Getting presents for using a specific search engine? People who in the future will use Microsoft’s Live Search instead of Google as search engine, should be able to gather bonuspoints. These bonuspoints can be traded for musicdownloads, t-shirts or even fly-miles. The bonusprogram will be introduced shortly in the USA, but it’s not sure that [...]

Old Google employees are working on a new killer searchmachine that should become better than Google.com. The new searchmachine has a black bachground instead of the white Google background, and there are only 6 results shown per search.

At this moment, mostly English website are indexed in the search engine, which makes it sometimes hard to [...]

Google Knol, an abbreviation of the word ‘knowledge’,is now online and usable for everyone. The new knowledge website will probably soon be an extensive encyclopedia, like Wikipedia.
Different from Wikipedia is that not everyone can change articles. At Google Knol only the author has the rights to change the text of his article. Mostly the [...]

An email that should come from customs, actually contains a virus, according to the security experts of Avira. The spam emails have the subject “Parcel requires declaration”.
Text of the email:
Good day, We have received a parcel for you, sent from France on July 9. Please fill out the customs declaration attached to this message [...]

Thirteen1, the brand new and completely free to read online gaming magazine that launched last month is out again with its new edition bursting at the seems with content, giveaways and more.
Released on the 13th of every month at 1PM thirteen1 is completely free to read and requires no download. The online magazine aims [...]

Apples iPhone cell-phone will be available with 3G (UMTS connectivity) in only 60 days, according to Walt Mossberg from All Things Digitally talking about obstacles with IPTV and US connection-speeds.

“In the United States (…) we really suck at broadband”

After explaining the obstacles with using IPTV he mentions that the iPhone will come with 3G in [...]

The lower area of youtube videos is intented to be used for advertisement in the future. Google is already planning the sale of this ad space with selected clients. The advertisment will only be present in videos from media companies cooperating with Google.
Transparent flash banners will be faded into the video for a few [...]

According to GOOD magazine, the internet is not that much used for porn as everybody thinks. But still, 12% of the websites have pornographic content and every 4th search engine query (25%) is about internet porn and nudity. Even 35% of the internet downloads include pornographic material, says GOOD.

When using Windows XP and having Internet Explorer 7 installed, there is a high risk that a Windows security breach might be used by hackers, even when surfing with the secure Firefox browser. A problem handling internet adresses which contain an ” or a % sign could execute a program on the computer by just [...]

A new update for the free Firefox browser is fixing some security issues and shall also provide more stability. The exact list of changes for the new version 2.0.0.5 can be seen in the Mozilla Release Notes.
If the automatic update scanner is disabled in an already installed Firefox, you can get the newest version directly [...]