You folks remember Tim Berners-Lee? Hey, the guy is the inventor of the World Wide Web, the greatest thing of the 20th century and it’s fair to presume he knows a thing or two about the Web. In a recent article in Scientific American, Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of the threats to the Web from […]
Three U.S. mobile carriers AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless have set up a joint venture to build a smartphone-based mobile payment network called ISIS. This means that if ISIS succeeds instead of those pesky credit cards or $ bills that many of us seem to be forever losing we’ll all be tapping on our […]
Hear, hear, all ye schmucks on a priapaic tear – Spanish women are the greatest online flirters. No, we are not making that up. A social networking site we’ve never heard of (Badoo), which claims to have done a global study on this super-important subject, says Spanish women are over twice as likely as American […]
Apple’s sexy iPhone may have all the headlines but the Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform is grabbing the marketshare in the U.S. A new report put out by market researcher Canalys gives Android-based handsets an impressive 44% share in the third quarter of 2010. Here, take a look at the below chart: In the previous […]
After analyzing 27 million sites, security software provider McAfee has concluded that web sites ending in .com sites offer the most security risk to web surfers. McAfee found 31.3% of .com sites to be risky. Hear this – Of all the risky web sites in the world (including country domains such as .us, .in et […]
Our two favorite countries, U.S. and India, are the top spammers in the world, according to a new report from computer security services provider Sophos. U.S. is the leader of the spammers, accounting for 18.6% of spam in the July-September 2010 quarter, up from 15.2% in the previous quarter. India’s share of spam was 7.6% […]