Yahoo! to close GeoCities and other services

by Mahesh Kukreja April 24, 2009

Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it plans to close GeoCities, a Web site publishing and hosting service it bought in May 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom for around $3 billion in stock. The service will be shut down later this year. Visitors to the site now see a message that says new GeoCities […]

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99 Cent .COM Domain on GoDaddy

by Mahesh Kukreja April 24, 2009

This code applies to the first year only of new or transfer registrations. This offer may not be used for renewals, bulk registrations, premium domains or Sunrise/Landrush domain registrations. Limited to one order per customer, expiring after 5,000 redemptions or on May 1st, 2009. Discount will be reflected in your shopping cart; cannot be used […]

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Oracle to buy Sun for $7.4 Billion

by Mahesh Kukreja April 20, 2009

Oracle Corp. pounced on Sun Microsystems Inc. in a $7.4 billion deal Monday after rival IBM Corp. abandoned its bid to buy Sun, a server and software maker that had a 27-year run as Silicon Valley’s brash independent. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle said it will pay $9.50 in cash for each Sun share. The price […]

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Links and SEO

by Mahesh Kukreja April 18, 2009

Without links, we would not have the internet with websites, as we do today. Links can be linked and traded with websites many different ways. Links are able to be optimized to help establish relevancy of a website for selected keywords. Optimizing keywords and keyword phases using links is an important part of Search Engine […]

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US looking for Hackers to protect cyber networks

by Mahesh Kukreja April 18, 2009

Buffeted by millions of digital scans and attacks each day, federal authorities are looking for hackers — not to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation’s networks. General Dynamics Information Technology put out an ad last month on behalf of the Homeland Security Department seeking someone who could “think like the bad […]

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Four Men guilty in Pirate Bay trial

by Mahesh Kukreja April 17, 2009

Four men linked to popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay were convicted Friday of breaking Sweden’s copyright law by helping millions of users freely download music, movies and computer games on the Internet. The Stockholm district court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom to one year each in prison. They […]

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YouTube expands full-length movies & TV shows

by Mahesh Kukreja April 17, 2009

Google Inc.’s YouTube said Thursday it is vastly expanding its library of full-length movies and TV shows it offers online, while also launching a new advertising service and adding about a dozen new content partners. The long-form videos will be housed on a unique page at http://www.youtube.com/shows and get a “Shows” tab on the main […]

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Google Disables Uploads, Comments on YouTube Korea

by Mahesh Kukreja April 13, 2009

Google has disabled user uploads and comments on the Korean version of its YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law that requires the real name of a contributor be listed along each contribution they make. The rules, part of a Cyber Defamation Law, came into effect on April 1 for all sites with […]

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Mikeyy Worm making Twitter & Tweeple Mad!

by Mahesh Kukreja April 13, 2009

The new Twitter worm: Mikeyy is making Twitter mad! The worm, Mikeyy, spread around the popular site like wildfire as soon as members clicked onto an infected users’ profile. People’s pages began posting messages promoting the site StalkDaily.com. The speed with which it spread took the web community by surprise. Normally worms and viruses require […]

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EBay buys Gmarket Inc. for $413 million

by Mahesh Kukreja April 12, 2009

EBay Inc has agreed to buy a controlling stake in South Korean online retailer Gmarket Inc for $413 million, at a 32.5 percent premium, news service eDaily reported on Monday. The long-discussed deal would help U.S. online auctioneer eBay emerge as a dominant player in South Korea’s customer-to-customer online market by taking control of its […]

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Samsung to launch Three Android powered Smartphones

by Mahesh Kukreja April 9, 2009

Samsung has confirmed plans to release Android phones, according to a recent story in Forbes. Dr. Won-Pyo Hong, executive vice president of global product strategy in the mobile communications division, told the magazine during the recent CTIA trade show in Las Vegas that the company will release several handsets using the Google-backed, open-source operating system. […]

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China Denies Cyberattacks on U.S. Power Grid

by Mahesh Kukreja April 9, 2009

Malware attacks from China and Russia designed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid in a time of war did not occur, China said Thursday. “The incident of attacks on the U.S. electrical grid from China and Russia simply does not exist,” Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told reporters, according to a transcript of […]

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