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US Government Releases New Set of Privacy Proposals for Apps
0By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News
The US government has released a set of proposals on Friday, July 26th, which if implemented, would require app developers to tell users what data they gather and how they use it. This set of proposals was first highlighted by TNW, which reported that: “The US government’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration today issued its first draft of what will be a mobile apps cod...
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The Guardian Shifts its UK, US and Australian Edition Sites to One Domain
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | News
According to the latest updates, the official website for The Guardian has now been shifted to a new domain, www.theguardian.com. This was not a sudden move by the popular media outlet, as earlier in May The Guardian had made it known that they had bought a new domain and in the near future they would shift to their new home on the World Wi...
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San Francisco-based StrongLoop Gets Hold of Canadian Startup NodeFly’s Node.js for Undisclosed Sum of Money
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
San Francisco-based StrongLoop stated on Tuesday, July 23rd that it has got hold of a Vancouver-based monitoring solution company, NodeFly's Node.js. Although, StrongLoop did not reveal the terms of the deal in the announcement, it appears that the San Francisco...
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Mozilla Joins BlackBerry to Make Web More Secure and Launches Security Testing Platform Minion for Security Professionals and Developers
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | Business, News
After announcing a partnerships with several top mobile platforms, Mozilla has now turned towards Canadian smartphone maker, BlackBerry in order to introduce the latest security techniques. On Tuesday, July 30th Mozilla made known two of its latest d...
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Microsoft Makes Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview Available for Download with Premium Features
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | News
After releasing the Windows 8.1 Preview back in June, Microsoft has now made Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview available for download on Tuesday, July 30th. The brand new edition of Windows builds on the Windows 8.1 Preview. On this occasion, Microsoft also made it known that the policy of lifecycle support for...
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LinkedIn Now Allows Users to Comment and Like Long-Form Posts Uploaded by Industry Leaders
By: Jeff Stewart | August 4th, 2013 | News, Social Media
Just like other social networking websites, LinkedIn is also continuously working to improve its platform and as a part of this effort, the professional social networking site announced on Tuesday, July 30th that its users will not only be able to like long-form posts uploaded by industry leaders that have been sele...
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Southern Cross Cable Network Rolls Out 100G expansion
By: Zain Nabi | August 4th, 2013 | News
A huge part of the world population has chosen to use cable internet service, and there is definitely a solid reason behind it. There are many advantages of having a cable internet connection in your home and that is why more developments in this area are occurring at a very rapid pace. One of them is the recent measure taken by Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN), a trans-Pacific net...
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Malware Hijacks Social Media Accounts Via Browser Add-ons
By: Zain Nabi | August 4th, 2013 | News, Social Media
Security vendor Trend Micro recently spotted another threat around social media sites, which is most likely to hit people using Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox. These threats tend to use fake extension from these browsers so they can infiltrate the user's system and hijack their social media accounts. In order to install these fake extensions, you would have seen various social medi...
