April 10th, 2010 
nrmodh Google’s famous recipe for determining how sites get ranked in search results has a new ingredient: site speed. Two of Google’s top search engineers–Google Fellow Amit Singhal and principal engineer Matt Cutts–announced the addition Friday, after hinting it would be coming for several months. It’s actually been live for a few weeks, they said in [...]
April 10th, 2010 nrmodh Rumors that Bing was to be the default search engine in an upcoming iPhone OS update can continue to be filed in the rumor bin, at least based on the developer preview release of OS 4.0. Bing is still nowhere to be seen in the iPhone’s Safari app, or anywhere else in the preview version [...]
April 10th, 2010 nrmodh A vulnerability in Java technology could be exploited by attackers and used to compromise computers running Windows if they visit a Web page hosting malicious code, two researchers warned on Friday. Google engineer Tavis Ormandy released details on the Full Disclosure e-mail list and Ruben Santamarta, an engineer for Wintercore, wrote about it on his [...]
April 10th, 2010 nrmodh Rumors of the iPhone coming to Verizon Wireless may have some consumers in the U.S. wondering about resulting cost savings for the device. But will more competition really mean lower prices?
April 3rd, 2010 nrmodh The Apple iPad is an unprecedented device. It doesn’t shoot rainbows or make puppies, but this roughly 8×10-inch tablet computer melds your laptop, smartphone, gaming console, and iPod into a single, affordable, unfortunately named thing. Of course, we come to you with a standard list of complaints. The absence of an integrated video camera puts [...]
April 3rd, 2010 nrmodh Calling it “an offer we can’t refuse,” the founders of a photo-sharing service called Divvyshot announced Friday that the start-up has been acquired by Facebook. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’s clear that as with Facebook’s acquisition of Parakey–and even the far bigger FriendFeed buy–this is an acquisition designed to get the [...]
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