Internet search-results in search engines as Google or MSN are read only 1,5 seconds, before the user clicks himself through to an interesting sounding site, so the marketing firm “Traffic Builders”. That means, Positions further down on the result page or after the first page are most of the time totally ignored.

The german “Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik” (BSI) warns, that a serious security breach in the free firefox browser could allow attackers to access the surfers PC, run code or get access to private data.
The firefox developers, Mozilla Foundation, offered a bug-fix, which shall fix the bug. The update can be installed automatically using […]

Sun’s 3D Desktop project “Looking Glass” features a new way to handle icons, folder-windows and applications on a screen: Instead of just displaying them in two dimensions above each other, windows can be turn to the side.
The software runs at the moment in Java and is available for Linux and Solaris, where it shall work […]

Amanda Congdon, who got famous with a daily web-show on Rocketboom, now starts a new weekly internet show called “Starring Amanda Congdon”, says news.com.
According to Yahoo!, the site will be hosted by Blip.tv, a service for distributing videoblogs. The Amanda Congdon Show has two big sponsors now who support the show.
http://www.starringamandacongdon.com/

The small and flat MoGo Mouse is an ideal notebook assistant for working out of the office: During transport, it fits in the pcmcia pc-card slot on the notebook’s side where the cable free mouse is also reloaded. For usage, the clip on the downside is pulled down which lets the mouse rest in the […]

American Time-Magazin made the ordinary internet user, “You”, as said on the cover, person of the year 2006. “It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace”.
The Time Magazin searches for the […]

Japanese Games-Company Nintendo reacted to the customers complaints about breaking security-straps at the new Wii games console. Users complained, that while playinging to hard, the security-strap which shall safe the controller from falling out of hand, can break and the controller slip out of the hand.
BBC now reports, that Nintendo will replace broken straps now […]

On tuesday, the last patchday 2006, Microsoft delivered 11 patches to secure for part critical securitybreaches in Internet Explorer 5 and 6, Media Player and Visual Studio 2005. Internet Explorer 7 is not patched with theses updates.
Not patched are the two in the beginning of december found vulnerabilities in MS Word, which allow an […]

The mozilla team now released the beta of the thunderbird 2 email-client which includes in the new version many interesting new features including tags to categorize mails and short popup summaries.
Also the speed shall be increased in the final version, not only for displaying the emails and the folders, but also for searching stored messages. […]

Shortly after the first Word vulnerability was found, another securitybreach was discovered. Experts call this flaw also highly dangerous - users should not open Word documents from untrustworthy sources.
The securitybreach occurs in Word 2000, 2002, 2003 and the Word Viewer 2003, warns the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog. Word 2007 is not affected by the […]