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Google’s latest Penguin update lets you squeal on spammy websites — as well as anyone else

Penguin 2.0 makes large-scale algorithm changes, affecting 2.3% of U.S.-English results The latest version of Google’s sophisticated anti-spam algorithm, dubbed Penguin 2.0, was announced yesterday in an official blog post from the company’s well-known webspam czar, Mike Cutts. The 2.0 label was applied, according to Cutts, because the update is a major one — it […]

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are secret backers behind European Privacy Association

The privacy organization has hidden its ties to corporate backers After being accused of a lack of transparency by an independent watchdog, the European Privacy Association (EPA) has confirmed that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are backers. The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), which works to expose privileged access in E.U. policy making, said in a complaint […]

Microsoft and Google push for FCC’s public Wi-Fi for free networks

Microsoft and Google are working together to support the FCC’s free Wi-Fi proposal that might mean you could dump that monthly cellphone bill. How sweet would it be to dump that monthly cellphone bill in favor of making calls over free Wi-Fi networks, so powerful it would be like “Wi-Fi on steroids”? Microsoft and Google […]

Hottest Android news and rumors for week ending Jan. 18

All quiet on the Galaxy S IV front, but plenty going on elsewhere.After a CES week during which the Android world was all a-twitter over a device that wasn’t even revealed at the show, the previously hyperactive Galaxy S IV rumor mill has quieted down, mostly. It’s likely to only be a momentary respite, however, […]

Google boosts Web bug bounties to $20,000

Increases payments for bugs in core sites, services and Web apps Computerworld – Google today dramatically raised the bounties it pays independent researchers for reporting bugs in its core websites, services and online applications. The search giant boosted the maximum reward from $3,133 to $20,000, and added a $10,000 payment to the program. The Vulnerability […]

Why Google should be allowed to ‘harvest’ your Wi-Fi data

The hysteria around the Google ‘WiSpy’ case is based on an irrational double standard Computerworld – The Federal Communications Commission cleared Google of wrongdoing in the so-called “WiSpy” case. It was the right decision. Why? Because Google didn’t do anything wrong. Two years ago, Google said its Street View cars had been “harvesting” information from […]

Google+ Tips: 4 Tools to Boost Your Social Networking Experience

Getting the hang of Google+ and looking for more? Check out these four Google+ tools that let you easily upload photos in bulk, find new people to follow, translate posts and more. Best Microsoft MCTS Certification, Microsoft MCITP Training at certkingdom.com CIO — While rumors continue to swirl about when the Google+ API will be […]

Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after successful trial

Google leaves IPv6 on for YouTube; Facebook adds IPv6 to developers’ site; Yahoo sees ‘minimal risk’ to IPv6 One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol on some of […]

Logon Triggers – SQL Server 2008 R2

Logon triggers fire stored procedures in response to a LOGON event. This event is raised when a user session is established with an instance of SQL Server. Logon triggers fire after the authentication phase of logging in finishes, but before the user session is actually established. Therefore, all messages originating inside the trigger that would […]

Google Releases Stable Version of Chrome 12

Google Chrome 12 is now the stable release of Google’s web browser, bringing several improvements in security, privacy and graphics capabilities.   Best Microsoft MCTS Training – Microsoft MCITP Training at Certkingdom.com   Chrome now checks downloaded files for malware, and Google claims it has designed the feature in such a way that it doesn’t […]

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