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Computer ‘Virus’ Is Born Nov. 10, 1983

Muhammad Hanif — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:33:54 +0000

1983: Fred Cohen, a University of Southern California graduate student, gives a prescient peek at the digital future when he demonstrates a computer virus during a security seminar at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. A quarter-century later, computer viruses have become a pandemic for which there’s no inoculation. Cohen inserted his proof-of-concept code into a Unix command, [...]

Nokia to replace faulty mobile phone chargers

Muhammad Hanif — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:55:32 +0000

Finnish mobile telephone giant Nokia Monday advised customers to replace certain chargers for mobile phones and other devices made this year over fears of potential electrical shocks. The chargers were made by a third-party supplier and were to be replaced free of charge, Nokia said, adding it was not aware of any accidents related to the [...]

Firefox celebrates five years

Muhammad Hanif — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:51:20 +0000

The open source internet browser Firefox marked its fifth anniversary Monday, celebrating its rise from an unknown challenger to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to a formidable competitor that has been downloaded over one billion times by 330 million users around the world. ‘Over the last five years we’ve been setting ourselves up for the next five. The [...]

Google to buy AdMob for $750 mn

Muhammad Hanif — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:45:05 +0000

Google is to pay $750 million to buy AdMob, a provider of advertising on mobile phones, the internet search leader announced Monday. The deal is the third largest ever undertaken by Google and underscores the company’s strategy of extending its online advertising dominance to the mobile web, where its Android smartphone operating system is becoming increasingly [...]

Toshiba Launches 320GB 1.8 Inch Hard Drive

Muhammad Hanif — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:21:45 +0000

Toshiba has announced a new 1.8 inch hard drive, which comes with a massive 320GB and is the world’s largest 1.8 inch hard drive. Toshiba MK3233GSG 1,8 inch hard drive features a 3GBps SATA interface, with a 16MB buffer, and have a 19% energy efficiency improvement over previous models. Improvement of the MK3233GSG family’s perpendicular magnetic recording [...]

Verizon BlackBerry Curve 8530 Smartphone

Muhammad Hanif — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:11:02 +0000

BlackBerry Curve 8530 features a full QWERTY keyboard with a touch sensitive track pad, 256 MB of flash memory and a 528 MHz processor, it also has Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi and 3G. Othere specification include GPS, a 2,0 megapixel camera with built in digital zoom for recording video and taking pictures, an advanced media player for [...]

Ufone nominated for best brand of 2009

Muhammad Hanif — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:47:32 +0000

Ufone announces its nomination for Telecoms World Awards Middle East, as the Best Brand of the Year 2009. It is pertinent to mention here that Ufone is the only Pakistani Telecom company to be amongst the finalists for these awards from nominations of over 30 operators from the Middle East. Share and Enjoy:

Facebook Facelift – Home & Profiles

Muhammad Hanif — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:05:29 +0000

Facebook Facelift is a self initiated project to challenge the form and functionality of Facebook. It’s streamlined, structured, linear interface is more comprehendible, enhancing the user experience and absorbability of content. The home page features many new benefits: the publisher toolbar enables users to post content from any page within Facebook, saving time in navigating needlessly [...]

Microsoft happy with sales of Windows 7

Muhammad Hanif — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:46:55 +0000

Microsoft has proclaimed its new-generation Windows 7 operating system a success. US sales in the opening days of the new operating system swept past those of its Vista predecessor. Since October 22nd, when it was released, the softeare has sold up to 235 per cent higher than figures posted by Vista over a similar period, although price [...]

Google’s Blogger Promises Faster Updates

Muhammad Hanif — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:40:20 +0000

A Wednesday outage on Google’s Blogger service has prompted the site to promise detailed information about future outages on its status blog within three days.“Going forward, in the case of significant service interruptions, we plan to publish a post mortem on the Blogger Status blog within 3 business days to provide details about what went [...]