06-08 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Surfing the World Wide Wiki - Feature
Washington - Just a few years ago, the word wiki wasn't even in most people's vocabulary. But Wikipedia - known by many as biggest encyclopaedia on the Internet - changed all that. If you have spent much time at all searching for information on the I...

[Posted on : 2008-06-07 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Hong Kong domain the most dangerous place to surf, report says
HongKong - Websites ending with the Hong Kong domain .hk are the most dangerous places to surf on the internet, according to a report by the internet security company McAfee Inc. The report, published Wednesday in California, said 19.15 per cent of a...

[Posted on : 2008-06-05 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

Yahoo to hold decisive vote August 1
San Francisco - Yahoo will hold its decisive shareholder vote on the board takeover by billionaire investor Carl Icahn at its annual general meeting to be held on August 1, the company announced Tuesday. Icahn is trying to oust the board for rejectin...

[Posted on : 2008-06-04 ] Category : [ Internet (Technology) ]

 



 

 


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